Equipment

100kV TEM

Thermo Fisher/FEI Tecnai 12 TEM equipped with a TVIPS F416 CMOS camera.

300kV TEM

Thermo Fisher/FEI Tecnai F30 TEM equipped with a Gatan Oneview camera.

300kV TEM

Thermo Fisher/FEI Titan Halo cryoTEM equipped with a Gatan Quantum LS GIF and a Gatan K2-summit direct-detection camera

30kV SEM

Zeiss Volutome on a Gemini2 base equipped for SEM, array tomography and serial blockface SEM

CLS microscope

Leica Stellaris 8 Falcon confocal laser scanning microscope equipped for imaging at room temperature or liquid nitrogen temperatures

Preparation devices

  • Leica HPM ICE (high-pressure freezer)
  • Leica AFS1&2 (freeze substitution)
  • Leica EMGP1 (plunge freezer)
  • BalTec CPD 030 (critical point dryer)
  • Safematic CCU-010 (carbon coater)
  • Pelco EasiGlow (glow discharger)
  • Leica EM KMR3 (knife maker)
  • Leica UCT (microtome)
  • Leica UC6 (microtome)
  • Leica UC7 (microtome)