Aquilos 2
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Overview
The Aquilos 2 is a dedicated cryo-FIB/SEM for preparing thin lamellae from vitrified cellular samples for cryo-electron tomography.
What time on one costs
For cryo-FIB milling time, external academic users pay a median $57/hr ($39–75/hr, 2 facilities, an anchor rather than a range); internal users a median $52/hr (3 facilities), from facilities' own published rate sheets.
Where to use one
27 facilities in the directory run an Aquilos 2 (22 take external users).
- U-M Life Sciences Institute Cryo-EM FacilityExternal users
University of Michigan · Ann Arbor, MI
- Sauer Structural Biology Laboratory (SSBL)External users
University of Texas at Austin · Austin, TX
- The Beckman Center for Cryo-EM at Johns HopkinsExternal users
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD
- CU Boulder Center for Cryo-ET (CCET)External users
University of Colorado Boulder · Boulder, CO
- University of Chicago Advanced Electron Microscopy Core FacilityExternal users
University of Chicago · Chicago, IL
- Cryo-Electron Microscopy CoreExternal users
Case Western Reserve University · Cleveland, OH
- Electron Microscopy Core (EMC)External users
University of Missouri · Columbia, MO
- Cryo-Electron Microscopy Facility (CEMF)External users
UT Southwestern Medical Center · Dallas, TX
- CryoEM Core (Advanced Technology Cores)External users
Baylor College of Medicine · Houston, TX
- Helix BioStructures (cryo-EM services)External users
Helix Biostructures · Indianapolis, IN
- UW-Madison Cryo-Electron Microscopy Research Center (CEMRC)External users · 2 units
University of Wisconsin-Madison · Madison, WI
- Characterization Facility (CharFac) Electron MicroscopyExternal users
University of Minnesota Twin Cities · Minneapolis, MN
- Simons Electron Microscopy Center (SEMC)External users
New York Structural Biology Center · New York, NY
- Evelyn Gruss Lipper Cryo-Electron Microscopy Resource Center (CEMRC)External users
Rockefeller University · New York, NY
- Rutgers CryoEM & Nanoimaging Facility (RCNF)External users
Rutgers, the State University of N.J. · Piscataway, NJ
- Pittsburgh Center for CryoEM (PCCEM)External users
University of Pittsburgh at Pittsburgh · Pittsburgh, PA
- Imaging and Analysis Center (IAC), Princeton Materials InstituteExternal users
Princeton University · Princeton, NJ
- Washington University Center for Cellular Imaging (WUCCI)External users
Washington University · Saint Louis, MO
- Electron Microscopy Core Laboratory (HSC Cores)External users
Utah State Higher Education System--University of Utah · Salt Lake City, UT
- Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center for Cryo-Electron MicroscopyExternal users
University of Washington · Seattle, WA
- Stanford Cryo-Electron Microscopy Center (cEMc)External users
Stanford University · Stanford, CA
- Laboratory for BioMolecular Structure (LBMS)External users
Brookhaven National Laboratory · Upton, NY
- Cryo-Electron Microscopy Facility (Janelia Research Campus)Internal only
Howard Hughes Medical Institute - Janelia Research Campus · Ashburn, VA
- Center for Structural Biology Cryo-EM Facility (CCR)Internal only
National Cancer Institute · Bethesda, MD
- Molecular Electron Microscopy CoreAccess not published
University of Virginia · Charlottesville, VA
- Electron Microscopy Center, Frost Institute for Chemistry and Molecular Science (ATOMM)Access not published
University of Miami · Coral Gables, FL
- UCSF EM Core (W.M. Keck Foundation Advanced Microscopy Laboratory)Access not published
UCSF · San Francisco, CA