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Central Electron Microscopy Facility (CEMF)

University of Connecticut Sch of Med/Dnt

📍 Farmington, CT · Website ↗

CEMF is a UConn Health supported electron microscopy service facility in Farmington offering TEM and SEM imaging and sample processing. Its conventional instruments are a Hitachi H-7650 TEM and Zeiss Sigma field emission SEMs. A 100 kV Thermo Fisher Tundra cryo-TEM with an autogrid workstation and a Vitrobot Mark V, funded by an NIH grant to Wolfgang Peti, were installed in September 2023 in the CGSB building at 400 Farmington Ave, adding single particle cryo-EM for UConn Health, UConn, UMass Amherst, and Wesleyan users.

Equipment Inventory(6 instruments)

Roster verified against the facility's own published instrument list, September 2026.

Vitrobot Mark V

Thermo Fisher Scientific · Vitrification

Sample Prep

Configuration: Listed as 'Vitrobot 5', installed September 2023 with the Tundra

Leica EM UC7

Leica Microsystems · Ultramicrotome

Sample Prep

Configuration: Ultramicrotome; a Leica EM UCT is also listed

Zeiss Sigma Gemini

Zeiss

SEM

Configuration: High vacuum field emission SEM

Zeiss Sigma 360 VP

Zeiss

SEM

Configuration: Variable pressure SEM with EDS probe

Tundra

Thermo Fisher Scientific · Screening

TEM

Voltage: 100 kV

Configuration: 100 kV cryo-TEM with auto-grid assembly workstation; NIH S10 funded (Peti); installed September 2023, CGSB 400 Farmington Ave

Hitachi H-7650

Hitachi · Screening / Negative Stain

TEM

Configuration: Conventional TEM with digital imaging

Rates

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