Cryo-EM✓ External Access

UF ICBR Electron Microscopy Core Facility

University of Florida

📍 Gainesville, FL · Website ↗

The UF ICBR Electron Microscopy Core Facility in Gainesville provides cryo-EM, conventional TEM, and SEM services with tiered fees for UF, non-profit, and commercial users. Its cryo-TEM is a 200 kV Thermo Scientific Glacios 2 offered as self-service or staff-assisted, supported by a Vitrobot plunge freezer. Conventional imaging uses a Talos L120C G2, a Tecnai G2 Spirit TWIN, and a Hitachi SU5000 field emission SEM, with ultramicrotomy, cryostat, critical point drying, and sputter coating support.

Equipment Inventory(5 instruments)

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

Vitrobot

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Sample Prep

Configuration: Mark not stated

Hitachi SU5000

Hitachi

SEM

Configuration: Schottky field emission, variable pressure

Glacios 2

Thermo Fisher Scientific · Single Particle / Screening

TEM

Voltage: 200 kV

Configuration: 200 kV cryo-TEM; self-service and staff-assisted rates (UF $42.20 and $96.79 per hour)

Talos L120C

Thermo Fisher Scientific · Screening / Negative Stain

TEM

Voltage: 120 kV

Configuration: 120 kV, Ceta 16M CMOS, SmartCam

Tecnai T12

Thermo Fisher Scientific

TEM

Configuration: 120 kV, UltraScan 1000 2k x 2k CCD, AMT side mount camera; plastic sections and negative stain

Rates

This facility publishes its rates as a document rather than a web page. View the facility's rate document →