Location
Champaign, Illinois
5 Instruments
Contact
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BSL2-certified cryo-EM suite (rooms MRL0025-0027) within the Materials Research Laboratory's open-access electron microscopy core on the Urbana campus. It operates a 200 kV X-FEG Glacios with Volta phase plate, Falcon 4 direct electron detector and Autoloader running EPU, alongside a Vitrobot Mark IV and a Vitrobot Mark III, a glow discharge unit and an MFP-3D-Bio AFM. The wider MRL EM core also houses materials TEM/STEM, SEM and FIB/SEM instruments (Themis Z, Talos F200X, Helios 600i, Scios 2) that are not part of the cryo-EM lab.
Non-Illinois academic and industrial users submit a proposal and sign a Facilities Use Agreement (self use) or Technical Testing Agreement (staff analysis), then complete safety and instrument training.
TEM
Glacios
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Sample Prep
Glow Discharge System
Various
Sample Prep
Vitrobot Mark III
FEI
Sample Prep
Vitrobot Mark IV
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Other
MFP-3D-Bio AFM
Asylum Research (Oxford Instruments)
Other Illinois facilities that take external users
- University of Chicago Advanced Electron Microscopy Core Facility
University of Chicago · Chicago, IL
External users · publishes rates - Feinberg Advanced Cryo-Electron Microscopy and Tomography (FACET) Core
Northwestern University · Chicago, IL
External users
Private providers that run samples
Companies that run cryo-EM as a paid service: you ship a sample, they prepare grids and collect data, and several also process it.
- Creative Biostructure ↗
Shirley, NY
Private providerDirectory page - FairJourney Biologics ↗
San Diego, CA
Private providerDirectory page - Helix Biostructures ↗
Indianapolis, IN
Private providerDirectory page - NanoImaging Services ↗
San Diego, CA
Private providerDirectory page - NovAliX ↗
Strasbourg, France
Private providerDirectory page - Proteros Biostructures ↗
Martinsried, Germany
Private providerDirectory page - Selvita (Cryo-EM Services) ↗
Cambridge, MA
Private providerDirectory page - Thermo Fisher Cryo-EM Drug Discovery Center ↗
South San Francisco, CA
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