Cryo-EM✓ External Access

Purdue Cryo-EM Facility

Purdue University

📍 West Lafayette, IN · Website ↗

Indiana CTSI core in Suite 171 of Hockmeyer Hall of Structural Biology, directed by Wen Jiang and Thomas Klose. It operates two 300 kV Titan Krios microscopes (G1 and G4), each with a post-GIF Gatan K3 detector, and a Talos F200C with Ceta 4k and Gatan K2 Summit cameras, with Volta phase plate, Vitrobot Mark II and Mark IV, CP3 and Leica GP2 plunge freezers. Service covers single particle and tomography data collection only; image processing is not included.

Equipment Inventory(8 instruments)

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

Vitrobot Mark IV

Thermo Fisher Scientific · Vitrification

Sample Prep

Vitrobot Mark II

FEI

Sample Prep

Gatan CP3

Gatan · Vitrification

Sample Prep
Configuration: plunge freezer

Leica EM GP2

Leica Microsystems · Vitrification

Sample Prep
Configuration: BSL-2

Pelco easiGlow

Ted Pella · Glow Discharge

Sample Prep
Configuration: listed among carbon evaporators/glow dischargers

Talos F200C

Thermo Fisher Scientific · Screening

TEM
Configuration: 200 kV with a Ceta 4k camera and a Gatan K2 Summit. Internal rate $64 per hour.

Titan Krios G4

Thermo Fisher Scientific · Single Particle / Tomography

TEM
Voltage: 300 kV
Configuration: 300 kV with a post-GIF Gatan K3. Installation began July 2020.
Internal: $64/hr

Titan Krios

Thermo Fisher Scientific

TEM
Configuration: 300 kV with a post-GIF Gatan K3 and Gatan Quantum energy filter. Internal rate $111 per hour.
Internal: $64/hr

Rates

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

Pricing

InstrumentInternal RateExternal RateNotes
Titan Krios G4$64/hr—Internal self-user $64/hr. Staff-assisted $173/hr. Separate rates for external non-profit and industrial.
Titan Krios$64/hr—Internal self-user $64/hr. Staff-assisted $173/hr. Separate rates for external non-profit and industrial.