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Cryo Electron Microscopy (CryoEM) Core at UNC Chapel Hill

University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

📍 Chapel Hill, NC · Website ↗

The CryoEM Core at UNC Chapel Hill, part of the Center for Structural Biology in the Glaxo Research Building, operates a 200 keV Talos Arctica with a Gatan K3 direct detector and Ceta-D camera, plus a Vitrobot Mark IV, Pelco easiGlow, Tergeo-EM plasma cleaner and Leica ACE600 coater. It offers fee-for-service single-particle cryoEM, cryo-electron tomography and cryoTEM of nanoparticles to internal, external academic and industry customers. A 300 keV Titan Krios G4 with Falcon 4i and Selectris X was announced in December 2025 for installation in summer 2026.

Equipment Inventory(5 instruments)

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

Vitrobot Mark IV

Thermo Fisher Scientific · Vitrification

Sample Prep
Configuration: Robotic plunge freezer, bookable on iLab

Pelco easiGlow

Ted Pella · Glow Discharge

Sample Prep
Configuration: Glow discharge cleaning system

Tergeo-EM

PIE Scientific · Plasma Cleaner

Sample Prep
Configuration: Plasma cleaner

Leica EM ACE600

Leica Microsystems · Coater

Sample Prep
Configuration: Carbon and sputter coater

Talos Arctica

Thermo Fisher Scientific · Single Particle / Screening

TEM
Voltage: 200 kV
Configuration: 200 keV; 'Talos Arctica G3' per home page; constant-power C-Twin lens Cs 2.7 mm; 12-cartridge autoloader; K3 and Ceta-D cameras; apoferritin benchmark 1.8 A

Rates

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