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Pacific Northwest Center for Cryo-EM (PNCC)

OHSU / Pacific Northwest National Lab

📍 Portland, OR · Website ↗

PNCC is an NIH Common Fund national cryo-EM center operated jointly by Oregon Health & Science University and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in OHSU's Robertson Life Sciences Building in Portland. It runs four 300 kV Titan Krios (Krios-1 to Krios-4) with Falcon 4i and BioContinuum K3 detectors, Selectris X filters and a cold FEG on Krios-2, plus a Talos Arctica and a Glacios 2. Sample preparation includes a Vitrobot, Leica EM GP2, VitroJet, Tergeo plasma cleaner and a Refeyn 2MP mass photometer, with time awarded by peer-reviewed proposal.

Equipment Inventory(8 instruments)

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

Refeyn 2MP Mass Photometer

Refeyn

Sample Prep
Configuration: mass photometer

Leica EM GP2

Leica Microsystems · Vitrification

Sample Prep
Configuration: plunge freezer

VitroJet

CryoSol-World · Vitrification

Sample Prep
Configuration: pin-printing vitrification robot

Tergeo-EM

PIE Scientific · Plasma Cleaner

Sample Prep
Configuration: grid plasma cleaning

Vitrobot

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Sample Prep
Configuration: plunge freezer; Mark version not stated

Talos Arctica

Thermo Fisher Scientific · Single Particle / Screening

TEM
Voltage: 200 kV
Configuration: 'Arctica'; 200 kV; Autoloader; K3 DED and Falcon 4i DED

Glacios 2

Thermo Fisher Scientific · Single Particle / Screening

TEM
Voltage: 200 kV
Configuration: 200 kV; Falcon 4i DED; Selectris energy filter

Titan Krios

×4

Thermo Fisher Scientific

TEM
Configuration: 'Krios-1'; 300 kV; Autoloader; Falcon 4i DED; Selectris X; fringe-free; 'Krios-2'; 300 kV; cold FEG (CFEG); Autoloader; Falcon 4i DED; Selectris X; fringe-free; 'Krios-3'; 300 kV; Autoloader; BioContinuum K3; Falcon 4i DED; fringe-free; 'Krios-4'; 300 kV; Autoloader; BioContinuum K3; fringe-free