Leduc Bioimaging Facility (Brown BioMed Core Facilities)
Brown University
📍 Providence, RI · Website ↗
The Leduc Bioimaging Facility is a Brown BioMed core in Sidney Frank Hall that provides light microscopy, electron microscopy and cryo-EM to the Brown community and outside investigators. Its cryo-EM capability is a Thermo Scientific Tundra 100 kV cryo-TEM with a Falcon C direct detector and semi-automated AutoGrid loader, supported by a Vitrobot Mark IV plunge freezer and an Emitech K100X glow discharger. The facility also runs an Apreo VS serial block-face SEM, several confocal systems and ultramicrotomes.
Equipment Inventory(5 instruments)
Roster verified against the facility's own published instrument list, September 2026.
Vitrobot Mark IV
Thermo Fisher Scientific · Vitrification
Emitech K100X
Quorum · Glow Discharge
Leica EM UC7
Leica Microsystems · Ultramicrotome
VolumeScope 2
Thermo Fisher Scientific · Serial Block-Face
Tundra
Thermo Fisher Scientific · Screening
Published Rates
As published by the facility, retrieved Aug 10, 2026 · source. Rates change; confirm with the facility before budgeting.
| Service | Rate | Applies to | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tundra cryo-TEM (additional hours) | $31 | external | academic |
| Tundra cryo-TEM (first 4 hours, per hour) | $101 | external | academic |
| Training (session) | $283 | internal | — |
| Tundra cryo-TEM (additional hours) | $20 | internal | — |
| Tundra cryo-TEM (first 4 hours, per hour) | $64 | internal | Brown / RI academic; FY26 |
| Technical assistance (hourly) | $45 | — | — |