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Cryo-Electron Microscopy Core Facility (UTHealth Houston)

University of Texas Health Sci Ctr Houston

📍 Houston, TX · Website ↗

The Cryo-Electron Microscopy Core Facility sits in the McGovern Medical School Building (MSB G.601) at UTHealth Houston and is run within the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology's Structural Biology Imaging Center. It operates a 300 kV Titan Krios G3 with a Gatan BioQuantum filter, K2 Summit detector and Volta phase plates, and a 200 kV Glacios with a Selectris filter and Falcon 4i detector, plus Vitrobot Mark IV and Leica plungers. Staffed hours are Monday to Friday 9 to 5, with 24/7 access for trained users.

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: Plunge freezer

Leica EM GP

Leica

Sample Prep
Configuration: Plunge freezer; page spells it 'Leica EMPG'; manual cryo-plungers also available

Pelco easiGlow

Ted Pella · Glow Discharge

Sample Prep
Configuration: Glow discharge; Cressington 108C auto carbon coater and Denton vacuum carbon evaporator also listed

Titan Krios G3

Thermo Fisher Scientific · Single Particle / Tomography

TEM
Configuration: 300 keV X-FEG; post-column Gatan BioQuantum energy filter; Gatan K2 Summit direct detector; Volta phase plates; 12-position autoloader

Glacios

Thermo Fisher Scientific · Single Particle / Screening

TEM
Voltage: 200 kV
Configuration: 200 kV X-FEG; Selectris X energy filter; Falcon 4i counting direct detector; autoloader; EPU and Tomo software