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Sauer Structural Biology Laboratory (SSBL)

University of Texas at Austin

📍 AUSTIN, TX · Website ↗

The Sauer Structural Biology Laboratory is a Center for Biomedical Research Support core at UT Austin, opened in 2017 and directed by Axel Brilot. It operates a 300 kV Titan Krios G3 with a Gatan BioContinuum filter and K3 detector, a 200 kV Glacios with a Falcon 4i detector, a 120 kV JEOL 1400 screening S/TEM and a Zeiss GeminiSEM 460, and offers assisted and unassisted use, training and collaborations for single-particle cryo-EM, cryo-ET and microED.

Equipment Inventory(6 instruments)

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

Aquilos 2

Thermo Fisher Scientific · Cryo-FIB Milling

FIB-SEM

Configuration: Cryo-FIB for lamella preparation for cryo-ET and MicroED.

Vitrobot

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Sample Prep

Configuration: Plunge freezer referenced in the SSBL training policy; generation (Mark IV) not stated

Zeiss GeminiSEM 460

Zeiss

SEM

Configuration: 0.5-30 kV FE-SEM; InLens, SE2, backscatter, variable pressure modes; sub-nm resolution

Titan Krios G3

Thermo Fisher Scientific · Single Particle / Tomography

TEM

Configuration: 300 kV; Gatan BioContinuum imaging filter; Gatan K3 direct detector; 12-grid autoloader; single-particle and cryo-ET; booked in 24 h blocks

Glacios

Thermo Fisher Scientific · Single Particle / Screening

TEM

Voltage: 200 kV

Configuration: 200 kV X-FEG; Falcon 4i direct detector (page writes Falcon IVi); autoloader; screening and ~2.5 A SPA, tomography, microED; acquired 2021 via US Army grant

JEOL JEM-1400

JEOL · Screening / Negative Stain

TEM

Voltage: 120 kV

Configuration: 120 kV screening S/TEM with a high-resolution pole piece, STEM bright field and dark field detectors, Oxford EDS and a Gatan Clearview 4k CMOS camera.

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