Cryo-Electron Microscopy Facility (Huck)

Overview of Services

This Facility is built around the capabilities of our FEI Titan Krios microscope. Installed in the spring and summer of 2017, this revolutionary, cryo-based technology permits a full range of semi-automated applications, includng 2D electron crystallography, single particle analysis, cryo-electron microscopy, and dual axis cellular tomography of frozen hydrated cell organelles and cells.

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EXTERNAL USERS: An Academic Research Services Order must be in place before we can accept your projects.

                              Contact Nigel Deighton for an information package at nxd20@psu.edu

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Leadership

Steering Committee

• Susan Hafenstein | Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Song Tan | Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
• Clive Randall | Professor of Materials Science & Engineering, Director of the Materials Research Institute
• Enrique Gomez | Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering
• Nigel Deighton | Director of Research Instrumentation, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences

Location and hours of operation

Links and Resources

• Cryo-EM Facility website
• CORES (CrossLab) support, hosted by ORIS
• EMDataBank  Unified Data Resource for 3-Dimensional Electron Microscopy
• EMPIAR  Electron Microscopy Public Image Archive 

Contacts