| Equipment | Room | Image | Description/Application |
|---|
| Tecnai 200kV Transmission Electron Microscope | 1014 | | - thick section analysis
- electron tomography
- cryo-TEM
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| Hitachi HT7800 120kV Transmission Electron Microscope |
| | - routine thin section analysis
- Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy
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| Leica UC6 Ultramicrotome | 1050A | Leica UCT Ultramicrotome | - semi thin and ultra thin sectioning of resin blocks
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| Leica UC7 FC7 Cryo-ultramicrotome | 1050C | | - semi thin and ultra thin sectioning of Tokuyasu sections
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| Leica IGL Immunogold Labeller | 1050B | | - automatic immuno labelling of ultra thin sections on grids
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| FEI Vitrobot Mark IV | 1050C | | - plunge freezing device for cryo-thin films
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| Leica EMPACT High Pressure Freezer | 1050C | | - freezing of biological samples under high pressure
- cell monolayers on sapphire discs, micro biopsies, cell pellets
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| Leica AFS | 1050C | | - freeze substitution unit
- processes high pressure frozen samples for embedding in resin blocks
- used for processing when osmium is involved
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| Leica AFS2 | 1050C | | - freeze substitution unit
- processes high pressure frozen samples for embedding in resin blocks
- has a robotic arm for automatic solution changes
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| Carbon coater |
| | - coats samples in a thin layer of carbon
- can also be used as a glow discharge unit and a sputter coater
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| PELCO EasiGlow Glow Discharge | 1050A | | - changes the charge of a specimen from hydrophobic to hydrophilic
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