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FEI Tecnai G2 TEM
FEI Tecnai Image Gallery
Hitachi H7600 TEM
Hitachi S-4700 Field Emission SEM
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Sample processing equipment
CryoEM processing equipment
High pressure freezer and AFS
Plunge Freezer
Freeze Fracture
Ultramicrotomes
Leica UC7/FC7
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Reichert Ultracut E
Leica EM KMR2 Glass Knife breaker
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Tousimis Autosamdri 815B Critical Point Dryer
Cressington 208HR High Resolution Sputter Coater
Leica EM ACE200 Low Vacuum Coater
EM Immunolabeling
Sectioning Equipment
Leica VT1000S Vibratome
Tissue Culture
Thermo Scientific Biosafety Hood
Thermo Scientific CO2 Incubator

Plunge Freezer

The Vitrobot is a vitrification device for plunge freezing of colloidal suspensions for cryoTEM imaging.  The touch screen is easy to use and its temperature and humidity controlled chamber make for custom sample preparation.

Funded by CFI/BCKDF

FEI Vitrobot IV

The FEI Vitrobot Mark IV

Vitrified vesicles

Vesicles frozen with the Vitrobot and imaged with the FEI Tecnai G2

UBC Bioimaging Facility
Vancouver Campus
George Cunningham Building
2146 East Mall
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z3
Tel 604 822 3354
Website www.bioimaging.ubc.ca
Email bif.manager@ubc.ca
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