Equipment

Transmission Electron Microscopes (TEM)

• Talos Arctica with a Falcon III and Ceta cameras, Volta phase plate (Thermo Fisher Scientific)

• JEM-2100Plus with a TemCam-XF416 camera, different holders (JEOL Germany GmbH, TVIPS GmbH)

Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM)

• Regulus SU8230 (Hitachi High-Technologies Europe GmbH)

Sample Preparation

• High Pressure Freezer Compact 03 for the cryo fixation of biological samples (Engineering Office M. Wohlwend GmbH)
• Freeze substitution system AFS2 with FSP for dehydration and embedding of cryo-fixed samples (Leica Microsystems)
• EM GP plunge freezer (Leica Microsystems)
• Vitrobot Mark IV plunge freezer (Thermo Fisher Scientific)
• BAF 300 for freeze fracture and metal shadowing of samples (Balzers)
• CCU-010 sputter coater for SEM sample preparation (Safematic GmbH)
• CPD300 critical point dryer (Leica Microsystems)
• QG-3000EC automated grid stainer (RMC)
• UC7 ultramicrotome with FC7 for cryo-sectioning (Leica Microsystems)
• Ultracut UCT ultramicrotome (Leica Microsystems)
• Ultracut S ultramicrotome with FC S cryo-box for cryo-sectioning (Reichert)
• Ultracut E ultramicrotome (Reichert)