Purdue Cryo-EM Facility

The Purdue Cryo-EM Facility is a member of the Purdue EM Consortium and a designated Indiana CTSI Core Facility. Our facility is available to Purdue, other academic institutes, and industry users. It provides state-of-the-art instruments and expertise for high resolution structure determination of viruses, larger macromolecular complexes, nano-particles, as well as tomographic visualization of virus-cell interactions by cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) and three-dimensional (3-D) image reconstruction.

News

Titan Krios G4 installation started

Purdue CryoEM symposium 2018

Congratulations to Yingjie Chen, Wen Jiang and Bill Watson on being awarded an NIH training grant for cryoEM!

Congratulations to Profs. Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank, Richard Henderson on being awarded The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2017!

Virus grows tube to insert DNA during infection then sheds it

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Instrument Status

Titan Krios G1: Available. Ultrascan will be replaced with a Ceta camera soon. Energy filter tuning should currently only by done by facility staff. Joystick sometimes gets stuck and causes stage drift, TFS is working on a solution.
Titan Krios G4: Installation started in July 2020. Enclosure build finished.
Talos F200C: Available. K2 has fiber on sensor.