Equipment and reservation
Dear users,
Due to the construction work of the electrical renovation of the 6th floor CMU building C scheduled from Monday 1st May until Friday 26th May 2023, the services of the Electron Microscopy Facility (PFMU) will be temporally severely affected:
- Morgagni and Tecnai 20 TEM microscopes, as well as, BAF060 freeze-fracturing/etching system will be out of order (completely switched off) from Friday 28th April 2023
- Sample preparation services for TEM: fixation, dehydration, resin embedding, ultramicrotomy and cryo-sectioning, negative staining, freeze-fracturing will be temporally suspended
- SEM imaging and FIBSEM auto slice and view remains fully operational as well as gold coating machine will be relocated to Helios SEM room (E01.3359.a) and critical-point drying device will be relocated to the Histology Facility room (D02.1553.a)
Please, keep in mind, during the renovation period there will be absolutely no access to the C06 floor section of the CMU building.
To resume the services back to normal:
- Monday 29th to Tuesday 30th May: Morgagni and Tecnai 20 microscopes will be back on power and checked for any issues and aligned, to be available for the users from Wednesday 31st May 2023
- All above mentioned services will be fully operational from Monday 29th May 2023
We would like to ask you to inform PFMU users from your group and to plan your experiments according the outlined schedule and we apologize for any inconvenience caused during this period.
Kind regards,
PFMU staff
TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPES (TEMs):
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Tecnai 20 (FEI Company, Eindhoven, Netherlands) Room C06.1930a
Please contact Hervé Blanchard (tél. 95263) for training before using this microscope
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Morgagni (FEI Company, Eindhoven, Netherlands)
Please contact Hervé Blanchard (tél. 95263) for training before using this microscope |
SCANNING/DUAL BEAM ELECTRON MICROSCOPE (HELIOS):
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HELIOS 660 Nanolab DualBeam SEM/FIB (FEI Company, Eindhoven, Netherlands)
Please contact Bohumil Maco (tél. 95305) to analyse samples with this microscope |
ULTRAMICROTOMES:
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1 LKB Ultratome.
1Reichert Jung Ultracut E.
1 Leica EM FCS ultramicrotomes equipped with cryo-attachments to make ultrathin cryo-sections.
2 Leica Ultracut UCT
Room C06.2136.A, Tél. : 95298
Reservation Reichert Jung Ultracut E. - restricted access -
Reservation Leica Ultramicrotome UCT - D - restricted access -
Reservation Leica Ultramicrotome UCT - B - restricted access -
Reservation Leica Ultracryo UC7 - restricted access -
Reservation Leica Ultracryo 1 - restricted access -
Please contact Ms Ruga-Fahy or Ms De Luca (tél. 95305, ) for training before using this equipment
FREEZE-FRACTURE/etching SYSTEM:
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BAF 060 Freeze-Fracture/Etching System (Bal-Tec Company, Lichtenstein) Reservation - restricted access Please contact Ms Ruga-Fahy (tél. 95305, ) to use this equipment |
FULLY EQUIPPED LAB FOR EM SPECIMEN PREPARATION:
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room C06.2138.A, Tél. : 95748
Reservation - restricted access