Electron Microscopy and Image processing
Birkbeck College Department of Crystallography EM Lab 020 7079 8061 T12 Microscope ext 8057 T10 Microscope ext 8058 Department Fax +44 20 7631 6803

EM Lab Safety Local EM Information (local access only)

People Helen Saibil Elena Orlova Carolyn Moores Maya Topf Luchun Wang (EM Laboratory Manager) Helen White Dan Clare Helene Malet Natalya Lukoyanova Franck Fourniol Christina Hoey Kanwal Zehra Amineh Zafarani Yuri Chaban Ricardo Aramayo R Natesh Silvia Panico Lilia Milanesi Bibek Gooptu Daven Vasishtan Gemma Gargent

EM equipment
For single particle EM and tomography, we have Tecnai 100, 120 kV, 200 kV FEG and 300 kV Polara machines, with associated CCD equipment, and a vitrobot for sample preparation. Cell preparation equipment includes a high pressure freezer, cryo microtome and freeze substitution, with cryo fluorescence microscopy to be installed.

Image processing
Hardware: Linux cluster and graphics workstations, Zeiss SCAI scanner
Software: Spider, Imagic, MRC image programs, CCP4, EMAN, Explorer, Amira, IMOD
Spider Imagic CCP4 EMAN IMOD