Electron Microscopy and Image processing
Birkbeck College Crystallography, Department of Biological Sciences EM Lab 020 7079 8061 T12 Microscope ext 8057 T10 Microscope ext 8058 Polara 0203 0738 090 Department Fax +44 20 7631 6803

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People Helen Saibil Elena Orlova Carolyn Moores Maya Topf Luchun Wang (EM Laboratory Manager) Dan Clare Helen White Natalya Lukoyanova Kanwal Zehra Jean Watermeyer Natasha Dudkina Bibek Gooptu Marta Carroni Jonathan O'Driscoll Christos Savva Vicky Hale Adeline Goulet Zakkiya Ahmed Arun Pandurangan Selda Bahrdt-Genisyurek Andrea Nans

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, as well as correlative cryo fluorescence microscopy/ cryo EM.

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