New scanning transmission electron microscope (S/TEM) has been recently installed at Cryo-electron microscopy core facility CEITEC MU. The purchase was carried out within infrastructural upgrade and development financed by UP CIISB project. The new ThermoScientific Talos F200C microscope will be used for both transmission electron microscopy imaging and scanning transmission electron microscopy applications. The microscope is equipped with ThermoScientific Ceta-D camera for screening of specimens in negative stain and has also capacity for acquisition of high-quality cryo-EM data with ThermoScientific Falcon 3EC direct electron detection camera. The microscope is further equipped with the Dectris Quadro camera for acquisition of electron diffraction tomography data on micro-crystals of proteins or small molecules (micro-ED). The microscope also comprises HAADF for STEM imaging and Bruker XFlash EDS detector for elemental mapping. Talos F200C will thus serve as a versatile tool for life-science and chemistry research. In addition, it will facilitate establishing new services such as STEM tomography of plastic sections, and implementation and further development of emerging applications such as 4D STEM or cryo-STEM tomography.
The Biomolecular Interactions and Crystallography Core Facility of CEITEC MU is very happy to announce the installation of a new cutting-edge instrument that will assist in the characterization of macromolecular complexes. Mass photometer TwoMP (Refeyn) is designed to precisely determine the molecular mass of proteins, nucleic acids, and other macromolecules in a broad range of sizes.
On November 14, 2024, all CIISB management bodies met to listen to the current status of the research infrastructure and its core facilities at CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology and Institute of Biotechnology.