A new 200kV (scanning-)transmission electron microscope for life-science applications has been installed at CEITEC Masaryk University (part of CIISB and Instruct-ERIC). The Glacios 2 (ThermoScientific) microscope will be available exclusively for cryo-electron microscopy, including efficient screening of cryo-EM samples, single particle data acquisition, cryo-electron tomography data acquisition, cryo-STEM imaging and tomography. The microscope is equipped with a Falcon 4i direct electron detector for TEM applications, a Ceta-D camera for electron diffraction tomography, and a set of bright-field, dark-field and high angle annular dark-field detectors (Panther STEM, ThermoScientific) for STEM imaging. Data acquisition can be automated using SerialEM, EPU Multigrid and Tomo5 (including Tomo-Live for real-time tomogram reconstruction). The microscope at CEITEC is the 200th Glacios installed worldwide.
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.