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The cryoEM facility of the ER-C is situated on the campus of the Forschungszentrum Jülich and offers cryoEM imaging and sample preparation
The Ernst Ruska-Centre (ER-C) for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons, founded in 2004, is an inter- / national user facility open to universities, research institutions and research laboratories in industry. The ER-C is run conjointly by Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH and RWTH Aachen University and houses some of the world’s most advanced electron microscopes and tools for nanocharacterisation, several of which have been funded by the German Research Foundation and the Helmholtz Association. The ER-C is located on the campus of Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, a major interdisciplinary research centre and member of the Helmholtz Association.
The cryoEM facility was initiated 2019 with the appointment of Prof. Dr. Carsten Sachse, expanding an existing material science facility. In 2022 first external users were accepted to bring samples for vitrification and imaging. Since then, more than 80 external users with more than 140 projects used the services offered at the ER-C. The cryoEM facility encompasses 3 TEMs and 1 FIB-SEM as well as vitrification equipment needed to prepare the samples. Services cover (1) sample vitrification, (2) focused ion beam (FIB) sample thinning, also fluorescence guided leading in correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM) and (3) high-resolution cryo electron tomography (cryoET) or single particle analysis (SPA).
Visit the cryo electron microscopy (cryoEM) facility of the ER-C:
The ER-C cryoEM facility is located at the Forschungszentrum in Jülich. It can be reach by bus from Jülich and Aachen as well as by train. Site entry has to be arranged before visit, more details can be found under travel information. Remote access or sample send in is possible depending on requested service.
Website: https://er-c.org/index.php/facilities-2/life-science/cryo-electron-microscopy-facility/
Contact Email Address (generic support address): er-c@fz-juelich.de
How to find
The facility is reachable via train coming from Düren main station with the Rurtalbahn RB21 to Jülich Forschungszentrum changing into bus 219 or walking 2km to “Forschungszentrum Strahlenschutz”. From there it is 500m by foot to the facility.
