Resource for the Visualization of Biological Complexity (RVBC)
Other electron microscopes at Wadsworth Center
Wadsworth Centers progenitor was founded in 1901, and we have a long history in development of microscopy techniques, especially for the study of microorganisms. Electron microscopy started here in 1946 with an RCA EMU2. From 1952 to 1958, Helmut Ruska, MD (right), brother of Ernst Ruska (Nobel laureate for the invention of the electron microscope), was head of our micromorphology lab. In 1956, Dr. George Edwards (left) another pioneer of biological applications of EM, joined the lab. This 1957 Siemens Elmiskop I is said to have been personally selected by Ernst Ruska for use by his brother. After yielding images for numerous publications for 26 years, the instrument has been retired to a display in our lobby
The Electron Microscopy Core Facility at Wadsworth maintains the following instruments:
- Zeiss 1550VP
- Field-emission gun SEM with variable pressure operation and PGT Spirit EDX system
- Hitachi H7000
- 120keV analytical TEM/STEM with PGT IMIX EDX system
- Philips EM420
- 120keV cryo-TEM with Gatan 1k CCD camera
- Zeiss 910
- 120keV TEM with TVIPS 1k CCD camera and automated tomography software, and a Fischione high-tilt tomography specimen holder
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the Wadsworth Center has:
- FEI TF-30 Polara
- 300keV field-emission gun TEM with liquid helium cooled stage, and TVIPS 4k and 1k CCD cameras