New Talos F200i microscope
The Institute got a brand new Thermo Scientific™ Talos™ F200i S/TEM microscope and said goodbye to the Philips CM200. A significant and exciting upgrade!
06Feb2021
11Oct2019
Data collected using new Titan Krios cryo-TEM
First data collected using the London Consortium for cryo-EM's (LonCEM's) new Titan Krios Cryo Transmission Electron Microscope with the Gatan K3™ camera in super-resolution mode. A dream come true.
04Oct2017
New cryo-electron microscope produces first beam
The cryo-electron microscope installed on the Imperial College London Hammersmith Campus produces its first beam, coinciding, fittingly, with the award of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Franck and Richard Henderson, "for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution."
08Sep2016
GPU-accelerated workstation arrives
Alberto Riera's new toy, a graphics processing unit (GPU)-accelerated workstation, arrives.
18Jul2016
FEI Vitrobot Mark IV arrives
The FEI Vitrobot Mark IV arrives to the delight of everyone, but especially Sarah Schneider.