CryoEM Service Centers, a working list

Updated: 07/25/2024

International
 

Asia

• China - NCPSS: www.ncpss.org.cn/
• China - SUSTech: https://www.sustech.edu.cn/
• China - SKLB: http://sklb.scu.edu.cn/f_summary.html
• India - ACCEM: http://mbu.iisc.ac.in/SDLab.htm/
• India - BLSC: http://ecryom.instem.res.in/
• India - NCBS: https://www.ncbs.res.in/ 
• Israel - WIS: https://www.structuralbiology.eu/centre/ispc-wis-israel/
• Japan - OIST: https://groups.oist.jp/img
• Singapore - NTU: https://www.ntu.edu.sg/nisb/research-capabilities/cryoem-platform
• Taiwan - SINICA: http://cryoem.ibc.sinica.edu.tw/

Africa

Australia

• Australia - Melbourne: www.microscopy.unimelb.edu.au/em
• Australia - Monash: https://www.monash.edu/researchinfrastructure/cryo-em/home
• Australia - Molecular Horizons: https://www.uow.edu.au/research-and-innovation/our-research/research-institutes-and-facilities/molecular-horizons/facilities/cryo-em/
• Australia - Wollongong: https://www.uow.edu.au/research-and-innovation/our-research/research-institutes-and-facilities/molecular-horizons/facilities/cryo-em/

Europe

• Europe - iNEXT: https://inext-discovery.eu/network/inext-d/home
• Europe - Instruct-ERIC: https://www.structuralbiology.eu/submit-proposal
• Belgium - BECM: www.becm.be
• Czech - CEITEC: https://www.ceitec.eu/
• Denmark - CFIM: https://krios-denmark.ku.dk/
• Denmark - iNano: https://inano.au.dk/research/research-platforms/inano-cryo-em-facility
• Finland - UEF: https://www.structuralbiology.eu/centre/university-of-eastern-finland/
• Finland - UH: https://www2.helsinki.fi/en/infrastructures/integrated-structural-cell-biology/infrastructures/cryoem
• Finland - UO: https://www.structuralbiology.eu/centre/university-of-oulu/
• France - CBS: http://www.cbs.cnrs.fr/index.php/en/
• France - ESRF: https://www.esrf.fr/CM01
• France - FRISBI: https://frisbi.eu/centers/
• France - IBS: https://www.structuralbiology.eu/centre/instruct-centre---france-2/
• France - IGBMC: https://www.structuralbiology.eu/centre/instruct-centre---france-1/
• France - MRiC: https://microscopie.univ-rennes1.fr/mric-tem-presentation
• Germany - EMBL: https://www.embl.org/about/info/imaging-centre/cryo-electron-microscopy/
• Netherlands - GBB: https://www.rug.nl/research/electron-microscopy/
• Netherlands - NeCEN: https://www.necen.nl/
• Spain - CNB: http://www.cnb.csic.es/
• Sweden - SciLifeLab: https://www.scilifelab.se/facilities/cryo-em/
• Sweden - UCEM: http://www.mims.umu.se/core-facilities/em.html
• Switzerland - DCI: https://www.dci-lausanne.org/technology/em-at-dci-lausanne/fees/
• UK - ABL: https://biologicalsciences.leeds.ac.uk/facilities/doc/electron-microscopy
• UK - eBIC: https://www.diamond.ac.uk/Instruments/Biological-Cryo-Imaging/eBIC.html
• UK - LISCB: www.leicester.ac.uk/cryoem
• UK - OPIC: https://www.opic.ox.ac.uk/access
• UK - SCMI: https://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/iii/cvr/scmi/

North America

• USA - see "National" below
• Canada - McGill: https://www.mcgill.ca/femr/
• Canada - UBC: https://cryoem.med.ubc.ca/

South America

• Brazil - LNNano: https://lnnano.cnpem.br/

National

NIH provides funding for three National CryoEM Centers:

• Pacific Northwest CryoEM Center (no cost, proposal): https://pncc.labworks.org/
• National Center for CryoEM Access and Training (no cost, proposal): https://nccat.nysbc.org/
• Stanford SLAC CryoEM Center (no cost, proposal): https://cryoem.slac.stanford.edu/s2c2/

 

NIH provides funding for four National CryoET Centers:

• Hub - The Midwest Center for Cryo-Electron Tomography (no cost, proposal): https://cryoem.wisc.edu/about-mccet/
  • CU Boulder Center for Cryo-ET (no cost, proposal): http://dosequis.colorado.edu/CCET/index.html
  • National Center for In-situ Tomography Ultramicroscopy (no cost, proposal): https://ncitu.nysbc.org/
  • Stanford SLAC CryoEM CryoET Specimen Preparation Center (no cost, proposal): https://sites.slac.stanford.edu/scsc-cryoet/

 

In addition to the three national center, here are other cryoEM resources in the United States:

 

Alabama

• University of Alabama (fee internal & external): https://www.uab.edu/medicine/microbiology/research/resources/cryo-em

Alaska

Arizona

• Arizona State University (fee internal & external): https://cores.research.asu.edu/materials/about

Arkansas

• University of Arkansas (fee internal, contact external): https://microscopy.uark.edu/tf-20/

California

• California Institute of Technology (contact): http://cryoem.caltech.edu/
• Molecular foundry at Lawerence Berkley National Lab (no cost, proposal): https://foundry.lbl.gov/expertise-instrumentation/
• NanoImaging Services (contact): https://www.nanoimagingservices.com/
• Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Disvoery Institute (fee internal & external): https://www.sbpdiscovery.org/biomedical-research/shared-resources/cryo-em
• Scripps Research Institute (contact): https://www.scripps.edu/science-and-medicine/cores-and-services/microscopy-core/index.html
• Stanford SLAC CryoEM Facility (no cost, proposal): https://sites.slac.stanford.edu/cryo-em/
• Stanford SLAC National Center for Macromolecular Imaging (no cost, proposal): https://cryoem.slac.stanford.edu/ncmi/
• Stanford SLAC Regional Cryo-EM Consortium (no cost, apply): https://cryoem.slac.stanford.edu/consortium/
• University of California-Berkeley (fee internal & external): https://qb3.berkeley.edu/facility/cal-cryo/
• University of California-Davis (internal): https://bioem.ucdavis.edu/
• University of California-Los Angeles (fee internal & external): https://eicn.cnsi.ucla.edu/
• University of California-Los Angeles Midwest Consortium (no cost, apply): https://eicn.cnsi.ucla.edu/wmc/
• University of California-Los Angeles microED (contact): https://cryoem.ucla.edu/medic
• University of California-San Diego (fee internal, contact external): https://cryoem-facility.ucsd.edu/
• University of California-San Francisco (contact): https://emcore.ucsf.edu/
• University of California-Santa Cruz (fee internal & external): https://ibsc.ucsc.edu/facilities/microscopy
• University of California-Riverside (fee internal & external): https://cfamm.ucr.edu/

Colorado

• University of Colorado-Anschutz (fee internal & external): https://www.cuanschutz.edu/graduate-programs/structural-biology-and-biochemistry/facilities/cryoem-structural-biology-shared-resource-facility
• University of Colorado-Boulder EMS (fee internal & external): https://www.colorado.edu/facility/ems/
• University of Colorado-Boulder BioKem (fee internal & external): https://www.colorado.edu/facility/biokem/

Connecticut

• University of Connecticut (fee internal, contact external): https://emlab.uconn.edu/
• Yale University (contact): https://cryoem.yale.edu/

Delaware

• University of Delaware (fee internal & external): https://www.camm.udel.edu/

Florida

• Florida State University (fee internal & external): https://bsir.bio.fsu.edu/
• Southeastern Center for Microscopy of MacroMolecular Machines: https://secm4.org/
• University of Florida (contact): https://biotech.ufl.edu/electron-microscopy/
• University of South Florida (fee internal & external): https://www.usf.edu/arts-sciences/research-scholarship/cores-and-institutes/core-facilities/electron-microscope.aspx

Georgia

• Emory University (contact): https://www.cores.emory.edu/iemc/
• University of Georgia (fee internal, external contact): https://gem.uga.edu/

Hawaii

• University of Hawaii-Manoa (fee internal & external): http://bemf.pbrc.hawaii.edu/

Idaho

Illinois

• Northwestern University (contact): https://www.cancer.northwestern.edu/research/shared-resources/structural-biology.html
• University of Chicago (fee internal & external): https://voices.uchicago.edu/advancedem/
• University of Illinois Chicago (contact): https://rrc.uic.edu/cores/scientific-imaging-nanotechnology/electron-microscopy-service-ems/
• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (fee internal & external): https://mrl.illinois.edu/facilities/research-cores/electron-microscopy

Indiana

• Indiana University (fee internal, contact external): https://iubemcenter.indiana.edu/
• Purdue University Biological Sciences (fee internal & external): https://cryoem.bio.purdue.edu/

Iowa

• Iowa State University (fee internal & external): https://www.biotech.iastate.edu/cryoem/
• University of Iowa Health Center (fee internal, contact external): https://medicine.uiowa.edu/crystallography/

Kansas

• Kansas University Medical Center (fee internal, contact external): https://www.kumc.edu/emrl.html

Kentucky

• University of Kentucky (fee internal & external): https://medicine.uiowa.edu/crystallography/contact-information

Louisiana

• Louisiana State University (fee internal & external): https://www.lsu.edu/sif/
• Tulane University (fee internal & external): https://sse.tulane.edu/cif

Maine

• University of Maine (fee internal & external): https://umaine.edu/core/microscopy/

Maryland

• National CryoEM Facility (no cost, proposal, cancer research only): https://www.cancer.gov/research/resources/cryoem
• Johns Hopkins University (contact): https://cryoem.jhmi.edu/
• University of Maryland School of Medicine (contact): https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/CIBR/CORE/em/

Massachusetts

• Boston University School of Medicine (contact): https://www.bumc.bu.edu/phys-biophys/facilities/cryelemic3dimgrec/
• Brandeis University (fee internal & external): http://www.bio.brandeis.edu/emfacility/
• Harvard University (fee internal & external): https://cryoem.hms.harvard.edu/
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (fee internal & external): https://nanousers.mit.edu/characterizenano/automated-cryogenic-electron-microscopy
• UMass Medical School (contact): https://www.umassmed.edu/research/cores/cryo-em-core-facility/

Michigan

• University of Michigan (contact): https://www.lsi.umich.edu/science/centers-technologies/cryo-electron-microscopy
• Van Andel Institute (contact): https://cryoemcore.vai.org/

Minnesota

• Hormel Institute - University of Minnesota (contact): https://www.hi.umn.edu/cryo-em-lab/

Mississippi

• University of Mississippi Medical Center (contact): https://www.umc.edu/som/Departments%20and%20Offices/SOM%20Departments/Pathology/Educational-Programs/Facilities/Electron-Microscopy.html

Missouri

• University of Missouri (contact): http://emc.missouri.edu/
• Washington University-St. Louis (fee internal & external): https://wucci.wustl.edu/user-info/cryoem-policy/

Montana

• Montana State University (contact): https://www.montana.edu/cryo-electron-microscopy/
• Rocky Mountain Laboratories (internal): https://www.niaid.nih.gov/research/elizabeth-fischer-ma

Nebraska

• University of Nebraska Medical Center (fee internal & external): https://www.unmc.edu/vcr/cores/vcr-cores/electron-microscopy/index.html
• University of Nebraska–Lincoln Center for Biotechnology (Fees Internal and External): https://biotech.unl.edu/cryoem

Nevada

New Hampshire

• University of New Hampshire (contact): https://www.unh.edu/research/cibbr/core-facilities

New Jersey

• Princeton University (fee internal & external): https://molbio.princeton.edu/core-facilities/electron-microscopy
• Rutgers University (contact): https://iqb.rutgers.edu/cryofacilities

New Mexico

• University of New Mexico (contact): https://isco-op.unm.edu/centers/ncf.html

New York

• Brookhaven National Lab (no cost, proposal): https://www.bnl.gov/cryo-EM/
• Albert Einstein College of Medicine (fee internal, contact external): https://einsteinmed.org/research/shared-facilities/analytical-imaging-facility/manual-tips/cryoem.aspx
• Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (contact): https://www.cshl.edu/research/core-facilities/cryo-em-facility/
• Cornell University (contact): https://www.ccmr.cornell.edu/categoryuser-instrumentselectron-and-optical-microscopysingleparticle_cryoem/
• Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute (contact): https://hwi.buffalo.edu/cryo-electron-microscope-services/
• Columbia University (contact): https://www.vagelos.columbia.edu/research/researchers/core-and-shared-facilities/core-facilities-category/cryo-electron-microscopy-center
• NYU Langone Health (contact): https://med.nyu.edu/research/scientific-cores-shared-resources/cryo-electron-microscopy-laboratory/
• New York Structural Biology Center (contact): https://nysbc.org/
• Rockefeller University (contact): https://www.rockefeller.edu/cemrc/
• Simons Electron Microscopy Center (New York institutions, dues): https://semc.nysbc.org/
• SUNY Upstate Medical University (contact internal): https://www.upstate.edu/biochem/facilities/elec_micro.php
• Stoney Brook University (fee internal & external): https://www.stonybrook.edu/cryo/

North Carolina

• Duke University (contact): https://smif.pratt.duke.edu/about
• National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (contact): https://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/atniehs/facilities/mmc/index.cfm
• UNC School of Medicine (contact): https://www.med.unc.edu/cryo-em/

North Dakota

• University of North Dakota (fee internal & external): https://med.und.edu/imaging/electron-microscopy.html

Ohio

• Case Western Reserve University (contact internal): https://case.edu/medicine/research/som-core-facilities/cryo-electron-microscopy-core
• Ohio State University (fee internal, contact external): https://cemas.osu.edu/

Oklahoma

• Oklahoma State University (fee internal, contact external): https://research.okstate.edu/microscopy/index.html

Oregon

• Oregon Health & Science University (fee internal & external): https://www.ohsu.edu/multiscale-microscopy-core
• Oregon State University (fee internal & external): https://emfacility.science.oregonstate.edu/
• University of Oregon (contact internal, fee external): https://camcor.uoregon.edu/

Pennsylvania

• Carnegie Mellon University (contact internal): https://www.cmu.edu/engineering/materials/facilities/roberts_suite/electron_microscopy_facilities/electron_microscopy_facilities.html
• Penn State (contact internal): https://med.psu.edu/core/imaging
• Thomas Jefferson University (contact internal): https://research.jefferson.edu/labs/core-services/jefferson-cryo-electron-microscope.html
• University of Pennsylvania (contact): https://www.med.upenn.edu/electronmicroscopyresourcelab/cryo-em-in-brief.html
• University of Pittsburgh (contact internal): https://www.structbio.pitt.edu/index.php/facilities/cryoem

Rhode Island

• Brown University (fee internal & external): https://www.brown.edu/research/institute-molecular-nanoscale-innovation/CoreFacilities/ElectronMicroscopyFacility

South Carolina

• Clemson University (fee internal & external): https://www.clemson.edu/centers-institutes/cuadvancedmaterialscenter/electron-microscope/
• University of South Carolina (fee internal & external): https://www.emc.sc.edu/

South Dakota

Tennessee

• St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (contact): https://www.stjude.org/research/shared-resources/cryo-electron-microscopy-and-tomography-center.html
• University of Tennessee-Knoxville (fee internal & external): https://jiam.utk.edu/core-facilities/microscopy/
• Vanderbilt University (contact internal): https://www.vanderbilt.edu/csb/facilities/cryo-electron-microscopy/

Texas

• Baylor College of Medicine (fee internal, contact external): https://www.bcm.edu/research/research-services/atc-core-labs/cryoem-core
• Rice University (fee internal & external): https://emc.rice.edu/
• Texas A&M (fee internal & external): https://microscopy.tamu.edu/
• UT Medical Branch Galveston (contact): https://www.utmb.edu/scsb/resources/cryo-electron-microscopy
• UT Austin (contact): http://structuralbiology.cns.utexas.edu/#/
• UT El Paso (contact): https://www.utep.edu/science/chemistry/Facilities/cryo-em-facility.html
• UT Health-Houston (contact): https://med.uth.edu/bmb/research-2/centers/structural-biology-imaging-center/electron-microscopy/
• UT Health-San Antonio (contact): https://lsom.uthscsa.edu/pathology/reference-labs/electron-microscopy-laboratory/
• UT Southwestern Medical Center (fee internal & external): https://utsouthwestern.edu/labs/structural-biology/

Utah

• University of Utah (fee internal & external): https://cores.utah.edu/electron-microscopy/

Vermont

• University of Vermont (contact): http://www.med.uvm.edu/mic

Virginia

• Eastern Virginia Medical School (contact): https://www.evms.edu/research/resources_services/microscopy_imaging/
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute-Janelia (internal): https://www.janelia.org/support-team/cryo-electron-microscopy/services
• University of Virginia (contact): https://med.virginia.edu/molecular-electron-microscopy-core/
• Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Comprehensive Cancer Center (fee internal): https://www.masseycancercenter.org/research/shared-resource-cores/microscopy-shared-resource

Washington

• Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (no cost, proposal): https://www.emsl.pnnl.gov/
• Fred Hutch (contact): https://www.fredhutch.org/en/research/shared-resources/core-facilities/cryo-em/data-collection-processing-services.html
• University of Washington (internal only): https://sites.uw.edu/jkoll/sample-page/

West Virginia

• West Virginia University (contact internal, fee external): https://sharedresearchfacilities.wvu.edu/facilities/electron-microscopy

Wisconsin

• University of Wisconsin-Madison (fee internal & external): https://cryoem.wisc.edu/

Wyoming

• University of Wyoming (fee internal, contact external): http://www.uwyo.edu/microscopy/

Other Resources

• Thermo Fisher Help: https://www.thermofisher.com/us/en/home/electron-microscopy/learning-center/electron-microscopy-funding-support-center.html

• World Wide CryoEM Resource Distribution Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1eQ1r8BiDYfaK7D1S9EeFJEgkLggMyoaT&ll=41.30040688299787%2C-79.00818306914333&z=5

 

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