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EM Core Facility Services

Services Provided

  • Experimental design consultation
  • Sample fixation, post-fixation, and resin embedding
  • Ultrasectioning
  • TEM imaging
  • Training for imaging and preparation

Research Applications

Some of the many biological questions our facility can help address:

  • Ultrastructure analysis
  • Synaptic architecture and density
  • Mitochondrial dynamics
  • Autophagosome studies
  • Endomembrane systems
  • Blood-brain barrier investigations
  • Protein localization (immuno-EM)
  • Vesicular trafficking

User fees

Publication/Authorship Policy


The EM Core Facility provides services for transmission electron microscopy on a fee-for-service basis. 

The EM Core Facility provides technical services only, interpretation of data is the responsibility of the submitting investigator. 

Also note that the EM Core Facility should be acknowledged in publications and presentations for which our services were utilized. 

Consider co-authorship for staff who contribute significantly to experimental design, data collection/interpretation, and manuscript preparation.

User fee structure:

 

Users

Rate

Internal Academic
Training (Maximum of 2 trainees from the same lab)

$115 /hr

Post-training (Maximum of 2 hrs)

$90 /hr

Post-training (after 2 hrs)

$115 /hr

Instrument time

$65 /hr

Imaging Sample Service

$115 /hr

Sample preparation (Processing and/or Negative Staining; including the consumables)

$50 /hr

Vibrotomy Sample Service

$60 /hr

Vibrotomy Instrument time

$10 /hr

Ultra sectioning of processed samples

$75 /hr

Image Processing

$50 /hr

External Academic
Training (Maximum of 2 trainees from the same lab)

$130 /hr

Post-training (Maximum of 2 hrs)

$105 /hr

Post-training (after 2 hrs)

$130 /hr

Instrument time

$80 /hr

Imaging Sample Service

$130 /hr

Sample preparation (Processing and/or Negative Staining; including the consumables)

$65 /hr

Vibrotomy Sample Service

$70 /hr

Vibrotomy Instrument time

$20 /hr

Ultra sectioning of processed samples

$80 /hr

Image Processing

$55 /hr

Government
Training (Maximum of 2 trainees from the same lab)

$150 /hr

Post-training (Maximum of 2 hrs)

$125 /hr

Post-training (after 2 hrs)

$150 /hr

Instrument time

$100 /hr

Imaging Sample Service

$150 /hr

Sample preparation (Processing and/or Negative Staining; including the consumables)

$75 /hr

Vibrotomy Sample Service

$100 /hr

Vibrotomy Instrument time

$50 /hr

Ultra sectioning of processed samples

$90 /hr

Image Processing

$70 /hr

Industry
Training (Maximum of 2 trainees from the same lab)$210 /hr
Post-training (Maximum of 2 hrs)$190 /hr
Post-training (after 2 hrs)$210 /hr
Instrument time$160 /hr
Imaging Sample Service$210 /hr
Sample preparation (Processing and/or Negative Staining; including the consumables)$85 /hr
Vibrotomy Sample Service$120 /hr
Vibrotomy Instrument time$70 /hr
Ultra sectioning of processed samples$110 /hr
Image Processing$75 /hr

Contact us

Electron Microscopy Core Facility, Faculty Of Medicine

Address: Roger Guindon Hall (RGN), Room 2533, 451 Smyth Road, Ottawa, K1H 8M5

Email: [email protected]

Fax: 613-561-5467

Phone:

Dr. Nooshin Movahed (Office: 613-562-5800, Ext:3373)

Dr. Baptiste Lacoste (Office: 613-562-5800, Ext: 7124)