TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY CORE FACILITY

The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis
Lois Pope LIFE Center Building Room 5-23A
1095 NW 14th Terrace, Miami, FL  33136
Contact: Vania Almeida, M.S., C.E.M.T.
Phone: (305) 243-7137 (lab) or (305) 243-8942 (scope)
Please email questions to: valmeida@miami.edu

The TEM Core offers a variety of services, starting with the preparation of the sample for electron microscopy, to semi-thin and thin sectioning, to the final imaging. The laboratory can be found on the 5th floor of the Lois Pope LIFE Center (Room 5-23/24) while the two JEOL JEM-1400 transmission electron microscopes are located on the 4th floor (Room 4-34).

TEM CORE SERVICES

• Embedding (up to 4 samples) = $250.00 ($50.00 charge per each additional sample).
• Cutting semi-thin (1µm) sections stained with toluidine blue = $75.00/sample.
• Cutting semi-thin (1µm) sections stained with toluidine and cutting thin sections (100nm) for grids with contrast staining = $130.00/sample.
• Scoping session (“beam time”) on the JEOL JEM-1400 with TEM Core staff assistance $180.00/hour (billed in 15min increments).
• Independent user: $130.00/hour (the training fee is the same as beam time with TEM Core staff assistance).
• Technical time for loading grids with exosomes and nanoparticles: $80.00/hour.