[3dem] NECEN: a unique new (inter)national cryo-EM centre in the
Netherlands
Marin van Heel
m.vanheel at imperial.ac.uk
Sun Nov 13 14:03:31 PST 2011
Dear Colleagues,
I would like to draw your attention to the recent opening of NECEN
(www.necen.nl), a centre for advanced cryo-EM that will become available
to the international community in the New Year!
The new facility, housing two cutting-edge KRIOS microscopes, will
undoubtedly attract great scientific projects and I expect the place
will soon be buzzing of activity... One KRIOS instrument will be focused
on data collection for electron tomography whereas the other - equipped
with a Cs corrector - will be fine-tuned for high-resolution
single-particle cryo-EM data harvesting.
Advanced cryo-EM instrumentation has made an amazing progress over the
last decade but that advance came with a significant price tag.
Realistically speaking it now costs over a million US$/year to operate a
single KRIOS machine (including depreciation and personnel costs) which
is simply beyond the budget of a normal research groupor even a
university. The Dutch scientific community, in a remarkable act of
solidarity, has managed to get this facility on the road (and not just
on a road map) in a just few years time! The centre will open for
business early in 2012. For the first year of its operation about 50% of
the available beam time has already been allocated.
NECEN will be a great place to be, and I thus gratefully accepted the
offer to move the main part of my research operation to Leiden
University (see trailer) in the immediate vicinity of the new centre.
All the best,
Marin van Heel
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Marin van Heel
Professor of Cryo-EM Data Processing
Cell Observatory
NeCEN Building Room 05.27
Einsteinweg 55
2333 CC Leiden
Leiden University
The Netherlands
Tel. NL: + 31 (0) 71 5271424
Skype: Marin.van.Heel
and:
Professor of Structural Biology
Division of Molecular Biosciences
Faculty of Natural Sciences
Imperial College London
Biochemistry Building (Room 512)
South Kensington Campus
London SW7 2AZ, UK
Tel. UK: + 44 (0) 20 75945316
email: marin.vanheel(A_T)gmail.com
email: m.vanheel(A_T)ic.ac.uk
and: mvh.office(A_T)gmail.com
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