Conscious Mechanisms in Movement11Much of the research reported here and the preparation of the paper were supported by a Laura Spelman Rockefeller award from the University of Iowa and a biomedical research support grant (FR–07035) from the General Research Support Branch, Division of Research Resources, the Bureau of Health Professions, Education and Manpower Training, National Institutes of Health to J. A. Scott Kelso. Stephen A. Wallace was supported by Grant 704-01 from the Illinois Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities. We express our thanks to David Goodman, who assisted in the background work for this paper.

A new 1-MeV transmission electron microscope (Model JEM-1000) was installed at the Department of Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology of the University of Colorado in Boulder during the summer and fall of 1972 under the sponsorship of the Division of Research Resources of the National Institutes of Health. The installation was completed in October, 1972. It is installed primarily for the study of biological materials without many of the limitations hitherto unavoidable in standard transmission electron microscopy. Only the technical characteristics of the installation are briefly reviewed here. A more detailed discussion of the experimental program under way is being published elsewhere.

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The consolidation of microscopy technology into a university research support facility: Reflections on the 1980's and projections for the 1990's at the university of iowa

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100148216 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 51 ◽

pp. 476-477

Author(s):

Kenneth C. Moore

Keyword(s):

Laser Scanning ◽

Freeze Fracture ◽

Freeze Substitution ◽

Research Support ◽

University Of Iowa ◽

Staff Members ◽

The Past ◽

Research Grade ◽

The University ◽

Support Facility

The University of Iowa Central Electron Microscopy Research Facility(CEMRF) was established in 1981 to support all faculty, staff and students needing this technology. Initially the CEMRF was operated with one TEM, one SEM, three staff members and supported about 30 projects a year. During the past twelve years, the facility has replaced all instrumentation pre-dating 1981, and now includes 2 TEM's, 2 SEM's, 2 EDS systems, cryo-transfer specimen holders for both TEM and SEM, 2 parafin microtomes, 4 ultamicrotomes including cryoultramicrotomy, a Laser Scanning Confocal microscope, a research grade light microscope, an Ion Mill, film and print processing equipment, a rapid cryo-freezer, freeze substitution apparatus, a freeze-fracture/etching system, vacuum evaporators, sputter coaters, a plasma asher, and is currently evaluating scanning probe microscopes for acquisition. The facility presently consists of 10 staff members and supports over 150 projects annually from 44 departments in 5 Colleges and 10 industrial laboratories. One of the unique strengths of the CEMRF is that both Biomedical and Physical scientists use the facility.

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