Core Facility Electron Microscopy Core Facility (EMCF)
The Electron Microscopy Core Facility (EMCF) provides technical and scientific support for transmission and scanning electron microscopy at Heidelberg University. We offer full service as well as support for projects, the latter including training of users. We also offer our services to researchers and clients not affiliated with Heidelberg University. The EMCF is a DFG registered facility (RI 00565).
Combining state-of-the-art technical resources along with expertise is our aim at the EMCF. We utilize various EM techniques for biological imaging, for example Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy, Electron Tomography, Array Tomography, and Immunogold Labelling. This frequently allows to link structure and function and helps answer numerous biological questions.
Project Request
All researchers of Heidelberg University, the Heidelberg and Mannheim University Hospitals, DKFZ, MPImR and EMBL are welcome to request help with EM processing and analysis. Further external projects can be accepted upon discussion. Come and talk to us to find out how your experiments can benefit from electron microscopy.
To start a project at EMCF you should first send a short description of your EM questions. Thereafter we will set up a meeting with EMCF staff to review the feasibility of the project and to discuss how to proceed. Before the onset of a project the general user regulation sheet has to be filled in and the fee agreement signed.
If you have any question about our services, please write an email to emcf@uni-heidelberg.de or see below for alternatives to reach us.
At EMCF we offer two different fee systems:
1. a flat fee system in which the use of all equipment except the F20 tecnai microscope is included. Use of the F20 microscope comes with an additional hourly fee.
2. An hourly fee for all equipments for short term users.
Steering Committee
The rector of Heidelberg University appointed a steering committee which governs the EMCF. The steering committee consists of members of the Medical Faculty Heidelberg, the Faculty of Biosciences, and the CellNetworks Core Technology Platform. Guests can be included.
Contact
Dr. Charlotta Funaya
Head
EMCF - Universität Heidelberg
Im Neuenheimer Feld 345
Office Room 060
69120 Heidelberg
Tel. +49 6221 54-6365
funaya@uni-heidelberg.de
Dr. Réza Shahidi
Head
EMCF - Universität Heidelberg
Im Neuenheimer Feld 345
Office Room 060
69120 Heidelberg
Tel. +49 6221 54-6365
shahidi@uni-heidelberg.de
Larissa Eis
Technical assistant
Office Room 059
Tel. +49 6221 54-6258
Linda Wiest
Technical assistant
Office Room 059
Tel. +49 6221 54-6258
Publications
Selection of recent publications with significant contribution of the EMCF
Table
Comprehensive Overview of Publications
Publication & Acknowledgement guidelines
Proper acknowledgement of the EMCF is important for the core facility’s performance indicators and for receiving financial support, and thus for continuously providing state-of-the-art instruments and services.
Please acknowledge the EMCF in the following way:
“We acknowledge the Electron Microscopy Core Facility (EMCF) at Heidelberg University for assistance with electron microscopic analysis. The EMCF is a DFG-registered research infrastructure (RI 00565)”.
We are happy to help you write up the material and methods part for the EM done at the facility. Please let EMCF personnel read the drafts of manuscripts to ensure that the technical descriptions of the EM analysis are correct before going to press.
Funding Resources
