Construction and Management of Cryo-Electron Microscopy Center of Southern University of Science and Technology
In the past decade,300 kV cryo-electron microscopy(cryo-EM)were a powerful tool for the structural analysis of biological macromolecules,material morphology,and composition analysis.The Cryo-EM Center at Southern University of Science and Technology(SUSTech)is the largest scientific research laboratory in China with such equipment,and it is also the first centralized,automated,and visually managed cryo-EM center in China.Its completion fills the historical gap of the lack of high-end cryo-EM in southern China.This article summarizes the status of large-scale instruments and equipment,open sharing management system,and operation mode of the Cryo-EM Center at SUSTech,explores the management and operation mechanism of the center from the aspects of management framework and open sharing,and introduces its important support for the development of structural biology in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.
large-scale instrument and equipment platformopen sharingcryo-electron microscopyhierarchical management