UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS SYSTEM
An equipment grant for the purchase of state-of-the-art electron microscopy sample preparation equipment and the purchase of an electron microscope. The emphasis is on biological sample preparation and three dimensional imaging through tilt series with the electron microscope. The equipment will be used by a group of 5 basic science investigators at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and be made available to other investigators and students in central Arkansas. It will be the only such biologial sample electron microscopy facility in Arkansas.