Imaging at OHSU: Cryo-EM transforming the landscape of research

Pacific Northwest Center for Cryo-Electron Microscopy and OHSU Multiscale Microscopy Core provide some of the most advanced imaging in the country, world

By Angela Yeager December 20, 2024 Portland, Oregon

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Claudia Lopez Lab

From left: Erin Stempinski, M.S., is a research associate; Claudia López Ph.D., director of the Multiscale Microscopy Core and associate professor in the Biomedical Engineering Department, operationally oversees the Multiscale Microscopy Core; Raakhee Shankar, Ph.D., an associate core scientist; and Rudy Alvarado MS, CEMT, a research associate. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)

Craig Yoshioka, Ph.D. (OHSU)

Multiscale Microscopy Core

Rudy Alvarado MS, CEMT, a research associate at the Multiscale Microscopy Core, uses imaging equipment in the Lopez lab. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)

Multiscale Microscopy Core

Raakhee Shankar, Ph.D., an associate core scientist at the Multiscale Microscopy Core, loads samples on a Helios UC5 FIB-SEM microscope. The Multiscale Microscopy Core is in OHSU’s Robertson Life Sciences Building, along with the Pacific Northwest Cryo-EM Center. Together, these centers form an unmatched resource for OHSU researchers studying everything from molecular biology to cancer and infectious diseases. (OHSU/Christine Torres Hicks)

Multiscale Microscopy Core