CeNT seminar (03.10.2025): Cryo-EM Core Facility at the University of Szeged – Plans and Scope

29 09 2025

The Centre of New Technologies, University of Warsaw invites to a seminar by:

dr Péter Bélteky

Department of Applied and Environmental Chemistry, Institute of Science and Informatics, University of Szeged, Hungary Cryo Electron Microscopy Excellence Center, Cluster of Non-life Sciences, University of Szeged, Hungary

Title: Cryo-EM Core Facility at the University of Szeged – Plans and Scope

Date: 03.10.2025, Friday
Time: 12:00 (Central European Time)
Host: Tomasz Góral
The seminar will be held in the 00.142 auditorium (Banacha 2C)

Abstract:
The quickly evolving field of cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo EM) is becoming the interest of more and more scientific fields and research groups, however, so far it has not been established in Hungary or its Easter neighbors. Presently, this is about to change thanks to the cooperation of a number of Hungarian universities, aiming to create a network of cryo-EM facilities, the first of which is currently under construction at the University of Szeged. Locally pioneered by Prof. Zoltán Kónya, the university’s Vice-Rector for Scientific Affairs; Innovation and the Head of the Department of Applied and Environmental Chemistry, a core facility is being assembled, building upon his team’s multidisciplinary experience from industry-focused materials science to bionanotechnology. The center will comprise two cryo-EMs (Glacios 2 and Tundra), a room temperature Talos F200i transmission electron microscope with STEM-EDS capabilities, and an Apreo 2 scanning electron microscope capable of serial block-face imaging. The aim of the unit is to establish Cryo-EM in Hungary for the life sciences and beyond, to provide electron microscopy-based characterization for various materials and to pursue diverse scientific cooperation from any facet of research and development.