Sara Sandin

Head of Unit: Cryo-EM, Site Coordinator SciLifeLab Umeå, Umeå University

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Key Publications
Uromodulin velcro sheets and their interaction with uropathogenic E. coli
2025
Exploring TRF2-Dependent DNA Distortion Through Single-DNA Manipulation Studies
Communications Biology, 2024
Ultrastructure and nuclear architecture of telomeric chromatin revealed by correlative light and electron microscopy
Nucleic Acids Research, 2022
Linker histone defines structure and self-association behaviour of the 177 bp human chromatosome
Scientific Reports, 2021
Editorial overview: Imaging the beautiful world of molecules and cells by cryoEM
Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2020

The Cryo-EM Swedish Infrastructure Unit offers access to state-of-the-art equipment and expertise in single particle analysis and cryo electron tomography. The Unit has two nodes: at SciLifeLab in Stockholm and at the Umeå Centre for Electron Microscopy (UCEM) at Umeå University. We provide service and user training for all aspects of cryo-EM projects, including project planning, sample preparation, screening, data collection and data analysis.

The UCEM laboratory is equipped with:

• Titan Krios G2 300kV cryo TEM, Falcon 4i Selectris
• Glacios 200kV cryo TEM, Falcon 4i
• Talos 120kV TEM, Ceta CMOS
• Aquilos 2 cryo FIB-SEM
• Thunder cryo widefield microscope
• Vitrobot plunge freezer
• EM GP2 plunge freezer

Group members

Erin Schexnaydre
Behnam Lak
Ieva Ragaisyte
Lorene Gonnin
Suresh Banjara
Tanvir Shaikh

Last updated: 2025-09-25

Content Responsible: David Gotthold(david.gotthold@scilifelab.se)