Lefteris Zarkadas
Lefteris obtained his PhD in structural biology from the University of Patras, studying nicotinic acetylcholine receptors at the Hellenic Pasteur Institute, and later worked as a postdoctoral fellow at IBS on the structural characterization of ion channels using cryo-EM. His expertise spans membrane protein biochemistry and cryo-EM-based structural determination. Since 2021, he has been part of the IBS-ISBG EM platform within Instruct-ERIC, where he is a cryo-EM specialist. He oversees a Thermo Scientific Glacios Cryo-TEM, contributes to the ESRF Thermo Scientific Titan Krios Cryo-TEM CM02 facility, and provides end-to-end support for users from sample preparation to data interpretation.