Rebecca Thompson is the Electron Microscopy Manager and senior cryo-electron microscopy scientist within the Astbury Biostructure Laboratory, University of Leeds. In this role she oversees the management of the facility, which includes two state-of-the-art Titan Krios microscopes. Her current research interests span cryo-electron microscopy and include developing and optimising workflows for high resolution structure determination of macromolecular complexes by single particle analysis, and using cryo-electron tomography to image cells and organelles.
