{"id":3808,"date":"2026-10-07T19:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T17:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mubmcx.ciencias.udc.gal\/lecture_rafael-fernandez-leiro\/"},"modified":"2026-10-07T20:28:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T18:28:29","slug":"lecture_rafael-fernandez-leiro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mubmcx.ciencias.udc.gal\/en\/lecture_rafael-fernandez-leiro\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture_Rafael Fern\u00e1ndez Leiro"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3808\" class=\"elementor elementor-3808 elementor-3788\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3105b558 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3105b558\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-54164646 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"54164646\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1><b>\u201c<\/b><b>Cryo-electron<\/b> <b>microscopy<\/b><b> (<\/b><b>cryo<\/b><b>-EM): a revolutionary technique\u201d<\/b><\/h1><h2>Rafael Fern\u00e1ndez Leiro<\/h2><p>PhD in Biology and head of a research group at the CNIO (Spanish National Cancer Research Centre). Expert in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). <\/p><p>October 9, 2026 at 12:00 PM in the Assembly Hall of the Faculty of Sciences<\/p><p>Blended-learning students will have real-time access via MS Teams.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM): a revolutionary technique\u201d Rafael Fern\u00e1ndez Leiro PhD in Biology and head of a research group at the CNIO (Spanish National Cancer Research Centre). Expert in cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). October 9, 2026 at 12:00 PM in the Assembly Hall of the Faculty of Sciences Blended-learning students will have real-time access via MS Teams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3833,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-notices"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lecture_Rafael Fern\u00e1ndez Leiro - M\u00e1ster de excelencia en Bioloxia molecular, celular e xen\u00e9tica<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Can we observe cellular machines atom by atom and learn to design new ones? 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