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29 Apr 2020: The 51 new Fellows, 10 Foreign Members and one Honorary Fellow have been selected for their outstanding contributions to scientific understanding. ... With discoveries ranging from the first planets outside our solar system, to the creation of the

28 Aug 2020: Kelly Nguyen, group leader in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division, has been chosen to receive a Suffrage Science award along with ten fellow women scientists and science communicators who work in the life sciences.

17 Dec 2020: Claudia Bonfio, a MSCA Fellow in the PNAC Division, has won the 2020 Dream Chemistry Award for her dream project proposal, “Unlocking primitive chemical messages”.

27 Oct 2020: for the radiation-induced specimen movement that has plagued the field for decades, with the design and creation of a new all-gold grid design that completely eliminates movement. ... With the help of new hardware and software, he led work to achieve

14 Apr 2020: Throughout March, 28 MRC-funded scientists, including three from the LMB, took part in the Medical Research Zone of I’m a Scientist, Get Me Out of Here

12 Aug 2020: Do it at least once. Each time I took part I gained a new perspective on my work and a better understanding of why some school students are put off by

19 May 2020: without her family; after school, she then left the country entirely to attend the brand new Jacobs University Bremen as one of its first undergraduates. ... After Bremen, Patrycja moved to Cambridge to do a PhD with Margaret (Scottie) Robinson at the

28 Sep 2020: The LMB Director, Jan Löwe, recently ran an internal video competition in which staff and students could submit ideas for new films about life and science at the LMB. ... Michel: “The most important benefit to emerge from this new work is the

20 Feb 2020: John was born and raised in New York City. He obtained his B.A., M.S. ... and Ph.D. from New York University. He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Bruce Stillman’s laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor from 1984–1990, where he began working on

1 Dec 2020: LMB Alumnus Tanmay Bharat is among 30 life science researchers within their first four years as group leaders to become EMBO Young Investigators. He joins

4 Aug 2020: Lipid membranes surround our cells and form the boundaries around compartments within them. Roger Williams’ group has now shown how membrane characteristics can tune the activities of protein complexes with important roles in autophagy and

7 Jul 2020: New members are elected annually, by the existing membership, in recognition of their contribution to scientific excellence. ... I am really excited about the new opportunities this will open for exciting interactions with outstanding scientists across

21 Jan 2020: Elaine is currently the Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development at the Rockefeller University, New York, USA. ... We use skin as a model to understand how the microenvironment impacts the stem cells and their behavior in

8 Jul 2020: To identify new treatments, scientists need a better understanding of the role played by different parts of the immune system in this disease. ... An improved understanding of the immune system in the gut and how to rebalance the

23 Jan 2020: Aaron Klug made outstanding contributions to the development of structural molecular biology. An early interest in viruses prompted him to think deeply

21 Feb 2020: eduroam for visitors to the LMB The LMB offers eduroam using the SSID of eduroam using EAP-TLS with no IPv6 support. Visitors should have already

23 Mar 2020: Led by Freda Chapman at the LMB, our staff raised £695 for Marie Curie, a registered charitable organisation, which provides care and support to people with terminal illnesses and their families.

5 Nov 2020: The importance of our brain is reflected in the measures evolved to protect it, including the skull and meninges. However, its immune defence has been less well understood. Menna Clatworthy’s group has now identified immune cells derived from the

26 Oct 2020: Ruth Lehmann, a former postdoctoral visitor with Michael Wilcox and Peter Lawrence in the LMB’s Cell Biology Division, has been awarded the 2021 Vilcek

18 Aug 2020: John Briggs’ group, in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division, has led two new studies of the spike (S) protein that protrudes from the virus surface.

22 Sep 2020: Julian Gough has been named the Cambridge Enterprise Academic Entrepreneur of the Year for his work with Mogrify.

9 Sep 2020: To do this, Julia infected mammalian cells with influenza A virus, leading to production of new viruses. ... Influenza causes very large numbers of cases of severe disease and death every year and new flu strains can cause global pandemics.

4 Aug 2020: I was thrilled to receive the news and extremely honoured that our work has been recognised in this way.”.

6 Mar 2020: Correlative light and electron microscopy is a relatively new technique, and especially when combined with electron cryo-tomography, what you can see is spectacular: “It’s like watching wildlife channels”, Wanda

12 Nov 2020: BBC FUTURE article looking back at origin of life research breakthroughs, including key research by John Sutherland that utilised UV light to form the

16 Oct 2020: They found that the virus is able to infect and produce new virus inside ChP epithelial cells, but neurons and glia were not susceptible to infection. ... With the excellent support of my supervisor, Madeline Lancaster, and the expertise of Leo James’s

14 May 2020: Julian Gough and his group are crowdsourcing raw genomic data for a phenotype prediction study…

22 Sep 2020: This month’s RNA Society Spotlight features Jailson Brito Querido, a postdoctoral researcher in Venki Ramakrishnan’s group. Jailson describes how he

7 Jul 2020: Our daily cycle is controlled by a central clock known as the SCN, but it has been unclear how the network of cells that make up the SCN generate the properties that make it a strong clock. Michael Hastings’ group has identified a signalling axis

13 Aug 2020: Hayley Sharpe, a former PhD student with Sean Munro’s group in the Cell Biology Division, is one of four researchers to be awarded a 2020 Lister Institute

5 Feb 2020: Thyroglobulin, the protein precursor to the thyroid hormones T3 and T4, is the only molecule in the human body that is modified by iodine, and the modification directly leads to the formation of the thyroid hormones in the thyroid gland. But the

16 Nov 2020: Elyse Fischer, a PhD student in David Barford’s group, receives the award for her work on the molecular mechanisms of chromosome segregation during cell division.

18 Dec 2020: Article looking at the varied long-term effects of Covid-19 and the clues that latest research offers into what might be causing all the symptoms –

28 May 2020: New research from the groups of Michel Goedert and Sjors Scheres has revealed the first structures of α-synuclein filaments from human brain.

22 Apr 2020: Hearing and touch depend on the ability of sensory neurons to be activated by a force, such as pressure or vibration from sound, and then pass information on to the brain. William Schafer’s group has identified some of the key proteins that make

4 Dec 2020: This reveals a new mechanism of immune synergy between antibodies and T cells, which are often thought to work quite separately. ... Therefore, this work provides multiple new concepts that could be exploited in the development of treatments for and

24 Jan 2020: In long feature format, Science Magazine profiles structural biology scientists at the LMB, including Chris Russo and Nobel Prize winner Richard

4 Jun 2020: Sjors Scheres’ and Radu Aricescu’s groups have pushed the boundaries of cryo-EM, allowing the technique to detect individual atoms in a protein for the

20 Oct 2020: Compare this maps with the original. You should find that the new (smooth) map is easier to understand. ... use the Display Manager to delete the first (mrc) map. Change the contour Step for the new Maps:.

17 Jun 2020: Understanding minute structural differences in (G protein-coupled receptor) GPCR complexes could lead to the design of more efficacious drugs that have fewer side effects

28 Oct 2020: Published on. 28 October, 2020. Karen in the Lab. When the LMB Director, Jan Löwe, ran an internal video competition for staff and students to submit ideas for new films about ... I’ve always been interested in using our knowledge of biological

26 Jun 2020: Sarah Caddy is interviewed about her work on COVID-19 during the pandemic and extending her work with Leo James’ group on how antibodies neutralise

29 May 2020: New Members in 2020 include musicians, historians, social scientists, and researchers in the mathematical, physical, and biological sciences.

18 Dec 2020: Alex Bates, who recently completed his PhD in Greg Jefferis’ group in the Neurobiology Division, was awarded the BNA Postgraduate prize for his work on

24 Nov 2020: Rebecca Taylor’s group has identified a signalling molecule that connects detection of a stressful environment by the nervous system with molecular defence mechanisms in other tissues and leads to changes in feeding behaviour and reproduction.

25 Mar 2020: Kim, who is currently the Whitley Chair at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford and a fellow of Trinity College, has made hugely valuable

23 Jul 2020: Producing maps of how neurons connect with each other (connectomes) allows scientists to build and test theories of brain function. Greg Jefferis’ group have presented the first full map of olfactory, thermosensory, and hygrosensory projection

28 Aug 2020: The brain contains an enormous number of connections, known as synapses. Their loss is associated with many disorders. Radu Aricescu’s group and collaborators in Japan and Germany have designed a molecule that restores synapses in animal disease

23 Oct 2020: I have also started working on a new project with Radu Aricescu and Jan Löwe to test new vaccine candidates. ... chip model to understand the immune response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis and develop new drug treatments.

1 Sep 2020: illness, offering hope of new therapies for a range of devastating conditions, from Alzheimer’s disease to epilepsy.