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4 Jun 2024: Nigel Unwin became a staff scientist at the LMB in 1968, after obtaining his Ph.D. from Cambridge University. He left the Laboratory in 1980 to become

7 Jun 2024: Prior to joining the LMB he founded a company, now situated on the Cambridge Science Park, to apply the Mogrify cell reprogramming technology for the creation of new therapeutics.

2 Apr 2024: Search this website. Rising Talent Fellowship. The MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) is proud to launch a new three-year fully funded postdoctoral fellowship for scientists from Black heritage backgrounds. ... This Fellowship is a three-year

26 Jun 2024: LMB Investigator Scientist, Dariusz Czernecki, recently featured on Cambridge 105 Radio’s ‘Polish Waves’ programme. Listen to hear Dariusz chat about his

10 May 2024: The contents of eukaryotic cells are organised and moved around by motor proteins running along the tracks that make up the cytoskeleton (microtubules and

3 Jun 2024: Pluripotent stem cells have the unique capacity to generate all the cell types of the organism. In the embryo, they undergo concomitant changes in shape

16 May 2024: Each year the Royal Society recognizes excellence in science and technology through its medals, awards and prize lectures and the election of new Fellows.

3 Jun 2024: One of the major tasks that the nervous system faces is that of linking perception to action. We perceive the world around us through our senses and we

13 Jun 2024: Michel Goedert, Group Leader in the LMB’s Neurobiology Division, has been awarded the 2024 Karl Golser Parkinson Prize for his work on the molecular mechanisms of Parkinson’s disease and atypical parkinsonian disorders.

10 Apr 2024: Emmanuel Derivery, Group Leader in the LMB’s Cell Biology Division, is the 2024 recipient of the British Society for Cell Biology’s Hooke Medal.

19 Jun 2024: LMB 1982-1983, 1984-1986, Postdoctoral Scientist, PNAC Tony Kouzarides, Director of the Milner Therapeutics Institute, Professor of Cancer Biology at the

29 Apr 2024: 2023: Finally, divisome core complex resolved. Cell division in the vast majority of bacteria depends on the synthesis of new cell wall peptidoglycan and is catalysed by the divisome.

9 Apr 2024: One of the world's leading research institutes, our scientists are working to advance understanding of biological processes at the molecular level - providing the knowledge needed to solve key problems in human health. Search this website. Student

5 Apr 2024: C&EN discusses recent research using the nematode worm C. elegans to examine wireless brain communications using neuropeptides. They include research

1 May 2024: Electronics Workshop. The Electronics Workshop has been a key factor in the development of new techniques and instrumentation at the LMB since the 1960s. ... The Workshop’s staff are always ready to discuss new projects, helping to develop an initial

23 Apr 2024: Congratulations to Clemens Plaschka, who has been elected as a new member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences’ (ÖAW) Young Academy.

21 May 2024: Vogelstein at Johns Hopkins University. This research offers unprecedented insight into neural architecture, and provides a new basis to guide future experimental and theoretical studies into neural circuits and brain function. ... In addition, LMB

15 Apr 2024: Madeline Lancaster, Group Leader in the LMB’s Cell Biology Division, recently appeared on the BBC Radio 4 show Inside Science, where she introduced her

17 May 2024: Wes Robertson’s research group in the LMB’s PNAC Division will merge the fields of synthetic genomics and microbiome reprogramming.

2 Apr 2024: As an aside, I’m exploring various tools to make new reporters of clock function which will help us get a better overall picture of what is going on inside a

31 May 2024: A Blue Sky path to new cancer therapy targets. Investigating the link between amoebae feeding regulation and cancer cell growth. ... New tools for the nucleic acid chemical toolbox. Capitalising on complimentary expertise and technology know-how.

11 Jun 2024: Biophysics The biophysics facility brings established theories and methods from the physical sciences and applies these to open questions in structural

30 Apr 2024: The Raymond Nicolet Trust organised a charity cake sale at the LMB on Monday 29th April. Volunteers baked a variety of different cakes and successfully

15 Apr 2024: LMB 1986-1991, Postdoctoral Visitor, Scientific Staff, Structural Studies. Congratulations to LMB alumnus Robert Cross, who has been awarded Biochemical

23 Apr 2024: In the summer of 2017, Prof. Cai moved to the University of Manchester as the new chair professor in synthetic genomics. ... Recent research has taken advantage on new advances in high resolution imaging to study the remarkable polarisation that these

7 Jun 2024: Locally Developed Software and Resources Good computer programs have always been vitally important to the work of the LMB. Many of the groups here write,

15 Apr 2024: Venki Ramakrishnan, Group Leader in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division, is the latest guest on Digital Science’s TL;DR Speaker Series. Topics of

20 May 2024: Scientific Leadership: Directors, Deputy Directors & Heads of Divisions The LMB’s scientific leadership consists of the Director, the Deputy Director

3 May 2024: Carazo, M. Mann & W. Baumeister (2009) "New insights into the molecular architecture of the 26S proteasome". ... S.H.W. Scheres & P. Gros (2001) "Conditional optimization: a new formalism for protein structure refinement".

4 Jun 2024: LMB Animal Research Facts and Figures Each year, all UK research establishments must report the previous year’s number of regulated procedures on

15 Apr 2024: Stellenbosch University highlights Dina Ratsimandresy’s career so far – from studying Mathematics in Madagascar and postgraduate studies in South Africa

22 May 2024: I also have a particular interest in laboratory ergonomics and I am always on the lookout for new technologies to improve user comfort, so LMB researchers can work as safely as

20 May 2024: To this end, Phil’s group have developed a new directed evolution technique to improve reverse transcriptase activity for any nucleic acid chemistry, and identified a polymerase enzyme to speed up ... More recently, he and group member Ben Porebski

3 Apr 2024: 56:15 0000 News https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/ccsb/?p=2367 Raffael Schumann has embarked on his PhD studentship in the Chin lab. ... Read more here: https://www.constructive.bio pConstructive Bio launches with $15M seed investment to re-engineer biology,

3 Apr 2024: His work has involved developing new techniques to identify, image and isolate living Archaea from within anaerobic microbial mat environments. ... Now joining the Baum Lab, Fraser’s ecology work has now been complemented with a new cell biology spin.

28 May 2024: The Electronics and Mechanical Engineers share their motivations and experiences of coordinating their university studies with their full-time job.

20 May 2024: Seminars and Events. Library. News & Public Engagement. Archive. Research Office (including Technology Transfer).

10 Jun 2024: I also enjoyed using new tools and equipment for example centrifuges and vortex and learning a new way of pipetting I thought that was really engaging. ... Raufaeel – hosted by Andy Howe. “The highlight of my time at the LMB was learning to solder as

6 Jun 2024: We also explore new insights into protein folding and evolution, suggested by non-trivial relationships discovered during the classification of new protein families in SCOP and SCOP2. ... Structural classification of proteins and structural genomics: new

31 May 2024: How to find the LMB Campus Site Map: Downloadable version (pdf, 151kb) Contact details: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology,Francis Crick Avenue,Cambridge

16 Apr 2024: Published on. 16 April, 2024. New cryo-EM imaging software incorporates cutting-edge algorithms and neural networks to remedy a long-standing problem in structural biology and enables the identification of

4 Apr 2024: You will acquire new knowledge through taking part in team discussions, attending seminars, reading research papers and presenting your results to your lab colleagues.

8 Apr 2024: LMB scientists showcased their research to hundreds at the Cambridge Festival, with a hands-on activity and an art piece about body clocks and a talk about tuberculosis.

6 Jun 2024: Structural Studies Division The Division of Structural Studies seeks to understand the structure, function and interactions of biologically important

15 Apr 2024: An improved knowledge of the process of spindle formation at a molecular level will help to identify new targets for such drugs.

21 May 2024: Academy of Medical Sciences The Academy of Medical Sciences is an independent body in the UK that represents the diverse spectrum of medical science –

16 May 2024: Each year, the Fellows of the Royal Society elect up to 85 new Fellows and up to 24 new Foreign Members. ... Alumna Ruth Lehmann joins them as a new Foreign Member of the Royal Society.

21 May 2024: Greg Jefferis’ group in the LMB’s Neurobiology Division, in collaboration with scientists at the Janelia Research Campus, have predicted the sign of each synapsis in the fruit fly brain.

3 Apr 2024: W. Chin./p p(124) strongControlling orthogonal ribosome subunit interactions enables evolution of new function. ... James./p p style="padding-left: 60px;"[Featured ina href="http://cen.acs.org/magazine/88/8815.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener

29 May 2024: Tanmay Bharat’s group, in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division, reveals the surface layer structure of the archaeon Nitrosopumilus maritimus, crucial to the global nitrogen cycle.