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5 Sep 2023: LMB 1978-1979, Sabbatical Visitor, PNAC The Royal Society has awarded Herman Waldmann the Royal Medal 2023 to mark his important contributions to the

21 Jul 2023: Curios of 60 years of the LMB In an exhibition celebrating 60 years of the LMB, an assortment of curios – unusual and intriguing items – have been

21 Jul 2023: The facility provides researchers with both a service and training in new techniques.

21 Jul 2023: 1962 Physiology or Medicine Prize - Francis Crick & Jim Watson “for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its

10 Aug 2023: It’s great that new and returning exhibitioners are displaying their work again at this year’s Arts & Crafts show, which includes various types of arts and crafts, from Lego models

21 Jul 2023: STEM in Song The LMB atrium was filled with music during STEM in Song as the Girls’ Choir of St Catharine’s College performed songs featuring microbes,

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

21 Jul 2023: 1984 Physiology or Medicine Prize - César Milstein & Georges Köhler “for theories concerning the specificity in control and development of the immune

21 Jul 2023: With recent improvements in electron cryo-microscopy and development of new software that could handle helical samples by Shaoda He in Sjors’ group, they decided to work together to solve the ... Michel: “The most important benefit to emerge from

21 Jul 2023: Nanobody Mission The Nanobody facility provides a service for the selection and production of nanobodies from either phage display or yeast surface

9 Oct 2023: Other new research from Greg’s group has identified how flies use smell to determine both the identity and position of other flies, revealing unexpected similarities to the processing of sight ... The Division also investigates the molecular processes

21 Jul 2023: They worked with members of the LMB to inspire new perspectives and understanding of the LMB’s research, both amongst people at the LMB, and the general public.

19 Feb 2024: The accreditation is awarded to laboratories that can demonstrate practical steps towards improved efficiency and sustainability.

8 Dec 2023: Scientific Computing Scientific Computing provides and supports the LMB’s core Unix systems. These systems include email, authenticating user access to

21 Jul 2023: The development of new mass spectrometric-based methods is essential in order ensure that the LMB remains at the forefront of biological research. ... The group undertakes independent research to create new mass spectrometric technologies and we

14 Dec 2023: She is now Professor for Chemical Biology at ETH Zurich where she works to develop new tools to study and control biological systems. ... times. Kathrin greeting HM Queen Elizabeth II at the Official Opening of the new LMB Building in 2013.

7 Mar 2024: Tanmay Bharat, Group Leader in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division, was honoured by the 2024 Blavatnik Awards in the UK as Finalist in the Life Sciences

21 Feb 2024: Electron Microscopy The LMB has an outstanding Electron Microscopy (EM) Facility with a focus on electron cryo-microscopy (cryoEM) of unstained biological

21 Jul 2023: This has occurred because when you come across some new finding, you look around and there are people working on certain topics who you are confident will advise you, tell you ... So some people are amazingly technical, they have this mindset of being

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

18 Aug 2023: Sean Munro’s group in the LMB’s Cell Biology Division, and Matthew Freeman at the Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, have built the ‘Unknome’

12 Sep 2023: Applicants do not have to make up a new project from thin air!

21 Jul 2023: In parallel with the generation of new cells, cell death is a normal process, both in the foetus and adult, to maintain the appropriate number of cells in tissues. ... This is now being studied in order to improve the diagnosis of disease, develop new

8 Sep 2023: New research from Anne Bertolotti’s group in the LMB’s Neurobiology Division has discovered unexpected dose-dependent activation, rather than the intended inhibition, of ISR by its kinase inhibitors.

21 Jul 2023: Electron Cryo-microscopy LMB scientists have been and continue to be at the forefront of the field of electron cryo-microscopy, developing a technique

6 Dec 2023: The Raymond Nicolet Trust organised a charity cake sale at the LMB on Monday 21st November. Volunteer patisserie amateurs baked a variety of different

21 Jul 2023: Crystallography Course 2013 Lectures Lecture Presentations Tutorials Data Processing and Scaling - Phil Evans and Andrew Leslie Required Software

21 Jul 2023: From the scientist’s view: a conversation with … Kelly Nguyen Kelly Nguyen is a Group Leader in the Structural Studies Division at the LMB. She did her

1 Sep 2023: Development of new force fields with optimised parameters to study disordered proteins is a challenging and time-consuming process, particularly when trying to adapt multiple parameters at once.

21 Jul 2023: Cells eliminate “orphan” proteins that have failed to assemble into the molecular machines within which they normally function. Manu Hegde’s group have now elucidated the mechanism by which one type of orphan is selectively recognised and

31 Jul 2023: Thank you!”. “I had lots of fun and learned a lot of new stuff, thank you”.

21 Jul 2023: Support services IT Support IT Support provides hardware and software configuration and an extensive and speedy repair service for Apple and Windows

21 Jul 2023: Setting the stage: development of sample holders for electron cryomicroscopy. The advancement of microscope sample holders was crucial for moving from

26 Oct 2023: The LMB organised an activity for the Big Biology Day focused on highlighting the small scales used in molecular biology

25 Oct 2023: Benjamin Ryskeldi-Falcon, Group Leader in the LMB’s Neurobiology Division, has been recognised for his research into the molecular basis of neurodegenerative diseases.

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

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20 Oct 2023: Jérôme, a Ph.D. student in Jason Chin’s group, was awarded the prize for his pioneering work developing new tools to rapidly and efficiently recode entire genomes and applying this ... Diana’s work has opened up entirely new areas in amyloid

21 Jul 2023: Cambridge Festival The interdisciplinary Cambridge Festival has replaced the Cambridge Science Festival and Cambridge Festival of Ideas in giving the

21 Jul 2023: LMB Open Day 2017 On Saturday 17th June the LMB held a spectacular Open Day as part of the MRC Festival of Medical Research, welcoming over 2000 visitors

12 Sep 2023: We are half way through a most exciting adventure, developing new technologies to understand the fundamental mechanisms of neurotransmission and to put this knowledge to good use.”.

21 Jul 2023: Biological Services Group The LMB Biological Services Group (BSG) maintains state-of-the-art facilities to house breeding and experimental colonies of

14 Sep 2023: Daniela Rhodes, Emeritus Scientist in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division, has been awarded the 2023 WLA Prize in Life Science or Medicine.

9 Aug 2023: Despite decades of work, the role of thousands of human proteins remains unclear despite the likelihood that they participate in possibly new areas of biological function.

21 Jul 2023: Concordat on Openness in Animal Research The Concordat on Openness is a declaration signed by many organisations involved with bioscience in the UK. The

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

21 Jul 2023: I would find it very boring and unproductive if I was so competitive that I felt I had to restrict my lab from talking about new data at meetings.”. ... There’s a new group leaders’ group that meets monthly for lunch and presentations, and the

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1 Feb 2024: To introduce and apply new techniques across a wide range of disciplines and to have the creativity and initiative to develop novel approaches and methods where required. ... moving into a new research discipline and/or needs to further develop their

7 Dec 2023: 7 December, 2023. A news piece in Science highlights how Chris Russo’s group and Richard Henderson, both in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division, have worked with other collaborators to ... build a new cryo–electron microscope at a fraction of