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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,

21 Jul 2023: 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. Research

23 May 2024: LMB 1962-1963, Postdoctoral Visitor, Structural Studies Jeremy Berg covers the life of trailblazing biochemist and author Lubert Stryer. His textbook

6 Dec 2023: Search this website. Discovery of a new amyloid-forming protein in neurodegenerative disease. ... It represents a rare finding of a new member of the small group of proteins known to form neurodegenerative disease-associated amyloid filaments, alongside

2 May 2024: lmb.cam.ac.uk/groups/shahbazi/2024/05/02/new-publication-connecting-delamination-and-differentiation-during-gastrulation/ ... connecting-delamination-and-differentiation-during-gastrulation/#respond pmabbs Thu, 02 May 2024 15:01:50 0000 News

26 Mar 2024: Delineating the molecular mechanisms that impart daily rhythms to our biology is therefore important for understanding human health and may provide new insights into the prevention and treatment of many diseases.

17 Jan 2024: recollected that Kiyoshi had told her that “It’s never too late to try and learn something new”.

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 Jul 2023: Photographs The LMB has an extensive collection of photographs and images, a selection of which can be viewed here by either browsing the collection or

23 Feb 2024: The machines that comprise this proteostasis network include the ribosome, which synthesizes new proteins, chaperones that help new proteins fold, and degradation factors that eliminate incorrect or damaged proteins. ... We expect that our results will

23 Feb 2024: Our broad goal is to understand how smell turns into behaviour in the fruit fly brain. We currently use a combination of genetic labelling and

13 Mar 2024: We also aim to use DMS to develop new force fields at different scales, such as implicit solvent or coarse-grained models, allowing larger systems to be simulated.

15 May 2024: The compartments of the secretory and endocytic pathways are connected by membrane-bound carriers that bud from, and then fuse with, specific organelles.

23 Feb 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. Jan Löwe.

21 Jul 2023: Doses for X-ray and electron diffraction: New features in RADDOSE-3D including intensity decay models..

21 Jul 2023: For a list of recent news items please see the LMB News section.

20 May 2024: In 2012 a new chemistry-oriented Centre for Chemical and Synthetic Biology (CCSB) was established, to help support the Division’s work in synthetic biology and strengthen its chemical expertise.

19 Jun 2024: Keren Turton. Earlier this year, the LMB was pleased to appoint Keren Turton as the new Tissue Culture Facility Manager. ... Keren also conducts inductions for new users of the facility so researchers can independently grow cultures.

10 Jan 2024: CryoEM at IUCrJ: a new era.

21 Jul 2023: Mark S. Bretscher Curriculum Vitae Personal Details Date of Birth: 8 January 1940 Family: Married (to Barbara Pearse); one daughter (Nicola) and one son

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

24 Oct 2023: Joan A. Steitz Postdoc Prize The Max Perutz Fund was set up in June 1980 in honour of the LMB’s founder, Max Perutz, and was established for the promotion

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.

23 Feb 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. Philipp

24 Oct 2023: Eileen Southgate Prize The Max Perutz Fund was set up in June 1980 in honour of the LMB’s founder, Max Perutz, and was established for the promotion

21 Jul 2023: Current Vacancies Listed below are the vacancies currently being advertised. In addition we welcome speculative applications from postdocs – see Postdoc

19 Oct 2023: Annette’s aptitude for event organising was again crucial to the Royal Opening of the new LMB building in 2013, when Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and HRH Prince Philip ... A skilled writer herself, Annette also helped publicise research

23 Feb 2024: Neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease (AD), Parkinson’s disease (PD), Huntington’s disease (HD) and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)

25 Aug 2023: Since the orthogonal ribosome, unlike the natural ribosome, is not essential it is possible to evolve the orthogonal ribosome to read new genetic codes on the orthogonal message. ... This parallel translation pathway provides a series of blank codons

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.

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.

23 Feb 2024: Cryo-EM is rapidly evolving and we are developing new methods to help determine protein structures.

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

23 Feb 2024: Precise chromosome replication is essential for maintaining genome stability, yet the process itself is inherently risky. Duplex DNA must be transiently

16 Feb 2024: Elucidating the molecular details of this pathway was therefore paramount and had the potential to reveal new therapeutic targets for treating cancer.

4 Jul 2023: New members are elected annually by the existing membership. At the LMB, Katja investigates the mechanisms that transform epithelial sheets of cells into complex, three-dimensional organs. ... I am grateful to my past and current lab members for helping

23 Feb 2024: Cells are highly compartmentalized into numerous membrane-bound organelles. The membranes that define each organelle contain unique sets of embedded

12 Mar 2024: The brain works as an integrated whole. Animals interact with the world by combining inputs from their senses of vision, hearing, smell, taste, touch and

21 Jul 2023: Group Leader Profiles   Group Leaders are drawn to the LMB from all over the world, having gained experience in a variety of places. Some join the

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

21 Jul 2023: Scientific Training Electron Microscopy Biophysics Macromolecular Crystallisation Crystallography Course 2013 Statistics Course 2014 RNA-seq course

24 Oct 2023: Perutz Student Prize The Perutz Student Prize is awarded annually for outstanding work performed at LMB prior to the award of a Ph.D. Nominees

5 Mar 2024: Molecular motors have critical roles in the trafficking of organelles, vesicles and macromolecules within the cytoplasm, and aberrant motor function is

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

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.

29 Jan 2024: Dendritic cells (DCs) play a key role in initiation of cytotoxic immune responses against pathogens and tumours. In order to prime the relevant T cells,

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

21 Jul 2023: modeling. These studies offer new approaches for tackling the challenge of antibiotic resistance.

21 Jul 2023: 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. Emeritus.

21 Jul 2023: The LMB News team works closely with the central UKRI press office, which handles all major media stories from across the MRC’s units, centres and institutes. ... The MRC press team also provides corporate information to the media and reports on recent