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23 Feb 2024: Information transfer in the nervous system occurs at synapses, where presynaptic signals are interpreted by postsynaptic receptors. We study this process

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

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

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. Chris Tate

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

14 Mar 2024: In an effort to better understand human brain development, we have developed a new model system, called cerebral organoids.

23 Feb 2024: Science News : Scientists have mapped an insect brain in greater detail than ever before. ... Sky News : First map of insect brain signals 'big step forward' in understanding thoughts.

22 Mar 2024: Thus, understanding their cell biology requires re-thinking some of our most basic assumptions (bilayers membranes) and the development of new research tools and methods (high-temperature live cell imaging).

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

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

23 Feb 2024: The ends of linear eukaryotic chromosomes are capped telomeres, an array of long telomeric repeat tracts (nin human) bound by telomeric protein factors.

13 Feb 2024: Neuronal circuits are the biological substrates for all aspects of brain function such as learning, memory, thought, speech and consciousness. The

23 Feb 2024: Our research is aimed at understanding the mechanisms and regulation of chromosome segregation in mitosis. During the cell cycle, accurate chromosome

21 Jul 2023: In conjunction with Professor Matthew Wood and colleagues at the University of Oxford, we designed a new class of cell-penetrating peptides, called Pip, which showed outstanding cell and in vivo ... The new D-PEP peptides form the basis of founding of a

22 Mar 2024: Molecular Immunity Unit Menna Clatworthy LMB Division - Molecular Immunity Unit The Clatworthy lab is interested in understanding how B cell activation

1 Feb 2024: In 2013, the LMB moved to a new, purpose-built building designed to deliver the right environment in which innovative medical research, translation and collaboration can flourish. ... Both new and established researchers are encouraged to utilise the

23 Feb 2024: We are interested in cell autonomous innate immunity, i.e. in the ability of individual cells to defend themselves against infection. Cytosolic defence

23 Feb 2024: Splicing of precursor messenger RNA (pre-mRNA) is a ubiquitous hallmark of gene expression in all eukaryotes. Within the cell, splicing occurs

14 Mar 2024: Andrew Travers started his Ph.D. at the LMB under the tutelage of the late John Smith in 1964. After this he took a couple of years out as a post-doc in