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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

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

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

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.

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

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.”.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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:.

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

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

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

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.

21 Aug 2020: To provide a comprehensive analysis of all possible STR permutations, Pierre, working with Guillaume Guilbaud also from Julian’s group, developed a new high-throughput assay that allows measurement of DNA

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.

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.

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

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

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

21 Jan 2020: Piotr Szwedziak, a former PhD student and post-doctoral researcher in Jan Löwe’s group, has received an EMBO Installation Grant to establish an

18 May 2020: MRC LMB seeks DNA volunteers. Published on. 18 May, 2020. Cambridge Independent feature story on Julian Gough’s new phenotype prediction genome data study, which is also exploring whether DNA genotype

7 Dec 2020: The LMB celebrated its latest book, Ahead of the Curve: Women Scientists at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology by Kathleen Weston, with an online book launch of presentations from around the world.

2 Jan 2020: Proof-of-principle research led by Chris Russo showing that cryo-EM could be made 10 times cheaper is highlighted by the MRC. “Our goal is to make cryo-EM

3 Jul 2020: Nicholas Green is interviewed in the Cambridge Independent about John Sutherland’s group’s recent research suggesting that DNA and RNA building blocks

6 Aug 2020: Yanlan Mao, who did her PhD with Matthew Freeman’s group in the LMB’s Cell Biology Division, has been awarded the RMS Medal for Life Sciences in

23 Jan 2020: The neuronal gene Arc plays important roles in neural plasticity, learning and memory-related molecular processes and has been shown to mediate intercellular RNA transfer by forming viral-like capsids. John Briggs’ group has now solved the first

11 Dec 2020: Published on. 11 December, 2020. A Nature News Feature about origin of life chemistry, including key work by John Sutherland’s group, and selection of the specific destination of a NASA

13 Oct 2020: After hearing him talk in a new group leaders’ seminar series, Liz realised that her colleague Madan Babu, who works on intrinsically disordered proteins, could help her a lot in understanding ... The job I’ve given myself is to do preliminary

4 May 2020: to reproduce new double-stranded DNA. ... These processes are tightly coupled by the replisome complex to avoid stretches of exposed single-stranded DNA between the point of unwinding and the point of synthesis of new DNA.