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Scientific Seminars

Below is a list of upcoming seminars at the LMB aimed at a general scientific audience and open to individuals throughout Cambridge. If you are not at the LMB and wish to attend a seminar, please contact the seminar secretary, unless the seminar is held online and joining information is included in the seminar information below. The LMB hosts ‘The LMB Seminar Series’, where 1-2 leading scientists per month are invited to speak throughout the year. Four of these lectures are named in honour of LMB Nobel Laureates Max Perutz, Francis Crick, César Milstein and John Kendrew, given by eminent scientists from around the world. The LMB Seminar talks and LMB Named Seminar talks are advertised widely throughout the local area and are open to all.

A full list of LMB Named Lectures to date can be found here. Details of other local seminars can be found here

  • LMB Seminar: Fast and slow pathways of ribosomal subunit association - In Person Only

    Speaker: Joachim Frank, Columbia University
    Host: Chris Russo
    Date: 26/06/2025 at 10:00am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB.

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  • LMB Seminar: TBC

    Speaker: Andy Fire, Stanford University
    Host: Phil Holliger
    Date: 30/06/2025 at 11:00am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB and Webinar.

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  • LMB Seminar: TBC

    Speaker: Marileen Dogterom, TU Delft, Delft University of Technology
    Host: Buzz Baum
    Date: 07/07/2025 at 11:00am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB and Webinar.

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  • LMB-IP Graduate Life Sciences Symposium 2025

    Speaker: Various
    Host: MRC LMB GSA and Institut Pasteur YRA
    Date: 10/07/2025 at 8:45am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB.

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  • LMB-IP Graduate Life Sciences Symposium 2025

    Speaker: Various
    Host: MRC LMB GSA and Institut Pasteur YRA
    Date: 11/07/2025 at 8:45am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB.

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  • LMB Seminar for Non-Scientists - Jan Löwe

    Speaker: Jan Löwe, Structural Studies
    Host: Alison Gillingham & Ann Graham
    Date: 15/07/2025 at 12:30pm in the Webinar.

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  • LMB-CamAWiSE Event: What next for your career? Pre-registration required

    Speaker: Jillian Barlow, University of York, Sarah Burge, Cancer Research UK, Claudia Ferreria, CMR Surgical
    Host: Louise Atkin
    Date: 16/07/2025 at 12:00pm in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB.

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  • LMB Seminar: TBC

    Speaker: Christian Haass, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich
    Host: Ben Ryskeldi-Falcon
    Date: 21/07/2025 at 11:00am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB and Webinar.

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  • Next Generation Biophysics Symposium 2025

    Speaker: Various
    Host: Stephen McLaughlin - LMB, Chris Batters - LMB
    Date: 03/09/2025 at 9:00am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB and Webinar.

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  • LMB Seminar for Non-Scientists - Joergen Kornfeld

    Speaker: Joergen Kornfeld, Neurobiology
    Host: Alison Gillingham & Ann Graham
    Date: 11/09/2025 at 12:30pm in the Webinar.

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  • LMB Seminar: Title TBC

    Speaker: Alan Brown, Harvard University
    Host: Kelly Nguyen
    Date: 15/09/2025 at 11:00am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB and Webinar.

  • LMB Seminar: TBC

    Speaker: Nenad Ban, ETH Zurich
    Host: Venki Ramakrishnan & Suyang Zhang
    Date: 17/09/2025 at 11:00am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB and Webinar.

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  • LMB Seminar: TBC

    Speaker: Hiroaki Suga, The University of Tokyo
    Host: Phil Holliger
    Date: 29/09/2025 at 11:00am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB and Webinar.

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  • LMB Seminar: Title TBC

    Speaker: Bonnie Bassler, Princeton University
    Host: Lori Passmore
    Date: 13/10/2025 at 11:00am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB and Webinar.

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  • LMB Seminar: Title TBC

    Speaker: David Klenerman, University of Cambridge
    Host: Lori Passmore
    Date: 03/11/2025 at 10:00am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB and Webinar.

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  • LMB Seminar for Non-Scientists - Noe Rodriguez

    Speaker: Noe Rodriguez, PNAC
    Host: Alison Gillingham & Ann Graham
    Date: 25/11/2025 at 12:30pm in the Webinar.

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  • Max Perutz Lecture - Title TBC

    Speaker: Dirk Görlich, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences
    Host: Haoxi Wu
    Date: 19/01/2026 at 11:00am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB and Webinar.

  • Francis Crick Lecture - Title TBC

    Speaker: Aviv Regev, Broad Institute MIT and Head of Genentech R&ED
    Host: Madeline Lancaster
    Date: 09/03/2026 at 11:00am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB and Webinar.

  • César Milstein Lecture - Title TBC

    Speaker: Edith Heard, Director General of EMBL and Collège de France
    Host: Marta Shahbazi
    Date: 11/05/2026 at 11:00am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB and Webinar.

  • John Kendrew Lecture

    Speaker: Elena Conti, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
    Host: Suyang Zhang/Lori Passmore
    Date: 18/05/2026 at 11:00am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB and Webinar.

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