Author: Harrop, Sarah
Title: Behind the picture: Sir John Sulston’s worm cell drawing
Reference MRC Insight 23 September 2015
Year: 2015
Type: History - Reminiscences
Subject: The story behind a lab notebook entry which contributed to a Nobel Prize-winning breakthrough
Keywords: John Sulston; lab notebook; nematode worm; hand-drawings; c. elegans; Sydney Brenner; John White; cell death; Genome
Photographs: A page from John Sulston’s 1980 lab notebook showing his cell-tracking method (Wellcome image)Author: MRC News
Title: 2015 Max Perutz Science Writing Award shortlist announced
Reference MRC News 22 September 2015
Year: 2015
Type: Awards & Prizes
Subject: Barry Bentley, a PhD student in Neurobiology, is one of 14 exceptional writers to be shortlisted for the Max Perutz Science Writing Award
Keywords: Max Perutz; Science Writing; Barry Bentley; Award; “The Worm Wide Web”
Photographs:Author: Churchill College
Title: Dr Alexey Amunts recognised for revolutionary work in the field of molecular biology
Reference Churchill College News 8 October 2015
Year: 2015
Type: Awards & Prizes
Subject: The LMB’s Alexey Amunts has been awarded the 2015 George Palade Award by the Microscopy Society of America for distinguished contributions to the field of microscopy and microanalysis in the life sciences.
Keywords: Alexey Amunts; George Palade award; microscopy; microanalysis; cryo-EM; macromolecules; protein synthesis; mitochondria; the Microscopy Society of America (MSA)
Photographs: President of the Microscopy Society of America presenting award to Alexey Amunts.Author: Parrish, Meagan
Title: 11 Fun Factoids About The Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Reference Chem Info 10 June 2015
Year: 2015
Type: Awards & Prizes
Subject: 11 factoids about the Nobel Prize in Chemistry including the number of prizes won by LMB
Keywords: Nobel Prize; Alfred Nobel; Chemistry Laureates; Michael Levitt
Photographs:Author: Roy, Amit
Title: Science and star power mix - Nicole does justice to an ‘injustice’
Reference The Telegraph (India) 15 September 2015
Year: 2015
Type: History - Reminiscences
Subject: Review in the Telegraph, India of Nicole Kidman in the play Photograph 51 and the background to the story.
Keywords: Nicole Kidman; Photograph 51; X-ray diffraction; Rosalind Franklin; Venki Ramakrishnan; Maurice Wilkins; Francis Crick; James Watson; play; King’s College London
Photographs: Nicole Kidman as Rosalind Franklin in Photograph 51; Image of Rosaling FranklinAuthor: Moody, Oliver
Title: Why an after-dinner espresso could mess you up for weeks
Reference The Times 17 September 2015
Year: 2015
Type: Science
Subject: Research that was jointly done with John O’Neill’s group finds that strong coffee three hours before bedtime could set the biological clock back by 40 minutes.
Keywords: John O’Neill; coffee; caffeine; melatonin; sleep; body clock; circadian; jet lag; espresso
Photographs:Author: Cambridge News
Title: Scientist in Leukaemia discovery
Reference Cambridge News 20 October 2015
Year: 2015
Type: Science
Subject: Revolutionary developments in microscopic imaging help to reveal the origins of leukaemia
Keywords: Leukaemia; Alan Warren; electron microscopes; ribosomes; Cambridge Institute of Medical Research; blood cancer; detailed map
Photographs:Author: Cambridge News
Title: It’s small, but perfectly formed for Dr Amunts
Reference Cambridge News 9 October 2015
Year: 2015
Type: Awards & Prizes
Subject: Alexey Amunts has been awarded the 2015 George Palade Award by the Microscopy Society of America
Keywords: Alexey Amunts; Churchill College; The Microscopy Society of America; electron cryo-microscopy
Photographs:Author: KNCV
Title: Sjors Scheres awarded the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society (KNCV) Gold Medal
Reference KNCV 24 September 2015
Year: 2015
Type: Awards & Prizes
Subject: Sjors Scheres, LMB group leader, awarded the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society Gold Medal. The KNCV Gold Medal is the highest Dutch award for Chemistry
Keywords: Sjors Scheres; KNVC Gold Medal; Cryo-EM; electron microscopy; Royal Netherlands Chemical Society
Photographs: image of Sjors ScheresAuthor: McKie, Robin
Title: Pepys, Newton, Wren...now Venki the champion of British Scientists
Reference The Observer 6 December 2015
Year: 2015
Type: Science
Subject: Venki Ramakrishnan is taking the helm of the Royal Society at a crucial time writes Science editor Robin McKie
Keywords: Venki Ramakrishnan; Royal Society; ribosome; Thomas Steitz; Ada Yonath; public funding; neutron scattering; x-ray crystallography; Nobel Prize
Photographs: Venki in the lab (Observer picture)Author: MRC News
Title: 2015 Max Perutz Science Writing Award shortlist announced
Reference MRC News 22 September 2015
Year: 2015
Type: Awards & Prizes
Subject: Barry Bentley, a PhD student in the LMB’s Neurobiology Division, was one of 14 exceptional writers to be shortlisted for the Max Perutz Science Writing Award.
Keywords: Barry Bentley; Neurobiology; Max Perutz science writing; Royal Institution; Worm wide web; science communication
Photographs:Author: Churchill College Cambridge
Title: Dr Alexey Amunts recognised for revolutionary work in the field of molecular biology
Reference Churchill College News 8 October 2015
Year: 2015
Type: Awards & Prizes
Subject: Postdoctoral By-Fellow Alexey Amunts, has been awarded the 2015 George Palade Award by the Microscopy Society of America for distinguished contributions to the field of microscopy and microanalysis in the life sciences.
Keywords: Alexey Amunts; electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM); molecular mechanisms; mitochondria; The Microscopy Society of America (MSA): George Palade Award
Photographs: Alexey Amunts receiving his award from John F. ManfieldAuthor: Hills Road Sixth Form College
Title: Big Biology Day
Reference Hills Road Sixth Form College News 17 October 2015
Year: 2015
Type: Events and Celebrations
Subject: LMB showed their ‘Virus Wars: Antibodies Strike Back’ stand at the 2015 Big Biology Day, Hills Road 6th Form College.
Keywords: Virus Wars; Hills Road; Big Biology Day
Photographs:Author: MRC News
Title: Science Minister tours “extraordinary” MRC Molecular Biology Lab
Reference MRC News 21 October 2015
Year: 2015
Type: Events and Celebrations
Subject: Universities and Science Minister Jo Johnson visited the LMB i to see first-hand some of the exciting research carried out there and to learn about the institute’s close relationship with industry.
Keywords: Jo Johnson; University and Science Minister; Hugh Pelham; Venki Ramakrishnan; John Savill; Melina Schuh; Agata Zielinska; Madeline Lancaster; “mini brains”; AstraZeneca; egg development
Photographs: Madeline Lancaster, Hugh Pelham, Jo Johnson and John Savill in the lab (LMB picture)Author: Ritter, Malcolm
Title: Researchers grow brain parts to study development, disease
Reference AP 5 November 2015
Year: 2015
Type: Science
Subject: Labs are growing lumps of human brain tissue for study including the LMB’s Madeline Lancaster
Keywords: Madeline Lancaster; “mini brains”; Organoids; iPS cells; autism; schizophrenia; microcephaly
Photographs:Author: Wynne, Samantha
Title: Molecular clocks control mutation rate in human cells
Reference Sanger Institute News 9 November 2015
Year: 2015
Type: Science
Subject: Cancer and ageing could be predetermined by the speed of molecular clocks
Keywords: Genome; mutations; “clock-like”; molecular clocks; Julian Sale; cancer; metastases; ageing
Photographs:Author: Ramakrishnan, Lalita
Title: Z is for Zebrafish
Reference University of Cambridge Research 26 November 2015
Year: 2015
Type: Science
Subject: The Cambridge Animal Alphabet , Z is for Zebrafish talks to eminent immunologist Lalita Ramakrishnan, group leader in the University Research Unit at the LMB, about her research into new ways of treating tuberculosis
Keywords: Cambridge Animal Alphabet; Lalita Ramakrishnan; Zebrafish; tuberculosis (TB); Sanger Institute
Photographs: Images of ZebrafishAuthor: Lin, Yuhui N.
Title: Coffee & tea sessions with Pro. Daniela Rhodes
Reference Asia-Pacific Biotech News 26 November 2015
Year: 2015
Type: History - Reminiscences
Subject: Before joining Nanyang Technological University in Singapore in September 2011, Daniela Rhodes spent her whole research career at the LMB
Keywords: Daniela Rhodes; Aaron Klug; Singapore; Fred Sanger; Telomerase; European Research Council (ERC); NTU Institute of Structural Biology
Photographs: Images of Daniela Rhodes; cartoon model of telomeraseAuthor: AcademiaNet
Title: The Puzzle of Cell Signaling
Reference AcademiaNet 4 January 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Science
Subject: Interview with Mariann Bienz on the mechanisms behind the signalling pathways that switch on gene transcription and how their dysfunction can ultimately cause cancer
Keywords: Mariann Bienz; cancer; embryonic development; Pygo; ChiLS; Beta-catenin; Wnt signalling; Dishevelled molecules; puzzles; adenomatous polyposis coli APC protein
Photographs: Image of Mariann at desk (LMB picture); image of The enhanceosome complex; Polymerised DishevelledAuthor: Eisenstein, Micheal
Title: The field that came in from the cold
Reference Nature Methods 4 January 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Science
Subject: Recent advances in cryo-electron microscopy are enabling researchers to solve protein structures at near-atomic resolutions. This looks at the development of the technique, which includes work by the LMB’s Richard Henderson, Sjors Scheres and Venki Ramakrishnan.
Keywords: cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM); X-ray crystallography; Aaron Klug; Richard Henderson; 3D structures; Venki Ramakrishnan; Sjors Scheres
Photographs:Author: Kedmey, D.
Title: How one scientist is growing miniature brains in her lab
Reference IDEAS.TED.COM 4 January 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Science
Subject: Madeline Lancaster generates living models of brains from a few stem cells. In her lab, she takes small samples of stem cells and grows them in careful conditions.
Keywords: Madeline Lancaster; stem cells; mini brains; 3D structures; “cerebral organoids”; microcephaly; neurological disorders
Photographs:Author: SCRIP
Title: 2015 Winners Announced!
Reference SCRIP 4 December 2015
Year: 2015
Type: Awards & Prizes
Subject: The Scrip Awards provides the industry with an opportunity to acknowledge and applaud its highest achievers across all parts of the value chain, and to recognise both corporate and individual achievement
Keywords: Scrip awards; gala event; Miles Jupp; biotech; pharma; Greg Winter; Lifetime Achievement Award
Photographs: Group picture of all the winnersAuthor: National Academy of Sciences
Title: Alexander Hollaender Award in Biophysics
Reference National Academy of Sciences 22 January 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Awards & Prizes
Subject: Richard Henderson receives the National Academy of Sciences 2016 Alexander Hollaender Award for his outstanding contribution to the development of electron microscopy techniques for determining high-resolution structures
Keywords: Alexander Hollaender; Award; Biophysics; Richard Henderson; X-ray crystallography; Nigel Unwin; bacteriorhodopsin; cryoEM
Photographs:Author: Tompa, Rachel
Title: The Plastic fantastic brain: Why losing one sense rewires others
Reference Fred Hutch News 19 January 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Science
Subject: A study finds worms that can’t feel are better smellers – and the phenomenon is reversible. The collaborative study includes William Schafer’s group at LMB.
Keywords: Ithai Rabinowitch; “super senses”; Caenorhabditis elegans; optogenetics; William Schafer; roundworms; sensory plasticity; sound; super-smellers
Photographs: Ithai Rabinowitch in the lab at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research CenterAuthor: Marx, Vivien
Title: The Author File: Jason W.Chin
Reference Nature Methods 28 January 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Miscellaneous
Subject: How to combine biology, chemistry and synthetic biology to add synthetic amino acids to a protein, and why creativity matters. Profile of LMB group leader, Jason Chin and his research.
Keywords: Jason Chin; synthetic biology; epigenetics; tRNA; chromatin; Chemical Biology; amino acids; Alan Hollinghurst; The Line of Beauty; Haruki Murakami; David Mitchell; Clause 28
Photographs: Portrait picture of Jason Chin