Author: Pettorelli, Nathalie
Title: More emphasis on doing collaborative research: meet Nicola Smyllie
Reference Soapbox Science 23 June 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Events and Celebrations
Subject: Nicola Smyllie, postdoc in Neurobiology Division, took part in the Soapbox Science event in Cambridge Market Square talking about “Body clocks: rhythm of life”
Keywords: Nicola Smyllie; circadian rhythms; gender bias; Soapbox Science; body clocks; career in science
Photographs:Author: Pettorelli, Nathalie
Title: Make academia more family friendly: Meet Danielle Mersch
Reference Soapbox Science 28 June 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Events and Celebrations
Subject: Danielle Mersch, postdoc in Neurobiology Division, took part in the Soapbox Science event in Cambridge Market Square talking about “Decoding the fly brain”
Keywords: Danielle Mersch; Greg Jefferis; Soapbox Science; fly brain; career in science
Photographs:Author: Byrne, Michael
Title: Scientists Discover a Vulnerability in HIV’s Protective Shell
Reference Motherboard 10 August 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Science
Subject: A team of researchers, led by Leo James, has discovered a key feature used by the HIV virus to infect healthy cells without giving itself away and triggering a corresponding immune response
Keywords: Leo James; HIV; hexacarboxybenzene; virus; capsid; retroviruses; RNA; nucleotides; cytoplasm; immune response; pores; protective shell
Photographs:Author: Nichols, Hannah
Title: HIV: Newly discovered component could lead to more effective drug
Reference MNT 14 August 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Science
Subject: Collaborative research between Leo James’s group and colleagues at UCL has uncovered key components of HIV, which they believe could lead to new approaches for drugs to fight the infection
Keywords: Leo James; HIV; Retroviruses; virus; RNA; capsid; iris-like pores; immune system; hexacarboxybenzene; David Jacques; nucleotides; Inhibitor molecule
Photographs:Author: Chhetri, K. Raghav, Keller, J. Philipp
Title: Microscopy: Imaging far and wide
Reference eLIFE 23 September 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Science
Subject: A custom-built objective lens called the Mesolens allows relatively large biological specimens to be imaged with cellular resolution. It was developed by Brad Amos, LMB Emeritus scientist, and a team at the University of Strathclyde.
Keywords: Brad Amos; microscope; Gail McConnell; Strathclyde University; Mesolens; whole-embryo phenotyping; near-cellular resolution
Photographs: Imaging large samples with cellular resolution and the Mesolens microscopeAuthor: Media Team
Title: New drug target for asthma
Reference Wellcome Trust Sanger Insitute 29 September 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Science
Subject: A new therapeutic target for inflammatory diseases such as asthma and autoimmune disorders has been identified by scientists, Andrew McKenzie is a author on the paper, and comments on this latest development.
Keywords: Andrew McKenzie; PD-1; Innate Lymphoid Cells (ILC2); asthma; immune system; T cells; antibody drugs; inflammatory diseases; autoimmune disorders; Sanger Institute
Photographs:Author: Marx, Vivien
Title: Stem cells: a dish of neurons
Reference Nature Methods August 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Science
Subject: Labs can generate neurons from pluripotent stem cells to study basic biology and to model disease. Protocols are getting more robust, and labs add personal preferences.
Keywords: Madeline Lancaster; induced pluripotent stem stem cells (iPSCs); serotonin neurons; brain organoids;
Photographs:Author: Wheeler, Laura
Title: ‘Don’t reject global talent from the UK’
Reference Research information 22 January 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Miscellaneous
Subject: Report on a panel debate aimed at ensuring that the UK remains at the heart of global science and engineering
Keywords: Campaign for Science and Engineering (CaSE); Venki Ramakrishnan; Royal Society; immigrants; global science hub; “welcoming attitude”; Lord Crisp; Migration Advisory Committee; Tier 2 visa
Photographs:Author: Businessweekly
Title: Henderson wins Copley Medal
Reference Businessweekly 26 May 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Awards & Prizes
Subject: Richard Henderson has won the Royal Society’s most prestigious award the Copley Medal.
Keywords: Richard Henderson; Copley Medal; Nigel Unwin; X-ray crystallography; macromolecules; electron microscopy; 2-D crystal; protein; cryoEM
Photographs: Richard in officeAuthor: Ramakrishnan, Venki
Title: More than ever, science must be central to all our lives
Reference The Guardian 28 February 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Science
Subject: Venki Ramakrishnan, the new Royal Society president, reflects on the double standard that still prioritises the arts above other disciplines
Keywords: Venki Ramakrishnan; Fred Sanger; David Bowie; the New Age of Wonder; Royal Society; science; Mathematics; Ghostbusters
Photographs:Author: Cambridge Network
Title: Richard Henderson wins Royal Society’s prestigious Copley Medal
Reference Cambridge Network 24 May 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Awards & Prizes
Subject: Richard Henderson has been awarded the Royal Society’s most prestigious award, the Copley Medal. This is the world’s oldest scientific prize, first awarded in 1731.
Keywords: Richard Henderson; Royal Society; X-ray crystallography; cryoEM; 2-D crystals; protein; Nigel Unwin
Photographs: Richard in officeAuthor: Science and Technology Research News
Title: Dementia: Catching the Memory Thief
Reference STRN 22 September 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Science
Subject: How close are we to having effective treatments – and could we even prevent dementia from occurring in the first place?
Keywords: Michel Goedert; Alzheimer’s; neurodegeneration; Drug Discovery Institute; ‘plaques’; “tangles”; tau; Dementia; brain; ‘dementia tsunami’; memory thief; neurostatins
Photographs:Author: PRNewswire
Title: Sir Gregory Winter joins Biosceptre Board
Reference PRNewswire 31 May 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Biotechnology
Subject: Biosceptre announces that Sir Gregory Winter, has joined the Board as a non-executive Director.
Keywords: Greg Winter; Biosceptre; therapeutic antibody; nfP2X7; Domantis; Scientific Advisory Board; Cambridge Antibody Technology; Bicycle Therapeutics Limited; humanised antibodies; master of Trinity College
Photographs:Author: Singh Bhangra, Kulraj
Title: Radio Review: The Life Scientific - Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Reference BioNews 4 April 2016
Year: 2016
Type: History - Reminiscences
Subject: Review of radio interview presented by Jim Al-Khalili with Venki Ramakrishnan given on radio 4
Keywords: Venki Ramakrishnan; Jim Al-Khalili; ‘The Life Scientific’; Royal Society; ribosomes; X-ray crystallography; Radio 4; 30S subunit; antibiotics; chromatin
Photographs:Author: Hill, Steven
Title: Collaboration, competition and culture: fostering excellence in research
Reference Higher Education Funding Council for England Blog 4 July 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Funding
Subject: If excellent research depends on the right culture, perhaps this should be the aim of research strategies. Blog references the culture of the LMB.
Keywords: Hugh Pelham; new building; futuristic temple; biomedical science; The Nuffield Council; culture; funding; collaboration
Photographs:Author: Komander, David
Title: Alumni Interview: Dr. David Komander
Reference MRC Protein Phoshorylation Unit March 2016
Year: 2016
Type: History - Reminiscences
Subject: MRC PPU alumni interview with David Komander
Keywords: David Komander; ubiquitylation; ubiquitin; UbiCREST; Michael Neuberger; OTULIN; Mass spectrometry; interview
Photographs:Author: Jackson, Alex
Title: Making the Case for Science: An Interview With Sir Venk Ramakrishnan
Reference Huffington Post 24 February 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Miscellaneous
Subject: Venki Ramakrishnan talks to Alex Jackson about his aspirations, the importance of public engagement, and need for transparency in government policy.
Keywords: Venki Ramakrishnan; Royal Society; Max Perutz; Francis Crick; Frederick Sanger; Michael Faraday; global; funding; culture; government; public engagement
Photographs: Image of Venki (Royal Society); Venki at the 2009 Nobel Prize press conferenceAuthor: Roy, Amit
Title: Venki unveils Ramanujan film - Hundred years apart, Royal Society binds two Indians
Reference The Telegraph India 8 April 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Events and Celebrations
Subject: Venki Ramakrishnan, president of the Royal Society, passionately championed the cause of the film on the life of the Indian mathematical genius, Srinivasa Ramanujan, called The Man Who Knew Infinity,when released in the UK,
Keywords: Venki Ramakrishnan; Srinivasa Ramanujan; The Man Who Knew Infinity; Royal Society; Dev Patel; Trinity College; film; Ken Ono; Greg Winter; India; G.H. Hardy
Photographs: Scenes from the film; Venki Ramakrishnan; Dev Patel and Ken Ono at Royal Society headquartersAuthor: Labmate Online
Title: Consortium Evaluate Cryo-EM for Early Stage Drug Discovery
Reference Labmate Online 26 May 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Biotechnology
Subject: Industry partners have joined with research groups at the LMB and the University of Cambridge’s Nanoscience Centre, to form the Cambridge Pharmaceutical Cryo-EM Consortium
Keywords: Cambridge Pharmaceutical Cryo-EM Consortium; Titan Krios; Astex Pharmaceuticals; AstraZeneca; GlaxoSmithKline; Heptares Therapeutics; Cambridge nanoscience Centre; Chris Tate; Sjors Scheres; Richard Henderson; Relion; FEI
Photographs:Author: Leng, Freya
Title: Top female Cambridge scientists will battle it out at city’s Soapbox Science Festival
Reference Cambridge News 28 June 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Events and Celebrations
Subject: The Soapbox Science Festival took place at Cambridge Market Square and featured the LMB’s Nicola Smyllie
Keywords: Soapbox Science; Nicola Smyllie; women in science; Market Square; career in science; Guidhall
Photographs:Author: Drew, Liam
Title: Two hundred steps
Reference Nature 27 October 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Science
Subject: A look at how understanding and management of Parkinson’s disease over the 200 years since it was first described has changed. There are however, some secrets about the disease yet to be unlocked.
Keywords: James Parkinson; “the shaking palsy”; neurological condition; Alois Alzheimer; Frederic Lewy; Michel Goedert; Maria Grazia Spillantini; α-synuclein; post-encephalitic parkinsonism; Awakenings; dopamine; ‘Braak staging’; prions
Photographs:Author: Makin, Simon
Title: The prion principle
Reference Nature 27 October 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Science
Subject: A controversial theory that could revolutionise our understanding of Parkinson’s disease is gaining ground. But not everybody is convinced that misfolded proteins that spread in the brain are the cause of the disease.
Keywords: Parkinson’s disease; Lewy bodies; Alzheimer’s; neurodegenerative disease; misfolded α-synuclein; Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD); Michel Goedert; Maria Grazia Spillantini; Stanley Prusiner; prion protein (PrP); ‘mad cow’; amyloid-β; Braak staging hypothesis; anosmia
Photographs: Diagram of the pathological processesAuthor: O’Donnell, Marie Anne
Title: Katja Röper: Deciphering tissue origami
Reference Journal of Cell Biology 24 October 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Science
Subject: Profile of group leader Katja Röper and her work on how cytoskeletal behaviour controls tissue morphogenesis.
Keywords: Katja Röper; Embryogenesis; Drosophila; cytoskeleton; epithelial cells; cytolinker; E-cadherin; morphogenesis; embryos; Apical actomyosin; origami; salivary gland placode; tissue bending
Photographs: portrait picture of Katja; A salivary gland placode during early tissue bending in a confocal image; Katja and family on holidayAuthor: Carlsberg Group
Title: Four awards at Carlsberg’s “Science to business” forum
Reference Carlsberg Group 29 November 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Awards & Prizes
Subject: Richard Henderson, has been awarded the Kaj Linderstrøm Lang Prize at Carlsberg’s ‘Science to Business’ Forum in recognition of his work towards obtaining high resolution atomic structures of membrane proteins and membrane protein complexes by cryo electron microscopy
Keywords: Richard Henderson; Carlsberg Research Laboratory; 140th anniversary; Kaj Linderstrøm-Lang awards; electron cyromicroscopy; prize; gold medal; “Science to business”
Photographs:Author: Chapman, Jenny
Title: Master of Trinity’s Bicycle worth up to $1 billion
Reference Cambridge News 2 December 2016
Year: 2016
Type: Biotechnology
Subject: Bicycle Therapeutics, the Cambridge biotech company, has done a collaboration deal with AstraZeneca which puts it in line for up to $1 billion.
Keywords: Greg Winter; Bicycle Therapeutics; biotech; AstraZeneca; Christian Heinis; Trinity
Photographs: Greg Winter