Lori A Passmore



Experience


From 2009    Group Leader MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge UK

                      Joint Head of Structural Studies Division from 2024

                      Macromolecular Machines Involved in Regulating mRNA 3ʹ Ends


From 2006    Fellow Clare Hall College, University of Cambridge UK

                      Tutor from 2021


2004-2009    Career Development Fellow MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge

                      Supervisors: Drs. Venki Ramakrishnan and Richard Henderson                           

                    Structural Studies of Complexes Involved in Initiation of Eukaryotic Translation


1999- 2004    Post-Doctoral Scientist and PhD Thesis The Institute of Cancer Research,

                       London, UK

                     Supervisor:  Prof. David Barford

                     Structural and Functional Studies of the Anaphase-Promoting Complex/

                     Cyclosome (APC)


1998-1999     Undergraduate Honours Thesis Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology,

                      UBC, Canada

                      Supervisor:  Dr. Natalie Strynadka

                      Structure Determination of PSE-4 - A Bacterial β-Lactamase


1998              Research Assistant Institut für Humangenetik, Universität Würzburg, Germany

                      Supervisor:  Prof. Bernhard Weber, January - August 1998

                    Investigations into Disease-Causing Mutations in the German Albino Population


1996-1997     Research Student Terry Fox Laboratories, BC Cancer Research Centre,

                      Vancouver, Canada

                    Supervisor: Dr. Rob Kay

                    Expression Cloning and Characterisation of Transforming Genes



Education


PhD, The Institute of Cancer Research (University of London), October 1999 – November 2003


Bachelor of Science, Honours Biochemistry, University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada (Jan 1997 – May 1999) and University of Waterloo, Canada (Sept 1994 – May 1997)



Awards and Recognitions


2025              Chiron Lecturer, UC Berkeley

2023              Elected Fellow of the Royal Society

2023              Pregl Colloquium Lecturer, Slovenia

2023              Lansdowne Lecturer, University of Victoria

2022              Louise Johnson Lecture, University of Oxford

2021              Robert Greenberg Lecturer, University of Michigan

2020              Inaugural Elisa Izaurralde Award of the RNA Society

2019              Kjeldgaard Lecture, University of Aarhus

2018              Elected Member of EMBO

2016              Suffrage Science Award

2015              EMBO Young Investigator Award



Major Grants and Funding


2023              Wellcome Discovery Award

2017              ERC Consolidator Grant

2011              ERC Starting Grant