From its earliest days the LMB has attracted and trained first class scientists from around the world – creating a diverse community for the exchange of ideas and technical innovation. The LMB provides excellent opportunities for early career and established researchers – people with the potential to lead their field. A high percentage of LMB students and post-docs stay in research or science related fields after they leave the LMB. The LMB supports the wider scientific community by supplying highly trained scientific leaders. They leave the LMB to develop and support molecular biology both in the UK and throughout the world.
Sir Aaron Klug. 11 August 1926 – 20 November 2018
LMB 1961-2012, Group Leader, Director, Structural Studies
Aaron Klug made outstanding contributions to the development of structural molecular biology. An early interest in viruses prompted him to think deeply about extracting the information contained in electron micrographs. As a result, he proposed a method for making 3D maps of biological specimens from the projected images given by micrographs. For this development and its application to complex molecular assemblies, he was awarded the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The recent revolution in biological structure determination derives from this initial breakthrough. Aaron’s Royal Society Biographical Memoir, written by Tony Crowther, has recently been published. More…
Piotr Szwedziak is one of nine researchers to receive EMBO Installation Grants
LMB 2008-2015, PhD student and post-doc, Structural Studies
Piotr Szwedziak, a former PhD student and post-doctoral researcher in Jan Löwe’s group, has received an EMBO Installation Grant to establish an independent laboratory and joins the EMBO Young Investigator Network. More…
Melina Schuh’s research highlight on Medical Xpress
LMB 2008-2016, Group Leader, Cell Biology
Melina’s work on mechanisms of chromosome segregation in mammalian oocytes has advanced our understanding the process of meiosis and the causes of aneuploidy in mammalian eggs, including humans. The project, led by Melina, set out to discover why genetic faults affect such a high proportion of ageing human eggs, or oocytes, resulting in pregnancy loss, birth defects and infertility. This work was started at the LMB and ended at Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany. Agata Zielinska, who was part of Melina’s team, also previously worked in Melina’s group at the LMB as a student visitor from May 2014 to April 2016. More…
Johannes Kohl features as October "Scientist to Watch" in The Scientist
LMB 2009-2014, PhD student, Neurobiology Division
A former PhD student from Greg Jefferis’ group in the LMB’s Neurobiology Division, Johannes, is researching the neural circuitry behind instinct. In this feature, he illustrates his journey from his undergraduate days to his PhD at the LMB to the establishment of his own lab at the Francis Crick Institute in London this January. Johannes is investigating how transient physiological states such as hunger, stress, or tiredness affect the neural circuits underlying parenting, feeding, and aggressive behaviours. In 2018, he had won the Eppendorf and Science Prize for neurobiology for research that makes sense of how a cluster of neurons controls parenting behaviours in mice. More…
LMB’s PhD alumnus, Nicholas Ader, wins the Gregory Paul Lenardo Basic Science Award
LMB 2015-2019, PhD student, Cell Biology
This award endowed by NIH Oxford-Cambridge Scholars Program Co-Founder, Michael Lenardo, was given to Nicholas in recognition of his PhD work conducted in Wanda Kukulski’s lab at the LMB. His work implemented novel imaging techniques in an effort to better understand how a cell dies, and pushed the limits of cellular imaging. More…
“Keep persisting, this is worth it” – advice from Elizabeth Blackburn for women in science
LMB 1971-1974, PhD student, PNAC
Elizabeth Blackburn, former LMB PhD student and Nobel Prize winner, shares her advice for women starting out in science in this BBC/Nobel Media AB video. More…