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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.

Alexey Amunts’ group at Stockholm University determine the structure of the chlororibosome

LMB 2010-2016, postdoctoral researcher, Structural Studies

Alexey Amunts’ group at Stockholm University have determined the structure of the chlororibosome using cryo electron microscopy. The chlororibosome synthesises the energy-making protein components that drive oxygenic photosynthesis in chloroplasts. This work reveals unexpected insights into this central protein synthesis machinery in plants and provides a new perspective for the investigation of the evolution of translation and its regulation. More…

John Sulston (1942-2018): looking back at the pioneering life and work of this Nobel Prize-winning scientist

LMB 1969-1992, Group Leader, Cell Biology

Nature looks back at the life and work of John Sulston, from his time investigating cell fate, lineage and the genetics of C. elegans at the LMB, to his involvement with the Human Genome Project. More…

Alan Brown joins the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Harvard Medical School as a new group leader

LMB 2012-2017, Scientific Staff, Structural Studies

Alan Brown reflects on taking on the position of Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, his new research focus and how he first became interested in science. More…

Dr Varodom Charoensawan wins the 2018 FAOBMB Young Scientist Award

LMB 2007-2010, PhD student, Structural Studies

Dr Varodom Charoensawan, former PhD student in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division, has been awarded the FAOBMB Young Scientist Award for his work on the systems regulating gene expression. The FAOBMB promotes biochemistry and molecular biology particularly in Asia and Oceania. More…

Sarah Teichmann awarded the Genetics Society’s 2018 Mary Lyon Medal

Sarah Teichmann, LMB 1996-1999 & 2001-2013, PhD student & programme leader, Structural Studies Division

Sarah Teichamnn has received the Genetics Society’s prestigious Mary Lyon Medal 2018 for “outstanding research” in understanding how the immune system works by using genomics and bioinformatics approaches. More…

Kim Nasmyth awarded 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences

LMB 1981-1987, scientific staff & group leader, Cell Biology

Professor Kim Nasmyth has been awarded the 2018 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, which recognises transformative advances towards understanding living systems and extending human life. Kim has made hugely valuable contributions to the life sciences through his elucidation of the sophisticated mechanism that mediates the perilous separation of duplicated chromosomes during cell division and thereby prevents genetic diseases such as cancer. More...

Ashok Venkitaraman Winner of 2017 Basser Global Prize

Ashok Venkitaraman, LMB 1988-1998, Postdoctoral Fellow, Scientific Staff & Group Leader, PNAC

The Basser Center for BRCA at Penn’s Abramson Cancer Centre has announced that Ashok Venkitaraman is the recipient of its fifth annual Basser Global Prize for helping explain how individuals with inherited BRCA2 mutations are predisposed to cancer. More…

Sydney Brenner: A Revolutionary Biologist

Sydney Brenner, LMB 1957-1989, Senior Staff & Director, Cell Biology & Structural Studies

Sydney Brenner, one of the 20^th Century’s greatest biologists and joint winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine, talks to biologist and historian Matthew Cobb about his route into science, his 20 year-long collaboration with DNA pioneer Francis Crick and the foundation stones he laid for the new science of molecular biology and genetics. More…

Melina Schuh – exploring why older women find it harder to fall pregnant

Melina Schuh, LMB 2008-2012, Scientific Staff & Group Leader, Cell Biology

Dr Melina Schuh’s new laboratory at Bourn Hall Clinic is carrying out ground-breaking research into human eggs. It is seeking to uncover the secrets of why older women find it harder to fall pregnant – and why they are more likely to have children with chromosomal abnormalities. More…

Xiaochen Bai – first atomic structure from UTSW’s Cryo-EM facility

Xiaochen Bai, LMB 2012-2017, Scientific Staff, Structural Studies

UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have published a 3-D atomic structure of the ion channel found in mammals that is implicated in a rare, inherited neurodegenerative disease in humans. The work marks the first such structure determined using the university’s $17 million electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM) facility that opened last year. Xiaochen Bai, an Assistant Professor of Biophysics and Cell Biology and the study’s second corresponding author, spent five years training at LMB. More…