Tanmay Bharat, Group Leader in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division, was honoured by the 2024 Blavatnik Awards in the UK as Finalist in the Life Sciences category. In this video Tanmay discusses his research using electron tomography to investigate biofilms and the motivations behind his work. More…
Tanmay Bharat named Blavatnik Award finalist for emerging scientific talent
Scott Wilson competes on ‘Super Brain’ game show in front of hundreds of millions of viewers
Scott Wilson, PhD student in Albert Cardona’s group in the LMB’s Neurobiology Division, recently appeared on the popular Chinese game show ‘Super Brain’. Representing the UK, Scott took part in a complex challenge on the popular show which is streamed to hundreds of millions of viewers across China. He recently spoke to Wolfson College about his experience. More…
Science in Action – accelerated evolution
Jason Chin spoke to BBC’s Roland Pease about his group’s new EcORep orthogonal replication system that enables rapid protein evolution in E.coli and how it could help create new substances to be used in medicine & industry. More…
Sought FUS, Found TAF—A New Fibril in Frontotemporal Dementia
While filaments of either tau or TDP-43 underlie 90% of frontotemporal dementia cases, the proteopathic culprits behind the remaining 10 percent have eluded researchers. Fused in sarcoma (FUS) often forms inclusions in such cases, hence Benjamin Ryskeldi-Falcon’s group and collaborators expected to find FUS fibrils when they put samples from these patients’ brains through the cryoEM ringer. As reported in Nature, they happened upon filaments of another RNA-binding protein, namely TAF15. More…
The band and the rhythm
The latest episode of The EMBO podcast features John O’Neill and Andrew Beale, Group Leader and postdoctoral researcher in the LMB’s Cell Biology Division. They talk about how investigating a mysterious band on a western blot led to a new understanding of the red blood cell’s clockwork mechanism. Read more…
Cheaper microscope could bring protein mapping technique to the masses
A news piece in Science highlights how Chris Russo’s group and Richard Henderson, both in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division, have worked with other collaborators to build a new cryo–electron microscope at a fraction of the size and costs of current suppliers. More…