Madeline Lancaster, a Group Leader in the LMB’s Cell Biology Division, discusses her career and the opportunities brain organoids provide as a tool for better understanding human brain development. More…
The beauty of brain organoids
A virus-resistant organism – and what it could mean for the future
Jason Chin, Joint Head of the PNAC Division, presents a TedTalk on his groundbreaking work in synthetic biology. Jason explores what would happen if we could use the power of DNA to create a sustainable, circular economy. Rewriting the genetic blueprint of cells to create a virus-resistant organism, Jason and colleagues have made the first step towards the sustainable factories of the future, capable of producing plastics, antibiotics and more. More…
Ben Porebski’s path to the LMB
Ben Porebski, an Investigator Scientist in Philipp Holliger’s group in the LMB’s PNAC Division, discusses his career so far, including how Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation’s (CSIRO) Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) allowed him to pursue his passion for research. More…
Andrew Beale announced a Public Outreach Fellow for the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms
Andrew Beale, a postdoc in John O’Neill’s group in the LMB’s Cell Biology Division, discusses his plans as new Public Outreach Fellow for the Society for Research on Biological Rhythms (SRBR), how a serendipitous lab visit during his PhD got him hooked on circadian rhythms and his hobbies when he’s away from work. More…
Greg Winter on innovation in science, his research on phage display and its therapeutic impact, and winning the Nobel Prize
Roger Highfield, Science Director at the Science Museum, speaks to the LMB’s Greg Winter about his earliest scientific memories, how a road rage attack redirected his research to focus on protein engineering of antibodies and the day he found out he’d won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. More…
Redefining human brain temperature and its clinical utility
Magnetic resonance spectroscopy allowed Nina Rzechorzek (member of the O’Neill group, Cell Biology) and collaborators to create a HEATWAVE map, showing how temperatures vary in the brain across the day, between the sexes, and as we age – a healthy brain is remarkably hotter than previously assumed. More…