Next in our series of Group Leader profiles based on interviews with science writer and LMB alumna, Kathy Weston, is a profile of Madeline Lancaster, a Group Leader in the LMB’s Cell Biology Division.
Madeline Lancaster: The accidental organoid – mini-brains as models for human brain development
The LMB welcomes Patrycja Kozik as a new Group Leader
César Milstein Lecture to be given by Elaine Fuchs
Elaine is currently the Rebecca C. Lancefield Professor of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development at the Rockefeller University, New York, USA. She has been an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute since 1988. She is renowned for her research in skin biology, its stem cells and associated genetic disorders, particularly cancers.
LMB staff raise over £1500 for The Cystic Fibrosis Trust
John O’Neill, presents Jessica Barnard and Sandra Howarth of The Cystic Fibrosis Trust with the LMB’s donation
LMB staff have raised over £1500 for The Cystic Fibrosis Trust at the annual charity Christmas raffle, supported by the sale of Christmas decorations and gifts made by members of the LMB Craft and Chatter group and of a festive beer made by the LMBrewers. Each year a charity is chosen because of the support they have provided to members of staff or their families.
Sebastian Fica wins the 2020 RNA Society/Scaringe Post-Doctoral Award
Student art inspired by structural biology lights up the LMB’s atrium
The LMB recently hosted an exhibition of artworks produced as part of the PDB Art project. Now in its fourth year, this project involves the Protein Data Bank in Europe working with local school art departments to help students create works of art inspired by molecular structures contained in the PDB.