Joan Steitz will give the John Kendrew Lecture 2013 on Friday 1st November at 4.15pm in the LMB’s Max Perutz Lecture Theatre. The title of the lecture is ‘Non-coding RNAs: with a viral twist.’ This event is open to anyone in the local area who is interested in attending.
Joan Steitz is interested in the multiple roles played by non-coding RNA–protein complexes in gene expression in vertebrate cells.
2013 John Kendrew Lecture to be given by Joan Steitz
LMB Alumni awarded Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 2013
The LMB is delighted to congratulate Michael Levitt, Arieh Warshel and Martin Karplus on being awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems.
A key part of the Nobel Prize winning research was undertaken at the LMB, in the Structural Studies Division, in the 1970s by Michael Levitt in collaboration with Arieh Warshel.
2013 César Milstein Lecture to be given by Scott Emr
Professor Scott Emr will give the 2013 Milstein Lecture on Thursday 26 September at 4.15pm in the LMB’s Max Perutz Lecture Theatre. The lecture, entitled “Sorting out protein traffic: Ubiquitin-mediated endocytosis and a membrane protein’s final ESCRT”, is open to anyone in the local area who is interested in attending.
Scott is currently Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics, and Director of the Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, at Cornell University.
Novel technology useful for development of gene and drug therapies licensed to local company
A method for parallel assembly of a large number of peptide-therapeutic cargo combinations, developed by Mike Gait’s group in the LMB’s PNAC Division, has been licensed to Cambridge Research Biochemicals (CRB). The company aims to launch a service in October to provide both researchers and pharmaceutical companies with custom-made libraries of peptide-cargo conjugates to help accelerate the delivery and development of new therapeutics.
Hugh Huxley – 25th February 1924 – 25th July 2013
It is with great sadness that we report that Hugh Huxley died yesterday following a major heart attack on Monday at his home with Frances in Woods Hole. Hugh was the very first Ph.D. student to join the MRC Unit for the Study of the Molecular Structure of Biological Systems in 1948 under the leadership of Max Perutz, with John Kendrew as his supervisor. During his Ph.D. he began his pioneering studies of muscle structure and function using X-ray diffraction and electron microscopy.
Virus Wars – thousands visit LMB stand at the Royal Society
Scientists from Leo James’ group, from the LMB’s PNAC Division, showed their new ‘Virus Wars’ exhibit at this year’s Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition – to help celebrate the MRC’s centenary and showcase the group’s work on virus neutralisation.
As lead scientist Will McEwan explains, “We designed our ‘Virus Wars – Antibodies Fight Back’ exhibit to explain our work on intracellular virus neutralisation in a user-friendly way.