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Scientific Seminars

Below is a list of upcoming seminars at the LMB aimed at a general scientific audience and open to individuals throughout Cambridge. If you are not at the LMB and wish to attend a seminar, please contact the seminar secretary, unless the seminar is held online and joining information is included in the seminar information below. The LMB hosts ‘The LMB Seminar Series’, where 1-2 leading scientists per month are invited to speak throughout the year. Four of these lectures are named in honour of LMB Nobel Laureates Max Perutz, Francis Crick, César Milstein and John Kendrew, given by eminent scientists from around the world. The LMB Seminar talks and LMB Named Seminar talks are advertised widely throughout the local area and are open to all.

A full list of LMB Named Lectures to date can be found here. Details of other local seminars can be found here

  • César Milstein Lecture 2024: Centrioles in homeostasis, disease and evolution: tiny organelles, multiple and critical functions - IN PERSON ONLY

    Speaker: Mónica Bettencourt Dias
    Host: Buzz Baum
    Date: 09/12/2024 at 11:00am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB.

    Further information

    Centrioles/basal bodies are microtubule-based structures that form centrosomes, a major microtubule organising center, and template the formation of the cilium, which is important for signalling and motility. While these structures were described more than a century ago, due to their small size, only recently tools became available to investigate them in different contexts. I will discuss efforts from our laboratory towards decoding the principles that regulate the assembly and maintenance of these structures, as well as their variations observed at different scales and contexts, in different tissues, in disease and evolution.

  • LMB Seminar: TBC

    Speaker: Rotem Sorek, Weizmann Institute of Science
    Host: Felix Randow
    Date: 27/01/2025 at 11:00am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB and Webinar.

  • LMB Seminar: TBC

    Speaker: Maria Grazia Spillantini, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge
    Host: Anne Bertolotti
    Date: 10/02/2025 at 11:00am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB and Webinar.

  • LMB Seminar for Non-Scientists - TBC

    Speaker:
    Host: Alison Gillingham & Ann Graham
    Date: 25/02/2025 at 12:30pm in the Webinar.

    Further information

    Watch online here -

  • LMB Seminar: TBC

    Speaker: Ian Gilmore, National Physical Laboratory
    Host: Tanmay Bharat
    Date: 03/03/2025 at 11:00am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB and Webinar.

  • Max Perutz Lecture 2025: TBC

    Speaker: Reinhard Luhrmann, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
    Host: Suyang Zhang
    Date: 24/03/2025 at 11:00am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB and Webinar.

  • César Milstein Lecture 2025: TBC

    Speaker: David Pellman, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University
    Host: Joe Yeeles
    Date: 24/04/2025 at 10:00am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB and Webinar.

  • John Kendrew Lecture 2025: TBC

    Speaker: Elena Conti, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
    Host: Syang Zhang/Lori Passmore
    Date: 28/04/2025 at 11:00am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB and Webinar.

  • LMB Seminar for Non-Scientists - TBC

    Speaker:
    Host: Alison Gillingham & Ann Graham
    Date: 12/05/2025 at 12:30pm in the Webinar.

    Further information

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  • LMB Seminar: TBC

    Speaker: James Turner, The Francis Crick Institute
    Host: Lori Passmore
    Date: 19/05/2025 at 11:00am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB and Webinar.

  • LMB Seminar for Non-Scientists - TBC

    Speaker:
    Host: Alison Gillingham & Ann Graham
    Date: 01/07/2025 at 12:30pm in the Webinar.

    Further information

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  • LMB Seminar for Non-Scientists -

    Speaker: Jeorgen Kornfeld, Neurobiology
    Host: Alison Gillingham & Ann Graham
    Date: 11/09/2025 at 12:30pm in the Webinar.

    Further information

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  • LMB Seminar: TBC

    Speaker: Nenad Ban, ETH Zurich
    Host: Venki Ramakrishnan & Suyang Zhang
    Date: 22/09/2025 at 11:00am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB and Webinar.

  • LMB Seminar: TBC

    Speaker: Hiroaki Suga, The University of Tokyo
    Host: Phil Holliger
    Date: 29/09/2025 at 11:00am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB and Webinar.

  • LMB Seminar for Non-Scientists - TBC

    Speaker:
    Host: Alison Gillingham & Ann Graham
    Date: 25/11/2025 at 12:30pm in the Webinar.

    Further information

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