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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

  • Biophysical Techniques Lecture Series 2023: Introduction to Light Microscopy

    Speaker: Nick Barry
    Host:
    Date: 31/01/2023 at 9:30am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB.

  • Biophysical Techniques Lecture Series 2023: Image Analysis Tools

    Speaker: Jérôme Boulanger
    Host:
    Date: 02/02/2023 at 9:30am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB.

  • Biophysical Techniques Lecture Series 2023: Super-resolution Microscopy

    Speaker: Jonathan Howe
    Host:
    Date: 09/02/2023 at 9:30am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB.

  • Biophysical Techniques Lecture Series 2023: Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Microscale Thermophoresis (MST)

    Speaker: Stephen McLaughlin
    Host:
    Date: 14/02/2023 at 9:30am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB.

  • Biophysical Techniques Lecture Series 2023: Single Molecule Spectroscopy

    Speaker: Chris Batters
    Host:
    Date: 16/02/2023 at 9:30am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB.

  • Biophysical Techniques Lecture Series 2023: Biosensor Technologies

    Speaker: Stephen McLaughlin
    Host:
    Date: 21/02/2023 at 9:30am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB.

  • LMB Seminar for non-scientists - Our archaeal origins

    Speaker: Buzz Baum
    Host: Alison Gillingham
    Date: 21/02/2023 at 12:00pm in the Webinar.

    Further information

    Watch online: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97317194844?pwd=ZG1aTXc1KzIzL2M1ZDQvUHVLRStuZz09

    Buzz and his team at the MRC-LMB in Cambridge are using archaea as simple model systems in which to identify and characterise conserved molecular and cellular processes that underpin eukaryotic cell biology - with a focus on cell division. The hope is that this research will also shed light on our evolutionary origins

  • Biophysical Techniques Lecture Series 2023: ITC and Biomolecular Calorimetry

    Speaker: Chris Johnson
    Host:
    Date: 23/02/2023 at 9:30am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB.

  • Biophysical Techniques Lecture Series 2023: Introduction to Biomolecular NMR

    Speaker: Trevor Rutherford
    Host:
    Date: 09/05/2023 at 9:30am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB.

  • LMB Seminar: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Sir John C. Kendrew

    Speaker: Professor Paul Wassarman, Mount Sinai, New York
    Host: Richard Henderson
    Date: 09/05/2023 at 4:00pm in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB and Webinar.

    Further information

    Zoom link - https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/91598384955?pwd=RnE5M0p4bjU3bS8vMjFldHFadE9OZz09

    John Kendrew (1917-1997) was a pioneer in structural biology and a catalyst for the emergence of molecular biology in the second half of the twentieth century. He was the first person to determine the three-dimensional structure of a protein at atomic resolution and, for this, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1962. Kendrew ultimately became an international organizer, administrator, and unwavering advocate for British and European science, and his expansive legacy lives on today. In this talk, Wassarman will delve into aspects of Kendrew’s personal and scientific life and discuss some of the background, traits, and experiences of the man responsible for so many achievements within science and beyond.

    We hope to have some copies of Paul’s book for sale on the day of the seminar, available for signing

  • Biophysical Techniques Lecture Series 2023: Advanced NMR Applications

    Speaker: Jane Wagstaff
    Host:
    Date: 11/05/2023 at 9:30am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB.

  • LMB Seminar: TBC

    Speaker: Fei Chen
    Host: Phil Holliger
    Date: 15/05/2023 at 11:00am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB and Webinar.

    Further information

    Zoom link - https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93095291087?pwd=NGRzTnRJb3M0YWxqOC8xQXVNUXBmQT09

  • Biophysical Techniques Lecture Series 2023: Protein Crystallisation

    Speaker: Fabrice Gorrec
    Host:
    Date: 16/05/2023 at 9:30am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB.

  • Biophysical Techniques Lecture Series 2023: Structural Biology 2.0

    Speaker: Dom Bellini
    Host:
    Date: 18/05/2023 at 9:30am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB.

  • Biophysical Techniques Lecture Series 2023: Light Scattering Techniques

    Speaker: Chris Johnson
    Host:
    Date: 23/05/2023 at 9:30am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB.

  • Biophysical Techniques Lecture Series 2023: Analytical Ultracentrifugation

    Speaker: Stephen McLaughlin
    Host:
    Date: 25/05/2023 at 9:30am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB.

  • Biophysical Techniques Lecture Series 2023: Introduction to Flow Cytometry

    Speaker: Fan Zhang
    Host:
    Date: 30/05/2023 at 9:30am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB.

  • Biophysical Techniques Lecture Series 2023: Instrument and Sample Optimisation for Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting (FACS)

    Speaker: Pier Andrée Penttilä
    Host:
    Date: 01/06/2023 at 9:30am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB.

  • Biophysical Techniques Lecture Series 2023: Curve Fitting, Errors and Analysis of Binding Data

    Speaker: Stephen McLaughlin
    Host:
    Date: 08/06/2023 at 9:30am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB.

  • Biophysical Techniques Lecture Series 2023: Bioinformatics

    Speaker: Tim Stevens
    Host:
    Date: 13/06/2023 at 9:30am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB.

  • Biophysical Techniques Lecture Series 2023: Alphafold2 at the LMB – Use and Applications

    Speaker: Sami Chaaban
    Host:
    Date: 15/06/2023 at 9:30am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB.

  • LMB Seminar: TBC

    Speaker: Albert Heck
    Host: David Barford
    Date: 19/06/2023 at 11:00am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB and Webinar.

    Further information

    Zoom link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92910980652?pwd=U2V6MGFOOU9kbmRnckNaU05HaXl4QT09

  • Biophysical Techniques Lecture Series 2023: Biological Mass Spectrometry 1

    Speaker: To Be Confirmed
    Host:
    Date: 20/06/2023 at 9:30am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB.

  • Biophysical Techniques Lecture Series 2023: Biological Mass Spectrometry 2

    Speaker: To Be Confirmed
    Host:
    Date: 22/06/2023 at 9:30am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB.

  • LMB Seminar: TBC

    Speaker: Mikhail Shapiro
    Host: Phil Holliger
    Date: 12/09/2023 at 11:00am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB and Webinar.

    Further information

    Zoom link - https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94069360553?pwd=djJlT09ZOTlENzNJVzRYVnp6WWVZQT09

  • LMB Seminar: TBC

    Speaker: Hiroaki Suga
    Host: Phil Holliger
    Date: 02/10/2023 at 11:00am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB and Webinar.

    Further information

    Zoom link - https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94524239870?pwd=RjN1ZXhCZzNaaE1jWkdCcFgwbUFpZz09

  • LMB Seminar: TBC

    Speaker: Matthieu Piel
    Host: Madeline Lancaster & Emmanuel Derivery
    Date: 16/10/2023 at 11:00am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB and Webinar.

    Further information

    Zoom link:

  • LMB Seminar: TBC

    Speaker: Jeff Kelly
    Host: Ben Ryskeldi-Falcon
    Date: 07/11/2023 at 11:00am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB and Webinar.

    Further information

    Zoom link - https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94698100541?pwd=L0RIZUcvY0dvYjhaRW5VU0pXNThKUT09