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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.

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.

2020 LMB Seminar Series speakers (click to expand)

  • Peijun Zhang – time tbc, 5th May
  • Hagan Bayley – 11am, 2nd June
  • Kendrew 2020 Lecture – Jonathan Weissman – time tbc, 11th June
  • Nieng Yan – time tbc, 21st September

A full list of LMB Named Lectures to date can be found here.

Details of other local seminars can be found here

  • LMB Seminar Series: Title tbc

    Speaker: Peijun Zhang, Director of the electron Bio-Imaging Centre (eBIC)
    Host: Andrew Carter
    Date: 05/05/2020 in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB.

    Further information

    Abstract to follow

  • Designer tissues: synthetic, living and hybrid materials

    Speaker: Hagan Bayley, Professor of Chemical Biology, University of Oxford
    Host: Tobias Wauer
    Date: 02/06/2020 at 11:00am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB.

    Further information

    By 3D printing, we have assembled synthetic tissues comprising patterned networks of thousands of aqueous droplets joined by lipid bilayers. The droplets communicate with each other and with the environment through engineered protein pores. To mimic tissues, the synthetic networks should be endowed with various properties including the ability to store and use energy, to move and change shape, to detect signals, to carry out computations and take up and release molecules. To a modest degree, these goals have been achieved. A related printing technology has been used to pattern a variety of living cells, providing structures that include small tumours and fragments of neural tissue. The mm-scale printed structures can be used as building blocks for cm-scale structures ranging from synthetic axons to hybrid constructs containing both synthetic and living cells. An important goal is to communicate with these constructs by using external stimuli, have them process the incoming signals and accordingly produce useful outputs for applications in medicine.

  • Kendrew LMB Seminar: Title tbc

    Speaker: Jonathan Weissman,Professor Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology, UCSF
    Host: Liz Miller
    Date: 11/06/2020 in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB.

    Further information

    Abstract to follow

  • LMB Seminar Series: Title tbc

    Speaker: Nieng Yan, Professor of Molecular Biology, Princeton University
    Host: Andrew Carter
    Date: 21/09/2020 in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB.

    Further information

    Abstract to follow

  • Next Generation Biophysics

    Speaker: Various
    Host: Chris Johnson
    Date: 10/11/2020 at 9:30am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB.

    Further information

    An informal one day meeting organised by Astra Zeneca, MRC LMB and Imperial College London examining the application of cutting edge biophysical techniques in complex biological settings. Bringing together scientists in both academia and industry for stimulating talks and discussions how these new and emerging technologies may be able to address challenging questions in the future.