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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

  • A Kinetic Pathway for Spliceosome Active Site Assembly

    Speaker: Aaron Hoskins, University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Host: Lori Passmore
    Date: 01/07/2022 at 2:00pm in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB.

    Further information

    Spliceosomes are single turnover enzymes that must create their active site de novo on each intron. This process is called activation and involves coordinated, large-scale compositional and conformational rearrangements of the splicing machinery and exchange of nearly 50 splicing factors. While cryo-EM has provided insight into the start and end of the activation process, little is known about the transiently populated intermediates that must form to create the active site. To identify these intermediates and determine a kinetics-based pathway for activation, we have used single molecule fluorescence microscopy to follow the activation of single yeast spliceosomes in real time. Together our results allow us to propose a kinetics-based mechanism for activation, identify novel intermediates, describe reversible and irreversible steps, reveal new functions for splicing factors, and reconcile observations made from cryo-EM data for yeast and human spliceosomes.

  • Life Science Across the Globe: Gender policies in Science - What’s new?

    Speaker: Ana Franchi, CONICET, Argentina Eileen Furlong, EMBL, Germany Alexander Gates, Northeastern University, US
    Host: Life Science Across the Globe
    Date: 06/07/2022 at 2:00pm in the Webinar.

    Further information

    Zoom link - https://hhmi.zoom.us/j/95859517201?pwd=b2pha2xhWWk4a1BteWJrcStVUWdOQT09

    More information: https://lifescienceacrosstheglobe.org/





  • TBC - Talk 1

    Speaker: Özlem Tureci and Ugur Sahin
    Host: Chris Tate
    Date: 26/07/2022 at 10:00am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB.

    Further information

    Zoom link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94050407947?pwd=ZFZZYkxhd0JsbGJuMFNHQnlzOSsydz09

  • TBC - Talk 2

    Speaker: Özlem Tureci and Ugur Sahin
    Host: Chris Tate
    Date: 26/07/2022 at 11:30am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB.

    Further information

    Zoom link: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/94050407947?pwd=ZFZZYkxhd0JsbGJuMFNHQnlzOSsydz09

  • Milstein Lecture 2022: Title TBC

    Speaker: Özlem Tureci and Ugur Sahin
    Host: Chris Tate
    Date: 27/07/2022 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/94050407947?pwd=ZFZZYkxhd0JsbGJuMFNHQnlzOSsydz09

  • Life Science Across the Globe: Machine learning approaches in the Life Sciences

    Speaker: John Jumper, Deepmind, US Gisbert Schneider, Singapore-ETH Centre, Switzerland Mihaela van der Schaar, University of Cambridge, UK
    Host: Life Science Across the Globe
    Date: 07/09/2022 at 2:00pm in the Webinar.

    Further information

    More information: https://lifescienceacrosstheglobe.org/

    Moderated by Sjors Scheres, MRC-LMB, UK





  • LMB Seminar

    Speaker: Thomas Lecuit
    Host: Emmanuel Derivery
    Date: 08/09/2022 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/91594582633?pwd=UlBaTk1uTHJ4bW9JbFMwSEZxRE0zdz09

  • LMB Seminar

    Speaker: David Bartel
    Host: Kelly Nguyen
    Date: 27/09/2022 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/99553714360?pwd=bVRGN3o1a0dsazJIMnVIemlRbjltZz09

  • LMB Seminar

    Speaker: Stefan Raunser
    Host: Andrew Carter
    Date: 18/10/2022 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/96648790745?pwd=Tkx6OVpoY01ieTRMTFMzZ0QvWWR2UT09

  • Crick Lecture 2022: Title TBC

    Speaker: Catherine Dulac
    Host: Ben Ryskeldi-Falcon
    Date: 03/11/2022 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/91021060396?pwd=c1o1TWVTSTNHTWM1dW5lcm54cURKQT09

  • LMB Seminar

    Speaker: Luis Serrano
    Host: Phil Holliger / Joe Yeeles
    Date: 08/11/2022 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/99349389275?pwd=ZHI3em1DQTA0VTlVLzkvUTN6ZGkxdz09