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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

  • LMB Seminar: Alpha-Synuclein and its aggregation in neurodegenerative diseases

    Speaker: Prof Maria Grazia Spillantini, Professor of Molecular Neurology, University of Cambridge
    Host: Anne Bertolotti
    Date: 11/12/2023 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/92958233734?pwd=eDI1dkNlTFNQc2lxUVV4S2JHRlFmZz09

    Most neurodegenerative diseases are characterised by the presence of abnormal intracellular protein inclusions. These inclusions were described at the beginning of last century as the defining neuropathological features of diseases, such as Alzheimer’s, Pick’s and Parkinson’s. In Alzheimer’s, Pick’s and several other diseases, the inclusions are made of the microtubule-associated protein tau. The filamentous inclusions of Parkinson’s disease, in the form of Lewy bodies and Lewy neurites, are made of the protein alpha-synuclein; the same is true of the Lewy pathology of dementia with Lewy bodies and the glial cytoplasmic inclusions of multiple system atrophy. The importance of the assembly of tau and alpha-synuclein is supported by the finding that mutations in their genes cause disease. Studies on the distribution of Lewy pathology have suggested that in Parkinson’s disease alpha-synuclein aggregation begins in the periphery and spreads to the brain, resulting in pre-motor and motor symptoms. Besides the Lewy bodies In the substantia nigra and other brain areas, smaller alpha-synuclein aggregates are present at synapses in the striatum, where they impair neurotransmitter release and contribute to the early stages of neurodegeneration. We have generated transgenic mouse models with alpha-synuclein aggregates that reproduce the characteristic features of disease and that can be used for testing new therapeutic approaches. Alpha-synuclein aggregation is a promising target for therapy

  • LMB Seminar: From regeneration to homeostasis: tissue-scale decision making

    Speaker: Pros. Prisca Liberali
    Host: Madeline Lancaster
    Date: 15/01/2024 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/97161414783?pwd=UEhEZUdDSVVLbDU0Q2lPdFhPQ3M2UT09

    Twitter/X Hanle - @priscaliberali

  • LMB Seminar: Title TBC

    Speaker: Ben Lehner
    Host: Lori Passmore
    Date: 29/01/2024 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/96896374524?pwd=VFJYbkZmRlZQREJ6a1QwelRSdEZwdz09

  • LMB Seminar for non-scientists - TBC

    Speaker: Sam Roberts
    Host: Alison Gillingham & Laura Evans
    Date: 30/01/2024 at 12:30pm in the Webinar.

    Further information

    Watch online: https://mrc-lmb-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/98883595747?pwd=MG1jM0I5UE1OaUNyUDdqK2ExRVpWQT09

  • TBC

    Speaker: Ed Hutchinson, School of Infection and Immunity, University of Glasgow
    Host: Patrycja Kozik
    Date: 01/02/2024 at 11:15am in the Sanger Seminar Room, Level 3, LMB.

    Further information

    TBC

  • LMB Seminar: Title TBC

    Speaker: Matthieu Piel
    Host: Emmanuel Derivery
    Date: 05/02/2024 at 11:00am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre, LMB and Webinar.

    Further information

    Zoom link:

  • TBC

    Speaker: Norman Davey from The Institute of Cancer Research, London
    Host: Lori Passmore
    Date: 08/02/2024 at 2:00pm in the Klug Seminar Room, Level 2, LMB.

  • LMB Seminar: Title TBC

    Speaker: Hiroaki Suga
    Host: Phil Holliger
    Date: 26/02/2024 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/98905554684?pwd=WkhWU2xVcXZ5c01paUJQVElzZVpDUT09

  • LMB Seminar: Title TBC

    Speaker: Jenny Hinshaw
    Host: Chris Russo
    Date: 25/03/2024 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/98964505344?pwd=T3VtMDE2aUpXTGRLNCtwU3RnNEdHdz09

  • Crick Lecture 2024: TBC

    Speaker: Silvia Arber
    Host: Marco Tripodi
    Date: 15/04/2024 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/97648518778?pwd=TXNvMUg5UW1XRU5abHFHYUlYeUllUT09

  • LMB Seminar: Title TBC

    Speaker: Andrea Musacchio
    Host: Emmanuel Derivery
    Date: 23/09/2024 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/96608781341?pwd=MG5QMXVmOStXcFVtalBqUlBYc0tEdz09

  • Kendrew Lecture 2024: TBC

    Speaker: Liqun Luo
    Host: Marco Tripodi
    Date: 04/11/2024 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/91756905972?pwd=RlI2cU0wdmkrblZ0VkpLWmtiRThUdz09

  • Perutz Lecture 2024: TBC

    Speaker: Adrian Krainer
    Host: Kelly Nguyen
    Date: 11/11/2024 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/94564781032?pwd=aG5WWkQvajdzSVRURFpGNUU3UWM4Zz09