Michael Webster shares insights into his research, scientific interests and career so far as he joins the John Innes Centre as a Group Leader. Michael completed his PhD and first postdoc in Lori Passmore’s group in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division. He was drawn to the LMB for its historical importance in the determination of […]
LMB Alumni News
Donald Caspar 1927 – 2021
Don Caspar, LMB alumnus, has died at the age of 94. Don first came to the MRC Unit for the Study of the Molecular Structure of Biological Systems (now the LMB) as a Postdoctoral Fellow in 1955. He would become a frequent scientific worker at the Lab over the next 20 years and remained a […]
Christian Münch and Clemens Plaschka join EMBO Young Investigator Network
Two LMB alumni, Christian Münch and Clemens Plaschka, are among twenty-six life scientists to be welcomed into EMBO’s Young Investigator Network. They join a cohort of 130 current and 368 former members with access to networking opportunities and funding. More…
Kenneth Holmes 1934 – 2021
Ken Holmes, LMB alumnus and friend, has died at the age of 86. He was a PhD student with Rosalind Franklin at Birkbeck College, London, and moved to the LMB alongside Aaron Klug in 1961. He continued the work of Rosalind and Aaron on the structure of the tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) and his work […]
The life and work of Robert C. Sheppard – pioneer of peptide synthesis
John Wade from The University of Melbourne and John Jones from Balliol College, University of Oxford have partnered to essay the life and work of Robert Charles Sheppard. Bob was invited to join the LMB to head its Peptide Chemistry research group in 1971. He was an essential part of the PNAC division during his […]
Flinders Foundation’s Mary Overton Senior Research Fellowship in Neuroscience awarded to Yee Lian Chew
Yee Lian Chew is the recipient of the Flinders Foundation’s Mary Overton Senior Research Fellowship in Neuroscience. In her new research laboratory at Flinders she will continue her research using Nematode worms to better understand chronic pain. More…