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…
LMB Alumni News
Maria Leptin has been appointed President of the European Research Council
Maria Leptin is the new President of the European Research Council starting from 1 October 2021. Since her postdoc position in Michael Wilcox’s group at the LMB, Maria has been a Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, led a research group at EMBL and served as Director of EMBO. More…
Cell scientist to watch – Alexey Amunts
Alexey Amunts shares insights into his career to date, including his time at the LMB in Venki Ramakrishnan’s lab, the importance of open science and collaboration, in an interview with the Journal of Cell Science. More…
Tanmay Bharat awarded 2021 Eppendorf Award
Tanmay Bharat has been awarded the 2021 Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators for his research on the structure and function of protective layers surrounding prokaryotic cells. More…
Alex Bateman elected to membership of EMBO
Alex Bateman, a former PhD student in Cyrus Chothia’s group in the Structural Studies Division, has been elected a member of EMBO for his work on protein families. Alex is now the Head of Protein Sequence Resources at EMBL-EBI in Hinxton. More…
Cell scientist to watch – Hayley Sharpe
Hayley Sharpe, a former PhD student with Sean Munro’s group in the Cell Biology Division, is interviewed by the Journal of Cell Science about her career so far, how she ended up studying phosphatases, current challenges she is facing, and advice she would give to anyone starting their own lab. More…