LMB Alumni News

Kiyoshi Nagai was a preeminent researcher at the LMB for over thirty years during which he was a global leader in the field of spliceosome research. His work culminated in a comprehensive understanding of how the spliceosome catalyses the intrinsic process of gene splicing within eukaryotic cells. His Royal Society Biographical Memoir, written by Andy […]

Thomas Steitz was among the foremost of the generation that was responsible for an explosion in our understanding of the structure and function of biological macromolecules. His research career was one of sustained excellence over six decades, and spanned the range from determining the structures of important metabolic enzymes to understanding the structural basis of […]

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 […]

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 […]

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…

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 […]