Gero Miesenböck will give the 2018 Francis Crick Lecture on Wednesday 24th October 2018 at 11.00am in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre at the LMB. The lecture, entitled “Light Sleep” is open to anyone in the local area who is interested in attending. Gero is Waynflete Professor of Physiology and founding Director of the Centre for […]
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Tom Steitz 1940 – 2018
Tom Steitz, Nobel Laureate, known for his ground-breaking work on the structural basis of the central dogma including the ribosome, died on Tuesday 9th October, at the age of 78. Tom was Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, and Professor of Chemistry at Yale University, USA. He and his wife Joan were postdoctoral scientists […]
Greg Winter wins 2018 Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Greg Winter from the LMB’s Protein and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (PNAC) Division has been awarded the 2018 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Greg shares half of this year’s prize with George P. Smith, with the other half being awarded to Frances H. Arnold, for developing a method known as phage display and using it for the […]
Children enjoy an afternoon of discussing science books and hands-on experiments with LMB postdocs
A group of 17 children joined postdocs from the LMB and the Department of Biochemistry to review science books, learn more about what it’s really like to be a scientist and try hands-on experiments at the Eddington Postdoc centre in west Cambridge. The event, organised by Juan Rodriguez Molina, a post-doctoral researcher in Lori Passmore’s […]
Wanda Kukulski awarded the Royal Microscopical Society’s Alan Agar Medal
Wanda Kukulski, group leader in the LMB’s Cell Biology Division, has been awarded the Royal Microscopical Society’s Alan Agar Medal for Electron Microscopy for 2019 for her work in the field of Correlative Light-Electron Microscopy. The Royal Microscopical Society launched a series of medals in 2014 to coincide with its 175th anniversary and awards these […]
Fred Sanger at the LMB: From DNA sequencing to the advent of genomics
Celebrating the work of Fred Sanger on the centenary of his birth. One modest, reserved man, working at the lab bench in a small laboratory in Cambridge, invented a technique that would be used worldwide and would forever change how problems in biology and medicine were viewed. That man was Fred Sanger, born 100 years […]