The LMB has continued its collaboration with the University Technical College Cambridge (UTCC), with a series of visits, talks and a challenge project to ‘Design a Mouse House’. The UTCC is a regional centre for science education, open to 14-19 year old students with a passion for science. Earlier in the year, fifty year 12 […]
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Max Perutz Lecture to be given by Ron Vale
Ron Vale will give the delayed Max Perutz Lecture 2015 on Thursday 2nd June 2016 at 11.00 in the LMB’s Max Perutz Lecture Theatre. The title of the lecture is ‘Reconstituting T Cell Signalling’. The event is open to anyone in the local area who is interested in attending. Ron is a co-discoverer of kinesins, […]
Richard Henderson wins Royal Society’s prestigious Copley Medal
Richard Henderson from the LMB’s Structural Studies Division has been awarded the Royal Society’s most prestigious award, the Copley Medal. This is the world’s oldest scientific prize, first awarded in 1731. Richard has been awarded the prize for his work on imaging techniques that have enabled scientists to understand the arrangements of atoms in important […]
Three LMB scientists elected to EMBO membership
Madan Babu, Andrew Carter and Melina Schuh have been newly elected as members to the European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO). EMBO elects new members annually on the basis of scientific excellence and outstanding research contributions. The organisation promotes excellence in life sciences by supporting talented researchers, and stimulating exchange of scientific information. Madan, Andrew and Melina […]
John Kendrew Lecture to be given by Tony Hunter
Tony Hunter will give the delayed John Kendrew Lecture 2015 on Wednesday 25th May 2016 at 15.00 in the LMB’s Max Perutz Lecture Theatre. The title of the lecture is ‘Post-translational regulation of cell signalling’. The event is open to anyone in the local area who is interested in attending. Tony made the seminal discovery, […]
Ramanujan Hegde elected Fellow of the Royal Society
Manu Hegde, group leader in the LMB’s Cell Biology Division, has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society, in recognition of his “seminal contributions to understanding how nascent secretory and membrane proteins mature to their functional state, and how quality control pathways detect and resolve mistakes during maturation.” The Royal Society is a […]