Dr Venki Ramakrishnan, Joint Head of the LMB’s Structural Studies Division, has been honoured with a knighthood in the New Year Honours List 2012. The award is for services to molecular biology. Venki’s research focuses on the structure and function of the ribosome. This complex structure, found in multiple copies in every living cell, translates […]
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Christian Münch Receives British Neuroscience Association Postgraduate Award
Christian Münch, a postgraduate student working in Anne Bertolotti’s group in the LMB’s Division of Neurobiology has been awarded the 2011 British Neuroscience Association (BNA) Postgraduate Award. This is awarded annually to one student considered to have made a significant contribution to neuroscience and to have achieved an outstanding performance in their viva voce. The […]
Sarah Teichmann’s Lister Research Prize Lecture.
Sarah Teichmann, from the LMB’s Structural Studies Division, will deliver the Lister Research Prize Lecture, an award given in support of her integrated computational and genomic approach to decoding the transcriptional regulatory networks involved in T helper cell differentiation. T helper cells belong to a group of white blood cells, called lymphocytes, and assist other […]
Winners of Imagining the Brain Competition Receive Prizes.
Young artists from Cambridgeshire schools brushed up on their neuroscience this summer to produce spectacular artwork. Their achievements were celebrated at an award ceremony at the LMB this week. Imagining the Brain is a project that invites Cambridgeshire pupils with an interest in art and science to cut through the jargon usually associated with complex […]
Inaugural Francis Crick Lecture to be given by David Anderson.
David Anderson, who is the Seymour Benzer Professor of Biology in the Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, will give the inaugural Francis Crick Lecture on Friday September 9th 2011 at 4.00 pm in the LMB’s Max Perutz Lecture Theatre. The lecture is open to anyone in the local area who is interested in […]
Winners of Crystal Growing Competition visit the LMB
Every year schools from all over the East of England compete to grow the best crystals of potash alum. The competition, sponsored by the LMB and the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre is aimed at encouraging a whole new generation of scientists. All the crystals produced are displayed at the Cambridge Science Festival in March and […]