Elizabeth Blackburn, former LMB PhD student and Nobel Prize winner, shares her advice for women starting out in science in this BBC/Nobel Media AB video. More…
“Keep persisting, this is worth it” – advice from Elizabeth Blackburn for women in science
LMB 365 – Day 248
The LMB has been running regular mentoring sessions for students and postdocs to support them in progressing their scientific careers. This photo for day 248 of #LMB365 was taken at a recent lunch held by our Deputy Director Mariann Bienz where discussions included how to come up with a vision for your own research programme as a future group leader, what to look out for when choosing a host institute or department and how to combine running your own group with bringing up children.
LMB 365 – Day 247
Apple trees around the LMB building, originally planted in 2011 as 2-3 year old trees, are starting to mature. They are now heavy with fruit, as seen in this photo taken by Laura Easton onday 247 of #LMB365. The trees planted around the end of the site were specifically selected to meet the Cambridgeshire Landscape Guidelines for woodland perimeter planting
LMB 365 – Day 246
Day 246 of #LMB365 is an artistic representation of a synthetic bacterium, by artist Larissa Ulisko. Jason Chin’s group computationally designed and synthesised anE. coligenome where all instances of three codons have been replaced by their synonymous counterparts in annotated genes. The bacterium’s natural genome was then replaced, step-by-step, by the synthetic version, yielding a living cell with a completely rewritten genome.
In The Economist, Madeline Lancaster and the rise of cerebral organoid research
The Economist draws on the evolution of the first cerebral organoids in Madeline Lancaster’s lab in 2013 to today’s research on electrical impulses from these mini brains. It discusses the fast pace of development in this scientific field and poses future research questions. More…
How the brain orchestrates head movement
While reaching for our morning cup of coffee, we experience the movement of our arm as continuous and smooth. It is natural then to think that the representation of these movements in our brain would also be continuous and smooth. Studying how such target-oriented movements are controlled, Marco Tripodi’s group in the LMB’s Neurobiology Division […]