Max Perutz was born on this day in 1914, in Vienna, Austria. He was the founder and first Chairman of the LMB. On day 139 of #LMB365, Max is photographed on the day he was awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the studies of the structures of globular proteins. The photograph was taken by LMB student, Hans Boye. Max died on 6 February 2002, in Cambridge.
LMB 365 – Day 139
LMB 365 – Day 138
The LMB is funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) via the Medical Research Council. The Chair of UKRI, Sir John Kingman, recently visited the LMB to find out more about the exciting science being carried out here. This included a visit to the EM facility where he was introduced to the wonders of this technology by Lori Passmore and Chris Russo where this picture for day 138 of #LMB365 was taken.
LMB 365 – Day 137
In this image for day 137 of #LMB365 seam cells are highlighted in green in the middle of a young (larval) C. elegans worm. The seam cells act like stem cells and during larval development these cells undergo asymmetrical divisions and either self-renew or differentiate to various cell types.
Creating an entire bacterial genome with a compressed genetic code
Jason Chin’s group in the LMB’s PNAC Division have, for the first time, synthesised the entire genome of a commonly used model organism, the bacterium E. coli. There has only been one previous example of synthesis of an entire genome: for the Mycoplasma bacterial genome, which consists of approximately 1 million bases. Over the last 5 […]
LMB 365 – Day 136
Day 136 of #LMB365 shows Ananth Kumar from Lori Passmore’s Group in Structural Studies submitting his PhD thesis titled “Architecture of eukaryotic mRNA 3′ end processing machinery and insights into the mechanism of polyadenylation” at the new “red” door with his colleagues James Stowell and Ana Casañal. Now just the small matter of the viva to come…
Michael Rossmann 1930 – 2019
Michael Rossmann, Hanley Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences at Purdue University and former scientific staff at the LMB, where he worked with Max Perutz on the structure of haemoglobin, has died on 14th May 2019 at the age of 88. Michael was a very gifted crystallographer whose main strength was in mathematics and computer programming. At […]