The LMB’s annual Lab Symposium concluded with the announcement of the 2024 recipients of the Perutz Student Prize, Joan A. Steitz Postdoc Prize and Eileen Southgate Prize.
LMB Perutz, Steitz and Southgate Prizes given to students, postdocs and staff
Model Making at the LMB
The LMB’s latest exhibition is open and it is highlighting the importance of scientific models in research. The display follows the development of physical and digital models and their significance in the LMB’s history and future.
M. Madan Babu to lead newly formed Office of Data Science at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
LMB 2001-2004, 2006-2020, Ph.D. Student, Group Leader, Structural Studies St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has announced M. Madan Babu as their first Chief Data Scientist and Senior Vice President for Data Science. Madan will lead the new Office of Data Science, with 115 new roles dedicated to advancing biomedical research. More…
Lori Passmore appointed as Joint Head of the LMB’s Structural Studies Division
Group Leader Lori Passmore is appointed joint Head of the LMB’s Structural Studies Division, alongside Sjors Scheres.
Yudan Ren: Returning to research after a career break
LMB 2012-2015, Career Development Fellow, PNAC The Royal Society profiles Yudan Ren, covering her education in rural China, her decision to take a career break to care for family, and how she re-established an academic career following this. Yudan now holds a position at the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience and the Department of […]
Whole brain connectome of fruit fly is most complex brain ever mapped
An international collaboration, including Greg Jefferis’ group in the LMB’s Neurobiology Division, have published the connectome of the Drosophila fly – the most complex brain to be mapped in its entirety, including 140,000 neurons and over 15 million connections.