The latest advances in electron microscopy at the LMB are featured in MRC’s Network magazine, showing how collaboration and complementary expertise have led to a structural biology breakthrough. The issue also features an interview with the LMB’s Lori Passmore, as she explains why it is such a fascinating time for electron microscopy. More…
Imaging the Unimaginable: Electron microscopy in the limelight
2014 César Milstein Lecture to be given by Peter Walter
Professor Peter Walter will give the 2014 Milstein Lecture on Monday 30 June 2014 at 4.15pm in the LMB’s Max Perutz Lecture Theatre. The lecture, entitled “Unfolded Protein Response in Health and Disease” is open to anyone in the local area who is interested in attending. Peter is currently Professor at the Department of Biochemistry […]
What next after Academia? Three ways to forge a career away from the bench
A recent event held at the LMB showed how a PhD in science can lead to various exciting careers outside the lab, including working in Science Policy, Communications and Administration. The joint LMB-Cambridge AWiSE event, which took place on Wednesday 4th June, attracted a large audience of PhD students and post-docs from around Cambridge to […]
Cryo-EM reveals mammalian protein export machinery
A collaborative team from LMB’s Cell Biology and Structural Studies Divisions has visualized the mammalian protein synthesis and export machinery at near-atomic resolution. The new research helps explain how secreted proteins, such as hormones, can cross an otherwise impermeable membrane to exit the cell. It has long been appreciated that cells communicate with each other […]
How does biology make tubes?
During the development of an organism, whether it be a worm, fly, dog or human being, the early embryo must build different structures which will later become the body’s organs. Many structures within an organism are tubular: the veins and arteries; the gut; as well as the kidneys and lungs. So how do the individual […]
Insights into how the Fanconi Anaemia core complex activates DNA repair
Research carried out by Eeson Rajendra from Lori Passmore’s group in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division, in close collaboration with KJ Patel from the LMB’s PNAC Division, has brought together LMB expertise in protein biochemistry and genetics to study the disease Fanconi Anaemia (FA). For the first time, they have isolated the intact FA core […]