The Raymond Nicolet Trust organised a charity cake sale at the LMB on Monday 29th April. Volunteers baked a variety of different cakes and successfully raised £342.36. All proceedings are going to support The Sveti Sava Elementary School, Bajina Basta in Serbia. Thank you so much to everyone who helped! More…
A successful charity cake sale at the LMB for the Raymond Nicolet Trust
Clemens Plaschka elected to Austrian Academy of Sciences’ Young Academy
LMB 2016 – 2018, Postdoctoral Visitor and Scientist, Structural Studies Congratulations to Clemens Plaschka, who has been elected as a new member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences’ (ÖAW) Young Academy. The Young Academy aims to provide a platform for interdisciplinary collaboration to promote innovative research, cultivating a supportive and stimulating environment for its members, […]
Marc North: new Head of IT
The LMB is delighted to announce Marc North as the new Head of the LMB’s Information Technology (IT) Support department.
ModelAngelo software expands cryo-EM toolkit with faster atomic model building and identification of novel proteins
Kiarash Jamali, a Ph.D. student in Sjors Scheres’ group in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division, has designed a new machine learning software capable of fast, accurate model building at atomic levels and identification of new proteins beyond previous capabilities.
Madeline Lancaster discusses neural organoids with BBC Inside Science
Madeline Lancaster, Group Leader in the LMB’s Cell Biology Division, recently appeared on the BBC Radio 4 show Inside Science, where she introduced her work on neural organoids, including how she first developed them as a result of a lucky accident and what sets these organoids apart from being ‘mini-brains in a dish’. Beginning at […]
Dina Ratsimandresy’s journey from rural Madagascar to the LMB’s Light Microscopy Facility
Stellenbosch University highlights Dina Ratsimandresy’s career so far – from studying Mathematics in Madagascar and postgraduate studies in South Africa and Germany, to her current position in the LMB’s Light Microscopy Facility. On top of this, Dina has founded the non-profit organisation Itatra, through which she has delivered the ‘Vision’ outreach programme to rural high […]