To mark the end of the annual LMB Symposium, the 2025 Perutz Student Prize, Joan A. Steitz Postdoc Prize and Eileen Southgate Staff Prize were awarded.
LMB Prizes given to students, postdocs and staff
A new method to prepare cryo-EM samples avoids protein damage during freezing
Chris Russo’s group in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division, eliminate decades-long problem by preventing protein damage at the air–water interface with high-speed droplet vitrification.
Jefferis group publishes largest connectome of a male Drosophila brain to date
Greg Jefferis’s group, as part of an international collaboration including the FlyEM Project Team at HHMI-Janelia, has published the first complete connectome of an entire male Drosophila central nervous system. The connectome, which is not yet peer-reviewed, includes the central brain, optic lobes and the ventral nerve cord. More…
John Gurdon (1933 – 2025)
Renowned developmental biologist John Gurdon, former Group Leader and Head of the LMB’s Cell Biology Division, has died aged 92.
Julian Sale appointed Joint Head of the PNAC Division
Group Leader Julian Sale joins Phil Holliger as Head of the LMB’s PNAC Division.
Madeline Lancaster appointed Joint Head of the Cell Biology Division
Group Leader Madeline Lancaster joins Manu Hegde to oversee the LMB’s Cell Biology Division.