Yee Lian Chew is the recipient of the Flinders Foundation’s Mary Overton Senior Research Fellowship in Neuroscience. In her new research laboratory at Flinders she will continue her research using Nematode worms to better understand chronic pain. More…
Flinders Foundation’s Mary Overton Senior Research Fellowship in Neuroscience awarded to Yee Lian Chew
Maria Leptin has been appointed President of the European Research Council
Maria Leptin is the new President of the European Research Council starting from 1 October 2021. Since her postdoc position in Michael Wilcox’s group at the LMB, Maria has been a Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, led a research group at EMBL and served as Director of EMBO. More…
Discovery of a key piece of the puzzle of tubular organ formation
Although the cytoskeleton is known to play an important role in determining cell, and therefore organ, shape, how components of the cytoskeleton are reorganised during tube formation is unclear. Katja Röper’s group has identified a mechanism behind this.
LMB’s new exhibition room is officially open
The LMB’s new exhibition room is officially open and is showcasing our inaugural exhibition ‘Setting the stage: development of sample holders for electron cryomicroscopy’
Cell scientist to watch – Alexey Amunts
Alexey Amunts shares insights into his career to date, including his time at the LMB in Venki Ramakrishnan’s lab, the importance of open science and collaboration, in an interview with the Journal of Cell Science. More…
Membrane remodelling machinery shared across the tree of life
Membrane remodelling and repair are essential for all cells. Buzz Baum’s group have shown that bacterial proteins Vipp1 and PspA are members of a family of membrane-remodelling proteins once thought to be exclusive to eukaryotes.