Biophysics Lectures
The 2023 Introduction to Biophysical Techniques lecture series will be held in person at the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre this year after several years of remote webinar events. The programme for the talks is shown below and can be downloaded as a pdf here.
The talks cover the many of the biophysical techniques that are available within the LMB and are aimed at graduate level researchers with no prior experience. They are strongly recommended for early years PhD students, but they are also invaluable to all researchers who want a basic overview of each technique with examples of how they have been applied to LMB projects. The talks start at 9.30am and are 60 mins including a Q & A at the end.
The talks are open to LMB, the Biomedical Campus and the wider Cambridge scientific community. There is no need to register for the talks but if you do not work at the LMB then it would be useful if you could email us your name and affiliation in advance so that reception can give you access. If you are interested in the talks but unable to attend, then you can view last year’s lectures which were held as zoom webinars on LMB YouTube here.
| Talk | Date | Technique | Speaker | Download Talks |
| 1 | Tuesday 31/01/2023 | Introduction to Light Microscopy | Nick Barry | |
| 2 | Thursday 02/02/2023 | Image Analysis Tools | Jérôme Boulanger | |
| 3 | Tuesday 07/02/2023 | Fluorescent Labelling and Light Sheet Microscopy | Ben Sutcliffe | |
| 4 | Thursday 09/02/2023 | Super-resolution Microscopy | Jonathan Howe | |
| 5 | Tuesday 14/02/2023 | Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Microscale Thermophoresis (MST) | Stephen McLaughlin | |
| 6 | Thursday 16/02/2023 | Single Molecule Spectroscopy | Chris Batters | |
| 7 | Tuesday 21/02/2023 | Biosensor Technologies | Stephen McLaughlin | |
| 8 | Thursday 23/02/2023 | ITC and Biomolecular Calorimetry | Chris Johnson | |
| 9 | Tuesday 09/05/2023 | Introduction to Biomolecular NMR | Trevor Rutherford | |
| 10 | Thursday 11/05/2023 | Advanced NMR applications | Jane Wagstaff | |
| 11 | Tuesday 16/05/2023 | Protein Crystallization | Fabrice Gorrec | |
| 12 | Thursday 18/05/2023 | Structural biology 2.0 | Dom Bellini | |
| 13 | Tuesday 23/05/2023 | Light Scattering Techniques | Chris Johnson | |
| 14 | Thursday 25/05/2023 | Analytical Ultracentrifugation | Stephen McLaughlin | |
| 15 | Tuesday 30/05/2023 | Introduction to Flow Cytometry | Fan Zhang | |
| 16 | Thursday 01/06/2023 | Instrument and Sample Optimisation for Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting (FACS) | Pier Andrée Penttilä | |
| 17 | Thursday 08/06/2023 | Curve Fitting, Errors and Analysis of Binding Data | Stephen McLaughlin | |
| 18 | Tuesday 13/06/2023 | Bioinformatics | Tim Stevens | |
| 19 | Thursday 15/06/2023 | Alphafold2 at the LMB – Use and ApplicationsBiological Mass Spectrometry | Sami Chaaban | |
| 20 | Tuesday 20/06/2023 | Biological Mass Spectrometry 1 | TBC | |
| 21 | Thursday 22/06/2023 | Biological Mass Spectrometry 2 | TBC |
The webinars from the 2022 lecture series are available below.
| Technique | Speaker | Download Talks |
| Introduction to Light Microscopy | Nick Barry | Webinar |
| Image Analysis Tools | Jérôme Boulanger | Webinar |
| Fluorescent Labeling and Light Sheet Microscopy | Ben Sutcliffe | Webinar |
| Super-resolution Microscopy | Jonathan Howe | Webinar |
| Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Microscale Thermophoresis (MST) | Stephen McLaughlin | Webinar |
| Single Molecule Spectroscopy | Chris Johnson | Webinar |
| Biomolecular Thermodynamics and Calorimetry (ITC) | Chris Johnson | Webinar |
| Biosensor Technologies (Biacore, SPR, SwitchSense, Octet) | Stephen McLaughlin | Webinar |
| Introduction to Biomolecular NMR | Trevor Rutherford | Webinar |
| Advanced NMR applications | Jane Wagstaff | Webinar |
| Protein Crystallization | Fabrice Gorrec | Webinar |
| Structural biology 2.0: Crystallography at the LMB in the era of cryo-EM and AlphaFold | Dom Bellini | Webinar |
| Light Scattering Techniques | Chris Johnson | Webinar |
| Analytical Ultracentrifugation (AUC) | Stephen McLaughlin | Webinar |
| Curve Fitting, Errors andAnalysis of Binding Data | Chris Johnson & Stephen McLaughlin | Webinar |
| Introduction to Flow Cytometry | Fan Zhang | Webinar |
| Instrument and Sample Optimisation for Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting (FACS) | Pier Andrée Penttilä | Webinar |
| Bioinformatics | Tim Stevens | Webinar |
| Biological Mass Spectrometry | Holger Kramer | Webinar |
| Quantitative Proteomics and Omics Data Analysis | Holger Kramer | Webinar |
| Alphafold2 at the LMB – Use and Applications | Clinton Lau | Webinar |