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Projects

October 2021 entrance:

David Barford

Structure and mechanism of chromosome segregation

Buzz Baum

War & peace in archaea

Simon Bullock

Shedding light on microtubule-based transport

Albert Cardona

The consensus cellular connectome of a brain

Andrew Carter

Clearance of aggregated proteins by dynein/dynactin and Cryo-ET to study transport in neurons

Julian Gough

Systematic Cell Reprogramming and Personal genomics

Ingo Greger

AMPA receptor structure and function

Philipp Holliger

RNA-catalyzed RNA replication

Gregory Jefferis

Neural Circuits for Sex and Memory in the Fly

Jan Löwe

Structure and function of the Divisome

Kate McDole

How the embryo gets its shape

Liz Miller

Structure and function of ER export receptors

Sean Munro

How the Golgi works

Kelly Nguyen

Molecular mechanism of telomere maintenance

Lori Passmore

Mechanisms of molecular machines

Felix Randow

How cells defend their cytosol against invading bacteria

Christopher Russo

Studying the physics of cryo-EM to design and build new microscopes for biology

Sjors Scheres

Cryo-EM methods development

Marta Shahbazi

Self-organization of pluripotent stem cells

Structural Studies project

Building the chromosome segregation machinery from scratch

Marco Tripodi

Circuitry and genetics of action and attention

Ana Tufegdzic Vidakovic

Alternative TC-NER: A novel DNA repair pathway

Roger Williams

The molecular biology of feast and famine

Joseph Yeeles

Human DNA replication with purified proteins

Marta Zlatic

Circuit basis of learning, predicting, and deciding

 

The LMB exceptionally considers applications for research-only MPhil students provided they obtain their own competitive funding and have the support of a group leader in the Laboratory. For information contact enquiries.