MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology

One of the world's leading research institutes, our scientists are working to advance understanding of biological processes at the molecular level - providing the knowledge needed to solve key problems in human health.

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Projects

Applications for 2022 are now closed.

Argentinian nationals interested in the Cesar Milstein Studentship please see here. Deadline 1 March 2022.

Matteo Allegretti

Macromolecular basis of nuclear remodelling in situ

Buzz Baum

The final cut: cell division in archaea

Anne Bertolotti

Surviving protein quality control failure

Tanmay Bharat

Merging cryo-EM and mass spectrometry in 3D

Simon Bullock

Shedding light on microtubule-based transport

Albert Cardona

The consensus synaptic connectome of a whole brain

Andrew Carter

Building a minimal contractile machine

Jason Chin

Orthogonal translation of unnatural polymers

Michel Goedert

Cryo-EM studies of amyloids in neurodegeneration

Ingo Greger

AMPA receptor structure and function

Michael Hastings

Tidal clock genes and neurons

Philipp Holliger

Replicating RNA with RNA

Leo James

Viral infection and host immunity

Gregory Jefferis

Neural Circuits for Sex and Memory in the Fly

Patrycja Kozik

Initiation of anti-tumour immune responses

Kate McDole

How the embryo gets its shape

Andrew McKenzie

Innate and adaptive immunity

Garib Murshudov

Bayesian tools for experimental structural biology

Kelly Nguyen

Molecular mechanism of telomere maintenance

John O'Neill

Biohacking the Biological Clock

Lori Passmore

Mechanisms of molecular machines

Felix Randow

LPS ubiquitylation and cell-autonomous immunity

Sjors Scheres

Cryo-EM studies of amyloids in neurodegeneration

Marta Shahbazi

Self-organisation of the human embryo in vitro

Marco Tripodi

Transforming thoughts into actions

Roger Williams

The molecular biology of stress responses

Joseph Yeeles

Building the human replisome

Suyang Zhang

Regulation of alternative splicing through coupling with transcription

Marta Zlatic

Circuit basis of learning and action-selection

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.