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LMB-IP Graduate Life Sciences Symposium 2025

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10-11 July 2025 Registration and Abstract submissions now open!

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LMB-IP Graduate Life Sciences Symposium 2025 @lmbphdsymposium.bsky.social · May 21

Save the Date
📍 Where: MRC-LMB, Cambridge or Online (Zoom)
🗓️ When: 10th and 11th of July
🧪 Themes: Cell Biology, Structural Biology, Immunology, Nucleic Acids and Neuroscience.
🤝 In collaboration with students at Institut Pasteur

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LMB-IP Graduate Life Sciences Symposium 2025 @lmbphdsymposium.bsky.social · Jul 9

We are so grateful to all our sponsors supporting the LMB-IP symposium, in particular our Gold and Silver sponsors pictured here! All sponsoring companies will be attending the event which starts tomorrow, so make sure to drop by their stalls to find out more.

LMB-IP Graduate Life Sciences Symposium 2025 @lmbphdsymposium.bsky.social · Jul 8

For over 20 years, they’ve been organising events, collaborating with various Pasteur offices and taking science out of the lab: into schools, festivals, and even contributing to the upcoming reopening of the Pasteur Museum (2/2)

LMB-IP Graduate Life Sciences Symposium 2025 @lmbphdsymposium.bsky.social · Jul 8

Description: Who says science can’t be fun? Meet the committee of this year’s partner institute. STAPA is the young researchers’ association at Institut Pasteur, mixing serious research with social sparks. (1/2)

LMB-IP Graduate Life Sciences Symposium 2025 @lmbphdsymposium.bsky.social · Jul 2

Her talk, “Immunological Control of Host Physiology”, will explore how commensal microbes help regulate immune responses at barrier surfaces… influencing everything from infection protection to vaccine efficacy. 🌍🦠

Discover how seeing the host as a metaorganism is transforming immunology. (2/2)

LMB-IP Graduate Life Sciences Symposium 2025 @lmbphdsymposium.bsky.social · Jul 2

🧬 How do microbes shape our immunity?
We’re thrilled to welcome Yasmine Belkaid (Institut Pasteur, Paris) to the LMB-IP Symposium 2025! (1/2)

LMB-IP Graduate Life Sciences Symposium 2025 @lmbphdsymposium.bsky.social · Jul 1

🧬 We’re thrilled to welcome John Briggs from the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry to #LMBIP2025!
His lab uses cutting-edge cryo-electron microscopy to uncover how HIV-1 particles assemble and mature, shedding light on the virus’s transformation into its infectious form. 🦠

LMB-IP Graduate Life Sciences Symposium 2025 @lmbphdsymposium.bsky.social · Jun 30

🌍 The role of diversity in science and beyond.
Join us at the LMB-IP Graduate Life Sciences Symposium 2025 as we celebrate innovation through inclusion.
✨ Sign up now for an inspiring day of talks, ideas, and community!

LMB-IP Graduate Life Sciences Symposium 2025 @lmbphdsymposium.bsky.social · Jun 19

📅 10th and 11th of June 2025
📍 MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge
🧬 Talks • Networking • Posters • Career Panel
💥 Open to all

Register now – link in bio! (2/2)

LMB-IP Graduate Life Sciences Symposium 2025 @lmbphdsymposium.bsky.social · Jun 19

🎓 Ready to dive into cutting-edge research and connect with brilliant minds?
Join us at the LMB IP Graduate Life Sciences Symposium 2025… a day of science, inspiration, and innovation! (1/2)

LMB-IP Graduate Life Sciences Symposium 2025 @lmbphdsymposium.bsky.social · Jun 17

From RhoA binding to structural rearrangements, she’s decoding how PKN1 regulates everything from insulin signaling to the inflammasome.
Think kinase regulation is solved? Think again. Catch it all at LMB-IP Graduate Symposium 2025. (2/2)

LMB-IP Graduate Life Sciences Symposium 2025 @lmbphdsymposium.bsky.social · Jun 17

🧩 What makes PKN1 tick and tumble?
Helen Mott (University of Cambridge) uncovers how HR1 domains control dimerization and activation of this cancer-linked kinase. (1/2)

LMB-IP Graduate Life Sciences Symposium 2025 @lmbphdsymposium.bsky.social · Jun 12

It’s not just about how much protein is there… it’s about where it is, and who it’s hanging out with.

🧪 Come for the protein shifts, stay for the groundbreaking multi-omics, only at #GSASymposium2025. (2/2)

LMB-IP Graduate Life Sciences Symposium 2025 @lmbphdsymposium.bsky.social · Jun 12

🧬 Cells don’t just talk, they reorganize, relocate, and remix.
Ready to track the drama behind the scenes?

Join Kathryn Lilley as she maps the secret life of proteins and RNA in motion: from stress granules to spatial omics magic. (1/2)

LMB-IP Graduate Life Sciences Symposium 2025 @lmbphdsymposium.bsky.social · Jun 9

🚨 Only 1 day left to submit your abstract for the LMB-IP Graduate Student Symposium!
Don’t miss your chance to showcase your work… submit by June 10 at 11.59 pm and make sure to register today! 🔬📢

LMB-IP Graduate Life Sciences Symposium 2025 @lmbphdsymposium.bsky.social · Jun 6

Spinning Out Scientific Research
Curious about how to turn your research into a real-world venture? Join our hands-on workshop to explore what it takes to translate science into startups!
Whether you’re dreaming of entrepreneurship or just exploring your options, this session is for you. Sign up now

LMB-IP Graduate Life Sciences Symposium 2025 @lmbphdsymposium.bsky.social · Jun 5

Join Javier Pizarro-Cerda (Institut Pasteur) as he traces the plague’s path from medieval pandemics to immune evolution using cutting-edge genomics. Come for the Black Death, stay for the molecular insights, only at LMB-IP 2025. (2/2)

LMB-IP Graduate Life Sciences Symposium 2025 @lmbphdsymposium.bsky.social · Jun 5

🧪 From medieval terror to modern science: decoding the plague through ancient genomes. History’s deadliest bug is back under the microscope! How did Yersinia pestis wipe out millions and what can ancient DNA tell us today? (1/2)

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LMB-IP Graduate Life Sciences Symposium 2025 @lmbphdsymposium.bsky.social · Jun 3

Expect functional genomics, cell stress, and big-picture biology at LMB-IP 2025. (2/2)

#CellBiology #Phagocytosis #LMBIP2025

LMB-IP Graduate Life Sciences Symposium 2025 @lmbphdsymposium.bsky.social · Jun 3

🧪 Hungry for answers? So, are your immune cells!
How do cells that gobble up billions of dead cells a day stay in shape? 🍽️ Roni Levin Konigsberg (MRC-LMB) explores how phagocytes maintain their function under constant pressure. (1/2)

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LMB-IP Graduate Life Sciences Symposium 2025 @lmbphdsymposium.bsky.social · Jun 3

Expect functional genomics, cell stress, and big-picture biology at LMB-IP 2025. (2/2)

#CellBiology #Phagocytosis #LMBIP2025

LMB-IP Graduate Life Sciences Symposium 2025 @lmbphdsymposium.bsky.social · May 30

🧪 Forward, reverse… or both?
Tired of biased screens and shallow hits? What if you could evolve your way to discovery? Viktor Lukacs (University of Leeds) has built a novel screening platform that pushes cells to reveal hidden receptors genes with no prior knowledge required. Curious?

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LMB-IP Graduate Life Sciences Symposium 2025 @lmbphdsymposium.bsky.social · May 29

🎤 Hair follicle stem cells, cells that talk!
Claire Higgins (Imperial) gives us the inside scoop on HFESCs that not only grow hair but literally talk to neurons. Mechanosensation meets neurotransmitters in a surprising duet between hair and nerves.
#TalkingFollicles #HairAndNerves #LMBIP2025

LMB-IP Graduate Life Sciences Symposium 2025 @lmbphdsymposium.bsky.social · May 27

This year’s symposium does jus offer a stellar line-up of speakers… It provides you with a chance to talk with them,Cambridge style! Book now to dine with us at Homerton College’s Formal Hall. #LMBIP2025 #HomertonCollege #FormalHall

LMB-IP Graduate Life Sciences Symposium 2025 @lmbphdsymposium.bsky.social · May 26

🧠 The ABC of TDP-43
TDP-43 doesn’t just misfold, it gets creative! Diana Arseni (MRC-LMB) shows how this key protein forms amyloid filaments with disease-specific folds. The reason? Join us at LMB-IP 2025 to find all about it.
#TDP43 #CryoEM #BrainResearch #LMBIP2025 #Neurodegeneration

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