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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.bsky.social · 9h

John Gurdon, former Group Leader and Head of @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social has died.
Despite calling himself a "total non-intellectual” his work to reprogramme somatic cells to pluripotent stem cells transformed the field of developmental biology.
More: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/john-gurdon-...
#LMBNews

Black and white portrait of John Gurdon, 1971

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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.bsky.social · 2d

The LMB is delighted to announce Madeline Lancaster as Joint Head of @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social and Julian Sale as Joint Head of the PNAC Division!
Read more below.
Madeline (@lancasterlab.bsky.social): www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/madeline-lan...
Julian: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/julian-sale-...
#LMBNews

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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.bsky.social · 2d

Providing order amongst constant traffic: #LMBResearch from Sean Munro (@cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social) with John Briggs (@mpibiochem.bsky.social) reveals how GOLPH3 allows COPI vesicles to distinguish between Golgi residents & ER-bound proteins.
Read more: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/protein-sort...

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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.bsky.social · 5d

Don’t miss this upcoming #LMBSeminar from Bonnie Bassler!
Join us at 11am on Monday 13th October to hear all about ‘Quorum sensing across domains: From viruses to bacteria to eukaryotes’
More details: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Bonnie Bassler
Princeton University
Quorum sensing across domains: From viruses to bacteria to eukaryotes
Monday 13th October at 11am (BST)

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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.bsky.social · 5d

Considering a PhD in molecular biology?
Make sure to check out the projects on offer at the LMB!
www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/students/int...
General applications by 2nd DEC.
US Gates Scholarship applications by 15th OCT.
#PhD

Join the LMB's PhD programme!
Applications now open for October 2026
Deadline 2nd December 2025

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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.bsky.social · 6d

Lori is an Official Fellow of @clarehallcambridge.bsky.social and, as she explains in this video, has worked closely with @au.dk since launching her research group at the LMB.

#LMBintheNews (2/2)

youtu.be/LcQsxwJHhG0?...

Honorary doctorate 2025: Dr Lori Passmore FRS, Group Leader, University of Cambridge, UK

YouTube video by Aarhus Universitet

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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.bsky.social · 6d

Congratulations to LMB Group Leader @lapassmore.bsky.social, who has recently been appointed Honorary Professor of the University of Cambridge and received an Honorary Doctorate from Aarhus University in Denmark!

www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-lori...

#LMBintheNews (1/2)

Professor Lori Passmore receives honorary titles from Cambridge and Aarhus - Clare Hall

We are thrilled to announce that Professor Lori Passmore, Official Fellow of Clare Hall and a distinguished structural biologist based at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, has rece...

www.clarehall.cam.ac.uk

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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.bsky.social · 6d

Excellent opportunity for an enthusiastic #postdoc to join Kate McDole in @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social, using interdisciplinary approaches to investigate tissue formation during early organogenesis in mouse embryos.
More info: www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Closes 20 OCT
#ScienceJobs #PostdocJobs

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ImmuNoah's Ark (Noe Rodriguez) @immunoah.bsky.social · 7d

📣📣We're seeking a postdoc to join us at the @mrclmb.bsky.social to investigate neuroimmune interactomes in tumour & viral immunity.
If you find fascinating & want to learn about #neuroscience & #immunology, tracing neurons, molecular biology & #flowcytometry, apply!
🧠🫁👀🩸🔬
mrc.tal.net/vx/mobile-0/...

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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.bsky.social · 8d

We’re looking for TWO full-time Maintenance Engineers to join our Estates and Facilities team to ensure our state-of-the-art facilities continue running smoothly.
Find more info here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU025/m...
Apply by 20 OCT
#CambridgeJobs

Now hiring:
Maintenance Technician
To provide electrical or mechanical support alongside our accomplished Estates and Facilities Team to help maintain the LMB's world-class research facilities.
Apply by 20th Oct

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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.bsky.social · 9d

Team of the Year for LMB’s Biological Services Group in the Janet Wood Innovation Awards
Congratulations!

#LMBintheNews
www.datesand.com/news_item/jw...

Celebrating our JWI Award Winners

Each year, the JWI Awards celebrate the incredible people working across our sector, championing progress, wellbeing, sustainability and leadership. As always, this year’s entries were inspiring, and ...

www.datesand.com

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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.bsky.social · 13d

Congrats to #LMBAlumni Juan B. Rodriguez Molina, former Investigator Scientist in the LMB's Structural Studies Division, newly appointed Assistant Professor in the Dept of Molecular and Cellular Biosciences at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine
researchdirectory.uc.edu/p/1818215

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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.bsky.social · 14d

Congratulations to former @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social Group Leader Melina Schuh (@schuhlab.bsky.social at @mpi-nat.bsky.social) who has been awarded the Science Breakthrough 2025 Prize from the Falling Walls Foundation!
Read about her work here: www.mpinat.mpg.de/5118437/pr_2...
#LMBAlumni

Melina Schuh honored with Science Breakthrough 2025

Melina Schuh is honored by the Falling Walls Foundation with the 2025 Science Breakthrough of the Year award in the Life Sciences category for filming ovulation for the first time.

www.mpinat.mpg.de

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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.bsky.social · 16d

Calling all prospective PhD students! Why not consider the LMB for your PhD?
Applications are now open!
www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/students/int...
General deadline: 2nd DEC
US Gates Scholarship deadline: 15th OCT

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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.bsky.social · 16d

Don’t miss Hiroaki Suga’s #LMBSeminar on Monday 29th September at 11AM.
Hiroaki, from the University of Tokyo, will discuss ‘De novo discovery of macrocyclic peptides and pseudo-natural products for therapeutic innovation’
Click here for more info: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Hiroaki Suga
University of Tokyo
De novo discovery of macrocyclic peptides and pseudo-natural products for therapeutic innovation
Monday 29th September at 11am (BST)

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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.bsky.social · 19d

#ICYMI spearheaded by Sofia Lövestam, Michel Goedert & @sjorsscheres.bsky.social's groups have identified a combination of 12 residues in tau’s fuzzy coat which, when mutated, facilitates assembly of amyloid filaments.
Read more in AlzForum: www.alzforum.org/news/researc...
#LMBintheNews #PAD12

Tau filaments formed into their distinctive paired helical filaments in Alzheimer's disease

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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.bsky.social · 20d

We’re looking for a #postdoc to join Lori Passmore’s group, within a programme aimed at understanding addition of mRNA poly(A) tails

More info: www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Closes 06 OCT
#ScienceJobs #PostdocJobs

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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.bsky.social · 21d

🎉 Happy Postdoc Appreciation Week! 🎉
As LMB Group Leaders @kellythd-nguyen.bsky.social, @brfalcon.bsky.social & @marta-shahbazi.bsky.social attest, our postdocs are at the heart of our research community and shape everything we do.
Thank you postdocs!
#PostdocAppreciationWeek #PAW25

We are deeply grateful to the incredible postdocs in our labs, who’s creativity and dedication push the boundaries of research every day and who’s energy makes the LMB such a fun and inspiring place. The future of science is bright!
Kelly Nguyen
LMB Group Leader

Thank you to all the postdocs in our group, past and present. It is a privilege to work with such an excellent team of scientists.
Benjamin Ryskeldi-Falcon
LMB Group Leader

I am grateful to all the amazing postdocs in my lab. They are great scientists, colleagues, and mentors. Our research wouldn’t be possible without them!
Marta Shahbazi
LMB Group Leader

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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.bsky.social · 22d

TOMORROW – Nenad Ban from ETH Zürich will be joining us to discuss ‘Ribosome Upside Down: Co-translational Protein Biogenesis at the Tunnel Exit’.
Don’t miss this fantastic #LMBSeminar, beginning at 11am (BST).
More info: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Nenad Ban
ETH Zürich
Ribosome Upside Down: Co-translational Protein Biogenesis at the Tunnel Exit
Wednesday 17th September at 11am (BST)

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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.bsky.social · 22d

Excellent opportunity to join @sventruckenbrodt.bsky.social's group, designing tools & techniques to acquire & analyse molecular connectomics datasets.
Postdoctoral scientist: www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Imaging data engineer: www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Closes 09 OCT
#ScienceJobs #PostdocJobs

MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.bsky.social · 23d

LMB welcomes @sventruckenbrodt.bsky.social as a new Group Leader in our Neurobiology Division!
Sven will develop molecular brain mapping, harnessing expansion microscopy & molecular biology methods to better understand the neural basis of behaviour.
www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/the-lmb-welc... #LMBNews

Photograph of Sven Truckenbrodt wearing lab coat in laboratory setting.

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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.bsky.social · 23d

LMB welcomes @sventruckenbrodt.bsky.social as a new Group Leader in our Neurobiology Division!
Sven will develop molecular brain mapping, harnessing expansion microscopy & molecular biology methods to better understand the neural basis of behaviour.
www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/the-lmb-welc... #LMBNews

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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.bsky.social · 27d

The @jem.org spoke to #LMBAlumni Sarah Teichmann about expanding beyond academic science in your career, dealing with uncertainty in the workplace, and being able to carve out time for yourself despite having multiple demands on your time.

Read more: rupress.org/jem/article/...

Journal of Experimental Medicine @jem.org · 27d

Sarah Teichmann: Science always wins if we work together. Our latest #PeopleAndIdeas interview features Sarah Teichmann, professor at @scicambridge.bsky.social @cam.ac.uk and co-founder of @humancellatlas.org: rupress.org/jem/article/...

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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.bsky.social · 28d

Don’t miss next week’s #LMBSeminar by Nenad Ban: Ribosome Upside Down: Co-translational Protein Biogenesis at the Tunnel Exit
Visit our website to find more details: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.bsky.social · 28d

🔬 Over 900 pupils from 22 schools across Cambridge, Peterborough & Bedfordshire took part in this year’s #Microscopes4Schools competition.

From insect wings to iridescent feathers, kids used microscopes to explore the hidden beauty of nature: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/microscopes-...

#LMBNews

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MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology @mrclmb.bsky.social · Sep 8

Congrats to #LMBAlumni Richard Sever on receiving the
@royalsociety.org Research Culture Award 2025 together with John R. Inglis‬

The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · Aug 31

The Royal Society Research Culture Award 2025 is jointly awarded to Dr Richard Sever and Dr John R. Inglis for contributions to improving the scientific system and changing the culture of scientific publishing. #RSMedals https://royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/research-culture-award/

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