📢 Calling all prospective PhD students! Why not consider the LMB for your PhD? 🎓🧑‍🔬 Applications are now open to join us in October 2027. Explore what’s on offer here: https://mrclmb.ac.uk/careers-and-people/phd-students/research-projects/

Congratulations to Menna Clatworthy on her appointment as Regius Professor of Medicine @ox.ac.uk! As a Group Leader in the @medcambridge.bsky.social Molecular Immunity Unit, Menna’s research group is partially based at the LMB. Wishing you best of luck in Oxford Menna! #LMBintheNews

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Our #CITIID Director Professor Menna Clatworthy has been appointed Regius Professor of Medicine @ox.ac.uk. Menna has made an extraordinary contribution to the Department of Medicine at Cambridge as a clinician scientist, mentor, and academic leader. Read more: buff.ly/Wh8av3e

Huge thanks to @mrclmb.ac.uk, Jacobs, Jackson Civil Engineering and @labcorp.bsky.social for sponsoring Peterborough STEM Festival 2026 and helping us keep the 10th anniversary free and accessible to all! 🚀 📆 Saturday 17th October, 2026. 📍ARU Peterborough. ⏰ 11am - 4pm (9:30am - 11am Quiet Time)

“The experiment the field has been waiting for.” Alzforum covers research from @sjorsscheres.bsky.social, Michel Goedert & Masato Hasegawa's groups demonstrating how tau proteins spread through mouse brains via a prion-like mechanism. Read more: www.alzforum.org/news/researc... #LMBintheNews

The LMB will be at @pborostemfest.bsky.social this Saturday 17th October. Stop by to meet some of our researchers and examine some of our specimens through a microscope! 🔬 More info: www.peterboroughstemfestival.co.uk

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UK, Peterborough: Peterborough STEM Festival – 10 Year Anniversary! Fun activities for 5-17 year olds, incl. coding workshops, interactive science experiments, engineering and technology demos, talks and presentations. 17 Oct, 11am - 4pm, free #ALD26 findingada.com/event/peterb...

The LMB’s annual Forging Pathways networking event for Black heritage scientists is being held in partnership with @cruk-ci.bsky.social on Tuesday 3rd November. Discover more about the event & register here: engagementhub.ukri.org/mrc-lmb-hr/f... #BlackHistoryMonth @cambridgebiocampus.bsky.social

The LMB is thrilled to be top of the national leaderboard for Love to Ride's Cycle September for businesses with 500-1999 staff! See the full results here: www.lovetoride.net/cambspboro/e... Well done to everyone who took part and logged their journeys. 🚲🏆 #LMBintheNews

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Love to Ride is all about getting more people enjoying and discovering how easy and fun riding a bike can be. Whether you ride all the time, or you're new to riding, join the Love to Ride community, h...

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Collaborators and colleagues of Sarah Teichmann gathered at the LMB to mark 25 years since she established her research group in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division. Read more here: mrclmb.ac.uk/news-events/... 📷: JET Photographic #LMBNews #LMBalumni @scicambridge.bsky.social @teichlab.bsky.social

Luis Briseño-Roa’s Gates Cambridge Scholarship gave him the opportunity to work closely with LMB researchers during his PhD. He then completed postdoc research at the LMB before relocating to France. Read his story: www.gatescambridge.org/about/news/g... #LMBAlumni @gatescambridge.bsky.social

Gates Cambridge Originals: Luis Briseño-Roa - Gates Cambridge

Luis Briseño-Roa talks about his career journey from a PhD in Chemistry to his current work at Ipsen as Head of Translational Rare Diseases and Neurosciences

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Interested in cerebral organoids? 🧠 Don’t miss the latest episode of Unexpected Elements from BBC World Service, featuring @apadonovan.bsky.social, Postdooctoral Fellow in @lancasterlab.bsky.social’s group in @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social. Catch it here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... #LMBintheNews

Unexpected Elements - An identity crisis - BBC Sounds

A case of mistaken identity inspires us to explore the science of getting things wrong.

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How does neurodegeneration spread across the brain? 🧠 @sjorsscheres.bsky.social, Michel Goedert & Masata Hasegawa’s groups have demonstrated that human misfolded tau filaments act as a molecular template for prion-like propagation in the mouse brain. mrclmb.ac.uk/news-events/... #LMBResearch 🧪

Join us on Friday 16th October for our annual 'What Next For Your Career?’ event with Cambridge AWiSE. You'll hear about the different career paths pursued by our three excellent speakers: Carly Dix, @louisefets.bsky.social and Gisela Otten. More details: engagementhub.ukri.org/mrc-lmb-hr/9...

How does the brain build its serotonin network? 🧠🧪 Jing Ren’s group (LMB Neurobiology Division) have built a 4D atlas, revealing how serotonin neuron subtypes are specified pre-birth and follow coordinated programmes to build brain-wide connections. More in @pnas.org: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

(1/2) Serious science, unexpected fun. A fruit fly wiring diagram from our Janelia Research Campus & collaborators is being used to play Minecraft, parallel park (badly), & dance to '70s disco. That’s the joy of open science. More from @nytimes.com: bit.ly/4htsTm6.

📢 We're hiring an Assistant Divisional Administrator in our Neurobiology Division. Help support world-class science through HR, finance, events & administration. This is a rolling recruitment, apply early! fa-evzn-saasfaukgovprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... #CambridgeJobs #AdminJobs

How do cells remove abnormal glycogen? Led by Matthew Yip, using mouse models, cell engineering & cryo-ET, Felix Randow's group found that RNF213 ubiquitylates aberrant glycogen to trigger autophagy. https://mrclmb.ac.uk/news-events/articles/how-cells-clear-dysfunctional-glycogen/ #LMBResearch

Ready to take the next step in your research career? The LMB is now accepting applications for PhD placements starting in October 2027. Deadline: 08 December 2026 (allow time for reference submission). Discover what we offer here: https://mrclmb.ac.uk/careers-and-people/phd-students/

#ICYMI, @jefferis.bsky.social’s group, with @hhmijanelia.bsky.social & collaborators, published a collection of papers detailing the first complete connectome of the male fly CNS, enabling unprecedented male-female brain comparisons. Featured on the BBC: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #LMBintheNews

How a fly brain may help explain the secrets of human behaviour

Comparing the brains of male and female flies may transform our understanding of how genes shape behaviour, including ours.

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🧠🦠 How can infection in the gut affect the brain? Menna Clatworthy’s group in the University of Cambridge’s Molecular Immunity Unit at the LMB have identified an immune link between the gut & the brain that protects the brain from future infection. Read: mrclmb.ac.uk/news-events/... #LMBResearch

From scientist to Health & Safety Advisor: Shahana Ahmed shares her career journey, including completing the NEBOSH General Certificate and why robust safety practices help make groundbreaking science possible. Read more here: mrclmb.ac.uk/news-events/... #LMBNews #HealthAndSafety

The complete #connectome of the adult Drosophila male CNS has allowed researchers, inc @jefferis.bsky.social’s group, to compare male & female brains at synaptic-resolution for the first time. Read more here: mrclmb.ac.uk/news-events/... #LMBResearch 1/2

50 years after Barbara Pearse’s seminal discovery of clathrin, Frances Brodskey and Scottie Robinson met Barbara to reflect on the lasting impact her work has made to the field of cell biology. Read the interview here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #LMBAlumni @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social

Interview With Barbara Pearse and the Clathrin Family Tree

The clathrin family tree. Timeline of research on clathrin leading to and generated by Barbara Pearse's discovery, with milestones mapped onto the clathrin triskelion.

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Using advanced microscopy @piotrkolata.bsky.social @a-dsantos.bsky.social @tomdendooven.bsky.social @matteoall.bsky.social have identified the molecular anatomy & organisation of proteasomes in the sperm nucleus. Read more about the study here: mrclmb.ac.uk/news-events/... #LMBResearch 🧪

Join us at our quarterly Open Forum on Monday 21st September (5.30-7pm), inviting the public to hear the latest news in life science, innovation and research on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus (CBC). Book your place now: cambridge-biomedical.com/event/cbc-op...

Congratulations to the former LMB Group Leaders awarded prizes from @royalsociety.org! KJ Patel has received the Buchanan Medal and Sarah Teichmann (@teichlab.bsky.social) has been awarded the Gabor Medal. Read more here: mrclmb.ac.uk/news-events/... Image: The Royal Society #LMBAlumni

Kelly Nguyen, Group Leader in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division, has been awarded the 2027 Francis Crick Medal and Lecture from @royalsociety.org. Read more about @kellythd-nguyen.bsky.social’s research on telomerase here: mrclmb.ac.uk/news-events/... #LMBNews

📣 Just 2 weeks left to register for the tenth anniversary Next Generation Biophysics Symposium. Join us at the LMB on 16 September to hear a range of speakers cover how they're using new & emerging biophysical techniques. Register by 9 September ➡️ https://www3.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/sites/nextgen/#intro

Looking to solve complex, technical challenges across hardware, software and large-scale computing systems? Join our Scientific Computing team and use open-source software and custom-built systems to support the LMB's computing infrastructure. Closes 17 SEP Read more: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSR455/s...

Exciting plans for a new national hub at @scicambridge.bsky.social to advance novel alternative methodologies for disease models. @lancasterlab.bsky.social will co-lead neuroscience models, including brain organoids. Read more: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... #LMBintheNews @cellbiol-mrclmb.bsky.social

Plans for £20m hub in Cambridge to develop new medicines using AI

The hub is funded by the Medical Research Council and based at Cambridge Biomedical Campus.

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How is AI changing biomedical research? 🤖🔬 In a new article, @jmrko.bsky.social & @neurofinch.bsky.social in the LMB’s Neurobiology Division explore how AI-assisted programming is transforming coding in biomedical research. Read more here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Disruption of the research software landscape through AI software generation - Nature Methods

Specialized research software has historically been costly and time-consuming to create, but large language models (LLMs) have become capable enough at code generation to fundamentally change this. We...

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