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Eleven researchers receive EMBO Installation Grants to establish independent laboratoriesAuthors Kießling, Tilmann Source EMBO News 21 January 2020 Year 2020
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Subject Piotr Szwedziak, a former PhD student and post-doctoral researcher in Jan Löwe’s group, has received an EMBO Installation Grant to establish an independent laboratory and joins the EMBO Young Investigator Network Keywords Piotr Szwedziak; alumni; Jan Löwe; Installation Grants; EMBO; Young Investigator Network; funding -
EMBO welcomes thirty Young InvestigatorsAuthors Kiessling, Tilmann Source EMBO 1 December 2020 Year 2020
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Subject LMB Alumnus Tanmay Bharat is among 30 life science researchers within their first four years as group leaders to become EMBO Young Investigators Keywords Tanmay Bharat; EMBO Young Invetigators; award; alumni -
Ernst Joachim Ungewickell: 1950-2020Authors Linton M. Traub, Frances M. Brodsky Source Journal Of Cell Biology Vol.219; No.011 Year 2020
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Subject Ernst, contributor to our knowledge of intracellular transport coats, died in Hanover on 19 August, 2020. He spent a year at the MRC in 1982 Keywords Ernst Ungewickell Germany Branton Laboratory: Barbara Pearse -
Football is just a branch of science for Cambridge United Women midfielder Gisela OttenAuthors Taylor, Mark Source Cambridge Independent 7 December 2020 Year 2020
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Subject Gisela Otten, post-doctoral researcher in Felix Randow’s group in the LMB’s PNAC Division, talks to the Cambridge Independent about her route to joining Cambridge United WFC and combining this with her scientific career Keywords Gisela Otten; Cambridge United women’s team; midfield; football; bacterial infections; Church; Felix Randow -
From mysterious cysts to CSF-in-a-dishAuthors Pellegrini, Laura Source The Company of Biologists, The Node 21 September 2020 Year 2020
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Subject Laura Pellegrini posted about the importance of looking closer if something unusual happens to your experiments. There may be something new to be learned from these results. Keywords Laura Pellegrini; cerebrospinal fluid (CSF); brain; choroid plexus (ChP); Madeline Lancaster; cerebral organoids; dorsal cortex; cysts; Serpin Family F Member 1 (SERPINF1); clusterin (CLU); Claudia Bonfio; NMR; L-dopa; dopamine; Sephin 1; circadian cycle regulation -
Hayley Sharpe wins a 2020 Lister Institute Research PrizeAuthors The Lister Institute of Preventative Medicine of Source The Lister Institute 13 August 2020 Year 2020
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Subject Hayley Sharpe, a former PhD student with Sean Munro’s group in the Cell Biology Division, is one of four researchers to be awarded a 2020 Lister Institute Research Prize Keywords Hayley Sharpe; alumni; Lister Institute Research Prize; The Babraham Institute; tyrosine; phosphatase signalling; research -
How the first life on Earth survived its biggest threat-water (The water paradox and the origins of life)Authors Marshall, Michael Source Nature 9 December 2020 Year 2020
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Subject Living things depend on water, but it breaks down DNA and other key molecules. So how did the earliest cells deal with the water paradox? Keywords NASA; Perseverance; Jezero Crater; Lake; liquid water; John Sutherland; Mars; first biological cells; carbon based chemicals; wet and dry; Primordial soup; cyanamide; proteins; lipids; warm pond; Claudia Bonfio; prebiotic chemistry -
Larissa Wakefield obituaryAuthors Stephen Kearsey Source The Guardian 20 October 2020 Year 2020
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Subject Larissa Wakefield, who has died aged 61, after being diagnosed with a brain tumour, was a naturalist, scientist and potter. She had a highly successful research career both before and after a 10-year break, during which she devoted herself to bringing up children and running a pottery. Keywords Larissa Wakefield; Pottery; Sir John Gurdon; Parkinson's disease -
Lost connections in the brains of mice with Alzheimer’s restored by MRC LMB in CambridgeAuthors Brackley, Paul Source Cambridge Independent 11 September 2020 Year 2020
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Subject The astonishing work by scientists at the LMB and their international collaborators offers long-term hope of helping patients with a range of conditions including Alzheimer’s disease, spinal injury and epilepsy Keywords Radu Aricescu; spinal cord; brain; neurological disorders; Alzheimer’s disease; epilepsy; ‘molecular bridge’; repair; cerebellin-1; CPTX; Jonathan Elegheert; Amber Clayton; cerebellar ataxia; neuronal cells; synapses -
Meet the 10 brilliant Cambridge scientists elected as fellows of the Royal Society in 2020Authors Brackley, Paul Source Cambridge Independent 30 April 2020 Year 2020
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Subject An extraordinary 10 out of the 62 newly-elected fellows of the Royal Society are Cambridge scientists. This included Bill Schafer a group leader in Neurobiology. Keywords William Schafer; Royal Society; Fellow; C. elegans; nematode worm; Denise Walker; genetic mutations; neurons; Venki Ramakrishnan