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Ref Number  B02-09367 Professional Expertise Research and Research Support Department School of Life & Medical Sciences (B02) Location  London Working Pattern  Full time Salary  See advert text Contract Type  Fixed-term Working Type  On site Available for Secondment  No Closing Date  13-Oct-2025 APPLY NOW  About us The Research Department of Structural and Molecular Biology (SMB) is a world

10 September 2025 UK bioscience is set to benefit from cutting-edge research tools accelerating advances in health, climate-smart farming, sustainable food and drug discovery. Thirty-one new technology awards will equip scientists with the infrastructure they need to answer some of the most pressing challenges in biology and beyond. These include imaging tools that reveal how cells behave in

Biosciences Seminar Speaker: Maciek Wiatrak, Cambridge University Place: 305, Bedford Way (26) Date: 02/10/2025 Time: 11.00-12.00 Bacteria have evolved a vast diversity of functions and behaviours which are currently incompletely understood and poorly predicted from DNA sequence alone. To understand the syntax of bacterial evolution and discover genome-to-phenotype relationships, we curated over 1.3 million genomes spanning bacterial phylogenetic space, representing each as an

Birkbeck’s annual Bernal lecture honours the pioneering spirit of JD Bernal, and this year shines a light on one of his most remarkable protégés. The 2025 Bernal Lecture will be held under the title “The Harvest of an Eclectic Mind: Alan Mackay and the Rewriting of the Book of Crystallography.” The lecture celebrates the life and work of Alan Mackay,

A not-for-profit symposium highlighting recent AI-based developments to enhance protein family classifications, annotations and analyses. There will be talks from world leaders in structural bioinfomatics on various themes including pioneering protein language models and key international resources including: PDBe, InterPro, UniProt, MGnify, SWISS-MODEL, FrustraEvo and CATH. Invited Speakers: Christine Orengo -- University College London Burkhard Rost

The Swiss government offers fellowships for British researchers to undertake a research project in Switzerland. Switzerland has some of the world’s top universities and research institutes © Switzerland Tourism / Lorenz Richard The Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships give early-stage British researchers (Master’s degree or recent PhD) the opportunity to pursue a research project at postgraduate, doctoral

A new project led by UCL seeks to develop the plants and food of the future, supported by UK government funding from the Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA). Professor Saul Purton (UCL Structural & Molecular Biology) and Dr Scott Lenaghan (University of Tennessee) are co-leading a project, supported by an £8.9 million grant, that aims

TwinsUK is the UK’s largest study of adult twins who have contributed their health data over up to 30 years. Claire Steves, together with twins involved in the studies – Yvonne Haines and Sandra Coles, will talk about how this collaboration between scientists and participants has contributed to understanding of how we can stay healthy