This Friday, 2nd June, at 2pm there will be a joint visit from the single-molecule technology company Lumicks and Professor Ben van Houten from the University of Pittsburgh. Professor van Houten will give a talk titled ‘Observing DNA Repair Proteins - Protecting our Genomes from Cancer: From Cells to Single Molecules’ and Lumicks will showcase
Read MoreThis year's ISMB Postgraduate Research Symposium was held at the Birkbeck Clore Management Centre, on 15th and 16th June. The symposium provides an opportunity to find out about the research studies of PhD students within the ISMB. The second day of the symposium featured a talk by keynote speaker, Dr. Michael Blackman from The Francis
Read MoreThe biennial ISMB Retreat is returning this year on 4th - 5th July, at Clare College Cambridge. This year's retreat will feature keynote speakers such as Sir Tom Blundell (University of Cambridge), Professor Charlotte Deane (University of Oxford Department of Statistics), Professor Sonia Gandhi (The Francis Crick Institute Neurodegeneration Biology Laboratory), Dr Jan Lowe (MRC
Read MoreNew research, published in Cell, illuminates the molecular “trains” that transport cargoes essential for human health and development. Virtually every cell in the human body grows an antenna-like structure on its surface, which is used to receive vital signals from the body and the outside world. Perturbations in this process cause a wide range of human
Read MoreResearchers in Biological Sciences at Birkbeck, in collaboration with a group at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, have determined the structure of a protein assembly used by the immune system to kill unwanted cells. The immune system uses cytotoxic T lymphocytes and natural killer cells to act as executioners when it detects the
Read MoreThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2021 has been awarded to German Benjamin List and British David MacMillan.Prof Stefan Howorka from the ISMB at UCL Chemistry explains: ‘The two researchers have developed a new class of catalysts that are inspired by Nature. Enzymes are widely used in biology as they initiate and specifically control biochemical
Read More