UCL researchers shortlisted for Cancer Grand Challenges funding
An interdisciplinary, global team of scientists co-led from Stanford University, USA, and University College London, UK, has been selected for the final stages of Cancer Grand Challenges. Team RESCuE is now in with a chance of receiving up to £20m to make radical progress against one of cancer’s toughest challenges.
Louise Cramer winner of UCL Student Choice Education Award
The 2023 UCL Education Awards winners have been announced. Louise Cramer was the winner of the Student Choice Award for Brilliant Research-based Education.
Congratulations Louise!
New research article in PNAS for Nick Bell
In a newly published article in PNAS, Nick Bell and Justin Molloy (Francis Crick Institute) reveal fundamental mechanisms for how PARP [Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase] proteins engage at DNA double-strand breaks, which may provide insights into PARP inhibitor
CRUK News Feature for Lloyd lab research
Cancer Research UK News Feature: By finding ways to open and close the blood-nerve barrier to facilitate drug delivery, research led by Alison Lloyd could benefit patients by helping stop chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy.
New publication in Open Biology for Acton Lab and colleagues
In a newly published study in Open Biology, the Acton and Simoncelli Labs (UCL London Centre for Nanotechnology) used DNA-PAINT, a quantitative single molecule super-resolution technique, to visualize and quantify how podoplanin clustering is regulated in the plasma membrane of fibroblasctic ret
New publication in eLife for Chubb Lab and colleagues
In a newly published study in eLife, the Chubb Lab and Angelika Manhart (UCL Mathematics Department, University of Vienna Faculty of Mathematics) used imaging and mathematical modelling to understand how tissue-scale signalling dynamics are shaped by signalling centres.
Riverley Primary School visits the LMCB
Sixty children from Riverley Primary School Years 4 and 5 (Leyton, East London) visited us for an exciting day of science activities. They attended a career talk by Dr Laura Benjamin about becoming a Doctor, had a lot of fun learning how to pipette onto 96-well plates and learned the difference between mass, volume and density. They also saw their own cheek cells under the microscope!
News and Views in Nature Methods by Mao and colleagues
Read the News and Views by Yanlan Mao and colleagues on two line-scanning Brillouin methods published recently in Nature Methods.
Khalilgharibi et al (2023). Line-scanning speeds up Brillouin microscopy. Nature Methods
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PhD Studentship available in the Bell Lab
A 3.5 year PhD position is available from October 2023 in the Bell Lab, based in the Biological Physics group at the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Laboratory for Molecular Cell Biology. This is an exciting opp