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Insights into vertebrate evolution, from the sea lamprey
06 March 2013
NIMR scientists have taken part in a large collaborative project to analyse the genome of the sea lamprey. The research is published in Nature Genetics.
Receptor cross-talk controls B cell survival
28 February 2013
Researchers at NIMR have shown that B cell survival depends on unexpected cross-talk between a receptor for the BAFF cytokine and the B cell antigen receptor. The work is published in Immunity.
Summer studentship projects
19 February 2013
Placements for undergraduate summer students at NIMR are now open for applications.
Neuronal subtype determined by graded activity of the transcription factor Ascl1
15 February 2013
Researchers at NIMR have shown that neurons can be made different from one another by expressing either high or low quantities of the protein, Ascl1. The research is published in Current Biology.
Mill Hill Lecture by Chris Schofield on Wed 6 March 2013
14 February 2013
Chris Schofield from the University of Oxford will give a Mill Hill Lecture on Wednesday 6 March 2013 at 4.15pm. The title of the lecture is Chemistry of oxygen sensing in humans.
Brigitte Askonas (1923-2013)
14 February 2013
Brigitte Askonas died on 9 Jan 2013, aged 89. She was a member of staff at NIMR from 1952 and was Head of the Division of Immunology from 1976 until her retirement in 1988.
Schools’ Days 2013
13 February 2013
NIMR played host to 357 school students from 22 schools over two days for a programme of talks, workshops, poster presentations and careers advice.
Hepcidin’s role in malaria
08 February 2013
Scientists at NIMR and in Nigeria have found that hepcidin levels are lower in cases of severe malaria. The research was published in Blood.
Mill Hill Lecture by Susan Gasser on Wed 13 February 2013
08 February 2013
Susan Gasser from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Basel will give a Mill Hill Lecture on Wednesday 13 February 2013 at 4.15pm. The title of the lecture is Reorganizing the nucleus during C elegans development: roles for heterochromatin in gene positioning.
Ipsen prize for Tim Bliss
31 January 2013
Tim Bliss, formerly head of NIMR's Division of Neurophysiology, has been named as one of the recipients of this year’s Fondation Ipsen Prize for Neuronal Plasticity.
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