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Novel X-inactivation RNA discovered
18 June 2012
Researchers at NIMR and their collaborators have identified the gene responsible for X chromosome inactivation in the second largest class of mammals, the metatherians (marsupials). The research is published in Nature.
Two Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Awards
13 June 2012
James Briscoe and Victor Tybulewicz have been granted Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Awards.
High-throughput experimental technique interest group
07 June 2012
A high-throughput interest group at NIMR has been widened to include participation by scientists from LRI and from other partners in The Francis Crick Institute.
How to discriminate between active and latent TB
07 June 2012
Researchers from NIMR have helped to find a way to distinguish patients with active TB from those with latent infection. The research is published in PLoS ONE.
Protein evolution
29 May 2012
NIMR and University of Colorado scientists have discovered that proteins predictably adjust through coevolutionary processes when an amino acid is replaced. The research is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA.
The Crick postdoc retreat
29 May 2012
A retreat for postdocs from institutes that will form part of The Francis Crick Institute was held on the 20th of April 2012.
Tim Bliss will give the Royal Society Croonian Lecture 30 May
28 May 2012
Tim Bliss, formerly head of NIMR's Division of Neurophysiology, will deliver the Royal Society’s annual Croonian Lecture on 30 May 2012. This prize lecture is the premier lecture in the biological sciences and is delivered annually at the Royal Society in London.
Mill Hill Lecture by Gerhard Wagner on Wed 13 June 2012
28 May 2012
Gerhard Wagner from Harvard Medical School will give a Mill Hill Lecture on Wednesday 13 June 2012 at 4.15pm. The title of the lecture is NMR studies of membrane proteins in different membrane mimics.
London sequencing experts join together for RNA-seq meeting
24 May 2012
A meeting of the London Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) group took place at NIMR on Thursday April 26th.
Opposing guidance cues on positioning cell clusters
24 May 2012
Scientists at NIMR have shown that two different signals act as opposing guidance cues in collective cell migration. This work is published in Development.
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