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2012 news
May
- New candidates for anti-malaria and anti-leishmaniasis drugs
- The impact of endogenous retroviruses on antiviral immunity
- Quantitative Biology Interest Group
- 1st Crick Symposium
- A new tool for protein functional analysis
April
- Regulating the extension and branching of axons in the cerebral cortex
- Automating the measurement of cell movements
- Outcome of the Institute review
- Summer School student wins award
March
- Troy Margrie to head the Division of Neurophysiology
- A drug target in the second most important cause of malaria
- An important meiotic quality control mechanism is not conserved in birds
- Two new programmes in infectious disease
February
- A missing link between DNA repair and cell-cycle regulation
- Mammalian forebrain interneurons maintain plasticity
January
- T cells provide protective interleukin 10 in malaria infection
- Apply now for a Sandwich placement at NIMR
- A key developmental and stem cell regulator also acts in tumorigenesis
- Gene network that builds tissues revealed
- Quantitative imaging of metabolism: seeing is believing
- Platelets influence the formation of lymphatic vessels
- An unexpected mechanism of FHA function in DNA-repair signalling
- A protein from blood vessels in the brain enhances production of new neurons
- Long-term experience-dependent plasticity in an endocrine system
- John Wills awarded an MBE
2011 news
December
- How compensatory evolution leads to multi-drug-resistant TB
- Shedding of surface protein helps malaria parasite evade antibodies
November
- IL7 - License to live: how training can improve your chances of survival
- ADP is a universal signal of low energy in cells
- Mill Hill Lecture by Helen Saibil on Wed 16 November 2011
- Crystal structure reveals unusual enzyme activity of HIV-1 restriction factor
- RNA regulatory networks in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
October
- Vitamin D deficiency associates strongly with tuberculosis in Cape Town
- Wellcome Trust New Investigator award for Troy Margrie
- Robin Lovell-Badge comments on stem cell patent ruling
- Crick Institute time capsule
- Eat your broccoli
- NIMR PhD student shortlisted in Wellcome writing contest
- Towards a better understanding of lung inflammation
- NIMR scientists in the news
- Mill Hill Lecture by Zhijian (James) Chen on Wed 12 October 2011
- Crick scientists meet to discuss work and future
September
- The battle to define embryonic territories
- Frontiers in Chemical Biology
- Government response to Select Committee report on The Crick
August
- Mill Hill Lecture by Yves-Alain Barde on Wed 21 September 2011
- Neurogenic potential of glial cells in the gut of adult animals
- Cell survival depends on relative Wnt signalling
- Malaria in the field
- The selfish brain
- The onset of Y RNA-dependent DNA replication in Xenopus laevis
July
- An antibody that binds to group 1 and group 2 influenza A haemagglutinin
- Wnt genes coordinate liver and pancreas organogenesis
- Report on animals containing human material
- NIMR scientists honoured by the Royal Society
- NIMR postdoc wins UCL Neuroscience Early Career Prize
- Motif selectivity and mitotic signaling
June
- The Crick Institute
- Mapping gene activity
- A cause of pituitary tumours
- James Lovelock wins lifetime achievement award
May
- UKCMRI renamed as The Francis Crick Institute
- Select Committee report on UKCMRI published
- Steve Gamblin elected to Fellowship of the Royal Society
- Gender differences in aneuploidy explained
April
- Two more universities to join UKCMRI
- SHARPIN – a novel component of a linear ubiquitin ligase complex
- London Heart Development meeting 2011
- The Trim5α binding site involves the whole capsid surface
March
- How newborn neurons migrate
- Different TB strains elicit different immune responses
- NIMR sandwich student success
- NIMR helps Jamie’s Dream School
- Bridging single-cell physiology, genetics and connectomics
- NIMR voted one of the best places for postdocs to work
February
- Signals from fat tissue stimulate nervous system growth
- Erythrocyte invasion by malaria parasites
- Regulating the fate of axial stem cells
- MRC business case for UKCMRI is approved
- British Xenopus Meeting 2011
- Flybow – multicolour cell-labelling in Drosophila
January
- A more detailed analysis of Th17 cells
- London Mayor backs UKCMRI
- Steve Gamblin awarded Feldberg Foundation prize for 2012
- Sixty years of immunology at NIMR - podcast
- Hypoxia provides a clue to BCG vaccine effectiveness
- Mill Hill Lecture by Onora O’Neill on Wed 12 January
- UKCMRI plans approved
2010 news
December
- Parasite invasion and replication
- Replaying the evolution of mammalian sex determination
- Signaling conundrums solved
- Sex chromosome silencing and infertility
- NIMR hosts University of the Third Age meeting
November
- Mill Hill Lecture by Robin Irvine on Wed 1st December 2010
- Chronic infection maintains immunological memory in malaria
- Bob Cox - fifty years at NIMR
- The organization of growth hormone cells affects secretory output
- WHO Influenza Centre interim report Sep 2010 published
- Don Williamson (1930-2010)
- UKCMRI is formally established
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