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2013 news
May
- Mill Hill Lecture by Mark Krasnow on Wed 22 May 2013
- NIMR to be a pilot site for Athena SWAN project
- A spumaviral Gag-Env complex
- What controls egress of the malaria parasite from infected red blood cells?
- A better way to find biomarkers in infectious disease
- Alex Gould elected to Academy of Medical Sciences
- Two more Fellows of the Royal Society
April
- How pandemic flu viruses gain the ability to infect humans
- A better method for recombinant protein production
- Regulatory pathways involved in mitotic exit
- Robert Edwards (1925-2013)
- Obesity study shows involvement of inflammation and a factor made by white blood cells
- Michael Sargent (1943-2013)
March
- Mouse development consortium wins £5m Wellcome Trust Strategic Award
- A new genetic tool for studying malaria
- Jim Smith awarded the Waddington Medal
- Mill Hill Lecture by Edith Heard on Wed 24 April 2013
- Genes that control the connectivity of enteric neurons
- Th17 cells are essential for intestinal homeostasis
- Mill Hill Lecture by Wes Sundquist on Wed 13 March 2013
- Insights into vertebrate evolution, from the sea lamprey
February
- Receptor cross-talk controls B cell survival
- Summer studentship projects
- Neuronal subtype determined by graded activity of the transcription factor Ascl1
- Mill Hill Lecture by Chris Schofield on Wed 6 March 2013
- Brigitte Askonas (1923-2013)
- Schools’ Days 2013
- Hepcidin’s role in malaria
- Mill Hill Lecture by Susan Gasser on Wed 13 February 2013
January
- Ipsen prize for Tim Bliss
- Gitta Stockinger awarded 2014 Feldberg Foundation Prize
- Guy Dodson, 1937-2012
- Evolution of influenza virus binding receptors
- Mill Hill Lecture by Carol Robinson on Wed 23 January 2013
- NIMR Alumni group established
- MRC Centenary videos feature NIMR
- NIMR Human Biology Essay Competition 2013 is now open
- A novel set of mycobacterial antigens
- Culture and transfection of an emerging malaria pathogen
2012 news
December
- Paul Burgoyne retirement symposium
- An AC/DC circuit for developmental biology
- Apply now for a 2013 Sandwich placement at NIMR
- A new link between p27 and stem cell biology
- Plasma proteomics provides better insight into severe childhood malaria
November
- Tony Barrett 1938-2012
- Wingless, the main Drosophila Wnt, is loaded on exosomes
- Two new programmes in infections and immunity
- Sequencing sheds new light on malaria parasites
- Regulating an RNA switch for cellular differentiation
- Transcription factor has key role in development of cortical interneurons
- MRC Centenary Early Career Award winners
October
- Sex chromosome conflict
- A weakened immune system leads to retroviral awakening
- London Down Syndrome consortium awarded £2.5 million for research
- NIMR research featured in MRC Annual Review 2011-12
September
- Mike Gaze (1927-2012)
- Research Summer School students gain confidence and skills
- PhD projects available
- Unique enzyme controls malaria parasite development - shape, movement and invasion
- NIMR Human Biology Essay Competition 2012 - results
- A new animal model for SIDS
- Vitamin D speeds up TB recovery
August
- Kenyan fieldwork helps to advance malaria research
- 2012 U3A meeting at NIMR
- Animal technicians experiences
- Sandwich and school student experiences
- Programme Leader experiences
July
- Research support manager experiences
- Neil Brown (1929-2012)
- PhD student experiences
- NIMR research featured in MRC Annual Report and Accounts 2011-12
- Neuronal biophysical diversity is an emergent property of brain circuit organization
- New mosquito insectary at NIMR
- Postdoctoral scientist experiences
- Mill Hill Essays 2011-12 published
- Senior appointments at The Crick
- An interview with Alex Gould
- Targeting axons to a synaptic layer
- Programme leader track experiences
- Two NIMR essayists on Max Perutz longlist
June
- Novel X-inactivation RNA discovered
- Two Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Awards
- High-throughput experimental technique interest group
- How to discriminate between active and latent TB
May
- Protein evolution
- The Crick postdoc retreat
- Tim Bliss will give the Royal Society Croonian Lecture 30 May
- Mill Hill Lecture by Gerhard Wagner on Wed 13 June 2012
- London sequencing experts join together for RNA-seq meeting
- Opposing guidance cues on positioning cell clusters
- 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
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