23 May 2012. 1pm-2pm. Dr Sjors Scheres, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology.

25 May 2012. Talk 1: The Gut Microbiome: Fat or Thin? Talk 2: The evolution of the RubisCO protein is mediated by a stability-activity trade-off model

13 June 2012. 1pm-2pm. Dr Ramanujan Hegde, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research. Title to be announced.

We are delighted to announce that on 19 April 2012 Professor Gabriel Waksman was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society.

A new ISMB commentary by Dr Michael Gross and Dr Carolyn Moores is available for this article. The original article was published in the 13 April 2012 issue of Cell.

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