Microscopes 4 Schools – a Lister-funded initiative inspiring school-age scientists
Microscopes 4 Schools is a community science project that introduces children to the microscopic wonders of the natural world. ...
27 November, 2023Microscopes 4 Schools is a community science project that introduces children to the microscopic wonders of the natural world. ...
27 November, 2023The studentships provide valuable support to the Fellows’ research and give students a chance to pursue a project of interest and gain a real-world insight into life as a scientist....
06 November, 2023Lister Fellows, friends and members of the committee met for two days of lectures, conversation and conviviality at Corpus Christi College, Oxford on September Thursday 7th and Friday 8th. ...
13 October, 2023Madan spoke with us about his current work as Director of the Centre for Excellence for Data Driven Discovery at St Judes Children’s Research Hospital in the USA, his time as a Lister Fellow, and his views on the importance of community in science. ...
28 September, 2023Lister Fellow Dr Srikanth Ramaswamy describes his experience receiving the Lister Prize, how he plans to use the funding, and what advice he’d give to a future applicant. ...
08 September, 20232022 Lister Prize Fellow Dr Marco Antonio welcomed guests to a seminar and presentation ceremony at the Chemistry Department of Imperial College London. ...
04 September, 2023On 11 July, 2022 Lister Prize Fellow Dr Elizabeth Ballou welcomed our Chair John Iredale and Director Sally Burtles to a celebratory event at the University of Exeter’s Medical Research Council Centre for Medical Mycology (MRC CMM). Elizabeth was formally presented with the Lister Prize and shared an update on her research with the assembled guests....
09 August, 2023Former Fellow Professor Muzlifah Haniffa, and current Fellow Dr Thomas Baden, joined the international network of over 2,000 members in recognition of their scientific excellence....
24 July, 2023Dr Amanda Chaplin received the Lister Prize in 2022. A year on, we catch up with her to learn more about her work and discover how the award will help her pursue her research goals....
30 June, 2023With the 2024 Prize shortly opening for applications, we are delighted to announce the researchers who have been awarded the 2023 Fellowship....
28 June, 2023We recently enjoyed Lister Fellowship Lectures from two of the 2022 cohort and a rather overdue one from 2020 Fellow, Dr Rebecca Lawson. These talks also coincided with some exciting news......
23 May, 2023Professor Robin May was appointed Chief Scientific Adviser (CSA) of the Food Standards Agency in July 2020. We sat down with him to find out more about this unique role....
02 May, 2023As a leading researcher in bipolar disorder, circadian science and population mental health research, Daniel will spearhead new research in these areas....
30 March, 2023We’re delighted to report that Dr Christopher Stewart joins the first cohort of the UK Young Academy, and Professor Tom Baden has recently been elected to the Board of Directors for the European Brain Council....
26 March, 2023Earlier this month, the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS) announced Dr Sarah Teichmann as the recipient of the FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award 2023....
27 February, 2023It is a great honour to run our annual Summer Studentships programme, which provides opportunities for undergraduates to experience working in a laboratory and to undertake their own research project – all whilst supporting additional support to our current and former Fellows!...
13 February, 2023Former Fellow, Professor Barry Potter, has been elected to an Honorary Fellowship of the British Pharmacological Society (BPS), the primary UK learned society concerned with research into drugs and their mechanism of action. ...
26 January, 2023The Lister is saddened to hear of the death of Edward Guinness CVO, who was a Governor from 1969 until his retirement from the board in June 2001. He died peacefully at home in Hertfordshire on 29th December....
19 January, 2023Professor John Iredale became the Lister Institute’s Chair in September 2022. A few months into the role, we caught up with him to hear his aspirations for his tenure....
11 January, 2023The highlight of our year, as ever, was in awarding the Lister Prizes to our Fellows! In 2022, we received 82 applications and were in a position to award eight Fellowships – a new record for us. ...
22 December, 2022Judith was invited to speak as a Special Guest on behalf of the Institute at a recent international microbiology conference about the links between Louis Pasteur and Joseph Lister....
16 December, 2022Stephan took a break from setting up for undergraduate admissions to speak to us about his experience of winning the 2020 Lister Prize....
30 November, 2022On November 22, the Microbiology Society announced its 2023 Prizes, and we were delighted to see Lister Fellows Dr Tanmay Bharat and Professor Ravi Gupta receive the accolade....
24 November, 2022Our new Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee, Professor Julian Blow, chats with us about the highlights of his role and the ongoing work to select 2023's new Fellows....
04 November, 2022Dr Christopher Stewart became a Lister Prize Fellow in 2021. We caught up with him after this year’s Lister Institute’s Annual Fellows Meeting to learn more about his work and life post-prize. ...
24 October, 2022The Annual Meeting is a fantastic opportunity for our members – including current and former Fellows, Governing Body members, Scientific Advisory Committee members, trustees, and staff – to unite in sharing and celebrating the work enabled by the Lister Institute. ...
11 October, 2022Research led by Lister Fellow Professor Sherif El-Khamisy over the past four years has just been published in Nature. ...
28 September, 2022We chat with Dr Cynthia Andoniadou to find out more about her work and the impact that the Lister Fellowship has had on her career to date....
06 September, 2022Former Lister Fellow and member of the Lister’s Scientific Advisory Group (SAC) Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz has grown a model mouse embryo from stem cells....
31 August, 2022Congratulations go out to Professor Barry Potter who recently received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Bath. ...
26 July, 2022As Professor Sir Alex Markham’s tenure as Chair comes to an end, he will be succeeded by Professor John Iredale. And in turn, Professor Julian Blow will replace John as Chair of our Scientific Advisory Committee....
13 July, 2022With the 2023 Prize shortly opening for applications, we are delighted to announce the researchers who have been awarded the 2022 Fellowship....
23 June, 2022Current Fellow Tim Blower publishes new paper revealing discovery of new family of BREX phage defence system regulators. Meanwhile, Professors Kate Storey and Paul Lehner are elected as Royal Society Fellows....
26 May, 20222021 Lister Fellow Professor Ravi Gupta and colleagues publish latest research into HIV drug resistance and separately, on understanding African vaccine responses. ...
11 May, 2022The Lister Institute visits Dublin to celebrate the success of Tomás Ryan and to encourage more researchers based in Irish institutions to apply for the Prize....
28 April, 2022Professor Muzlifah Haniffa and Dr Sarah Teichmann contributed to a recent paper in Nature Medicine, detailing how their research reveals more about infant B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (B-ALL)....
12 April, 2022We sat down with Stineke to find out what it was like to apply for – and win – the Prize as a new parent and during a global pandemic....
28 March, 2022Future applicants to the Lister Prize are welcomed and encouraged to explain how COVID-19 has affected them, their team, and their research. ...
08 March, 2022In 2021, 41 Lister Summer Studentships took place to help support the biomedical scientists of the future....
21 February, 2022Former Lister Fellow Professor Paul Lehner recently published a paper in Nature, which details his research into how the Human Silencing Hub (HUSH) complex protects the human genome from viruses and other retroelement invaders. ...
02 February, 2022Lister Fellow Tomás Ryan, of Trinity College Dublin, co-presents a new review paper that presents a novel theory of forgetting....
13 January, 2022In recent news, former member of the Scientific Advisory Committee, Professor Nick Lemoine, was awarded a CBE, and SAC Chair, Professor John Iredale, has been appointed interim Executive Chair of the Medical Research Council....
11 January, 2022We look forward to watching our Fellows expand their vital research and to continuing our support for them and the wider biomedical research community in 2022....
23 December, 2021Greatly delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, recent Prize talks have been a fantastic opportunity for the Lister to catch up with their promising young Fellows. ...
19 December, 2021Rob Klose’s lab has published an exciting new paper and Ragnhildur Thóra Káradóttir has authored two reviews. ...
30 November, 2021We explore recently published papers from Lister Fellows Dr Tim Blower and Dr Matt Hepworth....
01 November, 2021We explore papers published by Dr Erica Watson of the University of Cambridge, Dr Sebastian Guettler of the Institute of Cancer Research, and Professor Sherif al-Khamisy of the University of Sheffield. ...
20 October, 2021Valentina Spiteri excelled in her PhD under Professor Steve Perkins and former Scientific Advisory Committee member, Professor Corinne Houart, has been elected as an EMBO Member....
07 October, 2021The Annual Meeting is a fantastic opportunity for our members – including current and former Fellows, Governing Body members, Scientific Advisory Committee members, trustees, and staff – to unite in sharing and celebrating the work enabled by the Lister Institute. ...
27 September, 2021Serge Mostowy’s lab reveals potential new treatment for bacterial infections and Ross Chapman’s research describes mechanisms behind the repair of cancer-causing mutations....
20 September, 2021Melina Schuh publishes a new paper in Cell and James Nathan publishes in Nature Genetics....
24 August, 2021We share some exciting updates from Professor Pete Cullen and Dr Susana Godinho....
12 August, 2021Madan Babu was recently elected as a new Fellow for The Academy of Medical Sciences, and Frances Platt was elected as a new Fellow for the Royal Society....
15 July, 2021With the 2022 Prize shortly opening for applications, we are delighted to announce the researchers who have been awarded the 2021 Fellowship....
05 July, 2021When the COVID-19 pandemic began, the Human Cell Atlas team turned their attention to working out how the SARS-CoV-2 virus enters and interacts with human cells....
29 June, 2021Professor Michael Eddleston has recently been awarded a prestigious prize, recognising the impact of his work on suicide prevention in rural Asia....
15 June, 2021We spoke to 2020 Fellow Dr Hayley Sharpe about what it was like to apply for – and win – the Prize during a global pandemic and how she’s using the funding to propel her research forward....
24 May, 2021Lister Fellow Dr Simon Bullock has recently published a new research paper in Science Advances, which suggests the cellular mechanism behind the devastating neurodegenerative diseases frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and motor neuron disease....
14 May, 2021We are absolutely delighted to share the news that two scientists associated with the Lister Institute have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh....
27 April, 2021We caught up with Dr Tim Blower to talk about what winning the Fellowship meant to him and to find out how he’s using the funding to expand research in his lab....
19 April, 2021Currently Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Glasgow, Daniel will soon move to become Head of the Division of Psychiatry within the Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences at the University of Edinburgh....
23 March, 2021This new finding could help scientists develop treatments for diseases associated with ageing, such as cancer and dementia. ...
04 March, 2021Lister Prize Fellow Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri has been awarded the prestigious Hans Sigrist Prize for 2020, for her work in reproductive physiology....
25 February, 2021Dr Lawson's lab has identified that the brain chemical noradrenaline drives our response to uncertain situations - helping us to learn quickly and adapt our behaviour....
08 February, 2021Everyone at the Lister wishes our former administrator, Naomi, a very happy retirement!...
26 January, 2021Professor Wendy Anne Bickmore has been awarded a CBE for services to biomedical sciences and to women in science in the New Year’s Honours list. ...
12 January, 2021We bid farewell to 2020 and the successes achieved by the Lister and its Fellows in the past year....
21 December, 2020We take a look back on the Summer Studentships that still went ahead in 2020....
17 December, 2020Lister Fellow Madan Babu has joined St. Jude Children's Research Hospital as endowed chair in biological data science....
21 November, 2020Find out more about the election of two Lister Fellows to the Academy of Medical Sciences....
14 November, 2020Lister Fellow Professor Dino Giussani publishes new research on preterm infant therapies....
24 October, 2020Find out more about this interesting new research on interactions between microtubules and filamentous (F-) actin....
16 October, 2020Find out more about Dr Chapman's important new research on breast cancer cells....
25 September, 2020Three Lister Fellows have been elected to the Royal Society in 2020 - find out more here....
13 September, 2020Find out more about a prestigious new award given to the Baden Lab at the University of Sussex...
23 August, 2020Find out more about our newest crop of research prize fellows for 2020....
09 August, 2020Find out more about our 2020 summer studentships and how to apply for 2021....
26 July, 2020Find out more about Professor Robin May's new role....
06 July, 2020We are very pleased to announce that the 2021 Lister Institute research prize applications are now open....
29 June, 2020Find out more about Professor Anne Straube's new webinar series that is bringing together experts from across the world....
17 June, 2020Find out more about Professor Jackson's recent election to this prestigious global research body....
26 May, 2020We are delighted to report that Professor Sir Adrian Bird has been awarded the world-renowned 2020 Brain Prize - find out more about his research here....
14 May, 2020Find out more about Professor Baden's prestigious new award....
23 April, 2020Find out more about Lister Fellow Professor Muzlifah Haniffa's prestigious recent award...
13 April, 2020A statement from the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine on the Covid-19 pandemic....
26 March, 2020It is hoped that the new research could help inform new therapies for several diseases in the future....
11 March, 2020Lister Fellow Yanlan Mao has recently been awarded two prestigious early career achievements....
25 February, 2020Lister Fellow Dr Madan Babu has been awarded the 2019 EMBO Gold Medal - find out more here....
12 February, 2020We are very pleased to introduce 2019 Lister Fellow Dr Joanne Konkel from the University of Manchester....
27 January, 2020Find out more about the work of 2019 Lister Fellow Dr Will McEwan who studies the relationship between protein assemblies and neurodegenerative disease...
20 January, 2020Merry Christmas, happy holidays and a happy new year from all at the Lister Institute....
24 December, 2019We are very pleased to introduce 2019 Lister Fellow Dr Michelle Linterman of the Babraham Institute....
12 December, 2019Find out more about our new summer studentships for 2020 in association with the Microbiology Society....
02 December, 2019We are very pleased to introduce you to one of our 2019 Lister Fellows, Dr Ross Chapman....
25 November, 2019Find out more about Dr Tim Blower - a 2019 Lister Fellow undertaking important new research on bacteriophages....
17 November, 2019Every year the Lister Institute community gathers for our annual event, AGM and to award the latest crop of research prize Fellows. Find out more about this year's event right here....
09 November, 2019Find out more about the work of our valued community in this latest roundup of recent achievements, funding awards and new papers....
31 October, 2019Find out more about some of the recent research achievements and other professional updates from the Lister community....
16 October, 2019Discover some of the recent news and awards from the Lister community...
08 September, 2019Find out more about Lister Fellow Tom Baden's recent award shortlist....
20 August, 2019We are pleased to announce that Lister Fellow Aga Gambus has been awarded a Wellcome Investigator Award....
06 August, 2019Lister Fellow Anne Straube has contributed to significant new research into the fastest molecule present in the human nervous system....
22 July, 2019We are delighted to announce that three Lister Fellows have been recognised for the quality of their work by EMBO....
27 June, 2019Find out more about the work of Dr Amanda Sferruzzi-Perri of the Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge....
23 May, 2019Find out more about the Lister Institute website....
14 May, 2019Find out more about Dr. Tom Baden's work in neuroscience at the Baden Lab....
26 April, 2019We are pleased to announce that Lister Institute Fellow Sebastian Guettler has received a prestigious Wellcome Trust Investigator Award - find out more here....
13 April, 2019A new feature on Lister Fellow Professor Serge Mostowy was recently published by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine....
24 March, 2019Heart disease risks can bring in pregnancy indicates new research by Lister Fellow Dino Giussani....
11 March, 2019Find out more about Lister Fellow Professor Daniel Smith's important research in Nature Neuroscience on depression....
26 February, 2019Find out more about Lister Fellow Dr. Susana Godinho's latest published research on the ‘neighbouring effect’ in cancer cells....
10 February, 2019Lister Institute Fellow Serge Mostowy recently published an important new paper on the ability of septin cages to combat superbugs - find out more here....
30 January, 2019Lister Fellow Dr. Sophie Helaine publishes a new article in Science discussing exciting new developments in the research of bacterial 'persister' cells, and how they affect macrophages in the body....
16 January, 2019Find out more about a new paper published by Lister Fellow Dr. David Komander on effector proteins....
19 December, 2018Find out more about Oliver Billker's important new position at Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden...
05 December, 2018Find out more about 2018 Lister Fellow, Dr. Yanlan Mao....
28 November, 2018Professor Barry Potter wins the 2018 Tu Youyou Award....
14 November, 2018We are delighted to announce the expansion of our highly popular Summer Studentship scheme - discover how we are building the next generation of biomedical researchers in the UK and Republic of Ireland....
30 October, 2018Find out more about Lister Fellow Dr M. Madan Babu's new paper in Science Signaling entitled Cells alter their tRNA abundance to selectively regulate protein synthesis during stress conditions....
09 October, 2018Former Lister Fellow Andrew King has been elected as a fellow of the Royal Society for his excellent research. Find out more here....
20 September, 2018Find out how Simon Draper helped to educate the public on how malaria vaccines are developed at the Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition 2018....
05 September, 2018Find out more about one of the Lister Institute's most recent Fellows - Dr. Matt Hepworth from the University of Manchester....
21 August, 2018Professor Sherif El-Khamisy recently published a paper in Cell Reports on how deubiquitylase activity helps maintain balance in DNA repair processes....
09 August, 2018Find out more about the work of M. Madan Babu - an award-winning researcher and valued Lister Fellow....
24 July, 2018Announcing the launch of the 2019 Lister Institute research prize applications....
17 July, 2018Find out more about Lister Fellow Professor Daniel Smith's prestigious new research funding form the Medical Research Council (MRC) to investigate new approaches to using data science in healthcare research....
09 July, 2018Find out more about Lister Fellow and one of the Journal of Cell Science's 'cell scientists to watch' 2018 - Susana Godinho....
25 June, 2018Discover more about the seven talented new Lister Fellows who have been awarded research funding in 2018....
18 June, 2018Find out more about our annual Fellows' meeting this September....
14 June, 2018Find out more about the new members of the Lister Institute's experienced Scientific Advisory Committee....
20 May, 2018Discover more about the important work of Lister Fellow Professor Victoria Cowling, Head of The Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression....
03 May, 2018Find out more about Lister Fellow Serge Mostowy and his team's ground-breaking work on the nature of infection....
06 April, 2018Lister Fellow David Komander recently published a number of papers in Nature on his research into the ubiquitin system and similar areas....
29 March, 2018Find out more about the Protein Contacts Atlas - an innovative new directory featuring visual representations of over 100,000 biomolecules....
20 March, 2018Distinguished Lister Fellow Professor David Lyons publishes in Nature Neuroscience on how calcium ions can affect myelin sheath formation....
13 March, 2018We are delighted to announce that this year the Lister Institute’s competitive research prizes have received the highest number of applications since the awards’ inception....
01 March, 2018We are delighted to report that in October 2017 Lister Institute Fellow Professor Michael Eddleston was awarded the Cullen Medal by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh....
22 February, 2018Find out more about the newly updated Lister Institute website, and discover how we are helping to support the UK and Republic of Ireland's biomedical research community....
22 February, 2018In parts of rural Asia self-poisoning using agricultural pesticides is a serious issue. It has been estimated that up to 89% of all suicides from pesticide self-poisoning worldwide occur in the Asian and Western Pacific regions, and pesticide ingestion is recognised by the World Health Organization (WHO)...
15 August, 2017We are pleased to announce that a Lister Institute research prize fellow Professor Sherif El-Khamisy has led a paper that was recently published in the prestigious Nature Neuroscience....
10 August, 2017Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys has been made a Companion of Honour in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours 2017....
05 July, 2017Professor Cooper is currently Professor of Rheumatology and Director of the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit; Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton; and Professor of Epidemiology at the Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, University of Oxford....
06 May, 2016Professor Houart completed her undergraduate and PhD studies at the University of Brussels where she studied hepatic gene regulation in development and cancer....
06 May, 2016Wendy Bickmore is Director of the MRC Human Genetics Unit, part of the MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine at the University of Edinburgh....
06 November, 2013Former Lister Prize Fellow, Prof. Dan Davis, has written a popular-level book about immunology, entitled The Compatibility Gene (published by Penguin books)....
23 September, 2013Currently at the University of Glasgow Lister Institute Prize Fellow Professor Nia Bryant has been promoted to Chair of Cell Biology at the University of York....
23 September, 2013Former Fellows, Professor Judith Armitage, University of Oxford and Dr Phillip Hawkins, The Babraham Institute, have been elected Fellows of the Royal Society in 2013....
04 June, 2013Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald has recently been elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and awarded an NIHR professorship to continue her translational work on identifying patients at risk for cancer of the oesophagus through molecular abnormalities...
04 June, 2013Molecular motors have critical roles in trafficking of organelles and macromolecules within the cytoplasm, and aberrant motor function has been implicated in diseases such as neurodegeneration....
12 November, 2012Disruption to myelin contributes to the symptoms of numerous devastating conditions of the nervous system, including the demyelinating disease multiple sclerosis,...
07 November, 2012DNA fingerprinting has become an indelible part of society, helping to prove innocence or guilt in criminal cases, resolving immigration arguments and clarifying paternity. Its inventor, Professor Sir Alec Jeffreys, University of Leicester, looks back at how it began....
06 November, 2012