In 1959, The Journal of Molecular Biology launched its first issue, under the Editor-in-Chiefship of Sir John Kendrew. The journal served to help establish a new discipline and has been the venue for some of the most seminal findings in the field.

Please join us for a celebration of the 50th anniversary of JMB at the site of the journal's first office, Cambridge University, UK. On 1 October, 2009, the journal will host a free 50th anniversary symposium featuring lectures from selected members of the illustrious editorial board.

Registration

Attendance to the one-day event is free of charge, however all delegates must register online to secure a place.

Download

50 Years of Protein Structure Analysis
Bror Strandberg, Richard E. Dickerson and Michael G. Rossmann
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Podcast

Podcasts of interviews with the speakers of the forthcoming JMB 50th anniversary seminar.

Speakers

• Wolfgang Baumeister, Max Planck Institute fur Biochemie, Munich, Germany
  - Electron Cryomicroscopy: From Words to Literature

• Marlene Belfort, Ph.D. Wadsworth Center, New York
  - Stressed out retroelements on the move

• Aaron Klug, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
  - Zinc Finger Peptides for the Regulation of Gene Expression: Ten years on

• Sheena Radford, The Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, UK ‘
  - How well evolved is the folding code?

• Jonathan Weissman, University of California, San Francisco, USA
  - Genome-Wide In Vivo Analysis of Translation with sub-codon Resolution Using Ribosome Profiling

• Ian Wilson, Department of Molecular Biology and Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
  - Broad Neutralization of HIV-1 and Influenza Viruses by the Immune System