The CrickConnect team are delighted to be able to invite community members to join us for the institute's regular Crick Lecture.

Crick Lectures provide a broad insight into biomedical research from leading scientists. Not to be missed, the one-hour lectures are the event of the week for the Crick community to come together. The lectures aim to be accessible to scientists across different disciplines, while also offering something for the specialist.

This week we are delighted to welcome winner of the 2024 Feldberg Prize, Professor Martin Beck from the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics to give a special Crick lecture "Solving a 3D jigsaw with 1000 pieces - structure and function of the nuclear pore complex"

There will also be an opportunity to catch up with colleagues and friends over refreshments after the Lecture from 17:00. If you are able to join us in person at the Crick please let us know at connect@crick.ac.uk so we can arrange access.

Martin Beck

Martin Beck studied Biochemistry at the Martin Luther University Halle/Wittenberg. He did his PhD studies with Wolfgang Baumeister at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried. In 2006 he moved to Ruedi Aebersold’s laboratory at the Institute of Molecular Systems Biology at ETH Zurich for his postdoctoral training. Martin was a research group leader at EMBL Heidelberg from 2010-2020, and since 2019 has stood as director at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics in Frankfurt.

In eukaryotes, the genetic information is concealed into the nucleus that shields it from the cellular surroundings. Martin's research focuses on nucleocytoplasmic transport, i.e., how molecules are transported in and out of the nucleus. His laboratory has pioneered integrative, in situ structural biology techniques to study the structure, function, assembly and turnover of nuclear pore complexes in their native environment. They elucidated the scaffold architecture of the human nuclear pore, visualized nuclear pore dilation and constriction movements inside of cells and discovered a maternal biogenesis pathway that inherits nuclear pores to the early embryo. Martin is a member of EMBO. His work has been awarded the starting,consolidator and advanced grants of the European Research Council.