Lori Passmore

Leader Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology

A cryo electron microscopist and structural biologist. She works at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) at the University of Cambridge; known for her work on multiprotein complexes involved in gene expression and development of new supports for cryo-EM.

Lori Passmore graduated from the University of British Columbia, Canada in 1999. She obtained a PhD in 2003 from University of London for research supervised by David Barford at the Institute of Cancer Research. She performed in vitro biochemical characterisation of the activity of the anaphase-promoting complex (APC)and used cryo-EM to study the APC structure.