astronomy

Lori Passmore

Lori Passmore is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Lori Passmore rather than just read about it. In short: Lori Anne Passmore is a Canadian/British cryo electron microscopist and structural biologist who works at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) at the University of Cambridge. Since 2024 she has served as Joint Head of the LMB's Structural Studies Division.

Key takeaways

Lori Passmore belongs to astronomy; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Lori Passmore to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Lori Passmore from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Lori Anne Passmore is a Canadian/British cryo electron microscopist and structural biologist who works at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) at the University of Cambridge. Since 2024 she has served as Joint Head of the LMB's Structural Studies Division. She is known for her work on multiprotein complexes involved in gene expression and development of new supports for cryo-EM.

Education 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.

Career and research Passmore worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the MRC-LMB. She worked with Venki Ramakrishnan and Richard Henderson, using cryo-EM to determine the structure of the eukaryotic ribosome bound to initiation factors. Passmore became a group leader at the MRC-LMB in 2009. Her group uses in vitro reconstitution, biochemical assays and cryo-EM to understand the function of multiprotein complexes that regulate gene expression at the level of mRNA. Her group has developed new sample grids for cryo-EM that reduce specimen movement during imaging. In collaboration with Ketan J. Patel, Passmore is also actively studying the molecular mechanisms underlying Fanconi anemia.

Grants, awards and honours 2005 Beit Memorial Fellowship for Medical Research 2009 Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge 2010 European Research Council (ERC) starting grant 2015 EMBO Young Investigator Program 2016 Suffrage Science award 2017 ERC consolidator grant 2018 Member, European Molecular Biology Organisation (EMBO) 2023 Elected Fellow of the Royal Society

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Lori Passmore

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Lori Passmore claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Lori Passmore before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Lori Passmore ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Lori Passmore

In research: Lori Passmore appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Lori Passmore in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Lori Passmore is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Alumni of the University of London, Fellows of Clare Hall, Cambridge, Fellows of the Royal Society, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Lori Passmore outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Lori Passmore in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Lori Passmore means in your own words.
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Frequently asked questions

What is Lori Passmore in simple terms?

Why does Lori Passmore matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Lori Passmore?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Lori Passmore.