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31 Oct 2019: Day 304 of #LMB365 shows a model of the 70S ribosome, printed by Mark Hoelzer at 3D Molecular Designs. The atomic co-ordinates were provided by Venki Ramakrishnan, who shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath for

22 Oct 2019: Day 295 of #LMB365 shows the structure of a human GABAA receptor in a membrane nanodisc, bound to alprazolam/Xanax, solved in Radu Aricescu's group. GABAA receptors are essential for brain function and also targets for major clinical drugs including

6 Nov 2019: This image for day 310 of #LMB365 shows one of the four plate pouring machines used daily by the LMB’s dedicated Media Prep team. Each machine is used to pour both standard and specially requested plates and in total the LMB uses over 200,000

15 Sep 2019: On day 258 of#LMB365ina break between experiments, LMB scientists get competitive at table football in one of the communal spaces across the building. The table was purchased by crowd-funding within the LMB over 5 years ago and is still going strong!

10 Aug 2019: On day 222 of #LMB365 is a lovely pyramid orchid that has been blooming in the wildflower areas around the LMB. This one, in the drainage ditch verge, adds a bright pop of colour on the way to work

10 Jul 2019: The LMB canteen recently supported Cupcake Day to raise funds for the Alzheimer’s Society. Day 191 of #LMB365 shows some of the cakes they baked, which helped raise £51.20 for this worthy cause.

10 Nov 2019: It’s not every day a steam train goes past the LMB. Day 314 of #LMB365 shows the 61306 Mayflower on a recent trip from London. Mayflower is a B1 Class locomotive and was built in 1948 by the North British Locomotive Company in Glasgow for the

1 Oct 2019: Working at the LMB isn't all about science. One of our administrative staff submitted this image for day 274 of #LMB365. The excellent work of the administrative and facility staff is crucial in facilitating the ground-breaking science that takes

26 Sep 2019: Day 269 of #LMB365 is a photo peering in on a low energy plasma chamber built in the LMB Workshops with Chris Russo from the Structural Studies Division. Plasmas such as these are used to modify the support grids used for imaging proteins in cryoEM

3 Jul 2019: This photo for day 184 of #LMB365 was taken by Ben Phillips when leaving work at sunset on the summer solstice, when most people had already gone home for the night. Amazing colours and reflections…

25 Jun 2019: Some experiments require pipetting into huge numbers of tubes. On day 176 of #LMB365, Christina Heroven and Patricia Brown had to divide their protein samples into more than 80 tubes of 100 microliters each!

15 Dec 2019: Day 349 of #LMB365 shows some of the LMB’s dedicated crafters running their Christmas stall to raise funds for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust. Many of the items for sale were crocheted, knitted or embroidered and members of the LMB purchased lots of

17 Feb 2019: The LMB’s Graduate Student Association meets weekly for tea and cake in the canteen. Day 49 of #LMB365 shows a recent gathering of PhD students who are clearly enjoying the sugar rush before returning to their experiments.

25 Oct 2019: During the last year, over 4,500 initial crystallisation screens were used at the LMB to test macromolecular samples of interest. Further screens are often required for optimisation purposes. The corresponding trays containing the crystallisation

9 Oct 2019: On day 282 of #LMB365 Fred Sanger gets in the party mood for the second of his Nobel Prizes for Chemistry. Pictured with then LMB Director, Sydney Brenner, Fred was awarded the Nobel in 1958 and 1980. He is the only Briton to have won 2 Nobel Prizes

19 Jun 2019: On day 170 of #LMB365 this LMBee is hard at work on the Titan Krios microscope in the LMB’s EM Facility doing its bit to automate high-throughput data collection for cryo-EM.

2 Jan 2019: On Day 2 of #LMB365 we have a beautiful image by Katja Roeper @katjaroeper in the Cell Biology Division @CellBiol_MRCLMB showing an epithelial Caco2 cell monolayer labelled for a tight junction protein in blue and nuclei in red. Her lab uses this

26 Jan 2019: Day 26 of #LMB365 shows two scientists hard at work looking for a clear result from a late night Western blot. Sometimes data interpretation requires a bit of contrast coming from the light outside the LMB

11 Oct 2019: The LMB postgraduate students are a truly international and diverse community. Every year 20-30 new graduates from the UK and all over the world join the LMB PhD programme. This photo for day 284 of #LMB365 shows this year’s intake on their first

7 Oct 2019: Cheers! On day 280 of #LMB365 Venki Ramakrishnan celebrates his 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry in the LMB Restaurant. While the award is limited to three recipients, it is the collective work of many and Venki thanked his dedicated students and