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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

15 Aug 2019: It is generally thought that abnormal proteins aggregate, the aggregates get ubiquitinated, and this leads to their degradation by autophagy or the

9 Jan 2019: On day 9 of #LMB365 we have an image by @katjaroeper in Cell Biology @CellBiol_MRCLMB of a Drosophila embryo viewed during the process of dorsal closure. Katja’s group uses Drosophila to understand organ formation and the cell-cell adhesion

4 Jan 2019: Microscopes at the ready on day 4 of #LMB365. These microscopes are used in the Cell Biology Division @CellBiol_MRCLMB for looking at Dictyostelium discoideum, a species of soil-living amoeba, which is one of the model organisms used at the LMB.

20 Mar 2019: LMB scientists often give talks to explain their research for members of the public. For day 80 of #LMB365 we see Liz Miller contributing to the Cambridge Science Festival and describing how cells police their proteins to make sure that they are

22 Dec 2019: As we celebrate the winter solstice, day 356 of #LMB365 shows John O’Neill’s group on an outing to visit the Corpus Clock in Cambridge. Sitting atop the clock is an extraordinary monster: the ‘Chronophage’ meaning Eater of Time. John’s

10 Dec 2019: On this day each year the Nobel Prize award ceremony and banquet is held. To celebrate this, day 344 of #LMB365 shows a very rare collection of Nobel Prize Medals awarded to members of the LMB, together with champagne bottles signed by some Nobel

23 May 2019: As the sun comes out on day 144 of LMB365 Andrew McKenzie and members of his group in the LMB's PNAC Division take advantage of the LMB's garden to discuss recent findings.

2 Jun 2019: It’s not every day an LMB Group Leader has a significant birthday, so John O’Neill’s group in Cell Biology surprised him with a molecularly crowded Happy Birthday on day 154 of #LMB365.

2 Jul 2019: This image for day 183 of #LMB365 is the surface of a Drosophila melanogaster embryo showing fluorescent markers of nuclei (magenta) and cell membranes (green) from Yara Sanchez-Corrales in Katja Röper’s group in the Cell Biology Division.

18 Dec 2019: Christmas came early for the LMB’s EM Facility as they took delivery of a new Glacios electron microscope. Day 352 of #LMB365 shows members of the Facility with one of the major components just after it was unloaded from the van. The microscope

19 Oct 2019: Day 292 of #LMB365 from Laura Pellegrini in Madeline Lancaster’s group shows a section of a cerebral organoid including a ventricular lobe, resembling the structure of the developing human cortex. It also shows an epithelial tissue named the

7 Apr 2019: Our building is comprised of more than 25,000 square metres of glass, inside and out. All this glass allows for stunning views of our surroundings and on day 98 of #LMB365, we look past the Director's suite at the sun setting over the nearby nature

7 Sep 2019: Day 250 of #LMB365 shows a recent repair to the LMB’s fire hydrant ring main that sprung a leak. The soil had to be excavated to expose the leak on a brass fitting. This was repaired by contractors working with the LMB’s Estates and Facilities

2 Sep 2019: This image for day 245 of #LMB365 is aview of the western end of the LMB taken by Ivan Rosa e Silva. The glass is cleaned annually which, on a lovely clear day, means all the reflections in the glass show off the beauty of the building.

15 Feb 2019: On day 47 of #LMB365 the LMB’s IT team have provided a photo of one of the 12 LMB comms rooms they maintain. These rooms deliver network services to scientists’ desktop machines via approximately 10,000 data outlets across the building.

24 Oct 2019: Day 297 of #LMB365 is a screenshot from our internal “Bee Cam”. It shows our resident beekeeper Geoff putting on a feeder of sugar syrup for the LMB’s bees to build up stores for the winter. The bees have also been treated for mites so

5 Mar 2019: On day 65 of #LMB365 the LMB joins Freda in 'Getting behind the Daffodil' during March to raise funds for the Marie Curie Daffodil Appeal because behind every daffodil, there is a story. Find out how much we raise at the end of the month…

18 Sep 2019: Every year or so the LMB takes a group photo of all the current PhD students. Photos in the LMB Archive go back to at least the 1990's. Day 261 of #LMB365 shows the current cohort posing for this year’s photo – watch this space for the actual