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26 Oct 2019: This photo for day 299 of #LMB365 shows some of the LMB’s Domestic Services team celebrating James’ birthday. The LMB has many long-term members of staff and these 3 between them have racked up over 50 years of loyal service.

24 Aug 2019: Day 236 of #LMB365,taken by Neil Grant in the LMB’s Visual Aids team, shows the geometric patterns and reflections that can be seen when exploring the exterior of the LMB building on a sunny day.

18 Nov 2019: Day 322 of #LMB365 shows Li Jin and Christine Hilcenko setting up their stand at the LMB for a charity cake sale in support of The Raymond Nicolet Trust. The sale achieved an amazing £178 that will fully go to support educational establishments in

29 Dec 2019: On day 363 of #LMB365 we bring you a beautiful sunset captured from the LMB's restaurant area overlooking the nearby housing and park developments. Having such a view while in the Restaurant is an inspiration to all and we hope our images during

8 Jan 2019: Orbital lights in the LMB Library @LMB_Library for day 8 of #LMB365, welcoming scientists, students and staff to a quiet and relaxing part of the building where they can find resources and write up papers and thesis away from the buzz of the labs

10 Mar 2019: On day 70 of #LMB365 we find the LMB PhD students celebrating a night out at a formal hall at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. The Graduate Student Association organises several opportunities for socialising like this throughout the term.

30 Nov 2019: This image for day 334 of #LMB365 shows members of the LMB research support staff who met recently to discuss and work on their Professional Registration applications. Professional Registration is just one aspect of the Technician Commitment,

23 Oct 2019: The annual Perutz Student Prize has been awarded recently and the winners photographed in the Max Perutz Lecture Theatre under Max’s watchful eye as recorded here on day 296 of #LMB365 by Anne Bertolotti. Watch this space to find out about the

9 Sep 2019: Day 252 of #LMB365 shows the LMB’s Research Office who had an awesome team day recently and visited the LMB’s animal facility. They learned more about the work carried out there and how the mice are cared for.

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.

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!

30 Oct 2019: Day 303 of #LMB365 is a photograph from Madeline Lancaster’s group in the Cell Biology Division of brain organoids bathing in a nutrient rich broth that helps them to grow and develop. Their large size means you can see them with your bare eye.

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…

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.

13 Oct 2019: Day 286 of #LMB365 shows the developing Cambridge Biomedical Campus taken by Paul Margiotta from the nearby Nine Wells nature reserve. The LMB’s plant towers can be seen between the Anne McLaren Facility (left) and the Royal Papworth Hospital (blue

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

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

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.

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!

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.

7 Jan 2019: #LMB365 day 7 features an LMB Nobel Laureate @NobelPrize. John Walker was born on this day in Yorkshire in 1941. He was awarded the 1997 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on the elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

15 Jul 2019: This shot of the LMB for day 196 of #LMB365 was taken by Oleksiy Kovtun. It was taken from Hobson’s Park at Great Kneighton and you can see the top of a train travelling between London and Cambridge past the building

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

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.

12 Aug 2019: Day 224 of #LMB365 shows the first cruise undertaken by an #LMBee. It enjoyed visiting locations around the Mediterranean including Barcelona, Malta, Sicily and Genoa in the company of Danny Leader. Who knew you could have so much fun with a cuddly

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

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…

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

4 Aug 2019: Day 216 of #LMB365 shows a brain organoid, grown by Madeline Lancaster’s group in Cell Biology, seen down a microscope. This one has been injected with a blue dye to visualise the fluid-filled cavities that are similar to the ventricles of the

8 Jul 2019: Day 189 of #LMB365 shows sections of cerebral organoids labelled with markers of neuroepithelial cells, neuronal progenitors and cortical neurons. Laura Pellegrini in Madeline Lancaster’s group in Cell Biology uses organoids to study how cortical

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 Feb 2019: In day 52 of #LMB365 rays of light from the setting sun pierce passing rainclouds to shine brightly on the LMB. This endlessly changing view from a nearby cyclepath inspires many LMBers every morning and evening as they cycle to the Cambridge

16 Mar 2019: Day 76 of #LMB365 is an image of synchronous nuclear divisions in the fruit fly embryo captured by David Salvador-Garcia in Simon Bullock’s lab in the LMB’s Cell Biology Division. David is studying how chromosome segregation is co-ordinated by

10 Sep 2019: As the model organismC. elegansis transparent we can use it to look at subcellular organelles and use fluorescent protein tags to study different processes. This image for day 253 of #LMB365 shows two different organelles labelled with green and

8 Jun 2019: This image for day 160 of #LMB365 is a Drosophila melanogaster embryo showing the embryonic nervous system. Fluorescent labels correspond to microtubules (yellow) and nuclei (red). Image by Yara Sanchez-Corrales in Katja Röper’s group in the Cell