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6 Oct 2019: In 1982 Aaron Klug was the sole recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Day 279 of #LMB365 shows Aaron and his wife Liebe at the champagne celebration in the LMB Restaurant

12 Nov 2019: Fire safety is vitally important for the protection of our staff and facilities. This photo for day 316 of #LMB365 shows a recent hands-on staff training session on how, when and where to use fire extinguishers.

4 Nov 2019: Day 308 of #LMB365 shows two mysterious visitors who on the 31st of October gave LMB staff some grave reminders about the need for good posture. After all - a skeleton is for life, not just for Halloween…

21 Jun 2019: This impressionistic glimpse of the LMB on a sunny day for #LMB365 day 172 was created by Xiaohan Li. In LMBers' eyes, science can always be artistic.

15 Oct 2019: This photo for day 288 of #LMB365 shows some of the hundreds of parcels of varying types processed by the LMB Stores Team every day. These are then delivered to all departments across the LMB building.

9 Mar 2019: Day 69 of #LMB365 brings you the atrium of the LMB on a Sunday. Although all seems quiet, the labs are alive with activity as the progress of science marches on.

20 Nov 2019: This image for day 324 of #LMB365 shows a cryo-EM visualisation of a G protein-coupled receptor reconstituted into a lipid nanodisc and then coupled to beta-arrestin from Chris Tate’s group in the Structural Studies Division

11 Sep 2019: Day 254 of #LMB365 showsa reflection of the LMB in the nearby AstraZeneca building at sunset. We wonder whether they can see similar reflections of their building in the glass façade of our building?

30 Jan 2019: A beautiful crisp winter morning today on the Campus @CamBioCampus, with a scattering of snow. Still not enough to deter the LMB's cyclists on day 30 of #LMB365

7 Mar 2019: On day 67 of #LMB365 we celebrate International Women’s Day and the start of British Science Week with an image featuring some of the women working in science across the LMB.

28 May 2019: of the LMB and looked forward to the move to the new building.

13 Dec 2019: The LMB is simply having a wonderful Christmastime! Day 347 of #LMB365 shows the restaurant decked in festive finery, ready to welcome over 200 people for a delicious 3 course lunch with all the trimmings. Thank you to our amazing catering team

15 Nov 2019: The Electronics Workshop stocks an impressive array of electronic components and 'useful bits and pieces' as seen here on day 319 of #LMB365. They come in especially useful when a visiting contractor is short of something to finish a job.

14 Dec 2019: A Secret Santa gift of wine glass markers has been put to good use in the NMR facility on day 348 of #LMB365. These cute markers will help staff in the facility easily identify important samples, and bring a little festive spirit too!

9 Dec 2019: The technique of Hydrogen Deuterium exchange/Mass Spectrometry can be used to highlight regions of a protein's structure that change upon binding to another protein or ligand. Day 343 of #LMB365 shows a butterfly plot or chart, showing the

11 Nov 2019: On day 315 of #LMB365 we see the PDB Art Exhibition, currently on display in the LMB's atrium, in which students from local schools have produced amazing works of art inspired by protein structures. More close-ups to come…

28 Mar 2019: As the end of the financial year looms ever closer, LMBee has been lending a hand in the LMB’s finance office on day 88 of #LMB365. Hopefully LMBee has a good grasp of numbers…

7 Dec 2019: Day 341 of #LMB365 is a 3D printed model of a cerebral organoid, made by the LMB’s Technical Instrumentation Workshop. Madeline Lancaster’s lab in Cell Biology uses this for public outreach to help illustrate what brain organoids look like

24 Nov 2019: Day 328 of #LMB365 shows a view of the illuminated staircase from the LMB’s restaurant. The restaurant is situated on the top floor of the building, as it was in the original LMB building, and the staircase is always busy during the day.

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.

26 Nov 2019: This photo for day 330 of #LMB365 was taken by our Estates & Facilities Manager during one of his routine walks around the LMB site and shows some beautiful fungi that have come up in one of the flowerbeds outside the front of the LMB building.

28 Nov 2019: Although initially interested in an offer to stay on in the army, news of the plans for a new building for the MRC Unit tempted him to ask for his old ... He was largely responsible for the design and fitting out of the laboratories in the new

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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,

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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

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

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.