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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

16 Jan 2019: On day 16 of #LMB365 Laura Pellegrini @laupellegrini from Madeline Lancaster’s group @MinibrainLab in Cell Biology @CellBiol_MRCLMB has made a collage of human cerebral organoid ventricular buds. The ventricular buds are used to study the

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

14 Aug 2019: We have recently purchased a jet washer to help improve the external appearance of the site. On day 226 of #LMB365, Phil Peck from Domestic Services has started to pressure wash the paths around the LMB building. Hopefully it’s not like painting

30 Dec 2019: In quieter moments between experiments, members of the LMB have had fun recreating some of our state-of-the art equipment in Lego®, as seen here on day 364 of #LMB365. This includes an NMR machine, AKTA, orbitrap mass spec and a transmission

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

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

28 Aug 2019: Ketan Malhotra from Anne Bertolotti’s group and Manuel Carminati from Lori Passmore’s group recently prepped 62 litres of E.coli to harvest their protein for purification and structure determination. Day 240 of #LMB365 shows the resulting 50 ml

20 May 2019: This photo of the LMB by Ivan Rosa e Silva for day 141 of #LMB365, was taken from Hobson’s Park at Great Kneighton to the West of the Campus. Totalling around 120 acres, the park contains woodland and four ponds.