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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

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

3 Dec 2019: Day 337 of #LMB365 shows this year’s PhD student photo featuring most of the current students, together with the LMB Director, Director of Studies, Postgraduate Administrator and Assistant. The LMB students are a diverse group and come from over

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

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

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.

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

17 Jul 2019: Protein samples need to be rapidly frozen in liquid nitrogen so they can be stored without degrading. While freezing samples, Christina Heroven and Patricia Brown were surprised to see the tubes forming a perfect circle within the container as seen