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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

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

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.

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!

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.

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

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

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.