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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

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

8 Mar 2019: As predicted #LMBees are exploring the building and have made it as far as the LMB's Media Prep Department. As can be see on day 68 of #LMB365, they searched through pre-prepared solutions until they found something sweet. Hopefully they have left

23 Apr 2019: Day 114 of #LMB365. Ferris Beuller would never go to the lab on such a spectacular spring day! But if you don’t have access to a 1961 Ferrari GT, you might as well be in the LMB doing experiments.

8 Aug 2019: This image for day 220 of #LMB365 shows a digitalized patch of cells within the Drosophila melanogaster embryo. Cell-to-cell interfaces are randomly coloured and cell centroids are depicted with a square. Image by Yara Sanchez-Corrales in Katja

10 Dec 2019: On this day each year the Nobel Prize award ceremony and banquet is held. To celebrate this, day 344 of #LMB365 shows a very rare collection of Nobel Prize Medals awarded to members of the LMB, together with champagne bottles signed by some Nobel

2 Oct 2019: LMB scientists visited Ely Cathedral for LifeLab last weekend to talk to members of the public about their research on the origin of life and about how cryo-EM works. On day 275 of #LMB365, we see some LMB volunteers carrying the backdrop of the

20 Sep 2019: Much of the research at the LMB must be conducted in carefully controlled conditions of temperature, vibration and magnetic fields. The Electronics Workshop works with Group Leaders to detect and analyse extremely small sources of potential

5 Jul 2019: Day 186 of #LMB365 shows a common occurrence at the LMB. Our Nobel laureates, on this occasion Venki Ramakrishnan, and others are frequently called upon to be interviewed about their science. More can be found on our YouTube channel at

22 Dec 2019: As we celebrate the winter solstice, day 356 of #LMB365 shows John O’Neill’s group on an outing to visit the Corpus Clock in Cambridge. Sitting atop the clock is an extraordinary monster: the ‘Chronophage’ meaning Eater of Time. John’s