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24 Sep 2019: LMB scientists will be taking C. elegans worms to Queensgate shopping centre in Peterborough on Saturday 28th September to tell members of the public about how we use worms to study how neurons work and improve our understanding of ageing and disease

20 Jul 2019: A crocheted stag’s head looks out into the atrium on day 201 of #LMB365 giving a glimpse of this years Art and Craft show. The annual event gives staff at the LMB a chance to showcase their artistic and creative talents and for others to see a

6 Jul 2019: PhD students at the LMB are registered with the University of Cambridge, and are therefore automatically members of a college. This photo for day 187 of #LMB365 shows members of Bill Schafer’s lab celebrating the end of another day in the LMB by

27 Jun 2019: LMB researchers will be telling the public about their work on the origin of life at The Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition. On day 178 of #LMB365 we see Phil Holliger being interviewed about the exhibition. Learn more about our exhibit at https

6 Dec 2019: Simon Bullock’s lab uses a combination of in vitro and in vivo methods to investigate how microtubule-based cargo transport is orchestrated in cells. On day 340 of #LMB365 Simon illustrates this approach by overlaying a crystal structure from a

9 Nov 2019: The image for day 313 of #LMB365 shows apical localisation of thehmRNA (magenta) in the fruit fly embryo. This mRNA is trafficked by the microtubule motor dynein and Simon Bullock’s group in Cell Biology has used this system to shed light on how

17 Nov 2019: If you have ever wondered how all the glass in the atrium of the LMB is kept clean, this photo for day 321 of #LMB365 shows you how. This is carried out biennially and takes two people 8 days to clean all the glass, including the fascia boards, high

27 May 2019: On this day in 1962, HM The Queen officially opened the first LMB building. For day 148 of #LMB365, The Queen is seen arriving at the entrance to the LMB. Max Perutz, in the foreground, greets The Queen, while LMB staff inside the building can be

25 Mar 2019: Sometimes after a long day in the lab you are lucky enough to experience a beautiful sight as you leave the building. This photo for day 85 of #LMB365 was taken by Lesley Drynan as the sun set for another day and the multi-coloured light was

3 Jun 2019: On day 155 of #LMB365 it appears the LMB bees have been busy. This is a honey frame from one of our hives two thirds full and capped over. Once full this can be extracted and the honey bottled ready for use. We hope to have LMB honey available

18 Feb 2019: Day 50 of #LMB365 shows a spinning centrifuge exerting outward force on the samples within it. This principle is exploited by biochemists at the LMB to separate the contents within a cell by their relative size. The separated components can each be

16 Apr 2019: Georges Kohler was born on this day in 1946, in Munich, Germany. On day 107 of #LMB365 he is pictured with César Milstein. Georges and César were awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1984, for their work on the principle for

16 May 2019: In this image for day 137 of #LMB365 seam cells are highlighted in green in the middle of a young (larval) C. elegans worm. The seam cells act like stem cells and during larval development these cells undergo asymmetrical divisions and either

5 Jan 2019: Day 5 of #LMB365 is a surface view of a Drosophila embryonic blastoderm from @GhislainGillard and @katjaroeper in Cell Biology @CellBiol_MRCLMB. This shows membranes of cells stained for several proteins after cellularisation. Actin (magenta) is

21 Jan 2019: Day 21 #LMB365 is a Max Perutz Word Cloud. Max was the founder and first Chairman of the MRC Unit that became the LMB. He determined the structure of haemoglobin and won the 1962 Nobel Prize @NobelPrize, jointly with John Kendrew, for their work on

8 Apr 2019: Day 99 of #LMB365 is a journal cover design by Lesley McKeane in the LMB’s Visual Aids team. The selective coupling of G-protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) to specific G proteins is critical to trigger the appropriate physiological response. This

31 Aug 2019: Day 243 of #LMB365 shows an SDS-PAGE cake baked by Jaslyn Wong in Roger Williams’ group in the PNAC Division. She hoped to motivate her colleagues to keep trying to get crystalsof Rag proteins that activate the cancer drug target mTOR. Protein

8 May 2019: Day 129 of #LMB365 shows Michael Levitt when he joined the scientific staff at the LMB in 1974. Michael was born on this day in 1947, in Pretoria, South Africa. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2013 for the development of multiscale

16 Feb 2019: To understand processes at the molecular levels, basic components of the cell can be purified, crystallised and then visualised with X-rays to allow their molecular structure to be determined. These crystals, photographed for day 48 of #LMB365 by

30 Mar 2019: The LMB cares for the environment and has an active environmental committee consisting of scientific and support staff and students. We have various trees and flowering plants that the LMB bees can enjoy. Strolling to work on a sunny spring day