Day 251 of #LMB365 shows odour delivery manifolds built by the LMB’s Technical Instrumentation Workshop for Shahar Frechter in Greg Jefferis’ lab. The system was developed to synchronise odour selection for the study of neural circuits and behaviour in Drosophila. The polymer manifolds can each hold up to eight flasks (eight odours) and the control box can handle up to eight manifolds, allowing up to sixty four independent odour channels.
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LMB 365 – Day 250
Day 250 of #LMB365 shows a recent repair to the LMB’s fire hydrant ring main that sprung a leak. The soil had to be excavated to expose the leak on a brass fitting. This was repaired by contractors working with the LMB’s Estates and Facilities team.
LMB 365 – Day 249
Day 249 of #LMB365 shows animage taken by a pupil at St Paul’s Primary School for the LMB’s 2019 Science Image Award competition https://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/microscopes4schools/award.php. 16 primary schools from across Cambridgeshire and Essex received a small digital microscope for 2 weeks and children in Years 5 and 6 were encouraged to look at and take images of things they could find outside
LMB 365 – Day 248
The LMB has been running regular mentoring sessions for students and postdocs to support them in progressing their scientific careers. This photo for day 248 of #LMB365 was taken at a recent lunch held by our Deputy Director Mariann Bienz where discussions included how to come up with a vision for your own research programme as a future group leader, what to look out for when choosing a host institute or department and how to combine running your own group with bringing up children.
LMB 365 – Day 247
Apple trees around the LMB building, originally planted in 2011 as 2-3 year old trees, are starting to mature. They are now heavy with fruit, as seen in this photo taken by Laura Easton onday 247 of #LMB365. The trees planted around the end of the site were specifically selected to meet the Cambridgeshire Landscape Guidelines for woodland perimeter planting
LMB 365 – Day 246
Day 246 of #LMB365 is an artistic representation of a synthetic bacterium, by artist Larissa Ulisko. Jason Chin’s group computationally designed and synthesised anE. coligenome where all instances of three codons have been replaced by their synonymous counterparts in annotated genes. The bacterium’s natural genome was then replaced, step-by-step, by the synthetic version, yielding a living cell with a completely rewritten genome.