Drosophila Melanogaster is a key model organism used across the LMB to study fundamental aspects of biology. This image for day 142 of #LMB365 shows a Drosophila head imaged by Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) taken by Emmanuel Derivery in the LMB’s Cell Biology Division. Fly hairs, which are actually mechanosensory organs, are a well-established system to study cell fate determination following asymmetric cell division, and as such help our understanding of asymmetric cell fate determination during stem cell division in humans.
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LMB 365 – Day 141
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.
LMB 365 – Day 140
On day 140 of #LMB365 we have a picture by Katja Röper in the Cell biology Division. This image shows a confocal section of a mouse lung bud at embryonic day 12. Nuclei of cells are labelled in blue, the microtubule cytoskeleton in green and cell-cell junctions in red. The Röper lab studies how important tubular organs such as the lung form during development.
LMB 365 – Day 139
Max Perutz was born on this day in 1914, in Vienna, Austria. He was the founder and first Chairman of the LMB. On day 139 of #LMB365, Max is photographed on the day he was awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the studies of the structures of globular proteins. The photograph was taken by LMB student, Hans Boye. Max died on 6 February 2002, in Cambridge.
LMB 365 – Day 138
The LMB is funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) via the Medical Research Council. The Chair of UKRI, Sir John Kingman, recently visited the LMB to find out more about the exciting science being carried out here. This included a visit to the EM facility where he was introduced to the wonders of this technology by Lori Passmore and Chris Russo where this picture for day 138 of #LMB365 was taken.
LMB 365 – Day 137
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 self-renew or differentiate to various cell types.