Image365

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 molecules and nuclei are labelled

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

#LMB365 day 7 features an LMB Nobel Laureate @NobelPrize. John Walker was born on this day in Yorkshire in 1941. He was awarded the 1997 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for his work on the elucidation of the enzymatic mechanism underlying the synthesis of adenosine triphosphate (ATP)

Day 6 of #LMB365 is provided by @as_bates and @gsxej who are working on circuits in the brain of the fruit fly D. Melanogaster. The image shows over a thousand neurons from the fly’s ‘instinct centre’, which is similar to the human amygdala, and how they spread across the brain

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 essential for this process

Microscopes at the ready on day 4 of #LMB365. These microscopes are used in the Cell Biology Division @CellBiol_MRCLMB for looking at Dictyostelium discoideum, a species of soil-living amoeba, which is one of the model organisms used at the LMB. This area of research focuses on how cells drink and move: macropinocytosis and chemotaxis