On day 315 of #LMB365 we see the PDB Art Exhibition, currently on display in the LMB’s atrium, in which students from local schools have produced amazing works of art inspired by protein structures. More close-ups to come…
LMB 365 – Day 315
LMB 365 – Day 314
It’s not every day a steam train goes past the LMB. Day 314 of #LMB365 shows the 61306 Mayflower on a recent trip from London. Mayflower is a B1 Class locomotive and was built in 1948 by the North British Locomotive Company in Glasgow for the London & North Eastern Railway
LMB 365 – Day 313
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 dynein recognises cargoes and how its motility is regulated. Blue and green signals are from DNA and nuclear envelopes, respectively.
LMB 365 – Day 312
LMB staff have spotted a variety of small creatures when wandering around outside the LMB building and on the wider Campus as seen here on day 312 of #LMB365.
LMB 365 – Day 311
The photo for day 311 of #LMB365 shows the north wing of the building where members of the Neurobiology Division are working hard. When people leave the building, detectors in the offices and write-up areas identify that staff have left for the day and turn lights off automatically if they have been accidentally left on. This helps reduce energy consumption and has the added benefit of lowering the amount of light pollution that the building emits.
LMB 365 – Day 310
This image for day 310 of #LMB365 shows one of the four plate pouring machines used daily by the LMB’s dedicated Media Prep team. Each machine is used to pour both standard and specially requested plates and in total the LMB uses over 200,000 plates a year.