This beautiful image, taken in the LMB car park by Conny Yu for day 291 of #LMB365, shows the sun setting behind the building.
LMB 365 – Day 291
LMB 365 – Day 290
Caught in the act on day 290 of #LMB365. Members of the LMB planted over 800 daffodil and narcissi bulbs that will cheerily pop up outside the LMB next Spring announcing in all their golden glory that a new season has sprung. The bulbs were generously donated by Scotsdales Garden Centre to help raise funds for Marie Curie.
LMB 365 – Day 289
Day 289 of #LMB365 is an image from Costa Televantos in Lalita Ramakrishnan’s group of a granuloma from a fish infected with Mycobacterium marinum. In this image, macrophages (a type of white blood cell responsible for controlling infection) are fluorescent, with green nuclei and a red cytosol and are infected with blue bacteria. The early stage ofMycobacterium marinuminfection in zebrafish models that ofMycobacterium tuberculosisin humans. The group utilise the genetic tractability and optical transparency of the zebrafish to influence and monitor the progression of infection.
LMB 365 – Day 288
This photo for day 288 of #LMB365 shows some of the hundreds of parcels of varying types processed by the LMB Stores Team every day. These are then delivered to all departments across the LMB building.
Johannes Kohl features as October “Scientist to Watch” in The Scientist
A former PhD student from Greg Jefferis’ group in the LMB’s Neurobiology Division, Johannes, is researching the neural circuitry behind instinct. In this feature, he illustrates his journey from his undergraduate days to his PhD at the LMB to the establishment of his own lab at the Francis Crick Institute in London this January. Johannes […]
Greg Winter and the promise of antibody-based therapies
In conversation with the FEBS Journal, Greg discusses his early motivations, monoclonal antibody therapy research, life after the Nobel prize, and balancing entrepreneurship with science. He also lets in on a secret childhood fantasy, “As a boy I fancied being the captain of tramp steamer plying the South Pacific…”. More…