LMB 365 – Day 177

Strike a pose, be it mountain, tree or downward facing dog, the benefits of yoga in the workplace are well documented for counteracting the long hours spent at a work station. Staff at the LMB seen here on day 177 of #LMB365 execute a Paschimottanasana during an in-house yoga session led by Lucy in order to improve posture, flexibility and breathing, reduce stress and enhance focus.

Some experiments require pipetting into huge numbers of tubes. On day 176 of #LMB365, Christina Heroven and Patricia Brown had to divide their protein samples into more than 80 tubes of 100 microliters each!

The LMB’s Operations Group recently held its annual BBQ in the Library garden. Our IT Manager Paul Hart, pictured here on day 175 of #LMB365, showed off his culinary skills by cooking over 150 items on the LMB’s BBQs. Everyone brought along delicious salads and puddings to go with the BBQ and we were lucky to catch a rare sunny spell in between the June showers.

Andrew Carter’s group has showed how dynein (grey), a motor protein, moves along microtubules (green). Dynein attaches to its cargo via an adaptor protein called Bicaudal-D2 (orange). The attachment requires the help of another protein complex called dynactin (multi-coloured). These structures were determined by both cryo-EM and X-ray crystallography and Janet Iwasa helped create this beautiful image for day 174 of #LMB365.

Day 173 of #LMB365 is a light microscopy image from Wanda Kukulski in Cell Biology of yeast cells producing a fluorescent version of a protein that assembles into patches on the cell membrane. Each patch contains hundreds of copies of the protein. Together, they induce a local deformation of the membrane, which however is too small to be resolved by light microscopy.