The LMB’s first, purpose built laboratory was officially handed over on 29 January 1962, and all 43 scientists had moved in by the middle of February. Day 31 of #LMB365 shows the building in 1962, on the ‘new’ Addenbrooke’s site, off Hills Road, Cambridge. The facilities on site were very limited at the time, but there was a ‘shop’ from which you could buy your daily newspaper
LMB 365 – Day 163
Garib Murshudov and Lalita Ramakrishnan elected to EMBO membership
Garib Murshudov, a group leader in the LMB’s Structural Studies Division, and Lalita Ramakrishnan, a group leader in the University of Cambridge Molecular Immunity Unit at the LMB, have been newly elected as members of EMBO. Founded in 1964 to promote molecular biology in Europe, EMBO elects new members annually in recognition of their contributions […]
LMB 365 – Day 162
Happy Hour is one of the LMB’s regular social events where people can meet, chat, have a couple of drinks, discuss their work or organise their weekend’s activities. Happy Hour has been going for around 10 years and this photo for day 162 of #LMB365 shows all the drinks lined up awaiting the first attendees for a recent gathering.
LMB 365 – Day 161
The meadow flower planting on the mounds around the edge of the LMB building was intended to mitigate the loss of grassland habitat of the original site and to try and increase biodiversity. The original wildflower planting mix contained 20+ different species of wildflowers and ornamental grasses. Over time, nature has intervened and we now have a different blend of plant species including Salvia verbenaca (wild sage) seen here on day 161 of #LMB365. The rich variety of plants, with the bulk of them requiring insect pollination, has started to develop into a mature ecosystem beneficial to the LMB bees. There is at least one bee in the photo – can you find it?
LMB 365 – Day 160
This image for day 160 of #LMB365 is a Drosophila melanogaster embryo showing the embryonic nervous system. Fluorescent labels correspond to microtubules (yellow) and nuclei (red). Image by Yara Sanchez-Corrales in Katja Röper’s group in the Cell Biology Division.
LMB 365 – Day 159
Day 159 of #LMB365 shows Francis Crick in the 1960s, when he was joint head of the LMB’s Molecular Genetics (now Cell Biology) Division. Francis was born on this day in 1916, in Northampton. He was awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of the structure of DNA