Thanks for your contribution!

It was a tough choice: we really wanted to choose the most hyper mouse but we didn’t have the capacity to run that selection line also. Next time!

It’s a one-sided selection experiment: usually when you select an animal you are selecting on host genome and microbes, here we kept genome constant by breeding the inbred mice separately

Well we did make it easier for people to bring dogs to work, and the population of institute dogs grew substantially….

She’s better looking than most bacteria I know

So I tried it and it is super impressive. I am really worried though that reviewers will plop papers in here and use the output as their review. I am actually worried it will make passing peer review harder, based on its output of a published paper - thoughts on this?

Indeed TERRA is one of the new clusters of excellence funded by the DFG at the University of Tübingen.

@maxplanck.de are we helping with this? Sounds urgent

Speechless

I left a couple in the basement of Biotech. You can probably claim them.