Interested in natural product producing microorganisms? 🦠 See you in Berlin... 😀

Paul Ehrlich in his office. If Paul Ehrlich had had an internet browser, he would have had too many tabs open. 🙃

Well-invested startup funds – #HEPA air purifiers for all lecture halls & seminar rooms of our institute. As research has shown, air purifiers can be one puzzle piece in preventing the spread of airborne diseases, and increase the performance of students. #BildungAberSicher #IndoorAirQuality

Some books were easier to throw away, though… #globukalypse

Mucking out the library I have inherited from my predecessor – feels weird to throw away books, but how useful are books about molecular biology from the 1990’s or the immune system from the 1980’s? :-)

Congratulations, Markus! PhD student #7 leaving the group – first of the “second gen PhD students” who started their work
at the University of Halle. Well done, thanks for following up on the chemistry of the cyanobacterium A. hydrillicola and the discovery of the aetokthonostatins! #proudPI

The cyanobacterium Aetokthonos hydrillicola really is nasty, as we show in the most recent @PNASNews cover story (www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... ). A thread… 1/