Morning stroll in early fall.

Our annual Bachelor's lab class finished with the agar-art contest. Always great fun. Here is the winner.

Hey Dr. Marta, that was fantastic. Thanks for the opportunity to be part of it!

Best way to start 2025: Thorsten Mascher kicking off the SPP2389 international conference at the Harnack-Haus in Berlin. Looking foward to great science.

No science, reviews, grants, just some days of peace, mind wandering and tiny little bit of (winter)wonderland. Get well into 2025, you all.

Erick from the Ringgaard Lab & John from the Den identified FipA as polar guiding factor for the GTPase FlhF to enable polar flagellation of many bacteria. Made possible by great collaborations and funding from the DFG (TRR174). Version of record now out in eLife: doi.org/10.7554/eLif...

New outfit for lectures and exams. Birthday gift from my group (I wonder, is there something they'd like to tell me?)

Svenja & Dorian from the Den revisited the lysis system of phage LambdaSo. The image displays a spanin mutant which does not allow the phages (red) to breach the outer membrane. More below:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Spoiler: The usual holin/endolysin/spanin cascade is not sufficient.

PIRATES!!
Constructing phagemids? Nature's been there before. A free rolling-circle plamid hijacks an Inovirus to hitch a ride. Fantastic observation and work by Nicole and great collaborators, made possible by @SPP2330. doi: doi.org/10.1101/2023.1

Starting off Bluesky with a picture of my favorite publication ready to be shipped to alle elementary schools in and around Gießen! Hello all! 😊