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The tradition of naming phage systems after ancient deities has the side effect that one cannot evade them even outside of microbiology journals... 🧬🛡☕️

Last days in the lab for our friend Vincent Somerville @vincentsomerville.bsky.social before he starts his own operation as junior group leader with Nicholas Bokulich in our institute - watch out for great work on microbes and phages in fermenting foods! 🧀🦠🧬

Just traveling back from a meeting in Bristol - beautiful city and great people! 🇬🇧🧳🧬

New favorite mug - beautiful T4 phage infection design by James Hodgkinson-Bean / @virionapparel.bsky.social 😊☕️🧬

Great week out of the city to recharge our batteries 🏞☀️

Great new group poster representing us on the building's main floor! 🧬🦾🔍 Poster composed by Julia Egido @egidosquared.bsky.social with Sophia Zimmermann 🙏🏼

Copenhagen - it has been a while 🇩🇰🌊🧬

Leisure and industrial power side by side in Basel ⛱️🏢🌊

New phages from school workshops are coming to the lab! Yasmina Stolber in our group works with Enea @phagemuffin.bsky.social to phenotype and sequence them - but it's crazy how much the phenotyping and experience already allow us to deduce their taxonomic classification 🧫🧬😎.

Highlight of each workshop at schools are newly isolated phages - and discussions why most plaques exclude each other when they touch. Phage-induced phenotypic resistance! 🧫🧬🛡

The "Research Day" at our department D-HEST is always caleidoscope of exciting science from food over health to medicine. Phage biotechnology was well represented with Dorentina @humollidorentina.bsky.social and Enea @phagemuffin.bsky.social from our group and the lab of Martin Loessner. 🧫🧬🍻

After some divine wine and cheese with the group of Laurent Debarbieux I feel we need to seriously ramp up our apero game in Zürich 🍷🧀💖

Fantastic visit to Paris for a talk at Institut Pasteur and some time off with the family - it's great whenever this combination works out 🧬🍹🗼

Full house and great party yesterday at the debut concert of "Minor Revisions", the student band of our local microbiology + immunology PhD program. The kids are alright 😎🍻🎸

After some intense weeks, a few warm, green days in Engadin with the family were perfect to recharge 🏔️☀️🥾

Some phages are named after gods or rivers, this one was named by journalist Thilo Mischke @thilomischke.bsky.social after his grandma ("Oma Karin") while filming in our lab. It's a cool phage that should be temperate but became virulent due to a transposon at its lysogeny control! ⛓️‍💥💪🏼

Small fun story from the lab about a slightly crazy rabbit hole or "guess what's living in your agar?" - all the details in the thread by Enea @phagemuffin.bsky.social 👇🏼🔥

Good morning from Kandersteg - board retreat of the Swiss Society for Microbiology 🏞🦠🧬

Beautiful time in Neuchatel today at a science communication workshop for the doctoral school of Swiss-French universities (CUSO) 🌊☀️🧬

Back to the Future with an amazing live orchestra at Basel’s film music festival 🎻⏰⚡️