He was already around for some time (as student and HiWi) – today he officially started his master thesis in our lab. Welcome aboard, Kevin!

Last Thursday the group members testet their racing skills on the go-kart track, Jena. After a warm-up and a qualifying round, the field only saw Martin’s taillights during the race. He proved to be the legitimate winner by finishing the race over 30 seconds ahead of the second and third placed drivers (Johannes and André).

After the obligatory photos on the podium, the group headed downtown to close the day with cool margaritas and spicy Mexican food.

Welcome Bing!

In celebration of our latest published papers (in Cell Chem Bio and PNAS) as well as sucessfull research grant applications (DFG, Boehringer Ingelheim Stiftung) the group went out for taccos and margaritas.

Our group hiked to the tiny village Vollradisroda to enjoy a great holiday meal!

On Wednesday, October 20th Prof. Dr. Kleiner, President of the Leibniz Association, visited the HKI. After an inspiring talk, Prof. Kleiner visited the Stallforth lab where Pierre introduced him to our research on bacteria-amoeba interactions.

Rose, Martin, Rob, and Pierre went to the 2017 Dictyostelium Conference in Geneva. Martin and Rob were both awarded a travel grant and Pierre received a prize for his talk on natural products from social amoebae.

For our 2016 christmas party we visited the Jena christmas market to drink some Glühwein, followed by delicious dinner at Pierres.

for our publication on bacterially produced amoebicides(2016, ACIE, 55, 8944.)

Welcome, Johannes!

Martin obtained the Hoechst PhD Fellowship of the Aventis foundation. The stipend is awarded once a year by the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie (FCI).

boat tour on the river Saale