Happy to be at the annual meeting of the german Association for General and Applied #Microbiology
#VAAM2026 in Berlin and give a talk about Tris buffer degrading #bacteria. See you there

#VAAM

Women jour fix am Fachbereich Biologie @uni-muenster.de

#münster #womeninSTEM

Last week, we presented our new NWE #Interreg project #PREWAPHARM at the Campus Earth day at the University of #Münster. Turns out that many people are already aware of the problems that #pharmaceutical residues can cause in our #water bodies and we had some great discussion on ways to solve this problem. In PREWAPHARM, we are working on microbial solutions to remove harmful compounds directly at the source, e.g. hospitals, care facilites, remote communities.

@uni-muenster.de

Very exited to be back in #bochum for the #VAAM2025 meeting. Looking forward to many interesting sessions and talks. See you there

#microbiology

Personal crises keep you awake at night? the current political climate doesn't let you sleep? your children turn night into day?

Grow up some Chlamydomonas cultures, grap the closest microscope, and start counting.
1 green algae, 2 green algae, 3 green algae, ...

#microbiology #algae #microscopy

And when you wake up the next day, don't forget to keep fighting against prejudice, injustice and #fcknzs. And remember that you love your children

Beautiful iridescent colonies of a #Pseudomonas and a #Novosphingobium strain on minimal medium agar plates with benzoate

#rainbow #bacteria #microbiology

Taking a deep dive into the history of #microbiology in our Interspecies Interactions lab course, repeating one of the seminal experiments by Kenneth Nealson et al from the 1970s, which finally led to the discovery of bacterial communication and quorum sensing. The students had some extra fun with the bioluminescent Vibrio #bacteria we used for the experiment

#science #microbiology #bioluminescence