Looking for a new approach to studying or eliminating phages? Check out our study introducing anti-phage ASOs (antisense oligos) out in @Nature today. nature.com/articles/s4158…

And this only the beginning! I’m glad we did that collaboration with the Maric lab. ASOs for the people!

The Helmholtz RNA & Infection building getting ever more interesting, with the staircase unfolding. So many different levels, it looks a bit like downtown Bangkok to me, if you know what I mean.

First trip to the beer garden by the river with the lab and friends of the lab this year. Mixed feelings because it’s the farewell of Suyen Espinoza who’s leaving for a new job with a great pharmaceutical company. It’s hard to let go of her for many reasons, my first postdoc ever from Nicaragua!

If you want to do single-cell RNA-seq on your favourite bacterium, here‘s our detailed Nature Protocol for microbial MATQ-seq. It profiles up to 600 genes in a single bacterial cell! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Finally made it to Bluesky as well. Here’s the me Helmholtz RNA & Infection building as of this week.