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Zaloa Aguirre Sourrouille joined the lab as a new Phd student. She works on a PhD project funded by the Hector Fellow Academy. We are really happy to welcome Zaloa in our group!

The Hector RCD award was awarded to Tessa and will fund the position of a PhD student to work on archaeal mechanisms to escape viral infection. She will officially receive the award during the ceremony of the Hector Academy in July.

Colin and Sabines publication on H. gibbonsii LR2-5 is now published in Frontiers in Microbiology. Check it out here

Two new papers of the lab were published this week:

Schwarzer S, Rodriguez-Franco M, Oksanen H.M., Quax T.E.F. (2021) Growth phase dependent cell shape of Haloarcula. Microorganisms. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-2607/9/2/231

And a review paper on how viruses use filamentous surface structures of bacteria and archaea was published in ‚Viruses‘

Tittes C, Schwarzer S, Quax T.E.F. (2021) Viral hijack of filamentous surface structures in Archaea and Bacteria. Viruses. https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/2/164

The joint publication with the Albers and Duggin labs on the role of archaeal MinD in motility is now officially published in Current Biology.

Colin Tittes has joined the archaeal virus group as a PhD student at the beginning of November.

Sabine started this week as a PhD student in the lab. She will be involved in the development of a model virus-host system for haloarchaea