Postdoc Postpunk

Transposonspotting, or How We Found One Unlucky TE and Wrote a Paper about It: Part I

mobile genome

Find out why there is still no second part in my series on Drosophila TE names — and how I spent my summer instead.

Climbing higher

climbing

In the summer of ’23 I started bouldering with my wife after we saw a video of then-Prince Charles flashing a problem like a king:

Drosophila TE name origins, Part 1

mobile genome

I’ve been working with (or close to) Drosophila transposable elements (TEs) for more than 10 years and at some point after looking at a hundred different TE names that pop…

Neko ni koban

japanese

Several months ago, I found this book in Stockholm University’s library and borrowed it:

Paper Digest #1

journal club

For this first Paper Digest, I’ve picked two papers. The first one is from Steffen Lemke’s group and focuses on the cephalic furrow (CF) - a structure that forms at the…

The one with the introduction

news

Welcome to my blog! It took a lot of very small, slow steps to get here, but I finally set up a decent VPS and bought a domain name - so let’s keep on rolling.