Also in the news, I am proud to announce that I just got the confirmation that my promotion application was accepted and that I am now a Senior Lecturer - maybe comparable to a recently promoted Associate Professor in the US system.

​Thanks to everyone that helped me on that way. 

First off all, the Chromatic bacteria are now accepted with Frontiers (time to pay the open access bill :P ). Secondly, this happened:

Rudolf has won a poster award at the NZMS / NZSBMB annual meeting in Dunedin!

Way to go Rudolf!!!

Congratulations again - well deserved!

And now that - Dr. Monica Gerth received a Marsden Grant and I am part of the team and help her as an associate investigator. We'll investigate evil Pseudomonads :-) my job is to make them glow and track them on their host.

So that just happened - It was just announced that I am the winner of this years University of Canterbury Early and Emerging Researcher Career Researcher Award. I am pretty chuffed/ exited/ honoured/ surprised/ proud

THANKS TO EVERYONE THAT HELPED ME GETTING THERE!