A full day of science

Yesterday was a full day of science first with Bettina's Fusarium group in the morning, Paul & Julia's Botrytis group in the afternoon then my seminar. Still lots to discover about the structure, function, regulation and evolution of secondary metabolite gene clusters. NADP oxidases are such cool enzymes but exactly how they signal remains a big challenge but I have not had any good ideas on this for a while. Who would have thought that T4HN melanin biosynthesis in conidia and sclerotia of Botrytis could be so interesting - I look forward to seeing that publication and the many others from this group of very smart and enthusiastic researchers.

I do love the Botanic Garden at the University of Münster especially the phylogenetic garden - a great place to relax between the two science discussion sessions.

Thanks to Paul for introducing me to Bruno as it sounds like he has some great new tools that will help us better understand the cell wall of E. festucae.

Gomphocarpus physocarpus - Botanic Garden

Cacti Münster Botanic Garden

Phylogenetic garden