Welcomes and goodbyes

This spring and summer have seen some changes to the composition of the research group, with people both coming and going. First of all, we have said goodbye to two postdocs who have worked in the lab for quite some time – Máté Vass and Daniel Jaén Luchoro. Máté is moving on to a position in Uppsala, at the Swedish University of Agriculture where he will start building up his own research group. Daniel is returning to a full time position at the Sahlgrenska Hospital, where he will keep doing part-time research. We look forward to keeping on working with both of them in their new roles!

Furthermore, we also say goodbye and thank for their wonderful contributions to the lab our two master students: Emilia Valfridsson and Felix Blomfelt. Both will be greatly missed, and they have made very valuable contributions to the group’s work, which (hopefully…) will result in publications relatively soon!

Finally, we would like to extend a somewhat belated welcome to our new postdoc Yuselys Garcia-Martinez who joined us in January. Yuselys will be working in the SEARCHER project on discovering novel antibiotic resistance genes in environmental and animal microbiomes.

On a personal note, this is the first time some of my long-term lab members leave the lab, so this feels especially sad to me. At the same time, they are moving on to new exciting roles, and maintaining and developing these relationships will be an interesting continuation of my journey as a group leader.