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New publication about the knallgas bacterium Cupriavidus necator
·What exactly is a ‘knallgas’ bacterium? The word ‘knallgas’ is of German origin and simply means a mixture of hydrogen (H2) and oxygen (O2) that can violently react to water (H2O) when ignited (‘knall’ means explosion). In this chemical reaction, the energy-rich and reactive hydrogen molecule donates it’s electrons to the di-oxygen molecule which is highly oxidized and craving for...
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My talk for the European Cyano conference
·In a few days starts the 11th European workshop on the biology of cyanobacteria. It was planned to take place in beautiful Porto, Portugal. I was very much looking forward to this as I haven’t been on a conference for a whole year. But unfortunately COVID-19 forced the conference organizers to turn it into a digital meeting. This is not...
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Is Sweden smarter than the rest of Europe?
·The corona virus crisis has overshadowed the life of many EU citizens for quite some time now, and will likely continue to do so for the coming months. The strict social distancing measures taken by many governments leave work places deserted, factories standing still and shops closed. However, one small country on the Northern edge of Europe is going it’s...
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How to label points on a scatterplot with R (for lattice)
·The famous ggplot2 package for R has numerous packages extending its basic plot functions, including ggrepel that draws nice text labels for each point of a scatterplot. But I am using lattice for many years now, and came to like its look and customization options. However, one thing I was missing all the time is a simple one-line function to...
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Latte pappa - myth or reality?
·My github activity is in free fall, my email response time is at least two days, and my stress level is lower than usual. What has happened, am I on vacation? Not quite, I’m in the middle of a five month parental leave with my almost one year old daughter Sophie. So far it’s been a joyful but also challenging...
