We are happy to welcome back two former group members, María Victoria Aguilar Pontes and Sara Masachis Gelo. María Victoria obtained a María Zambrano Postdoctoral grant funded by the Program for the Requalification of the Spanish University System and joins our group as lead bioinformatician. Sara Masachis Gelo is back at the Fusarium lab as a Postdoctoral researcher to study molecular signalling events during the fungus-plant interaction.

A warm welcome to Avinash Kamble from Savitribai Phule Pune University, India, who joins our group for 3 months as a visiting Professor funded by an EMBO short term fellowship.

Congratulations to our colleague Manuel Sánchez López-Berges on his well-deserved promotion to Assistant Professor with tenure!

We are happy to welcome Vasileios Vangalis from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Vasilis joins our group as a visiting PhD student funded by a short term fellowship from FEMS to study conserved molecular links between environmental sensing and development in the two vascular wilt pathogens Verticillium dahliae and Fusarium oxysporum.