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We enjoyed the visit of Karl Willert as guest-professor. Great scientific exchanges and personal interactions, including at the Christmas market

We said good bye to Anchel who will start his new lab at UBL in Brussels. He was a critical pillar of our community and lab, and we are certain that he will achieve great success too at his new group leader position

We hosted the international WNT meeting in Heidelberg

Current and past lab members reunited for the COS party 2024. This year’s topic for the party was “magiCOS”, and we decided to dress as Lewis Carroll and the characters of Alice in Wonderland.

We went for stand up paddling at our traditional lab outing (with more kneeling than standing though!)

Really happy to share that I became professor of Cell Signalling and Genome stability at Heidelberg University. Many thanks to my colleagues at COS and the SFB1324, the former and current lab members, my mentors, family and friends

2022 has been a special year for the Acebrón lab.

1- After a long hiatus, we brought back the running spirit to the group during the Mannheim marathon.

2- We celebrated the Hella Bühler Price in recognition to our work in cancer biology.

3- The first two PhD students from the Acebrón lab defended their theses. I could not be prouder of Dr. Anja Bufe and Dr. Nicole Giebel!!

4- We managed to bring inspiring scientists at the COS symposium.

5- And many more great moments, including a new baby in the lab family, and restarting the traditional Christmas feast at home. We look forward to enjoying more exciting moments in 2023 together with our colleagues at COS and SFB1324

“TropiCOS” – This was the theme of the this years COStume party, that takes place every year at the Centre Of Organismal Studies (COS) Heidelberg. According to the theme we dressed as colourful poison dart frogs. Amazing decoration, costumes and drinks got us in the tropical mood and we had a great party together.

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For our this year’s lab outing we went to a climbing forest -an areal with platforms in the trees, which are connected by ropes, zip lines and other little obstacles. Making our way through the parkours, we all reached our limits, but had a lot of fun and thrilling moments. At the end of this sportive challenge we were all looking forward to the barbecue, for which Sergio invited us to his house. We had (once again) very good food and let the day all together find a comfortable end.

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This year we and other colleagues from the 6th floor put together a team and participated in the NCT Run against cancer. Defying the heat and the crowds of people everyone successfully crossed the finish line and at the end we collected 22nd rounds for the good cause. In total 7 people participated in the round run, 4 people went for the 10 km and 2 people faced the 21 km run.
Let’s see whether we can beat this next year. 😉

According to the motto of this year’s blacklight COS Party “MicroCOSmos” we dressed up as the nucleotides A, T, G, C and Sergio as the multifunctional DNA repair man. Fluorescent colours and glow sticks gave our costumes a shiny touch…

…And another beautiful year has passed! We had a nice Christmas party and delicious home-made dinner at Sergio’s house with perfectly prepared pimientos de padrón, Spanish cheese, clams, butter chicken, panna cotta and of course adequate wines. We are ready to roll into the next year now.

The Acebrón Lab wishes you a merry Christmas!