Today we had a nice lunch with the lab in “Het Oude Tolhuys”. Great food and good company. We really missed this type of lab outings during the corona pandemic. We hope our social committee will be able to organize more outings in the future.

On July 5th, our PhD student Yvette Luijkx successfully defended her thesis entitled “Exploring the dynamic role of L-fucose and a-L-fucusidases in the cross talk between gut bacteria and host”. A very nice and fruitful collaborative project together with the lab of Dr. Tom Wennekes. Due to the corona measures, the “hybrid” defense ceremony was