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22 canvases represent 22 projects or work areas within both working groups on Rosalind Franklin street. Each employee in the building designed one of the canvases with his or her focus.

Image: Sybille Huck (VEO group)
22 canvases represent 22 projects or work areas within both working groups on Rosalind Franklin street. Each employee in the building designed one of the canvases with his or her focus.

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  1. The VEO Group on TV!

    Our Master's student Samira showed her research in the 3sat Ländermagazin

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    Samira next to her bench
    Image: Marcel Bäcker

  2. Ernestina receives the BioSB Young Investigator Award!

    For her contributions to the Dutch bioinformatics community, Ernstina's outstanding PhD research was recognized at the BioSB conference 2026 on May 13th with the BioSB Young Investigator Award!

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    Ernestina giving her honorary lectureon "Nature's Clean-up Crew: Bioremediation through a Metagenomic Lens"
    Image: Griffin Kutler Dodd

  3. VEO and MGX lab retreat 2025

    The Viral Ecology and Omics (VEO) Group from FSU Jena recently hosted colleagues from the Metagenomics (MGX) Group at Utrecht University for a fun and collaborative three-day lab retreat focused on team building.

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    VEO and MGX Group paddling tour
    Image: Bas Dutilh

  7. Visiting the new Microverse Building

    Today, the VEO Group got the chance to have a first peek at the new Microverse Building, which is currently under construction at the Rosalind Franklin Strasse in Jena.

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    View of the back of the Microverse center
    Image: Marcel Baecker

  8. Structural color in bacteria

    Diverse bacteria form highly structured colonies which lead to an iridescent phenotype

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    Structurally colored colonies of the marine bacterium Muricauda ruestringensis growing on agar, viewed from three different angles.
    Image: Colin Ingham, Hoekmine BV

  10. DiversiPHI-ing research skills in Australia

    Transcontinental phage quest: Susie Grigson explores our VEO Group, Tina Hauptfeld ventures into the FAME lab in Adelaide, Australia

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    Tina and Susie meeting at the Frankfurt Airport
    Image: Tina Hauptfeld

  12. Some things never change!

    Like the 1,300-year-old phage genome almost identical to its current-day relative or the excitement of publishing one’s research!

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    Piotr in front of Phages
    Image: Anne Günther (University of Jena)
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