Another guest post by Alex Knoll reporting from the German Genetics Society Meeting in Cologne. The last session on Thursday was split into two talks by Philippe Sansonetti from the Institute Pasteur in Paris and Julian Parkhill from the Sanger Institute in Hinxton, Great Britain. Both talked about pathogenic microbes, but from a different perspective.

Another guest post by Alex Knoll reporting from the German Genetics Society Meeting in Cologne. As promised, I attended the second Plant Genetics session of the meeting, thus missing the Epigenetics session. I learned an important lesson at the first talk by Juliette de Meaux from the Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research: Bring sweets for the audience, and you have everyone on your side!

Another guest post by Alex Knoll reporting from the German Genetics Society Meeting in Cologne. Both sessions had some interesting talks, so it was really hard to decide between attending Cellular Genetic Mechanisms or Human Genetics, but in the end I went to the former. The first talk by Marina Rodnina from the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry is not easy to put into words.

Another guest post by Alex Knoll reporting from the German Genetics Society Meeting in Cologne. The first session on Friday started with a talk by Frauke Melchior from the ZMBP in Heidelberg on SUMO. Apart from being interesting to work with, it also is good for some rather funny paper titles At the start, she gave a short introduction on the proterties of SUMO.

Another guest post by Alex Knoll reporting from the German Genetics Society Meeting in Cologne. Just after lunch the next decision: Neurogenetics or Evolution? Here I went with the topic that is less far from my field, and attended the evolution session.

Another guest post by Alex Knoll reporting from the German Genetics Society Meeting in Cologne. This time I had to decide between two parallel sessions for the first time at this meeting. Plant genetics or Development? Coming from plant molecular genetics myself, there perhaps was a ready-made decision, but I decided otherwise.

Another guest post from Alex Knoll reporting from the German Genetics Conference in Cologne. Dusko Ehrlich fom Jouy en Josas in France started off the second session of the meeting. He is working with the MetaHIT project, which tries to do a metagenomic analysis of the human intestinal tract.

The second guest post from fellow science blogger Alex Knoll reporting from the German Genetics Conference currently held in Cologne. The first session was all over the place in terms of topics. Starting off the meeting, Linda Partridge from the Institute of Healthy Ageing in London and the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in Cologne told us about the Genetics of Ageing.

This is the first of several posts by guest science blogger Alexander Knoll, who will report from the Annual Meeting of the German Genetics Society. I will be back from my summer vacation on Sunday. Away from my usually blogging grounds at Alles was lebt at the German Scienceblogs, I want to bring you impressions from the Annual Meeting of the German Genetics Society in Cologne.

We did it. Yesterday was Science Online London, a conference about the online communication of science that took place at the Royal Institution. I hope that everybody that attended had a great time. You can see a lot of conference coverage on Twitter (hashtag #solo09) and in the FriendFeed Science Online London group.