LaraVB

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👩‍🔬 Postdoc in MedMicro at UKB and Uni Bonn | working on antibiotics, cell wall, Wolbachia, NTDs 📝 Section editor at Student Network for Open Science e.V. she/her ORCID: 0000-0002-3066-1841

View of the old town of Mosbach with its typical half-timbered houses
Collage of four photos from the DZIF PEG 2026 meeting in Bonn. Top left: me standing in front of my poster. Bottom left: a conference slide displayed in the lecture hall reading “DZIF/PEG Joint Meeting 2026, Bonn.” Top right: view from the first floor down into the foyer with tables, catering, and conference participants networking. Bottom right: me and my Spanish colleague smiling and holding churros during a break.
Blick über die Spree auf den Berliner Fernsehturm. Die Ufer sind schnee- und eisbedeckt, der Himmel ist weißgrau. Die Turmspitze ist wolkenverhangen.
Collage of two photos: on the left, the Bonn Christmas market at Sterntor with the orchestra stage in view; on the right, me playing the euphonium.
View of the blue sea under a blue sky.
I am wearing a big smile, white T-shirt and my self-made doctoral hat. I am standing in front of a bookshelf in the institute's seminar room. In Germany, it is a tradition that colleagues craft a unique doctoral hat for the PhD graduate. The hat has lots of details on top, prominently including small cell culture flasks. On the front, it reads "Dr. Lara".
Auditorium of the Wolbachia conference. The slide shows "Welcome Remark, and Information from the Organizing Committee"
A disinfectant wipe I got at ESCMID Global last year. It says "See you next year! Vienna, Austria 12-15 April 2025"
Florestan (spokesperson of the GBM Postdocs) introduces our group on stage. The board with its 4 members (including myself) is shown on the slide.
The picture shows a pizza with banana, pineapple, plant-based "chicken" and curry.
Two gloved hands form a heart shape: the left hand wears a purple glove, and the right wears a blue glove. The ground is visible in the background, along with legs and winter boots.
This is a collage with the main picture showing me, standing on snow in front of the Umeå Town Hall. I have integrated a picture from a thermometer showing that it had 21 °C in my flat, while it had -21 °C outside.
A cell culture flask with a confluent layer of insect cells, where "Merry Xmas" has been carved into the cell layer. The flask is held by a gloved hand over a centrifuge in the background.
"Petri Dish Jazz Club": 7 round petri dishes arranged with one in the center and six around it, each depicting elements of jazz music. The dishes feature a trumpet, saxophone, drums, a singer, piano, double bass, and a central vinyl record labeled "Jazz.".
Christmas cookies on a blue plate, shaped like a pill (antibiotic), email icon, DNA strand, and coffee mug. Some are stamped with "ECCMID" or "2024".
The picture shows the result of my personality quiz: "You are amoxicillin! You are reliable and hard-working. Many people turn to you when they need help. But sometimes you wish they would try to resolve their problems without your assistance. You are good-natured and agreeable but tend to not get involved in “severe” situations."
The collage includes 3 pictures. On the top left is a blue banner from ESCMID Global. On the bottom left is the blue title slide of Lord Jim O'Neill's talk at ESCMID. And on the right is me standing in front of the Eiffel Tower with a blue poster roll and wearing a hoodie with "Preventing Antibiotic Resistance Together".
A calm blue sea under a bright sky with a few clouds and a rainbow. In the foreground, a single bird soars gracefully.