Leon-Samuel Icking

@lsi.bsky.social

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PhD student from the Kalmbach Lab in Neuchâtel flowerpunk 🏵️ + solarpunk ☀ Anything SynBio (and Plants 👀)! iGEM Freiburg Ultra🤘 Chaotic neutral

The giant dachshund günther laying on a sofa next to me
Picture of Günther the dachshund sunbathing on the balcony
Photo of Freiburg taken from "Lieblingswiese" close to Rosskopf
Picture of Zsofia, Roxane, and Leon in front of the Martinstor in Freiburg
A smartphone screen shot showing the "you have been blocked website" on biorxiv
A t-shirt showing genetically modified arabidopsis flowers arranged in a bouquet placed in an microcentrifuge tube as a vase
Ann-Kathrin won the 2nd best talk
Meeting old colleagues from Freiburg
Nicole inside of the Detector presented at the DESY in Hamburg
A picture of me at the DESY in Hamburg
A picture of the contamination club calendar showing a picture of a fungus on an agar plate
Wave-like contamination on a 1/2 MS plate
Deutsche Bahn saying the delay is due to a delay in Switzerland.
The Tintin meme where the captain says "What a week, huh?" and Tintin answers "Captain, it's Wednesday".
Logo of the iGEM Phoenix Project - Rekindled project
Spongebob looking happy while cleaning tables. Mr Crabs and Spongebob are concerned about Spongebob
Christmas market meeting with members of the iGEM teams 2013, 2015, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025 from Freiburg
Tray of Arabidopsis thaliana plants bound to a metal rod and bagged in paper bags
Picture of Cara and Lennert in a restaurant called yummy noodles in Paris
A picture of me in the crowd of the iGEM grand jamboree holding up my SC Freiburg football club scarf to celebrate their BEST FOUNDATIONAL ADVANCE win
PI Nicole Gensch holding all the awards they received at the iGEM competition
Freiburg wins best FOUNDATIONAL ADAVANCE at iGEM 2025
Best judging prize being given out on the big stage of iGEM
Picture of the final day of the iGEM grand jamboree 2025 with a timer sitting at 6:36 on the main stage screen.
Picture of my Judge Badge for the iGEM competition 2025
The actor Antonio Banderas sitting on a chair and looking at a computer screen. He leans back into the chair while moving his hand to his mouth in satisfaction.
Paragliding with a view from the alps
Arabidopsis mutant with big leaves
Arabidopsis seedling which appears to be 3-times the size of a normal seedling
Seedling with incredibly large cotyledons
The "but you can't prove it" meme from the TV show dexter that came to life in 2025. It shows the actor Eric King behind a steering wheel looking very serious.
Picture of my flatmates cat, Arvine
picture from nick desnoyer's bsky account showing wild type arabidopsis thaliana flowers and genetically engineered flower, being bigger, having more petals and coloured pinkish
LEGO figure head looking like Joaquin
Picture of Michael and Jonas at a bar drinking Kölsch in front of the Dom in Cologne
The character Samus from the game Metroid Prime
Picture of my mom ♥️
Google Books Ngram viewer with the words "chimeric" and "chimera", showing the usage of the word increased in 1975
AlphaFold2 structure of PLL12 coloured in the viridis colours regarding to a heatmap
A slide projected on a wall containing a glass of bier and the planet earth to the left of it
Photo of the digital screen inside of a Deutsche Bahn train showing that the next destination is Freiburg
DFG Made a pixelated penis for the excellence clusters of Munich LMU and Munich TU
A cow standing in the waves on the beach with the words "I am cringe" above the cow and "But I am free" below the cow
Google search of "MEGA sequence coloring" showing sequence alignment colouring and pokemon mega evolution as results
Picture of the entry of the Max-Planck-Institut für terrestrische Mikrobiologie
A photo of the inside of the physics institute in Frankfurt
Photo of one of the medical institute buildings in Heidelberg, Germany
A picture with somebody mouth pipetting and a round text saying "pipetting like it's 1960!"
A picture of the Heidelberg Train station
4 people sitting around two round tables at a café in Freiburg. The people from left to right: Hannah, Alexej, Isa, Michael.
A picture of a tardigrade "laying" on it's left side with the feet in the air
A scene from the TV series "malcolm in the middle" which has been turned into a meme. The meme has four subimages with Hal saying to his son Dewey "Dewey, go easy on that Polymerase" in the first scene, in the second scene he says "That stuff isn't produced by bacteria", in the third scene he says "Wait, it is", and in the final scene he says "So why is it to damn expensive?".
Man in a black shirt, pants and shoes wearing an apple costume covering his torso while smiling. The background is white
Image of an RNase structure (proposedly made with PyMOL)
Picture of the seminar room in Neuchâtel with Rodrigo Reis standing in front with Martina Legris. The first slide of the talk reads "RNA regulation in warm environments"
"Sonntags Frage" for the government vote of Germany. CDU at ~30 percent, SPD at ~16%, Grüne at ~14%, FDP at ~4%, Die Linke at ~6%, AFD at ~21%, BW at ~5%, BSW at 6%
An Eppendorf pen looking like a micropipette