 What is your favourite microbe and why? Oh, I have so many. Salmonella typhi? I can't give you one answer, but of course E. coli to start with. Tarchioglobus fulgitus, because it's a thermophile and it can also grow in carbon monoxide, which I think is very cool. It would, of course, have to be Salmonella because it's the coolest microbe on planet Earth, Barnard. Sporomon saovata. Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which is a microbe that is at the basis of our civilization that makes many things that make us happy. Streptococci, because I have been studying them for over 20 years. Clostridium botericum, for its potential of cancer treatment these days. Bifidobacterium bifidum. Another organism I really like is alkanivorex, because it is responsible for degrading oil that's spilled in the oceans on a regular basis. Lactobacillus plantarum. Clostridium perfringens, even though it's a pathogen, because it, among the ones that I have worked with, it grows the best. So it didn't give me any trouble so far. So I really like halofax volcanic, it's a halophilic archaeon. It's colorful, it's red, makes nice pigments and it doesn't get contaminated because it grows in high salt. It has to be a fungus that's called verticidimdali. It regularly rearranges its genome. To my view, that's really just very intriguing. Lactobacillus rutri. It's really beneficial, actually. It can produce different kind of flavor compounds and also other in-products benefit us. So I really like it. Amicolatopsis meditatorii. Pseudomonas originosa. I find it will trick me at every turn way smarter than myself, so I really appreciate the challenge. Deesophiluna spongifilla. So it's a sponge-loving microbe that we find in sponges all over the world. Pseudomonas putida. I'm a generalist and I love diversity and so to choose one organism is not easy.