by Roberto — Be­ing re­tired, I no longer get the op­por­tu­nity to brain­storm with post-doc­toral can­di­dates hop­ing to join the lab about pos­si­ble projects to pur­sue (an ac­tiv­ity that I greatly en­joyed for many years). But ideas of in­ter­est­ing re­search ar­eas in the mi­cro­bial sci­ences still arise of­ten in my mind. So I will, on oc­ca­sion, use...