by Roberto — Last week I was very for­tu­nate. I had the op­por­tu­nity to fo­cus my at­ten­tion on putting life on Earth in per­spec­tive. It was a wel­come respite con­sid­er­ing these try­ing times. Al­most one year ago, thanks to Nas­sos Ty­pas, I re­ceived an in­vi­ta­tion to speak on mi­cro­bial di­ver­sity at the Eu­ro­pean Mol­e­c­u­lar Bi­ol­ogy Lab­o­ra­tory (EMBL) in Hei­del­berg...