Just under two weeks after Anne defended her thesis, our second first-generation PhD candidate, Michal Golos, followed suit. While Anne left us at the end of last year to move back to her home country Germany, Michal will stay with us for now, continuing his work on the Nepenthes trap rim as a postdoc. We are happy to keep him and are very proud of his successful thesis and viva – earning his Dr title and an appropriately decorated PhD hat to show it!