Summer Party of Schlossplatz 8: Super Heroes on the move

Today, we finally had another SP8 summer party, after the sad Corona times. Hopefully, we can now resume our regular annual schedule. Compared to past times, the party had grown already long ago with the merger of our Institute for Biochemistry and Biotechnology of Plants with the Botanical Institute to form the Institute for Biology and Biotechnology of Plants, so that colleagues from our neighbouring building were joining. With the recent merger of the Institute of Zoophysiology and the Institute of Molecular Cell Biology to form the Institute of Integrative Cell Biology and Physiology, we welcomed more neighbours. This year, the motto was Super Heroes and as usual, the best costume was awarded a special prize. Also as usual, teams had formed to compete with each other in many funny games which had been planned by the organising team from zoophysiology. Rather unusual were the quantity and, even more strikingly, the quality of the buffet to which everyone had contributed. This is always a highlight of international cuisine, but this year was even more spectacular. It clearly out-competed in popularity the excellent and, to a good extend, vegan barbecue. Our group had two teams who did very well in the competition (though one of the Schwarzländer teams won), and one of our teams earned the special costume award – well deserved! And as usual, the party continued late into the night. We are already looking forward to next year’s event!