This year the Fossati Lab celebrated Christmas a little differently. Instead of waiting for December’s usual swirl of travel, conferences and family migrations, we decided to hold an early “pre-Christmas Christmas dinner”, the only kind possible when most of the lab is about to leave the country. We talked phages (obviously), the imminent Stockholm darkness, travel plans, and one mysterious pizza that really shouldn’t have worked but somehow did. There were no experiments, no pipelines, no fraction numbers, just a group of people enjoying an early moment of calm before December turns into a logistical singularity.

Thanks to everyone for making our first lab “Christmas-but-not-quite-Christmas” dinner memorable. Next year we promise to schedule it when the calendar says we should.
Maybe.