(top-left) Beyene Zewdie collected a zillion of healthy and infested coffee leaves, berries, bark and roots in the area of origin of Arabica coffee in southwestern Ethiopia for analyses of the pathobiome, (middle, top) Collections of Arabica coffee berries, (top-right) A galler-mildew drink to celebrate the PhD defense of Maria Faticov on ‘Spatial and temporal ecology of oak-associated fungal communities’, and (bottom) The PhD defense of Laura van Dijk on ‘Interactions between plants, microbes and insects‘.