We'd like to give a warm welcome to Dr. Mark Somoza. Together with a team at the Leibniz-Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich (LSB), he develops and applies large-scale photolithographic nucleic acid microarray synthesis for traditional and novel bioanalytical applications. He specializes on gene expression analysis for sRNA detection and analysis, spatial transcriptomics of tissue sections via RNA capture for food and nutritional physiology research, and nucleic acid based aptamer and antibody mimics for target binding and detection. We are looking forward to having him in our research group and wish him and his team a lot of success for all their experiments.