The CeMM – Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences scientific advisory board meeting took place from May 19-22. Miriam is an Adjunct PI at CeMM and gave a talk at the SAB meeting. The meeting featured >30 excellent talks mainly by PhD students and postdocs, and we received very helpful feedback from the SAB members Carl-Henrik Heldin (Uppsala), Emmanuelle Charpentier (MPI Berlin), Janet Kelso (MPI Leipzig), Hidde Ploegh (Harvard), and Richard Flavell (Yale).