The Johnson Lab traveled to Knoxville TN as part of a planning meeting for the upcoming POWOW cruises. Working the project co-PIs Zinser and Wilhelm labs and joined by the Buchan and Campagna labs, who will also be part of the field projects, all with UTK, we refined cruise tracks, planned temperature shift incubation experiments and otherwise worked on cruise and travel logistics. Erik Zinser treated us to an Oktoberfest party with homemade sauerkraut – microbiology in action!