IMBB alumnus Nikos Kyrpides shared his experiences on how to become a group leader with the talk “The unwritten curriculum: lessons that shape careers beyond textbooks and courses”. The well-attended lecture at IMBB was part of the Mentoring and Career Track seminar series. Nikos did his Ph.D. in the laboratory of Sifis Papamatheakis. He is currently a Principal Investigator at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California.