Nora has just returned from a three week summer course on microbial biofilms held at the Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) research unit within Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. The summer course explored biofilms on a multidisciplinary scale, and involved lecturers and competitively selected participants from over 22 different countries. Lab tours and demos in SCELSE and the National University of Singapore (NUS) showcased cutting edge technology employed to understand microbial systems on a variety of levels.