From December 4-6, the Gupta group and alumni (Sheetal, Jingyi, Paolino, Yanhong, Himadri) had a very exciting and inspiring trip to the Department of Biomaterials, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces (MPIKG) at Potsdam (Germany). Dr. Gupta is an alumnus of the MPIKG, having been one of the first members of the Biomaterials department when the department was newly constituted in 2003 under the directorship of Prof. Peter Fratzl, and gave a talk on "Investigating the nanoscale mechanics of complex biocomposites Insights from in-situ Synchrotron X-ray Scattering with Micromechanics". Paolino de Falco, PhD student of Prof. Nicola Pugno and Dr. Gupta and currently working as a PDRA at the Max Planck Institute, did a great job organising meetings for Sheetal, Jingyi and Yanhong with the range of PhDs and researchers at the MPI - thanks!