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Posted in Hanna, Marc, Switzerland, University on Aug 11th, 2010
We made our first trip to Fribourg the week after our arrival in Germany. There was so much to organize - a work permit, a work contract, an apartment, a Swiss bank account (feel free to transfer your fortune…it will be safe with us), a Swiss cell phone number, and so on. We got most [...]
Posted in Hanna, University on Aug 1st, 2010
As you know, Marc has been awarded a PhD fellowship for the last three years by the Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds. B.I.F. provides prestigious fellowships for about 45 new students a year after reviewing up to 500 applications and I am now officially following Marc’s footsteps.
I applied for the scholarship this January, passed the first round of [...]
Posted in Hanna, Marc, Salt Lake City, Travel, University on Jul 23rd, 2010
The title says it all. Soon, we’ll be starting a new chapter in life. After almost two years in Salt Lake City we will leave the US again (sooner than expected) and move back to good old Europe: Switzerland to be more precise. Our PI accepted a job offer at the University of Fribourg [...]
Posted in Hanna, Marc, Travel, University on Jul 23rd, 2010
Well, our Maui trip kind of interfered with my Japan report. But now forget about tropical rainforest, beaches and volcanos and let your mind travel back to Japan. Back in March (”A long, long time ago, I can still remember…lalalalala”) we took the train from Hiroshima to the 16th Japan Flagella Meeting in Gamagori, a small place close [...]
Posted in Hanna, University on Nov 23rd, 2009
Wow, I heard so many complains about not updating my blog….sorry people!! But I was kind of busy the last couple of weeks/months. Let’s start at the beginning: I finished my diploma thesis and sent it for print on September 14th!!!! Yeah!!! I had it print in Germany since the University of Konstanz wants it [...]
Posted in Hanna, Salt Lake City, University on Mar 19th, 2009
When I came to SLC I started writing an application for a scholarship of the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) to support my diploma thesis in SLC. And by now I can tell you: I made it…I’m an official scholar and they’ll support the next 6 months of my work, which is the maximum period they [...]
Posted in Salt Lake City, University on Mar 6th, 2009
That is what our lab is going through right now. In January, Su (our technician) left the lab to work in the field of neurobiology. But before we even came back from Germany, Fabienne hired a new one: Makiko, a very sweet person. Last month, Taka (our Japanese post doc) moved to Florida. And just [...]
Posted in Hanna, University on Mar 6th, 2009
I’m sooo sorry. I’m always writing new blog entries but instead of publishing them right away it takes me forever to do that. So here’s another article I wrote in January about my exam in December…so it’s pretty old:
On the 22nd of December (I know, only TWO days before Christmas), I had to take [...]
Posted in Hanna, Marc, Salt Lake City, University on Nov 14th, 2008
I got my U card (staff ID) yesterday and finally made it into the UofU system. Well, I still don’t have a bus ticket. For that I need to get my first paycheck and that will take some more weeks. But it’s good to have a picture ID that is not from abroad.
With that ID, [...]
Posted in Hanna, Marc, Salt Lake City, University on Oct 8th, 2008
…on our situation. Marc and I are still in Germany. Last week we moved from Konstanz to Aalen where we live with my parents. Leaving Konstanz was really hard…so hard that we went back there last weekend to visit Janni and watch the first basketball game of the season. But being home in Aalen is [...]
Posted in Hanna, Marc, University on Sep 10th, 2008
Decisions are made and it’s time to write a little bit about it….Marc and I decided to move to Salt Lake City, Utah! I don’t know if that’s kind of surprising for some of you, but I guess everybody being close to us has seen that the past year was not exactly the best. Well, I can’t [...]
Posted in Marc, University on Sep 9th, 2008
The “Laborjournal“, a German life science magazine (the English version is called “Lab Times”) just published an article about Marc and his time in Salt Lake City. The article is pretty cool, even though there are a few mistakes, but I think the author did a really good job explaining Marc’s research topic.
You can find the full [...]
Posted in Hanna, University on Feb 28th, 2008
….these were some of the places I’ve visited the last two weeks. As you know I’ve finished the “Molecular Toxicology” course by now, gave two talks within 22 hours (the first about “The layered structure of human mtDNA nucleoids” by Bogenhagen et al. and the second about my own work “The association of mitochondrial DNA [...]
Posted in Hanna, University on Feb 1st, 2008
Yesterday Konstanz went crazy….it was THE Thursday of the carnival season (called “Schmotziger Dunschtig” = Fat Thursday). At this day school is canceled, most people have the day off, stores close around noon and parties are celebrated everywhere. My day started at 10 a.m. when the carnival revelers conquered the university. Our headmaster and [...]
Posted in Allgemein, University on Feb 1st, 2008
Kathrin and the headmaster of our university, Prof. v. Graevenitz. We both got decorated with the carnival medal of the University of Constance.