My Labonews

Usually the seminars we have every couple of weeks are simply below the interest threshold of read-worthy blogging. This is not to say that they are not scientifically exciting or intriguing, they're simply not worth the effort of reading about on this… more »

Yesterdays nobel laureate Sir Prof. Dr. mult. (he has 12 of them) John E. Walker (That is a funny name by the way) gave a talk in the Pharmazentrum. He received the price some 11 years ago for his work on the ATP synthase (the enzyme that generates ener… more »

The new cycle of Luxembourgish researchers abroad is starting in a couple of weeks, and since I'm also giving a talk at the Uni.Lu, I thought I'd do some advertising. 20.10.08    Paul KLOSEN (PhD / Maître de conférences) (Université de… more »

Don had told me about Kary Mullis giving a talk today at the Frauenspital in Basel. If that name doesn't ring a bell, you're probably no scientist... He's the inventor of the PCR, the polymerase chain reaction, one of the most commonly used techniques i… more »

I just arrived back from the symposium at Cold Spring Harbor. It's been a 5 day meeting, which is quite massive, and at a cost of around 1'000$, it's not quite cheep either. But I can say with confidence that it was absolutely worth it. I drove there w… more »

Il'll be off for a wonderfull meeting for the next couple of days, and most of you probably won't appreciate reading me live-blogging from there, so you'll be aware why it is so quiet here till Sunday. more »

Today was our institute excursion to the Walensee, SG. The weather was perfect and most of our institute came along. Leaving at 7:00 in Basel, we took the bus to Weesen and started with a highly welcome Kaffi and Gipfeli before starting our 2-3 hour tre… more »

First of all, don't blame me for the title of this meeting... It's organized by the CRP Santé and the FNR in the Abbaye Neumünster from September 28-29th 2007. I often am somewhat sceptical when I see scientific meetings of a major magnitude in… more »