News 2007
Gold for an LBB Alumna - ETH Medal for Brigitte!
We congratulate Dr. Brigitte Städler for having been awarded the prestigious ETH Medal for her outstanding thesis entitled "Biolithography: A Tool to Manipulate Surfaces for DNA-Assisted Patterning in the Micron- and Nanorange". Brigitte completed her thesis earlier this year and is currently working on a post-doctoral project at the University of Melbourne in Australia.
23.11.2007
A PhD Defence Success! - (Dr.) Thomas Blättler
The LBB extends a heartfelt congratulations to Thomas Blätter, a (former) joint PhD candidate of the LBB and LSST, who successfully defended his PhD on November 8th, 2007. His work was entitlted: "Particle Self-Assembly for the Creation of Biomolecular Patterns".
Once again, congratulations Thomas. We are proud to have you as an LBB alumnus and we wish you continued success as you seek your future fortunes in industry.
Poster Award - The LBB's First: Dorothee Grieshaber
Congratulations to Dorothee Grieshaber for being awarded the LBB's first poster award! Entitled: "Enzyme Loaded Vesicles in Enzymatic Biosensing", the poster was presented at NanoEurope 2007 (St. Gallen, Switzerland) and won for the category of Best Poster in Medical Applications.
13.09.2007
Science Across Cultures - Welcome to Victoria & Nasser
The LBB is delighted to welcome Nassar Darwish (Spain) and Victoria de Lange (Canada), who have come to work with us for a few months. Victoria studies as an undergraduate at the University of Victoria. She arrived on September 4th and will work on an enzymatic biosensor project under Dorothee's supervision until December 20th. Nasser is a PhD candidate from Universitat de Barcelona. He arrived on August 15th, 2007 and will work on the development of a Waveguide Excited Fluorescence Microscope (WExFM) until November 15th, 2007.
It is wonderful to be able to encourage the international exchange of scientific ideas and knowledge with the world. We look forward to many great discussions, exciting results and fun activities together with Nasser and Victoria.
01.09.2007
Expert Experience from China
We are honoured by the presence of Prof. Dr. Li-Min Zheng at the LBB for the next few months. She will help us to unravel some mysteries of chemistry related to our work with biosensors and bioelectronics. Her educational and work experience is as follows:
B.S. (1986), M.S. (1989) and Ph.D. (1992) in Chemistry at Nanjing University, China; Postdoctoral fellow (1994-96), University of Zurich; Postdoctoral fellow (1996), Academia Sinica of Taiwan; Visiting scholar (1999-2000), University of Houston; Lecturer (1992-97), Associate professor (1997-2002) and Professor (2002-), Nanjing University; Winner of Distinguished Young Scholar Award of Chinese Natural Science Foundation (2003); Vice-dean of School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (2005-).
Her current research interests include: Metal phosphonate materials; Low dimensional molecule-based magnetic materials; Surface coordination chemistry.
20.07.2007
The Next PhD Addition to the LBB Team
Elsa Thomasson studied in the Engineering Physics Master Program at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden. She came to the ETH in September 2006 to work on her Master Thesis Project "Wet Particle Lithography-Patterning Proteins Totally in Liquid" with the Laboratory for Surface Science and Technology (LSST). Upon the successful completion of her thesis, Ella decided to remain in Zürich and to begin her PhD in our group at the beginning of May, which pleases us greatly. She will be working in the area of mechanobiology and muscle tissue engineering under the supervision of Dr. Alfredo Franco-Obregón (Al).
20.05.2007
The Inaugural Lecture of Prof. Dr. János Vörös
We would like to commemorate this event and congratulate our group leader, Prof. Dr. János Vörös, on his successful inaugural lecture entitled "Bioelectronics: Interfacing Electronics with Biology at the Nanometer Scale." The inaugural lecture follows the acceptance of his professorship, which was granted on January 1st, 2006.
10.04.2007
The LBB Logo
The Laboratory of Biosensors and Bioelectronics is proud to unveil our new logo!
Another Successful PhD Defence - (Dr.) Brigitte Städler
Entitled "Biolithography: A Tool to Manipulate Surfaces for DNA-Assisted Patterning in the Micron- and Nanorange" Brigitte Städler successfully defended her thesis after many years of great work with the LSST and the LBB.
Congratulations and thank you Brigitte. We are proud to have you as an LBB alumna and we wish you continued success in all of your future endeavours; scientific as well as private.
Our Newest PhD Student
Gilles Weder, a biologist from the University of Neuchatel, will begin work on his PhD with the LBB. He will be working in the CSEM in Neuchatel, supervised by Dr. Martha Liley, on the interaction of cells with nanopatterned surfaces. Although not in our building, we welcome him to the growing LBB team!
23.03.2007
Our Scientific Visitor - From Half a World Away
The international flare of our group has expanded with the arrival of our latest visiting PhD Student, Kelly Bailey. She is performing her PhD at CSIRO, Molecular and Health Technologies in Adelaide, Australia, but will remain with us until the middle of May 2007. In the coming weeks we are expecting more visiting scientists from such countries as China and Spain.
10.03.2007