News of 2010

Here is a summary of the relevant stories for the year 2010.

One more Doctor short before Christmas!

On December the 17th, Andreas Binkert brilliantly defended his thesis entitled: "Multiplexing and Miniaturizing Microarrays for High-Sensitivity Proteomics"

ETH Medal for Takumi

Dr. Takumi Sannomiya received the ETH Medal for his thesis on Optical BioSensing Based on Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance - Experiments & Simulations

Another one gets a hat!

On November 16th Ana Sala Roca succesfully defended her thesis entitled:
"Engineering in vitro environments to study cell-cell and cell-matrix interactions."

LBB Group Retreat 2010 (Location: Flims)

This year our yearly group retreat took place in Flims.
We could all share our research progresses, open scientific discussions and think about the future of the lab.
We also enjoyed the beauty of the Caumasee with some local food.

After a walk in the forest we reached the breathtaking Swiss Grand Canyon.
Finally we tried to follow Tarzan in his steps (or jumps) in the local tree-climbing park. Pretty intense group retreat with a lot of fun!

Another LBB Doctor

On August 31st Robert MacKenzie successfully defended his thesis entitled: "Nanowires and Ordered Nanosystems for Simultaneous Optical and Electrochemical Sensing."

01.09.2010

Materials Research Prize to LBB Graduate

Dr. Marta Bally received the Materials Research Prize for her PhD work in 2010.

27.05.2010

Newest LBB Members at the Turn of the Decade

The LBB would like to extend a warm welcome to both Prayanka Rajendran and Bernd Dielacher!

Prayanka, who originates from India, is a biotechnologist who has recently completed her Master in Biophysics and Photonics from Ecole Normale Supérieure, in France. She started in December 2009 and will be working on “In vivo RNA studies”.

Bernd is an electrical engineer from Vienna University of Technology. He started on the first working day in 2010 as a new PhD student in the group and will be working on nanowire biosensing as part of a Nanotera project.

04.01.2010