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Afterwards, no one could actually remember what that gesture meant. Or why we did it. But we did anyway.

Comfortable lab attire is of course a relative term

Pipetting aliquots of dd water, lab saftey of course comes first for F.L.

After a long day, S.B. decided to the test the effect of nitrous oxide on Arabidopsis seedlings.

 After years of deprivation and excercise, F.P. performs his masterpiece "The crane on a cold day"

 At the same time, F.D and A.L. just stand in the water without much of a reason

With the evening advancing, T.L. felt increasingly less understood

 

 

It sounded easy when the instructor explained it. "Pull over to the bank, THEN leave the boat". On the side of the bank, of course.

 

 

 

 

         

 

Olympic skiing experts argue what is more amazing, the admirable aerodynamic elegance of Z.Z's downhill position,

or the fact that she is actually moving on completely flat ground, at a speed of about 0.03 mph..

 

 

L.P. is usually credited among experts for the invention of cross crountry ski breakdance.

 

 

 

 In what seemed to be a tragic misperception of right way traffic, L.K. carefully checks the train rails before crossing.

 

 

 

 

A picture taken of N.K. and A.H. from the Netherlands just before the kickoff of the Football (soccer for our American friends) World Championship final Netherland against Spain. A picture after the game could not be taken due to a sudden camera damage.

 

 

                                    

At 15.27 o'clock, a local farmer reported several chicken missing from his farm close to the institute. Presumably, so he told to the police officer, some "foxes" from the woods nearby must have payed him a visit.

 

 

Curiously, the next morning the person on the left could not remember anything. The one on the right vowed that he had not been at the party at all.

           

 

Searching for possible hidden talents L.P. and N.K. briefly tried their luck in portraiting.

Then they quickly decided to go back to the lab and do some more work.

 

 

 

         

 

Witnesses of S.B's ride reported that even years later they would wake up every night from hearing that scary scream again.

 

 

                                         

                 Mishearing her PI's inquiry, A.H. went on to demonstrate in her first progress report how she "struggled" with a particular experiment.

 

 

 

 

While most of his new tough friends dressed up as "warriors" or "LA gangstas", unfortunate TF.L. decided to come as, .... well ... apple!

 

 

Unfortunately ignored by everyone due to noise from the refridgerator behind him, TF.L. mentioned that he just found out that the place where the rainbow hits the ground was right next to the institute.

 

 

 

 

Little attention S.K. had payed to the warning that there were some "nasty little creatures" down in the growth chambers

 

 

 

 

The place behind the institute is great for summer barbeque. The other times of the year just for barbeque.

 

 

A cult among heavy metal fans, the "Ballad of Mad Root Stem Cells". People who have listened to it actually wonder why.

 

 

 

 

 

 

     Soon A.D. realized that skills and perseverance mentioned in the job description meant something else than what she was prepared for 

 

 

     

 

                                                                                                        

                                                                                     On the first evening of PhD candiate recruitment, basic skills are the issue

 

 

                                              

Eager to fit in with her new lab mates, M.U. happily accepted to join for an after work beer. Little did she know that it was actually served in some kind of buckets.

 

 

 

 

         

Gradually it became clear to M.U. what "cabin with individual energy management" meant.

 

 

                                      

                     At the evening of that day when everyone had taken a final "cheese" shot, some of the participant noticed their first wrinkles that didn't want to go away again. Never did actually.

 

 

 

The old style architecture of the seminar room provided a cozy atmosphere for everyone. And smacking head bangs for the taller ones of us.

 

 

 

J.L. with a single-arm pushup in the ice cold river, a daily duty for all lab members.

 

                      

                           .....unsuccessful manuscripts still give a great fire at the end of the day!

 

 

                                                                                                                          

                                                         The last thing he could remember was that slightly bitter taste in his beer after he returned to the fire.

                                                                                                    And how upbeat everyone else suddenly seemed to be.

 

 

 

 

Today, soon-to-be-professor M.L. expects the safety officier's annual visit

 

 

 

 

                                 (We actually don't know these people)

 

 

                                                                             

According to yet unsubstantiated rumors, several late night workers apparently had completely sunk into their chairs and were not seen again ever since.

 

                                   

                       Nothing causes more fear and panic in the lab than when this guy says "We always fixed such things ourselves".

 

 

                                                                            

                                                                                   "Zese pens are so much fun to label with"

 

 

         

        We are desperately seeking postdoc applications from Switzerland or Austria!

 

 

 

                                                                                                      That's all folks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Last update  18/09/18