Author Archives: obesity_2014

Great news for our lab!

On Mon­day, May 23rd Arsene received an offi­cial let­ter from the Finnish Nation­al Agency for Edu­ca­tion inform­ing him that he was award­ed the EDUFI schol­ar­ship to pur­sue his doc­tor­al work at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Helsin­ki. In a nut­shell, the grant is intend­ed for post­grad­u­ate stud­ies as well as research and...

Going North – Two lab members join the Helsinki group

On Sep­tem­ber 1, Arsene Kanyamib­wa and Hen­drik Hart­mann relo­cat­ed from the Max Planck Insti­tute in Leipzig to the Uni­ver­si­ty of Helsin­ki, dou­bling the group size there. Besides deal­ing with Finnish bureau­cra­cy and enjoy­ing the full mete­o­ro­log­i­cal spec­trum from a sun­ny Sep­tem­ber to a rainy and cold Octo­ber, both picked up...

The O’BRAIN Lab in times of Corona

Life at the O’BRAIN Lab is begin­ning to return to nor­mal — staff in Leipzig were wel­comed back to the office (in small num­bers), while work­ing from home con­tin­ues in Helsin­ki, with an exit strat­e­gy being pre­pared. We tried to make the best of social dis­tanc­ing while in lock­down and...