Work is going really well. For those that don't know (or have forgotten) I work at ETH/University of Zurich in the bioelectronics group (there's a pic of me on the staff page, woot!). I have been continuing with my main job of scanning mouse femurs and processing the images for analysis. Basiclly that means putting little mouse bones into a holder, putting that into the x-ray machine and then pressing some buttons. Then when the scans are done I rotate the images to the right alignment, and then cut out 3d sections so that density analysis can be done.
Some other projects that I have worked with are mouse mandibles(see left), mouse vertebrates(see below), human bone biopsies , snail poison (strange one...), and silicon samples. A couple weeks ago I got to dissect some mouse legs that were sent frozen to us (something that I wasn't expecting in my electrical engineering career, lol) and then scan them, that was really cool.
Everyone I work with is really nice. There is a new guy sharing my office now, he's from Vancouver (yay, a fellow Canadian), it's nice having an office buddy. In September I am going to a conference in Lausanne, and am apparently presenting a poster...I need to find out more about that.
Some of us eating lunch by the Riverfrom left: Philipp, Jess, me, Romain, Tom, Martin, Stefan, Phil, Harry
And to answer my 3 most commenly asked questions:
1) Do you work at Alstom or ABB? Neither, I work at in Zurich at ETH/University of Zurich
2) Zurich, why do you live in Baden then? Because all the other Calgarian interns live in Baden and I am a sheep
3) So if you're an electrical engineer, why are you working in a bio lab? I'm really interested in bioengeering, and because it's a bio-electronics lab, so they mostly do programming, not dissections and such. Actually almost everybody I work with is a electrical or mechanical engineer. Besides, I was offered a job in Switzerland, as if I'm going to turn it down for any reason
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