love at first sight...

Cleopatra, mother of six, and her beautiful daughter Jada, which meanwhile listens to her new name "Diva" and helps to protect Switzerland from beeing overpopulated by mice! Image: © Martin Oeggerli / ® Micronaut 2008. All rigths reserved. 

the stomach-contents of a...

CPD (Critical Point Dryer). Note the bursting disc (blue arrow) ensures safety, if the pressure passes the limit. I had the pleasure once to see it in full action and I'm not especially keen on making the experience again: the explosion made the machine jump up from the table but interestingly, my samples remained unharmed. I later produced some of my finest images ever... !! 

the 6-pack of the year!

...one came after the other until we finally got 6 young (and additionally two adults) by 3 a.m. After 30 days our place had slowly but continuously turned into a cat playground and on an ordinary day you could see e.g. three cats climbing up the sacred National Geographic Magazine collection while one was trying to catch Roger Federers passing shots on TV, another was using its razor sharp claws to climb up your naked leg, while the last one was constantly trying to bite off your toes. Thus, wearing jeans and shoes at home became the golden rule!

my dayjob

This is science right from the scene. Proliferation-array after silencing a potential amplification target gene. Image: © Martin Oeggerli / ® Micronaut.ch 2008. All rights reserved.