...and Micronaut is here to stay!

Finally, I'm a living billboard. Image: © Martin Oeggerli / ® Micronaut.ch 2009. All rights reserved. 

the virgin birth of...

the www.Micronaut.ch-logo on my brand new sweater - custom made! Image: © Martin Oeggerli / ® Micronaut.ch 2009. All rights reserved.

what's up in Professor Rüegg's lab... ?

Raptor, an essential component of mTOR complex 1, determines the metabolic and structural state of skeletal muscles. The image shows a scanning electron micrograph of a cut mouse skeletal muscle. The sample was artificially colorized to visualize the different cellular structures. Connective tissue and extracellular components (white color) surround the muscle, which consists of individual muscle fibers (red). Muscle fiber types, whose distribution is affected in raptor-deficient skeletal muscle, are symbolized by the variation in red. For further information see Bentzinger et al, Cell Metab. 2008. Nov;8(5):411-24. © Martin Oeggerli / www.Micronaut.ch, 2008. All rights reserved.

hey sista'...

...all clothes are fucked. So, what are we going to play next? Filou and Artemis ("Klöni") wide awake. Diva ("Jada") in the background just before joining the vicious party. Image: © Martin Oeggerli 2008. 

Bilder der Forschung

The winners of the competition 2008. Image: Marc Steinmetz, the winner of „Faces of Research“, was represented by his proud father (at left, holding the certificate with the picture of his son) vertreten. Photographer Gottfried Stoppel (at right) won the public award and Swiss photographer-scientist Martin Oeggerli (middle) holds both certificates for 1st and 2nd price in the category 'Fascination of Research'.

Credit: W. Heider-Sawall / FM.

Best Research Image 2008 I

...on the way to the gala party we found this street by chance. Sarina didn't need to ask twice. Image © Martin Oeggerli / www.Micronaut.ch 2008.

Best Research Image 2008 II

Finally, Micronaut in front of his winning images: Waterbacteria (1st place) and Insect egg (2nd). I have been told by the jury that choosing the winner between both images was difficult and has been a  disputed decision. All images are presented anonymously, after all. Image © Martin Oeggerli / www.Micronaut.ch 2008. All rights reserved.