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Late Autumn social update

As always, the lab has been busy. Several lab members have left the lab, and we bid farewell to them. In August, we barbecued in the forest to celebrate the time that Cécile and Manuel spent with us in the lab. Cécile won a UZH Doc.Mobility grant and is visiting at Yale, whereas Manuel is continuing as a postdoc at Harvard. Loorenkopf and the view of Lake Zurich from it and the lab down at the bottom of the tower.

A Social Update from the Krauthammer Lab

The past few months at the lab have been very busy, but we still found some time for social events. We continued our now annual tradition of entering a team into the SOLA Stafette event at the start of May, and then followed it up by having a few entries at the Forchlauf at the start of June, followed by the SOLA Duo at the end of June. A few of our members who took part in the Stafette event Cécile and Mark taking part in the SOLA Duo In the middle of April we had a joined ‘welcome and goodbye’ dinner for master students who were either leaving or joining the lab.

KrauthammerLab is taking part at the SOLA-Stafette 2023

The SOLA-Stafette is a bit of an ‘institution’ in Zürich, and again this year the KrauthammerLab is taking part! We are running the 114.7 kilometres (2’747 m in altitude) in aid of Cancer Research at the Comprehensive Cancer Center Zurich, and we would welcome all donations through the below link. Please support our efforts with an amount big or small: https://engage.uzhfoundation.ch/Claudia-Stenger/sola2023 The Stafette is made up of 14 legs of different lengths, divided up among our 14 team members.

Lab Ski Trip

2 days in Davos

Zoo visit and Christmas dinner

Last week, our Lab went to the Zoo of Zurich and had a nice Christmas dinner with Fondue at “Chäsalp”. First, we spent the afternoon in the zoo where we could observe many interesting animals. Queen of animals Fun fact: Penguins are not able to pick up fish from the ground by themselves A hungry tiger A super cute red panda After the zoo visit, we went to the near located restaurant “Chäsalp” from where we had a nice view over the city.

Lab Outing: Küsnacht walk

A late autumn "hike".

Bio-informatics event

Last month, the Krauthammerlab and four other bio-informatics groups (Boeva, Menze, Rätsch and Vogt labs) from the ETH, UZH and USZ organized their first joint event. The goal of the evening was to meet and learn more about the research activities of the different groups. Each of the PIs gave a talk, introducing their lab and giving some background on the projects they are working on. Afterwards, all participants (PIs included!

Lab Hike: Adlisberg

Hiking through the May fog.

Lab Hike: Mount Rigi

This is how our lab gatherings look like during the pandemic.

Book Review: Causality, Probability and Medicine by Donald Gillies

I read Donald Gillies’ book “Causality, Probability and Medicine” a while ago and wanted to give a brief comment and overview of the content. There is no conflict of interest, this blog post simply represents my personal experience. I am neither promoting the book nor have I received funding for this article. About the author Donald Gillies studied Mathematics as well as Philosophy of Science at King’s College Cambridge and received his PhD from Cambridge University.