What is he saying??

Roberto being extremely polite and friendly towards a friend he just saw while on the trip.

One year ago...

AAhhh remember those responsibility-less days... happy days indeed... particularly due to the color of my hair...

Development biology meeting

Dear collegues,
There is going to be a meeting entitled "Mechanisms of early development: cell fate determination, morphogenesis and patterning". This is specially for the ones that work in developmental biology. This meeting will gather a lot of excellent scientists from all over the world (including Dresden).
The meeting is going to take place in the Institute where I work here in Lisbon (Portugal).
Take a look to the web site...the deadline is close but I think you can still aplly afterwards.
Here is the link: http://www.igc.gulbenkian.pt/courses/cellsintoorgans/

Hope to see you there!

Kisses and hugs

How many??!!!

Hello not forgotten fellows of our beloved blog!! Here we have a picture of happy Lucia blowing the candles of her birthday cake.

CHALLENGE!!!: Can you guess SOLELY by counting (that many!!!) the candles how old is she??

Lucia is getting older (too)!!!

So this was Lucia's party at her place!! As you can observe, we have a high density of prospective parties next year!!! How will they fit in our tight phd schedule I still have not figured out.
CHALLENGE!!!:As evidenced by the figure, there are people who should have been working really hard but instead decided to attend both parties. Can you identify them???

Roberto is getting older ¡

The party at his place.

Last picture

Two weeks ago a burglar broke into our house and among the things he stole was my camera. Therefore, I am very sad to upload what might be the last picture I post. I hope I can soon get a new camera to keep shooting pics... at least get one before I move to Dresden in order to document our new set of tales and adventures.

Playground

... yes this has nothing to do whatsoever with science... just wanted to share my easter holidays with you. This is Potrero Chico in the northern part of Mexico. Amazing limestone to climb. Can hardly wait to visit Saxony Switzerland!!!

Exclusive mexican mob party

Hello everybody... it's been a silent quiet time!! I hope all of you are doing well, working a lot, drinking a lot and getting ready for the upcoming months. As you can see from the picture, here we do!!! If you were wondering, yes, we all ended drunk in the pool =)

Maté, Johny Lion und Robert

Sit up straight by Kurt Vonnegut

Ladies and gentlemen of the 1999 incoming
Master's program: Sit up straight.
If I could offer you only one tip for
The future, sitting up straight would
Be it.

Get to know your thesis committee members.
You never know when they're going
To go on sabbatical.

Do not read journal papers. They will
Only make you feel stupid.

Live in Escondido village once, but
Leave before it makes you hard.

Live in Rains once, but leave before
It makes you soft.

Don't waste time forwarding emails.
Sometimes they're funny . Sometimes
They're not. The P.H.D. is long and,
In the end, you probably won't earn as
Much as your friends who didn't go to
Grad School.

You are not as lazy as you think.

Don't worry about publishing. Or
Worry, knowing that worrying is as
Effective as trying to convince your
Advisor he/she may be wrong.

Nap.

Accept certain inalienable truths:
Food is not free. Professors will
Belittle. You too, will grow bitter.
And when you do, you'll fantasize
That when you were a master's student,
Food was free and professors
Listened to you.

Try to date.

Maybe you'll graduate, maybe you
Won't. Maybe you'll contribute to society,
Maybe you won't. Maybe you'll
Be hooded, maybe you'll dropout and get
A life. Whatever you do, don't work
Too hard. Your Thesis topic is half
Made up. So is everybody else's.

But Trust me on sitting up straight.

Let the science begin

Yes!! for all of you who have missed him here is our beloved HARRY!!!

Lab work

As you will guess, I am very very busy during lab hours. LOL. (Coming next: Harry Potter)

Carnival in the lab

Hi people!
This is Jen and me in the Carnival. We just had Journal Club and we were leaving the room like this! We had to wear these noses all day...you can imagine people from the other labs, looking at us and start laughing...
Jen was in Dresden for 3 years and she is always saying it was great! She can give you some advice if you want! So, I am really entusiastic to go there!

Carnival!!!

Hi to all!! This is a pic of Ruth during the carnival a couple of weeks ago. I hope we get the chance to do a massive field trip to these kind of events. It would be really nice if you share pictures from you in your home country. Best!!

Mr Potter's magic

If you were wondering why Xico always appears with his eyes closed in the pictures!!!

Happy couple

Where is that hand heading Xico??

party, party, party!!!

Mr. K and Ms. L at party. By the way, isn't it nice that the background looks like a DNA chip?? No coincidences!! =)

Antisense

What was that she was reading?? (By the way.... Jean-Leon: Me la pelas!! =)

The living room

Were we having fun or what!!!

The party again

Beware!!!

Beware of the... MEXICAN MOB!!! (coming soon to your city)

Nonsense

You can always have fun inside a phone booth

even more beautiful girls

more handsome guys

Beautiful girls

Two beautiful soon-to-become PhD student girls at Dresden MPI

Handsome guys

Just your average, good-looking male soon-to-be MPI-Dresden students =) ... and yes, that is indeed Rab5

More party pics!!

Friends and roomies enjoying the party

Enjoying the party

The Deal

So... Hereby I acknowledge my total defeat on the bet placed over the movie "Dirty Dancing"... yes, for all of you curious about it the movie IS set in 1963:
Baby: [voiceover] That was the summer of 1963 - when everybody called me Baby, and it didn't occur to me to mind. That was before President Kennedy was shot, before the Beatles came, when I couldn't wait to join the Peace Corps, and I thought I'd never find a guy as great as my dad. That was the summer we went to Kellerman's.
Who would have thought it!!!!

more characters

The bars

Gleeful students at a local bar.

The characters

Cliffhanger (also known as Roberto) boldly facing death (and eternal ridicule) in some urban structure

The coffee house. If the picture is too bright is not because Cliffhanger is a bad photographer, it is just because Jean Leon was greasy that day.

The characters

La fraise (also known as JeanLeon) pondering about the meaning of life, the universe, and everything else...

The Characters

Vivien milking the coffee plant

The characters

Harry Potter wishing his magic is strong enough to vanish his glass of beer

The Gang. Hello everybody. I hope this site is useful. I do not have that many pics but hopefully soon the image archive will grow. Best! Roberto