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My lab:
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Finally! Last Monday I traveled to Bonn to present my grant proposal to the DFG. It was an almost 5h train ride after which I met with an old friend from graduate school for dinner. Used most of the ride to tune the talk and rehearsed it some more at night before going to bed. This 15min talk would decide if I would be unemployed in April or still be in science. The talk was set at 9.30am the following day, March 3rd. I was there a little early and got to talk to the lady defending her project before me (they had sent her out for their deliberation). Then the panel (10 professors) invited me in, I hooked up my laptop and started the presentation:



The talk lasted the scheduled ~15 minutes. After that, there were some questions and I was asked to leave the room. I left and took the train back to Berlin, again ~5 hours. Back at the lab in Berlin at around 7.30pm I got a call from the DFG telling me that I was accepted as a Heisenberg fellow and that my simultaneous grant for research funds was also accepted. So now I need to seriously work on the lab website: lab.brembs.net
All's well that ends well! laugh.png Now's the time for a party!

UPDATE: Apparently, as of this writing (6-3-9, 9am CET), the presentation is still pending with Nature Precedings, so it will show up as soon as it has gone through the curatorial process. I'll take the opportunity to link the a description of what the Heisenberg Program actually entails. This is of course also the time to thank all the people who have supported me thus far. This is Hans-Joachim "Jochen" Pflüger, who was so kind to bail me out and pay my salary for the last 12 months. Then there is Randolf Menzel, a mentor who has gone out of his way to support me in many, many different ways. Over the years, there have been a number of people who have supported me in various ways, either with their education, advice, letters of recommendation, encouragement or otherwise: Martin Heisenberg, John Byrne, Bernard Balleine, Ralph Greenspan, Mark Miller, Eric Kandel, Klaude Weiss and David Glanzman.
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