election

this weekend there are local elections in my homecounty, lower austria. therefore i received my ballo paper, but i had to build up my own polling booth all by myself. but for me as an politically interessted and dutifully person that was no problem.

utö

last week one of my austrian friends visited me for a couple of days. i tried to show him stockholm and the crazy stockholm nightlife as well as some nice places outside of town.
on a rainy day on grinda (die insel hatte auf alle fälle einen passenden namen für das wetter *gg*)
the old harbour of vaxholm
here, on utö, we had much better weather while we (nina, smutty, alois and i) were walking around.
yeah,... that´s smutty
nina, smutty and alois

livemusic in a small bar named klubb kingkong. can you see all of the 13 members of the band?

jukkasjärvi

some pictures from the icehotel. there we met two german students who are also studying in stockholm, laura and nina.



and this is how it looks outside of jukkasjärvi (on this day we had -only- neg. 15°C / + 5°F, which is way too warm for this time)
the main road of jukkasjärvi.

borlänge, lappland, narvik

in the last weeks i did some trips to various parts of sweden. borlänge and falun, lappland (kiruna, jukkasjärvi and narvik on the nowegian side) and some more islands in the east of stockholm (runmarö, grinda, utö);marie, julia and kathi in a small cafe in borlänge. we also went to the lake siljan, to the towns mora, where we did a dog sledge tour, and falun, with the falun mine which is a unesco heritage and further to sälen, a skiing area.

in lappland, in the very north of sweden we visited the icehotel in jukkasjärvi, we did a 2 days tour with another dog sledge and stayed overnight at a traditional sami hut and did a one day trip to norway, to narvik.
at the camp where we stayed overnight
this was the place where we got our trinking water
on the way into the sunset with our dog sledge
this is sara, a girl i met on kho tao in the south of thailand where i did my diving course a couple of months ago. she and some other friends are from kiruna and it was very nice to see her again. unfortunatley i could not meet the other girls (elin and ida), because they are still travelling.

during the train journey to narvik we passed the border to norway and saw a fjord just some 300meters beneath the railroad. the weather was not the best during this day, so we could not see so far to the lofotes but still we could slightly see them.

BB2170 - Drug Development

one of my chosen courses at the KTH is drug development. it describes the discovery and development of new drugs, shows different methods of getting the desired characteristics. another part of the lecture is ADME (absoption, distribution, metabolism and elimination) of drugs and different drug classes.
Every lession there is another lecturer who is expert in one of these topics. so far we had some lecturers from companys (affibody, astrazeneca, biovitrum), as well as professors from the other universities in stockholm (karolinska institutet, kth).
furthermore there are 3 study visits (affibody, sgc and medivir) and we are supposed to write an own report about one chosen drug. This project contains following areas:disease, target and molecular mechanism, structure, synthesis, metabolism/toxicology, IPR, formulation and marketing.
the drug i choose is avastin, which is a drug used against late lung and late colorectal cancer. so if you are interessted in more detailed informations on this drug, i am half a expert so far*gg*

with all these different techniques which are used in this lecture it is much more than just a normal lecture with a professor and his/her .ppt files. here the people at the university are much more motivated and interessted to get us to know and to learn about a specific topic in the field of biotechnology. (compared to some lectures and professors at my homeuniversity)
this picture shows the five different stages of colonrectal cancer. from stage 0, a small polyph to stage IV, a big cancer tissue with own bloodvessels and metastases spread out to other parts and organs in the body.

stockholm

in the last swedish lession i learned: jag tänka dricka en flask rödvin på tisdag!
but thats not all we are doing here. almost everyday we have got lectures at the university and -should- start with learning swedish and write our papers we need for the other lectures.
beside of that we have time for doing some old fashioned city sightseeing.
visiting all those touristic sights feels usually for me like beeing a tourist, but not this time. it feels more like this is my hometown where i live. so stockholm is quite familiar to me, yet.


looks like an atomic bomb but its just the lovley sunset behind the old town - gamla stan - in the city center.

inside of gamla stan - stortorget; this is also the square, where the nobel museum is located
the 1628, during the mermaid cruise, sunken warship - VASA of the king gustav II adolf.
in 1961 the ship was lifted to the surface, cleaned and restaurated and is now a museum.
next to the vasa museum there is the aquaria vattenmuseet, the aquarium of stockholm. they have some riff and leopard sharks as well as some poisonous coloured frogs and some other fishes.
here´s a black-yellow "nemo" clownfish

first weekend - first trip to the sea

with the intention to got to the sea we started to go east by bus and ended luckily on a ferry to a small island named SANDHAMN.
on this island a lot of swedens are spending theyr weekend with bathing in the sea. today we only saw 5 people. so, there are not so much activities but a walk around the island was the best thing to do.
tomorrow i ve got my first swedish lession - lycka till mig.