The Jeltsch Laboratory

27/09/2024

Keeping the fingers crossed that our protein chromatography machine doesn't get bricked by a botched update as happened to us last year.

08/09/2024

Zürich 17°C, Helsinki 24°C. Cycling back home from the airport.

16/06/2024

Hungry fox in front of Coolhead Brewery Viikki today morning.

06/04/2024

If you have a "green card" (S-etukortti), you can vote for me in the upcoming HOK-Elanto cooperative elections (osuuskauppavaalit). Number 167: For a green, science-based and international agenda.

I want to advance an aggressively green, science-based agenda. And I want Finland to feel like home not only for the indigenous but for everyone committed to Scandinavian values. Look at my values at the candidate finder website.

27/01/2024

New blog post from Michael Jeltsch: Do fish have lymphatics?

Read the whole back story in our preprint: https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202312.2119.v1. It isn't easy to believe that the scientific community cannot agree on whether zebrafish have a lymphatic vascular system. Zebrafish is one of the most successful model organisms in biology, and one would as...

17/01/2024

New blog post from Michael Jeltsch: Why you should not use BioRender

About two years ago, our university started subscribing to an institutional plan for BioRender. BioRender is a browser-based scientific illustration software with a large library of pre-made items, including complex illustrations. It allows you to illustrate scientific concepts quickly or to make fl...

16/12/2023

New blog post from Michael Jeltsch: It’s difficult to grade student’s assignments

I have been reading hundreds of student assignments this autumn. In many of these assignments, the students are expected to answer questions. Grading these assignments means deciding whether the answer is "right" or "wrong". This is sometimes difficult. Most answers are somewhere between "right" and...

28/11/2023

New blog post from Michael Jeltsch: The Finnish 1000 PhDs pilot

The Finnish government is going to finance 1000 additional new fully funded doctoral positions, which would start in the academic year 2024/2025.

23/09/2023

Students are trying to make a point that it is unfair to ask them to cut down their expenses while sparing parts of the population that anyway pulled the longer straw (i.e. the retired boomers).

[Huomio: adressi on tarkoitettu Helsingin yliopistolla työskenteleville. Tämä tarkoittaa sekä Helsingin yliopistoon työsuhteessa olevia että Helsingin yliopistoon affilioituneita henkilöitä. Kaikkien allekirjoittajien tulee kertoa allekirjoituksen yhteydessä asemansa tai affiliaationsa Hels...

20/09/2023

New blog post from Michael Jeltsch: Bio-Rad fixes our NGC

The best way to keep your FPLC device in good shape is to have a maintenance contract. Although we have been able to get money from our university to buy a top-of-the-line FPLC twice in the last 30 years, getting money for a service contract is much more difficult. One of the many reasons is that mo...

26/08/2023

According to my daughter, the orbital representations of carbonic acid look like a teddy bear.

04/08/2023

New blog post from Michael Jeltsch: Did we publish in a predatory journal?

When I get a manuscript review request, I first look at the journal where the request comes from. More often than not, I do not know the journal's name. After all, perhaps 25000 scientific journals are published on our planet. If the request comes from a predatory journal, I mostly reject it. Someti...