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Meetings with Co-referee ===

Courses/lectures/seminars === Seminars — - *Inflammatory and genotoxic effects of particles*

30.1.2009

Dr. Roel Schins, Arbeitsbereich Partikelforschung, Institut für umweltmedizinische Forschung, Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf

- *Skeletonization of images and topology*

06.05.2009

Dr. Felix Weinstein, Institut für Anatomie, Universität Bern

- *Surfactant Counts: The Emerging Role of Congenital and Acquired Alterations in Surfactant components in Lung Disease*

24.06.09

Prof. Mike F. Beers, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center

- *Understanding the mucosal defence of the respiratory tract in humans*

27.07.09

Dr. Adam Wright, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK

- *The endometrium and placenta; epithelial barriers during pregnancy*

27.07.09

Dr. Brett McKinnon, Endometriosis and Reproductive Medicine, DKF, Tiefenauspital, Bern, Switzerland

- *Toxicity of Scooter Emissions*

21.09.09

Loretta Müller, Insitute of Anatomy, University of Bern

- *Strength training for elderly: from a functional, structural and molecular perspective*

21.10.2009

Matthias Müller, Insitute of Anatomy, University of Bern

- *Genes associated with athletic performance*

25.11.09

Barbara Wessner, University of Vienna, Austria

Courses — - Diss, was nun? - Workshop der MVUB

13.11.2009

University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Workshops — - Work-Meeting at Fraunhofer MeVis

7.-9.10.2009

Fraunhofer MeVis, Bremen, Germany

Assistance in practical student courses === - Masterstudent (Sebastien Barré)

6 months (23.02.2009-19.08.2009 )

Partial support

- Wahlpraktikum

3 students

Each in total about 80-100h work done on skeletonization project

- Histokurs

20.03.2009 - Ossifikation

01.05.2009 - weibliche Geschlechtsorgane

24.09.2009 - Epithelgewebe

03.12.2009 - Niere, ableitende Harnwege

Each approx. 2.5h assistance in lectures

Internal presentations of research results === - Poster: *Quality-guided synchrotron-based tomographic microscopy of large lung samples*

3rd Graduate School Students' Symposium

28.01.2009, University of Bern

- Talk: *Kleine Pixel, grosse Samples*

Tag der Anatomie

20.02.2009, Universität Bern

- Talk: *A high-resolution three-dimensional view of the developing acinus*

11.05.2009, Inselspital Bern

Foschungsvieleck Lunge

- Talk: *Small pixels for large samples*

SLS Symposium

3.11.2009, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland

[Invitation](http://sls.web.psi.ch/view.php/events/Symposia/SLS-Symposium-03.11.09.pdf)

Presentations at national meetings === - Poster: *Quality-Guided Synchrotron-based Tomographic Microscopy of Large Lung Samples*

71\. Jahresversammlung SGAHE (presented by Johannes Schittny)

4.9.2009, Lausanne, Switzerland

- Poster: *Generation of terminal airway skeletons using synchrotron based x-ray tomographic microscopy*

71\. Jahresversammlung SGAHE (presented by Johannes Schittny)

4.9.2009, Lausanne, Switzerland

Presentations at international meetings === - Talk: *Quality Guided Synchrotron Radiation Based X-Ray Tomographic Microscopy of Large Lung Samples*

ATS 2009 • San Diego, the International Conference of the American Thoracic Society

15.-20.05.2009, San Diego, California, US

[Abstract](http://ajrccm.atsjournals.org/cgi/reprint/179/1_MeetingAbstracts/A1060.pdf)

- Poster: *Generation of acinar skeletons in high resolution 3D-visualizations of terminal airways in mammals*

ATS 2009 • San Diego, the International Conference of the American Thoracic Society

15.-20.05.2009, San Diego, California, USA

[Abstract](http://ajrccm.atsjournals.org/cgi/reprint/179/1_MeetingAbstracts/A3531.pdf)

- Poster: *Generation of terminal airway skeletons using synchrotron based x-ray tomographic microscopy*

Interdisciplinary Symposium on 3D Microscopy 2009

12.-16.07.2009, Interlaken, Switzerland

- Poster: *Quality-Guided Synchrotron-based Tomographic Microscopy of Large Lung Samples*

Interdisciplinary Symposium on 3D Microscopy 2009

12.-16.07.2009, Interlaken, Switzerland

- Poster: *Generation of terminal airway skeletons using synchrotron based X-ray tomographic microscopy*

First Joint Users' Meeting @ PSI: JUM@P '09

12.-13.10.2009, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland

- Poster: *Quality driven expansion of the field of view in synchrotron radiation x-ray tomographic microscopy*

First Joint Users' Meeting @ PSI: JUM@P '09

12.-13.10.2009, Paul Scherrer Institut, Villigen, Switzerland

Publications === - *Multimodal imaging for the detection of sub-micron particles in the gas-exchange region of the mammalian lung*

David Haberthür, Manuela Semmler-Behnke, Shinji Takenaka, Wolfgang G. Kreyling, Marco Stampanoni, Akira Tsuda and Johannes C. Schittny

Journal of Physics, Conference Series

[http://stacks.iop.org/1742-6596/186/012040](http://stacks.iop.org/1742-6596/186/012040)

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