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Comment of my review on "Cancer management during the COVID-19 world pandemic"
- It provides a comprehensive review of the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on cancer care and management. It covers a wide range of topics from effects on diagnosis and treatment to guidelines from governments and medical societies.
- It discu...
Post · October 07, 2023
Comment on my Elsevier book chapter "The power of whole genomic sequencing in biomedical research and clinical applications"
This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of the emergence and advancement of genomic sequencing technologies and their application in biomedical research and clinical practice. It traces the evolution of sequencing methods from Sanger sequen...
Post · October 07, 2023
Article now published in ACS Photonics
We are very happy that our recent work on microengines driven by optical and thermal forces has been published in ACS Photonics and can be viewed online.
Thanks for the great collaboration with David and Onofrio from the CNR in Messina, Italy!
Post · October 05, 2023
Webinar on Transitional Career Paths: How to create a thriving startup from your resarch
Falko Schmidt was cordially invited to give a Webinar to the OPTICA student chapter at Istanbul Technical University.
His talk is titled: From High Tech Research to Impactful Industrial Applications: A personal journey from transitions between re...
Post · October 05, 2023
Invited Career Seminar at DokDok 2023
Falko Schmidt has been invited as current OPTICA Ambassador to give a Career Seminar on "From High-Tech Research to Impactful Industry Applications: A personal journey from transitions between research, industry and back".
The talk will be given ...
Post · October 04, 2023
Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimatology
It's been about 3 months since my time in Urbino, Italy at the Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimatology! Here I look back fondly on the things I learned, friends I made, and pasta I ate.
The Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimatology (USSP) i...
Post · October 02, 2023
Changelog: Speed up site access
Accessing sites is now several milliseconds faster now because I added indexing to subdomain values in sites.
I can't believe that I didn't have this indexed for a long time. I didn't notice it initially because there were only a few sites in Owl...
Post · October 02, 2023
Changelog: Reduce Ruby memory usage with jemalloc
I just reduced the amount of server memory used by Owlstown. This means that Owlstown websites can respond to more requests. It also means that webpages will load faster.
I learned about using jemalloc to reduce memory usage from this blog post b...
Post · September 28, 2023