Considering both the work and personal interests of the candidate PhD hats are very specially designed and prepared by the colleagues a few days before the defense. Here are the contents of my hat :):):)
Inspired by the olympic season that was going on, experiments on the comparison of few techniques were given olympic places :):) placed onthe upper side.
The models of two islands in Europe I visited for my study are present on either sides.
The right one is Helgoland in the North Sea where I collected the samples and the left one is Crete in Greece where I did taxonomy of the samples.
In between both the islands is seen the photo of ship "Heincke" on which I cruised for one week for the collection of samples.
Then is the glass slide with three arrays attached...the actual
microarray (DNA chip) I developed duirng this work.
The is the big fish with its stomach open....indicates analyses of the gut content of fish.
Small fish, molluscs, crabs, shells present here and there indicate the invertebrate organisms I worked on.
The cups and the pipettes indicate molecular biological work.
A big chicken is seen on the rear end as its my most favourite dish.
Coffee beans are spread all over as its my most favourite drink.
The bottom of the hat consisted photo memories of Bremen with the City centre-Dom place, statue of Bremen musicians, statue of Roland, Science museum-Universum, Space centre pencil tower in the university and the pictures of microarrays all around.
The most surprising part which I least expected is.......................can you believe that my colleagues upon suggestion by tamms pasted a photo of Mahesh babu on the inner side of my hat :D:D:D incredible isn't it....I was shocked when I saw this and the happiness was boundaryless. The love showed in making this hat totally touched me and I want to thank Rijuta, miss x, Reinhard, Frank and tamms for making such a lovely hat and taking all pains to collect the things.
