Working (and travelling!) The combination of research and globetrotting in MSCA Hola a tothom! How is it going? Yes, yes, I’m still alive. I know it’s been a year since my last post, but it’s been quite a busy one! Last time you heard from me I was in Freiburg and now I’m back to …
My first collaboration is out! My secondment in Freiburg just ended up with an amazing publication Out now on Science Advances! Stem cells are a wonderful tool to create atrial cardiomyocytes that spontaneously and continuosly beat in a dish… but what happen if we transfect them with the highly potassium selective channelrhodopsin WiChR? WiChR is …
The best “non-Summer” of my life From Karlsruhe all the way to “the most innovative town of the planet” The city of Boston from the Cambridge side of the Charles River When we think of Summer, we usually picture in our minds sunny days, beach holidays and thousands of sunsets at amazing spots. Well – …
Updates from a very busy year Now that we can safely travel again, there’s some catching up due for PersonalizeAF members! Okay, let’s take this out of the way from the git-go: this blog has been a bit silent for quite a while. I have no excuse for that except to say that I and …
Research = exchange From the EP-lab to a basic research lab Hallo! Wie geht’s? It’s been a while since I last posted. So long, that I even changed from speaking in Catalan to German in the work environment. “How so? Weren’t you doing your PhD in Barcelona?”, you may ask. And you’re right, but as …
Scientific Cooperation: Too many cooks don’t spoil the broth close up shot of M. tuberculosis, arranged in colonies (CDC/Dr. George Kubica, Public Health Image Library 1976) This time we are starting way back, 9 thousand years to be precise; to an untimely death of a mother and her infant in the eastern mediterranean, – taken …
Science and Art: Beauty in the Lab A painting of sea roses by Claude Monet and a fluorescence image of a coculture, can you tell where one begins and the other ends? Bull’s head sculpture by Pablo Picasso, made from a bicycle’s seat and handlebar Because this post is going to be about art, it …
Success and Failure Failure is all around the academic career, be that during experiments or grant applications. But is this always a bad thing? How to deal with it? A while ago, Teresa made a post here talking about imposter syndrome and perseverance during the PhD. I had been wondering about similar topics myself. Reading …
How a young chess champion from the rural town of Famaillá, Tucumán, Argentina became a nuclear engineer working on Atrial Fibrillation in Norway Hi everyone, my name is Sergio Nabil Gadur. I am 27 years old. I come from the northern part of Argentina. My town is characterized by the National Festival of Empanada and …
One year on.. The more you know, the less you know! Hey everyone! This is Narimane Early-Stage researcher number 10 from Bordeaux. Now I am on my way to the land of cheese and chocolate, I thought it’s the perfect timing for writing. I am really thrilled to finally type down another blog post, after a …
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