They live the Marie Curie Actions experience and they talk about it!
WallTraC is an Initial Training Network funded through the Marie Curie actions, which give researchers great training opportunities. Here, you can read about WallTraC researchers' experience.
The latest tesimonials are available below, and you can read more about how researchers experienced the
Training Events and
their seconmdents in the corresponding sections.
Immacolata Venditto, PhD student at U.Lisbon was seconded to U.Copenhagen in the first quarter of 2013. The purpose of her secondment was to study binding specificity of CBMs by glycan microarray. On her last day, she gave us a few words about how she had lived this experience: |
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"I’m happy of my secondment in the U. of Copenhagen. I take this opportunity to thank Professor William Willats and his group for giving me a warm welcome but also for all the help I got in protein screening.
Julia helped me to test the proteins using Chromogenic Substrates while Maja and Silvia helped me with Glycan Microarray Technology. Behind that, I enjoyed to see Xiaoyuan ‘s work and understanding better her project. I’m happy with the results obtained, so I can say that my secondment there was really fruitful for my personal experience and for my project.
The climate in Copenhagen is quite different from southern Italy, but even so, I could ride my bike everyday (even under the snow!). I love riding on bike, and Copenhagen is the best place for it, so I could really enjoy this experience!" Imma |
Fanny Buffetto, PhD student at INRA, spent two weeks at Bayer in the first quarter of 2013. The purpose of her secondment was to learn a new technique and apply it to her samples. After, her secondment to Bayer, she left and went to U.Copenhagen to carry out more experiments. As she arrived in Denmark, she gave us a few words about how she had lived the experience in Belgium:
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"It was very interesting to have a secondment in an international company like Bayer.
Jean-Luc, Nadine and Frank were very welcoming and helpful. This exchange gave me the opportunity to learn a new technic for oligosaccharide separation. Being in a new environment with other scientists is a nice way for me to share results, technics and biological knowledge.
I am now at the university of Copenhagen to use the glycan micro-array technic. Another environment and again a lot to learn for very expected results. To be continued…". Fanny |
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WallTraC third training event was hosted by the University of Leeds in England. It provided the basis for the usage of molecular probes and covered different topics related to ethics in science such as the use of animals and scientific integrity. Kate Cameron, PhD student at the University of Lisbon, and Dhivyaa Rajasundaram, PhD student at the University of Potsdam, gave us their impression at the end of the event:
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“I really enjoyed the complimentary skills training as I have always found bioethics very interesting.
The training was interactive and involved a lot of open discussions which is always a nice alternative to conventional training. It was a great opportunity to enhance communication between all members of our WallTraC group and to learn the ideas of others for addressing ethical concerns in our different areas of research.
I have no doubt I will come across some of the situations discussed and it is nice to have an idea on how best to approach them ” Kate.
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"The scientific training event was well-balanced with the lectures providing theoretical background on the various aspects of antibody production, cell wall immunocytochemistry and microscopy.
Instead of merely sitting through lectures, emphasis was laid on practical aspects of the lectures covered to reinforce the scientific concepts. The hands on experience on immunolabelling and use of confocal microscopy to generate images interested me the most. Professor Paul gave a clear account of the presentation of micrographs in research papers and how to avoid the temptation of image manipulations.
I found the overall experience very informative as it gave me an insight into what it takes to work in the lab to generate data." Dhivyaa
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Writing:
WallTraC
Creation date: 10 February 2011
Update: 15 May 2013
