Lucila Gómez Olivieri and Pilar Ameijeiras recently returned from an internship at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
Pilar was selected and awarded a scholarship to attend the fourth edition of the UQ-Bio Summer School (from June 3 to 19), where she acquired essential skills in predictive modeling of cellular systems, focusing on experimental and computational techniques for the study of single cells. During the course, she developed competencies in Python programming, optical and fluorescence microscopy, multivariable statistics, stochastic simulations, among other advanced topics.
After completing the course, Pilar spent a month in Dr. Diego Krapf’s laboratory, where she implemented computational tools using machine-learning algorithms for sperm tracking and conducted fluorescence microscopy experiments related to her PhD thesis project.
Simultaneously, Lucila also stayed in Dr. Diego Krapf’s laboratory from June 18 to August 2, where she conducted crucial experiments for the development of her PhD thesis. She had the opportunity to learn new super-resolution microscopy techniques, such as DNA-PAINT, while also refining her knowledge of other techniques like Airyscan. Lucila’s stay was funded by the Male Contraceptive Initiative and the Company of Biologists.
