1/ The thymus is essential for T-cell maturation, protecting us from pathogens while ensuring tolerance to our own tissues. 🧬 This balance is maintained by the thymic epithelium, which, in mammals, birds, and bony fish, develops from the 3rd/4th pharyngeal pouches during embryogenesis.

Excited to be in this amazing line up for the RNA biology in host-pathogen interactions conference organized by the EpiViral twinning project! Plus in beautiful Porto! 🧬🔬🧫

A little secret about me… this is how I unwind in the evening. Drawing (preferably) furry canine creatures with color pencils. This one is already some 6-8h of work, 10x to go before finished.

When your institution has a core research line on grapevine biology it’s really easy to come up with a #SciCom activity that makes people happy to sit down for a couple of hours listening to science topics! A toast to our 6th Science and Technology Week wine tasting event 🥂

#Weekend post: gardener me thinks she is now the victim of something she found out about in a paper 😭 doi.org/10.1007/s12600-021-00903-1

From brilliant to beast… or how a teaching approach undergrads were raving about suddenly becomes crap 🤔 Student’s evaluation of my Bioinformatics course. I’m thinking 2023 = high schoolers caught by the pandemic. All else equal since 2021. Anyone experiencing similar issues?
#AcademicSky