Marta Andres Terre

My Journey MARTA ANDRÉS-TERRÉ B E C O M I N G A “ G L O B A L” S C I E N T I S T

Today’s presentation A roadmap

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LEAVING BARCELONA & HIGH-SCHOOL

THE UNIVERSITY YEARS

GRADUATE SCHOOL AND BEYOND

How it all started

Getting the ball rolling

What does the future hold?

How it all started (or how things took an unexpected turn, definitely for the best)

2005 Awarded scholarship

Had an amazing time FRIENDS, MENTORS, TRAVEL, EXPERIENCES, LEARNING INSIDE AND OUTSIDE

2008 Graduated with focus on Biology/Chemistry

The university years

2010 2010

2011

First Research Project Zurich

Third Research Project New York

Second Research Project Stockholm

2012 2011 2009 Start undergraduate Barcelona

Second Year Barcelona

Undergraduate International Scholarship Philadelphia

Zurich, Switzerland

First Research Project Biology Undergraduate Summer School

Worked in a neuroscience lab, studying neuronal regeneration in the spinal cord

Stockholm, Sweden

Second Research Project Amgen Scholars Summer

Worked in an immunology lab, studying the mechanisms of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

New York, USA

Third Research Project Cold Spring Harbor Undergraduate Research

Worked in a molecular genetics lab, switching model organisms to Arabidopsis thaliana

Finishing undergraduate: what now?

Decisions, decisions, decisions

En route to a PhD Living in the USA and applying to graduate programs

Cold Spring Harbor, NY Internship

Stanford, CA PhD

Philadelphia, PA B.S.

My PhD Studying the heterogeneity of infection

EXPERIMENTAL

COMPUTATIONAL RIG-1-like receptors (RLRs)

Transcription factors

2’-5’ -oligoadenylate synthetase

Interferon-induced proteins

Dr. Seuss

Congratulations!

Today is your day.

You're off to Great Places!

You're off and away!

You have brains in your head.

You have feet in your shoes.

You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

You're on your own. And you know what you know.

And YOU are the guy who'll decide where to go.

You'll look up and down streets. Look 'em over with care.

About some you will say, "I don't choose to go there."

With your head full of brains and your shoes full of feet, you're too smart to go down any not-so-good street.

And you may not find any you'll want to go down.

In that case, of course, you'll head straight out of town.

It's opener there in the wide open air.

Out there things can happen and frequently do to people as brainy and footsy as you.

And then things start to happen, don't worry. Don't stew.

Just go right along.

You'll start happening too.

Oh, the places you will go!

Thanks to:

The mentors

The friends