Report on the EMBL-SLL Internship in Rome – Andrea Behanova

This seminar encapsulates an internship experience at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Rome, conducted in September 2023. My primary project, supervised by Alvaro Crevenna in collaboration with the Boulard group, aimed to profile the expression patterns of 200 murine olfactory receptor genes within the nasal epithelium of wild-type and mutated mice using a microscopy-based method and image analysis pipeline. The seminar will include the interdisciplinary nature of the research, hands-on laboratory work with cutting-edge in situ sequencing techniques, and the invaluable skills and knowledge acquired during the internship. My journey of learning, growth, and scientific exploration emphasizes the potential for significant contributions to the field of molecular biology.