{"id":163,"date":"2022-02-24T17:02:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T17:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/alumni-brains\/?p=163"},"modified":"2022-02-24T17:02:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T17:02:06","slug":"ana-morello-megias-this-program-has-helped-me-to-improve-not-only-my-curriculum-but-also-my-technical-skills-and-my-scientific-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/alumni-brains\/2022\/02\/24\/ana-morello-megias-this-program-has-helped-me-to-improve-not-only-my-curriculum-but-also-my-technical-skills-and-my-scientific-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Ana Morello Megias: \u2018This program has helped me to improve not only my curriculum but also my technical skills and my scientific thinking\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What is your name?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ana Morello Megias<\/p>\n

Where are you from?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am originally from Panama but I lived almost all my life in Madrid<\/p>\n

To which class do you belong?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

MRes Experimental Neuroscience, Class of 2021<\/p>\n

Where and what did you study before joining Imperial College London?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I did a Bachelors in Biomedicine at the University of Alcal\u00e1 de Henares, Madrid, Spain<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>How did you find your\u00a0Master\u00a0experience at the College?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Great! It allowed me to explore different fields of research within neuroscience and to try and learn new methods, which is exactly what I was looking for in a masters program<\/p>\n

Which research project did you work on?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I did three projects. The first one was computational, with Professor Payam Barnaghi. The aim was to develop learning models for in-home sensory data analysis in dementia care. The second one was at Dr Marco Brancaccio lab and I studied the daily expression of the astrocyte water channel AQP4 in the context of Alzheimer\u2019s disease. I did my last project in Madrid, Spain, at the laboratory of Dr Javier DeFelipe. I studied the dendritic spine morphology in layer III pyramidal neurons from the entorhinal, transentorhinal and temporal human cortex, using imaging and 3D cell reconstruction techniques<\/p>\n

Where are you now?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

I started a PhD in Anatomy and Neurobiology at Boston University<\/p>\n

What are you working on?<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the moment, I am studying<\/p>\n

What is the most important lesson you learnt as a Master student?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Research projects may have long-term and short-term objectives. It is important to know and focus on the priorities<\/p>\n

How did the Master programme help you get to where you are now?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I believe this program has helped me to improve not only my curriculum but also my technical skills and my scientific thinking, and, therefore, helped me become a good candidate for the PhD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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