{"id":14835,"date":"2018-11-22T13:01:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T12:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.embl.de\/?p=14835"},"modified":"2024-03-22T11:30:06","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T10:30:06","slug":"nina-kathe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/news\/events\/nina-kathe\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambition and talent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Although Nina Kathe is just 20 years old and at the beginning of her scientific career, her scientific achievements have already been recognised by the EU. In 2017, she won the <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/info\/research-and-innovation\/funding\/funding-opportunities\/eucys_en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EU Contest for Young Scientists (EUCYS)<\/a> for her school project, which focused on antibiotic resistance. Part of her prize was a visit to EMBL Heidelberg, where she had the opportunity to attend a conference of her choice. Nina decided to take part in the EMBL conference \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.de\/training\/events\/2018\/TRM18-01\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Transcription and Chromatin\u2019<\/a> in August 2018. She also learned about EMBL\u2019s core facilities, tested the light sheet microscope in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.de\/research\/units\/cbb\/hufnagel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hufnagel group<\/a> and discussed her own research plans with members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.de\/research\/units\/genome_biology\/typas\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Typas group<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nina\u2019s interest in cell biology and microbiology began at school. She now studies biomedical science at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. The \u2018Transcription and Chromatin\u2019 conference was her first scientific meeting. She enjoyed the talks and felt like she got a good overview of current research. Her personal highlight during her visit to EMBL was meeting the Typas group. \u201cIt was really interesting. They showed me their labs and explained how the equipment works. You can read thousands of books, but you still know nothing until you\u2019ve seen how it\u2019s used,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nina was also very interested in discussing her own research plans with the Typas group. \u201cThey explained how bacteria influence the human microbiome and what happens during infection. I could ask all of my questions, and they were really interested in in my past research and future plans.\u201d She already knew that she wanted to do research in microbiology, and her time at EMBL underlined her interest in the topic. \u201cMy visit showed me how multifaceted this field is,\u201d says Nina. She enjoyed the atmosphere at EMBL and particularly liked the internationality and openness of EMBL\u2019s staff. \u201cAlthough, I still don\u2019t know exactly where I\u2019ll end up working in science, EMBL would definitely be one of my favourite options.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nina Kathe, Winner of the EU Contest for Young Scientists visits EMBL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":14836,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[210,43,301,233,582,558,493,593],"embl_taxonomy":[],"class_list":["post-14835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-lab-matters","tag-eucys","tag-heidelberg","tag-hufnagel","tag-microbiome","tag-typas","tag-women-and-girls-in-science","tag-women-in-science","tag-young-talent"],"acf":{"article_intro":"<p>Winner of the EU Contest for Young Scientists visits EMBL<\/p>\n","related_links":[{"link_description":"","link_url":""},{"link_description":"","link_url":""},{"link_description":"","link_url":""},{"link_description":"","link_url":""}],"article_sources":false,"vf_locked":false,"featured":false,"color":"#007B53","show_featured_image":false,"field_target_display":"embl","field_article_language":{"value":"english","label":"English"},"source_article":false,"in_this_article":false,"press_contact":"None","article_translations":false,"languages":""},"embl_taxonomy_terms":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ambition and talent | EMBL<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Nina Kathe is just 20 years old, but her scientific achievements have already been recognised by the EU. 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