Wednesday, April 13, 2011

My argentine friend

My today’s post is related to a person that lives in another country, the expert I admire in my field, that is particularly molecular biology in Chagas disease, is a person I met when I was in Argentina, in the laboratory of Research Institute of Genetic Engineering and Molecular Biology (INGEBI) at the University of Buenos Aires, where  I did an internship. Her name is Margarita Bissio, a doctoral fellow and partner who helped me understand more of the real time PCR and their use. She is not only an expert in making, but also a very good person. One day, I went with her to teach children in a poor neighborhood in a house that had organized support with others, outside a typical Argentinian village, because they could not study in their own homes. She was very patient to teach them and me in the lab, helping me a lot in the research. When we had some free time, she showed me around the city; we celebrated Chilean national holidays on September eighteen with a barbecue with other lab mates and Cristian, was visiting me in those days. I had a great time and learned a lot about the technique that helps me to research today.
 

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

My last movie: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 1

This movie is based on the seventh book of  Harry Potter novels.  It  Is a magical film that describes the adventures of the young boy wizard ,Harry Potter, and his best friends ,Ron Weasley and Hermione, students of Hogwarts School of witchcraft and wizardry.
In this film Voldemort's power is growing stronger. He now has control over the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts. Harry, Ron, and Hermione decide to finish Dumbledore's work and find the rest of the Horcruxes to defeat the Dark Lord. But little hope remains for the Trio, and the rest of the Wizarding World.
With very good visual effects, I recommend this film and all Harry Potter’s movies for people who like action and magic.

I hope you like it

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Welcome to my blog!!


My name is Catalina. I´m a Veterinary doctor; now I´m a student in the first year of Doctorate of  Silvoagropecuarian and Veterinary Sciences. Usually I work   at the laboratory of parasitology of the University of Chile,   at the Medicine Faculty, working in Chagas disease in molecular diagnosis. The objectives I hope to achieve with my blog are to have better English language skills by sharing and having some fun  with my colleagues  in this language.