https://padlet.com/madalenareal23/InMyLife Reach me at: madalena.real23@gmail.com en-us 2020-08-05 15:36:35 UTC 2024-05-21 18:28:40 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f9a0.png madalenareal23 https://padlet.com/madalenareal23/InMyLife/wish/670276338 With this backdrop for my entire childhood, an adoration for mountains was fostered. I used to go hiking on weekends, with a local mountaineering club.]]> 2020-08-05 15:43:43 UTC https://padlet.com/madalenareal23/InMyLife/wish/670276338 madalenareal23 https://padlet.com/madalenareal23/InMyLife/wish/670281140 I was born and raised in Vila Real, a mountain-cradled town in the north of Portugal.]]> 2020-08-05 15:47:09 UTC https://padlet.com/madalenareal23/InMyLife/wish/670281140 madalenareal23 https://padlet.com/madalenareal23/InMyLife/wish/670293084 2020-08-05 15:56:29 UTC https://padlet.com/madalenareal23/InMyLife/wish/670293084 madalenareal23 https://padlet.com/madalenareal23/InMyLife/wish/670295706 2020-08-05 15:58:36 UTC https://padlet.com/madalenareal23/InMyLife/wish/670295706 madalenareal23 https://padlet.com/madalenareal23/InMyLife/wish/670299513 In the summer of 2018 I had the pleasure of visiting Hoga Island, in the Wakatobi National Park, Indonesia. There I studied the reproductive behavior of dwarf cuttlefish (Sepia bandensis) and became an Open Water diver.  ]]> 2020-08-05 16:02:09 UTC https://padlet.com/madalenareal23/InMyLife/wish/670299513 madalenareal23 https://padlet.com/madalenareal23/InMyLife/wish/670317946 I've always loved drawing; so in 2018/2019 I conjugated that hobby with my passion for science by doing a one-year specialization in Scientific Illustration.  ]]> 2020-08-05 16:16:58 UTC https://padlet.com/madalenareal23/InMyLife/wish/670317946 madalenareal23 https://padlet.com/madalenareal23/InMyLife/wish/670330930 I have a special place in my heart for Cephalopods: amazingly clever little Mollusks, such as octopuses and cuttlefish. They're complexity and quirkiness never ceases to fascinate me! ]]> 2020-08-05 16:26:37 UTC https://padlet.com/madalenareal23/InMyLife/wish/670330930 madalenareal23 https://padlet.com/madalenareal23/InMyLife/wish/670337615 I'm now starting a new adventure as an EEB grad student at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.]]> 2020-08-05 16:31:51 UTC https://padlet.com/madalenareal23/InMyLife/wish/670337615 madalenareal23 https://padlet.com/madalenareal23/InMyLife/wish/670362427 An introduction to my current research interest: the microbes who live within (and without) us and how we came to create such vital interactions between ourselves.]]> 2020-08-05 16:52:20 UTC https://padlet.com/madalenareal23/InMyLife/wish/670362427