 I'm Elena Taverna and I'm a research group leader in the Neuromagenomic Center at Human Technical. I'm Martina Polenghi and I'm the PhD student in Elena Taverna's group. I study how neurons themselves build the brain and also how neurons establish connection and start to speak and communicate one to each other. The focus of my research is merging cell biology tools with robotics in order to study how brain develops and I'm focusing specifically on cellular trafficking and glycogenation. I choose HT because I wanted to study and merge cell biology, that is my background with the study of human neurodevelopmental disorders and therefore HT was the right place for us all. The most important thing that I've learned so far is that having lots of collaborations is crucial for science and in HT this is possible because it's an highly terogeneous environment. I think the HT biggest strength is people, their enthusiasm and the fact that they all bring to HT different expertise, different break ground, different way of thinking. Everybody is bringing something different to the table, genomics, structural biology, stem cell biology, immunology, you name it, I think we are a very intellectually rich place. HT for me means innovation, challenges and surprises in a positive way. For me HT means enthusiasm, challenges because it's a place that is just built and I think passion for research.