Back from ETNA Summer School

I was away to attend the 3rd ETNA Summer School in Sofia, Bulgaria. My 10 days stay in Sofia has been very pleasant. Besides learning a lot of new things, I made lots of new friends. :)

The ETNA summer school is sponsored by European Union to provide training and networking opportunity to young researchers. The application is open for PhD students and post-doc early in their career. I stumbled upon the website last month and I thought I will give it a try. This year focus is plant genomics and bioinformatics in plant breeding. The school invited speakers from all over Europe and organized practicals for the the "omic" technologies. Travel and accommodation is sponsored. The next summer school will focus on system biology. Application is open in April next year. So keep your eyes open!