May 2023 was a very busy month for our SmartAge ESR Ines Martinez Sanchez from Karolinska Institut as she took part in two conferences: “Mind mood and microbes” (Amsterdam, 10. - 11.05.2023) and “The Strategic Research Area Neuroscience (StratNeuro)” (Stockholm, 29. - 30.05.2023).
This is how Ines summarises her experiences and impressions of the two events:
“The conference in Amsterdam was incredibly interesting with around 100 posters and a lot of big people from the gut-brain-axis, also some companies were on sight. It was a lot of fun and easy-going as it wasn’t a huge scale conference, all group leaders were really approachable and generally you could talk to anybody!”
And for the NeuroStrat she said: ”It was a two-day trip to a fantastic area close to the Stockholm Archipelago with sauna and we had poster sessions and a lot of interesting talks with people from many universities. Also, in the evening a little party was not missing”.
At the NeuroStrat conference in Stockholm Ines was selected to present a poster blitz, for which she eventually won the prize, congratulations!!!