The first thing Francesca Gambaro did after two months at home was climbing up to the greenhouses on the roof of the Biology department to check on her experiments.
“Personally I really like being in the laboratory, I mostly deal with analyzing the growth of nannochloropsis microalgae in natural light conditions in our greenhouses […] It was certainly upsetting to leave the research work, especially for those of us dealing with cell cultures which need to be cared for and maintained on a weekly basis. Knowing that we could not return the next day or the following week, for sure, gave us a hard time”.
Back to Lab is a project of the University of Padua, narrating research from the point of view of those who make it and in particular of those who were able to return to the laboratories at the beginning of the so-called phase 2