MSc student Carlotta Paone, after a productive 10-month Erasmus+ traineeship at HCMR, has successfully defended her master’s thesis titled ‘Gene expression response of Chondrilla nucula to a simulated marine heatwave event’ at the University of Algarve, Portugal. Her work was implemented in the frame of MACCIMO, under the supervision of PIs Dr. Elisavet Kaitetzidou and Dr. Thanos Dailianis.