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When cell biologist Jimena Giudice was an undergraduate studying chemistry at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, one of the few biology-related classes she took was on alternative splicing, a process by which different proteins can be produced from the same gene. While she continued to study chemistry, she remained fascinated by the topic, and when she became a visiting fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, Germany, during her doctoral work at the University of Buenos Aires, she got the chance to take a week-long course on splicing. “Instead of taking vacation days, I took those days to do that course,” she says. After receiving her PhD in 2011, Giudice did a postdoc at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, until 2016, when she started her own lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. Her lab studies how ...