Thanks to the SAIA program, our PhD student Paulína is currently on a 10-month internship at the Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (I²SysBio), which is part of the University of Valencia. Under the leadership of Dr. Džunková she will try to sequence and subsequent metagenomic analysis of faecal transplant samples of human autistic and neurotypical donors, recipients of the animal model SHANK3 mice and subsequently also the offspring of these mice. It will investigate the ability to transfer bacteria from donor to donor, and subsequently the impact of the transplanted maternal microbiome on the offspring. Through whole-metagenome sequencing, it will also focus on viruses, bacteriophages and their transmission during fecal microbial transplantation. Thanks to this internship, our student will learn the basics of processing bioinformatics data and their subsequent visualization.