I became interested in insect neurobiology and behavior as an undergraduate student at the School of Exact and Natural Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. After obtaining my degree in Biological Sciences, I started my Ph.D. at the same university under the supervision of Prof. Claudio Lazzari, whom is now in Tours, France. In my Dissertation I studied different aspects of the physiology of the visual system of the haematophagous bug Triatoma infestans -one of the main vectors of Chagas’disease in South America- mainly through behavioral approaches. Although for a short time, in 1998 I was fortunate to work with Prof. Martin Giurfa, back then at the Freie Universitat Berlin, in Germany. I investigated color vision in honeybees, in particular, if bees are able to "see" red. We also studied how bees learn complex visual stimulus compounds. The learning capabilities of bees are just amazing!! After finishing my PhD in July 2000, I moved to the United States for a postdoctoral stint at the University of California at Berkeley (supervised by Prof. Alexander Borst, now back in Germany), where I studied dynamics of motion detection in blowflies using electrophysiological techniques. In August 2001 I obtained a PEW Latin American Fellowship in the Biomedical Sciences from the PEW Charitable Trust and moved to Tucson, where I’ve been since.