Leontina Grigore Gurgu, who is our specialist in genetics, visited the Institute of Biotechnology from the University of Helsinki. Her visit lasted from 11.02.2018 to 1.03.2018 and was coordinated by the Research Director of this institution, Dr. Petri Auvinen, one of our SafeFood partners. Leontina’s visit was focused on bioinformatics methods for analysis of data produced with state of art NGS platforms developed in the institution. She has been tutored on day-to-day basis by Dr. Margarita Andreevskaya and M.Sc. Ilhan Cem Duru. Now, Leontina knows how to perform RNAseq analysis reaching from the primary data handling through QC, mapping, differential gene expression analysis followed by GO class enrichment analysis filtering the most relevant features among the gene expression data projected to metabolic pathways. The genomics related tools are generic and can be applied to any organism one studies. This visit was supported by the PN-III- P1-1.1-MC-2017-2418 project financed by UEFISCDI, but Leontina’s new expertise will be used in the SafeFood project too.