WiSS 2021 Speakers

Keynote:

• Prof Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz – Mammalian Embryo and Stem Cell Group, University of Cambridge, UK. Bren Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering at California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, California, USA.

• Prof Maya Schuldiner - Department of Molecular Genetics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

Academia:

• Dr. Dragomir Milovanovic - Principal Investigator, German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Berlin.

• Dr Sushma-Nagaraja Grellscheid - Associate Professor at the University of Bergen, Norway and Assistant Professor at Durham University, UK.

• Prof Alexandre Bonvin - Professor of Computational Structural Biology, Scientific Director of the Bijvoet Centre for Biomolecular Research, Utrecht University, The Netherlands.

Industry:

• Dr Pamela Williams – Senior Director, Molecular Sciences, Astex Pharmaceuticals.

• Dr. Carien Dekker - Senior Principal Scientist, Novartis.

• Dr Alicja Czubaty - IT Expert Business Analyst, Roche Global IT Solution Centre.

• Dr Stefan Merkl – Chief Scientific Officer & Co-Founder of CrystalsFirst GmbH.

Mainstream careers:

• Dr Danielle Desravines – Grants Officer, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) Grenoble, France, and Heidelberg, Germany.

• Dr Karin Kuehnel - Senior Editor, Nature Communications. London, UK.

• Dr Radika Patnala – Founder and Director Sci-Illustrate, Munich, Germany.

• Dr Bianka Siwińska – CEO Perspektywy Education Foundation.

Facts and figures:

• Dr Marem Jochimsen – Essen College of Gender Studies, Essen-Duisburg University, Germany. Vice-president of the European Platform of Women Scientists.

• Prof Gisbert Stoet - Department of Psychology, University of Essex, England.

• Dr Izabela Wagner - Associated Professor of Sociology at Collegium Civitas - Warsaw/Poland, Associated Researcher in DynamE - Dynamiques Européennes (L’UMR7367 - CNRS - Université de Strasbourg), Fellow ICM PARIS at the Institut Convergence Migration.

IIMCB received funds from "Excellent science - support for scientific conferences" Ministry of Science and Higher Education programme for the organisation of 1^st Women in Science Symposium. More: Ministry of Science and Higher Education programme.