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Stanford Celebrates Women in Bioscience
The Stanford Women in Bioscience Symposium on May 1 featured a series of short talks by women faculty from the School of Medicine’s eight life science departments: biochemistry, microbiology and immunology, biological sciences, chemical and systems biology, genetics, developmental biology, molecular and cellular physiology and neurobiology.
In addition to discussing their research, the speakers were asked to describe one challenge they have faced as women scientists and to offer one piece of advice for young scientists.
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Julie Theriot, PhD, associate professor of biochemistry and of microbiology and immunologyDiscussion Topic: the biochemical basis of bacterial motility within and between human host cells
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Judith Frydman, PhD, associate professor of biological sciencesDiscussion Topic: how proteins assume their functional shape and how the breakdown of this folding process is linked to cancer, Alzheimer's disease and other illnesses
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Daria Mochly-Rosen, PhD, professor of chemical and systems biologyDiscussion Topic: challenges and opportunities in moving research discoveries into patient care
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Anne Villeneuve, PhD, associate professor of developmental biology and of geneticsDiscussion Topic: the mechanisms underlying the orderly segregation of homologous chromosomes during meiosis, the crucial process by which diploid germ cells generate haploid gametes
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Michele Calos, PhD, associate professor of geneticsDiscussion Topic: gene therapy and the development of novel vectors capable of integrating at specific sites in the genome
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Miriam Goodman, PhD, assistant professor of molecular and cellular physiologyDiscussion Topic: the molecular and cellular events that give rise to our sense of touch
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Jennifer Raymond, PhD, assistant professor of neurobiologyDiscussion Topic: the neural mechanisms of learning motor skills
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The event was made possible with support from Pat Jones, PhD, vice provost for faculty development; Hannah Valantine, MD, senior associate dean for diversity and leadership; and John Pringle, PhD, senior associate dean for graduate education and postdoctoral affairs.
Posted: 05/24/07
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