Gender and diversity in STEMM: building an inclusive community
Coordinated by: Jimena Grosso, Alejandra Pardo M, Ana Adruchow-Colombo
TALKS
Creating A Seat at the Table: Philosophy of The Black Women in Computational Biology Network
Jenea I. Adams University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. USA.
Jenea I. Adams holds a Bachelor's degree in Biology with a minor in Computer Science from the University of Dayton. She is currently a Ph.D. Student at the University of Pennsylvania in the Genomics and Computational Biology Program of the Perelman School of Medicine. Her research interests lie in cancer genomics and developing bioinformatics tools relevant to cancer immunotherapy, but she is passionate about connecting computational biologists across a diverse array of fields. She is the Founder of The Black Women in Computational Biology Network (blackwomencompbio.org)--a global, online networking platform that connects and amplifies Black women at all professional levels studying biology through a computational lens. We share our science, journeys, professional development opportunities, and are currently working toward ways to communicate our field and the work that we do to the broader community. We serve as a great multifaceted platform for mentorship and fostering cross-cultural scientific collaboration and education.
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Inclusion in science and gender gap: the case of editorial board on biodiversity conservation journals
Luisa Fernanda Liévano Latorre Conservation Biogeography Lab, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia e Evolução, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia (GO), Brazil.
Luisa Fernanda holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biology from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, and a Master’s degree in Ecology and Conservation from the Universidade Federal do Paraná (Brazil). She is currently a Ph.D. student at the Universidade Federal de Goiás in the Ecology and Evolution Program. Her research is focused on global change and armed conflict impacts on different dimensions of Colombian biodiversity. Her interests are ecology, biodiversity conservation, biogeography, and interaction networks. Furthermore, Luisa has a special interest on discuss the reasons and possible actions to include people underrepresented in STEMM, as women, indigenous, black and LGBTQ+ communities, and persons with disabilities. Luisa has already focused principally on the existing gender bias in life sciences.
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The Inclusion Group for Equity in Research in STEMM: some LGBTQI+ perspectives
Anson Mackay Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Department of Geography, North-West Wing, UCL. London, UK.
Anson Mackay (he/him) holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biological Sciences (Botany) from the University of Edinburgh (UK), and a PhD in upland ecology and palaeoecology from the University of Manchester (UK). He is a professor at UCL (University College London; UK) where his main research interests are on freshwater ecosystems, and how they are impacted by climate change and human impact, especially over long timescales. He also works extensively on equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in academia, both in his university and nationally, through the campaigning network called TIGERS: The Inclusion Group for Equity in Research in STEMM. He is a proud LGBTQI+ scientist, and co-founded the staff-student LGBTQI+ group ‘Out in Geography’. He is currently Faculty Vice-Dean for EDI, and recently won an award for Diversity and Inclusion in Education.
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Building an inclusive bioethics for field work in the 21st century
Liliana Dávalos Stony Brook University, New York. USA.
Liliana M. Dávalos es profesora de biología de la conservación en el Departamento de Ecología y Evolución de la Universidad Stony Brook. Sus intereses de investigación incluyen evolución molecular, filogenética y biología tropical. Lidera el grupo de Biología Tropical, que estudia la extinción y la supervivencia en el tiempo profundo, la genética funcional en mamíferos diversos y la deforestación.
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