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"Women in Science" Dr. Marta Hernández Pérez

Gender Awareness Group ( ALL VITAL WOMEN)

"Women in Science" Dr. Marta Hernández Pérez

Gender Awareness Group ( ALL VITAL WOMEN)

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Rosalind Franklin

• 25 July 1920 -16 April 1958• British biophysicist and x-ray crystallographer • King’s College-Birkbeck College• She used X-ray diffraction to view DNA• James Watson and Francis Crick used

Franklin’s data to build 3D models of the structure of DNA (helical structure) after attending one oh her presentations in London.

• Aaron Klug was her assistant (Nobel Laureate 1982)

• Completed a model of TMV (tobacco mosaic virus)

• RNAss in TMV is wound along the inner surface of the hollow virus

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Francoise Barre-Sinoussi

• July 30, 1947, Paris

• PhD 1975 (Institut Pasteur (Paris, France)

• Professor and Director, Regulation of Retroviral Infections

Unit, Virology Department, Institut Pasteur.

• 8th women (out of 36) to receive the Nobel Prize in

Physiology & Medicine 2008 shared with Luc Montagnier,

and also Harald zur Hausen (human papilloma virus-cervical

cancer-)

• for their discovery of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

isolated from lymphocytes and blood of patients (1984)

• Causes Acquired Human Immunodeficiency Syndrome

(AIDS) (1981) afecting 1% of the population

• 1st known human lentivirus

• detected activity of the retroviral enzyme RT (retrovirus)

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"Women in Science"

• Worldwide initiatives:RNA Society celebrates a "Women in Science" dinner at

every meeting.

L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards are

awarded annually to 5 outstanding female scientists worldwide.

One Award Laureate is named from each of five continents: Africa,

Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America and North America. The

Laureates receive individual awards of US$ 100,000.

Commemorating the International Women’s Day (March 6th),

receive the award at a ceremony in Paris.

http://www.awis.org/careers/edfoundation.html

Science/AAAS, in collaboration with the L'Oréal Corporate

Foundation, have put together the "Young Women in Science

booklet". Stories about young women beginning their scientific

careers.

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Paris-Charles de Gaulle

Airport 5 April 2009

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Akiko Kobayashi

Tokyo-Japan

Athene M. Donald

Cambridge-UK

Beatriz_Barbuy

São Paulo-Brazil

Eugenia Kumacheva

Toronto-Canada

Tebello Nyokong

Grahamstown-South Africa

2009

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NAME Institution City Country E-MAIL Degree POSITION PI

Christina Steveni Central Science Laboratory CSL York United Kingdom c.steveni@csl.gov.uk Financial coordinator No

Emiliana Falcone Istituto Superiore di Sanità ISS Rome Italy emiliana.falcone@iss.it  PhD Researcher No

Simona Di Pasquale Istituto Superiore di Sanità ISS Rome Italy simona.dipasquale@iss.it PhD Technician No

Olga Tchremenskaia Istituto Superiore di Sanità ISS Rome Italy PhD Postdoc No

Ilaria Di Bartolo Istituto Superiore di Sanità ISS Rome Italy ilaria.dibartolo@iss.it  PhD Postdoc No

Marta Hernandez Perez Instituto Tecnologico Agrario de Castilla y LeonITACyL Valladolid Spain ita-herperma@itacyl.es DVM, PhD Researcher Yes

Marta Diez Valcarce Instituto Tecnologico Agrario de Castilla y LeonITACyL Valladolid Spain ita-dievalma@itacyl.es DVM, M.Sc. Ph.D. Student No

Monica Martinez Martinez Instituto Tecnologico Agrario de Castilla y LeonITACyL Valladolid Spain marmarrm@itacyl.es PhD Researcher No

Ana Maria de Roda Husman National Institute for Public Health and the EnvironmentNVRI Bilthoven The Netherlands Ana.Maria.de.Roda.Husman@rivm.nl PhD Researcher Yes

Saskia Rutjes National Institute for Public Health and the EnvironmentNVRI Bilthoven The Netherlands saskia.rutjes@rivm.nl PhD Senior Researcher No

Katharina Verhaelen National Institute for Public Health and the EnvironmentNVRI Bilthoven The Netherlands katharina.verhaelen@rivm.nl M.Sc Ph.D. Student No

Iwona Kozyra National Veterinary Research Institute NVRI Pulawy Poland iwona.kozyra@piwet.pulawy.pl DVM, M.Sc. Research Assistant No

Agnieszka Kaupke National Veterinary Research Institute NVRI Pulawy Poland agnieszka.kaupke@piwet.pulawy.pl M.Sc. Research Assistant No

Beata Mizak National Veterinary Research Institute NVRI Pulawy Poland bmizak@piwet.pulawy.pl PhD Professor No

Jasna Prodanov Sientific Veterinary Institute "Novi Sad" NIV-NS Novi Sad Serbia jasna@niv.ns.ac.yu DVM, M.Sc. Research Assistant No

Rosina Girones University of Barcelona UB Barcelona Spain rgirones@ub.edu PhD Prof. Microbiology Yes

Silvia Bofill University of Barcelona UB Barcelona Spain sbofill@ub.edu PhD University lecturer No

Anna Carratalà University of Barcelona UB Barcelona Spain acarratala@ub.edu MSc Ph.D. Student No

Leena Maunula University of Helsinki UH Helsinki Finland leena.maunula@helsinki.fi PhD Senior Scientist Yes

Kirsi Söderberg University of Helsinki UH Helsinki Finland kirsi.soderberg@helsinki.fi PhD Junior Scientist Yes

Katarina Kovač University of Ljubljana UL-BF Ljubljana Slovenia katarina.kovac@bf.uni-lj.si B.Sc. Ph.D. Student No

Mateja Ambrožič University of Ljubljana UL-BF Ljubljana Slovenia mateja.ambrozic@bf.uni-lj.si B.Sc. Ph.D. Student No

Nikolia Syfantou University of Patras UPA Patras Greece nisifantou@med.upatras.gr MSc Ph.D. Student No

Francesca Martelli Veterinary Laboratory Agency VLA Surrey United Kingdom f.martelli@vla.defra.gsi.gov.uk DVM, PhD Research Assistant Yes

Petra Vasickova Veterinary Research Institute VRI Brno Czech Republic vasickova@vri.cz MSc Ph.D. Student No

Renate Hakze Waweningen University Research CVI Lelystad The Netherlands Renate.hakze@wur.nl PhD Researcher No

Jeanet van der Goot Waweningen University Research CVI Lelystad The Netherlands Jeanet.vandergoot@wur.nl PhD Researcher No

27 women

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• Features:

10 countries

16 PhD

5 principal investigators leading groups

212 articles / 27 women

1st meeting Brno 23 (9) w /55 (13 m)

2nd meeting Novi Sad 23 w /46 –officer-

3 PhD women funded by VITAL for doing PhD

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• VITAL actions for WiS

PRIZE

700-1,000 € and diploma to the senior women scientist publishing the highest

impact factor article as last author

700-1,000 € and diploma to the junior women scientist or PhD student publishing

the highest impact factor article as first author

In case of same journal or equal corresponding, prize will be shared among authors

VITAL Coordinator and also EC officer likes the idea (coordinator will request

authorization from each partner to take 100-150 €/partner budget) Sponsors will be

looked for to find extra funding.

Suggestions, proposals, …

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