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Online Talk series for women in bioinformatics (women only!)
Written on 14.03.2022 21:00 by Sven Rahmann
Are you interested in a scientific career as a woman in bioinformatics? You have questions and worries regarding how to get there?
The online lecture series "Women in Bioinformatics" provides the answers. Successful female scientists present their research, their career path and answer your questions.
Registration is now open for the talk by Prof. Dr. Alice McHardy on 10.05.22, 14:30-16:00 (CEST). Prof. Dr. McHardy holds a diploma in biochemistry and a doctoral degree in bioinformatics, both from Bielefeld University in Germany. From 2005 to 2007 she first was a postdoc and then a permanent staff member in the Bioinformatics and Pattern Discovery Group at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, USA. She then became the head of the independent research group for Computational Genomics and Epidemiology at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science in Saarbrücken. In 2010, she was appointed Chair of Algorithmic Bioinformatics at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf. In 2014, she became head of the Department of Computational Biology of Infection Research at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Braunschweig and was appointed as a full professor at TU Braunschweig.
Registration is also still possible for the next talk by Prof. Dr. Olga Kalinina on 22.03.22, 16:30-18:00 (CET). Prof. Dr. Kalinina is professor for Drug Bioinformatics at the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS). She received a M.Sc. degree with distinction in mathematics from the Moscow State University in 2003 and a Ph.D. from the Engelhardt Institute for Molecular Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2007. She continued her research in bioinformatics as a postdoctoral fellow at the European Laboratory for Molecular Biology, for which she was awarded an EMBO Long Term Fellowship from the European Molecular Biology Organization, and later at the University of Heidelberg, working with Prof. Dr. Robert B. Russell (2007-2011). In 2012, she established her independent junior group at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in the Department for Computational Biology and Applied Algorithmics lead by Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Lengauer, where she was researching resistance mechanisms in human viruses until 2018.
Participation is free but registration is required for every talk. Details can be found at: https://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/women-in-bioinformatics. Please note that the time of the lecture may vary.
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Note: This lecture series is open to women only!