BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//UBC Department of Psychology//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://psych.ubc.ca/events/event/ X-WR-CALDESC:UBC Department of Psychology - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20201110T1919Z-1605035955.2041-EO-26800-2@10.19.146.1 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20240329T035900Z CREATED:20201110T185843Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201117T205732Z DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20201125 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20201128 SUMMARY: Picture a Scientist Screening and Panel Discussion DESCRIPTION: Picture a Scientist chronicles the rise of researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists and provides new perspectives o n how to make science itself more diverse\, equitable\, and open to all. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Picture a Scientist is a documentary film that chronicles the rise of researchers who are writing a new chapter for women scientists and provide s new perspectives on how to make science itself more diverse\, equitable\, and open to all.
Featuring geologist Jane Willenbring\, chemist Rayc helle Burks\, and biologist Nancy Hopkins\, as well as key social scientist s working to understand and reduce gender bias in the sciences\, Picture a Scientist brings diversity in science into sharp view at a critical time. The current pandemic is a c all to action for scientists to work together globally\, with a multitude o f different perspectives\, to defeat COVID-19. For too long\, women and oth er minorities in science have been left out or driven out\, stymied by a sy stem of harassment\, discrimination\, and general bias.
After watchin g the film virtually between November 25-27\, please join us for a panel di scussion on November 27 via Zoom with several UBC women scientists as they discuss the film and their own personal experiences.
RSVP to receive the link to the film and Zoom discussion (limited to 300 part icipants from the UBC community due to Zoom meeting capaci ty)
Event hosted in partnership with the Djavad Mowafaghi an Centre for Brain Health\, Life Sciences Institute and the Department of Psychology.
Dr. Haki
ma Moukhles
Associate Professor\, Department of Cellular
and Physiological Sciences
Dr. Shernaz
Bamji
Associate Director\, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for
Brain Health
Professor\, Department of Cellular and Physiolo
gical Sciences
Dr. Bamji has a long-standing interest in underst anding the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying neural connectivity and synaptic plasticity. Her work has provided valuable information about fundamental mechanisms underlying learning and memory\, as well as how thes e processes are perturbed in diseased states.
Dr. Liisa Galea
Professor\, Department of Psychology
Direc
tor of the Graduate Program in Neuroscience
Dr. Galea’s research investigates how sex hormones influence brain health and disease in both f emales and males. The main goal of her research is to improve brain health for women and men by examining the influence of sex and sex hormones on nor mal and diseased brain states such as depression and Alzheimer’s disease. p>
Dr. Sheila Teves
Assistant Professor\, Depar
tment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Dr. Teves’ research studies how transcription is maintained and altered over time using the mod el system of mouse embryonic stem cells. The long-term goal of her research is to understand the mechanisms governing transcriptional memory over mult iple time scales.
Dr. Carolina Tropini
Assi
stant Professor\, School of Biomedical Engineering/Department of Microbiolo
gy & Immunology
Dr. Tropini’s interests lie at the nexus of medi cine\, microbial biophysics and engineering. Working in the field of the gu t microbiota\, she is applying novel tools to longstanding questions regard ing the stability of microbial communities and their response to perturbati ons during disease.
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