Category: Seminars
BUWIC Colloquium Speaker Anna Mapp!
On May 8, Anna Mapp from University of Michigan came as BUWIC’s 2017 Spring Colloquium Speaker! She met BU faculty, gave a wonderful talk on “capturing transcriptional activators with small molecules.” She rounded out her visit with dinner with some faculty and BUWIC girls at Sonsie!
Lunch Seminar with Dr. Joanne Kamens!
BUWIC hosted an awesome lunch seminar with Joanne Kamens, the Executive Director of Addgene, on Wednesday, January 6, 2016. Thank you, Joanne!
Dr. Kamens is the Executive Director of Addgene, a mission driven, non-profit dedicated to helping scientists around the world share plasmid reagents. She was a University of Pennsylvania undergrad and received her PhD in Genetics from Harvard Medical School, then spent 15 years at BASF/Abbott. In 2007 she joined RXi Pharmaceuticals as Senior Director of Research Collaborations. Dr. Kamens founded the current Boston chapter of the Association for Women in Science and has served on numerous other boards. In 2010, Dr. Kamens received the Catalyst Award from the Science Club for Girls for longstanding dedication to empowering women in STEM and in 2013 she became a Fellow of the Massachusetts Academy of Science recognizing scientific accomplishment and service to the science community. In 2013, she was named one of PharmaVoice's 100 Most Inspiring Commanders & Chiefs.
Dr. Kamens also forwarded a great blog cast related to the luncheon discussion on diversity in academia. Check it out, here!
You can also check out her blog on the addgene website found here!
Thanks again Joanne!
Lunch Seminar with Dr. Jill Becker!
BUWIC hosted an awesome lunch seminar with Jill Becker, CEO and Founder of 02139 Inc. on Friday, November 6, 2015. Thank you, Jill!
Currently, Dr. Becker is CEO and Founder of 02139 Inc, a consulting company she started in 2013 in order to provide executive consulting services and investment advice to both public and private companies with a heavy focus on accelerating growth and the creation of jobs in a variety of industries.
Prior to that, Dr. Becker was CEO and Founder of Cambridge NanoTech Inc., a company she started back in 2003 straight from her PhD thesis at Harvard University. Under her leadership, the company was instantly profitable and operated at a profit every year since then and was one of the fastest growing private companies for numerous years in the US from 2008-2012 until it was sold to Ultratech Inc., a public semiconductor company.
WHAT: Lunch with Dr. Jill Becker WHEN: Friday, November 6 @ 12pm
WHERE: SCI512
WHO: Everyone!
Lunch Seminar with Ramani Varanasi!
BUWIC hosted an awesome lunch seminar with Ramani Varanasi, an accomplished business executive in the biopharmaceutical industry on Friday, September 18, 2015. Thank you, Ramani!
Ms. Varanasi is an accomplished business executive, with 20 years of biopharmaceutical industry experience. She currently runs her own strategy and business/corporate development consulting practice in the biopharmaceutical sector. Over her career, she has held research and senior level positions in Business & Corporate Development at several pharmaceutical companies.
Lunch Seminar: Professor Ksenia Bravaya
On Friday, October 17 at 12pm in SCI 512, BUWIC hosted a lunch seminar to welcome Professor Ksenia Bravaya to the BU Chemistry Department! She gave a talk about her research interests. Welcome Professor Bravaya!
Basics of Scientific Writing Seminar
BUWIC will be hosting a special seminar on the basics of scientific writing with Dr. Sonal Jhaveri a Science Communication professor, from MIT and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Coffee and cookies will be served before the seminar.
When: Today, April 3rd, 3 pm
Where: SCI 109
Who: All post-docs, grad students, and interested undergraduates are welcome
