{"id":705,"date":"2016-01-07T18:43:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T23:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwic\/?p=705"},"modified":"2016-01-07T18:48:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T23:48:13","slug":"lunch-seminar-with-dr-joanne-kamens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwic\/2016\/01\/07\/lunch-seminar-with-dr-joanne-kamens\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunch Seminar with Dr. Joanne Kamens!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BUWIC hosted an awesome lunch seminar with Joanne Kamens, the Executive Director of Addgene, on Wednesday, January 6, 2016. \u00a0Thank you, Joanne!<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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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.\u00a0 In 2007 she joined RXi Pharmaceuticals as Senior Director of Research Collaborations.\u00a0 Dr. Kamens founded the current Boston chapter of the Association for Women in Science and has served on numerous other boards.\u00a0 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. \u00a0 In 2013, she was named one of PharmaVoice’s 100 Most Inspiring Commanders & Chiefs.<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Dr. Kamens also forwarded a great blog cast related to the luncheon discussion on diversity in academia. \u00a0Check it out, here<\/a><\/span>!<\/h2>\n

You can also check out her blog on the addgene website found here<\/a><\/span>!<\/h2>\n

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Thanks again Joanne!<\/h2>\n
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BUWIC hosted an awesome lunch seminar with Joanne Kamens, the Executive Director of Addgene, on Wednesday, January 6, 2016. \u00a0Thank you, Joanne! \u00a0 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8634,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,14,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8634"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":711,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions\/711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/buwic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}