{"id":234,"date":"2015-04-10T21:01:16","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T01:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/straub\/?p=234"},"modified":"2015-04-10T21:01:16","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T01:01:16","slug":"from-schlumberger-fellow-to-chemistry-professor-at-the-una-de-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/straub\/2015\/04\/10\/from-schlumberger-fellow-to-chemistry-professor-at-the-una-de-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"From Schlumberger Fellow to Chemistry Professor at the UNA de M\u00e9xico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facultyforthefuture.net\/content\/about-faculty-future-program\">Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future Fellowship<\/a> funds women from emerging economies for advanced post\u00ad\u2010graduate study in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in the finest universities for their discipline overseas with the long term goal of addressing the worldwide gender gap in STEM disciplines.\u00a0 A highly competitive program, the Foundation selects talented female scientists with the potential to become future leaders, change agents, and policy makers in their home regions.\u00a0 In 2012, <strong>Dr. Laura Dominguez<\/strong>, a native of Mexico, received a Schlumberger Foundation postdoctoral fellowship and selected the Straub group under the leadership of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/faculty\/straub\/\">Professor John Straub<\/a> as the site of her training and research.\u00a0 In the <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/straub\/\">Straub lab<\/a>, the objective of Laura\u2019s postdoctoral work was to exploit the growing power of computer simulations to help understand the causes and mechanism of protein aggregation inside cells.\u00a0 Knowledge of the detailed process of protein aggregation is crucial for understanding the development of illnesses such as amyloidosis and neurodegenerative disease, how and why aggregation occurs, and what can be done to prevent it.<\/p>\n<p>Completing her fellowship in 2014 with five publications with the Straub group, Dr. Dominguez attended the Schlumberger forum in November 2014 where, in Laura\u2019s words, she had \u201cthe opportunity to hear a lot about the diverse research and experiences from other women mainly from Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia.\u201d\u00a0 While the agenda called for an end of the forum at 5 pm each day, the enthusiastic participants continued their discussions well past midnight, sharing their views on the talks given by distinguished representatives from UNICEF, as well as successful women in the sciences and technology.\u00a0 Dr. Dominguez facilitated the timely discussion on \u201cPoverty &amp; STEM.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laura Dominguez studied chemistry at the Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico (UNAM) in Mexico City as an undergraduate and received a Masters degree in Biochemistry from that institution.\u00a0 Her career goal was always to become a Professor at UNAM, which she proudly considers to be the most prestigious university in Mexico.\u00a0 Thanks to her education and continued excellent training in the Straub group as a Schlumberger postdoctoral fellow, that is exactly what Dr. \u2013 now Professor -\u00ad\u2010 Dominguez has accomplished.<\/p>\n<p>Original article from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/2015\/03\/04\/postdoctoral-fellow-to-chemistry-professor\/\" title=\"BU Chemistry\" target=\"_blank\">BU Chemistry<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future Fellowship funds women from emerging economies for advanced post\u00ad\u2010graduate study in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) in the finest universities for their discipline overseas with the long term goal of addressing the worldwide gender gap in STEM disciplines.\u00a0 A highly competitive program, the Foundation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1612,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/straub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/straub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/straub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/straub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1612"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/straub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/straub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/straub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/straub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/straub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/straub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}