Category: News

Baby girl Tisya was born a few weeks ago.  Congratulations to Soumili and her family!

Another interesting study from microbiologist Jo Handelsman (see also this from her), here with Arturo Casadevall:

The Presence of Female Conveners Correlates with a Higher Proportion of Female Speakers at Scientific Symposia

In their analysis of the major ASM conferences over the past several, they present data showing a strong correlation between the presence of females on conference convening committees and the number of female speakers presenting at the conference. Also notable was the fact that they could only compare all-male convening committees to mixed gender convening committees;  there were not enough all-female convening committees to include in the analysis.

A short, but important, read: http://mbio.asm.org/content/5/1/e00846-13.full

Research fellow Sarah Holec gave birth to a healthy baby boy, Mathis. Congratulations to Sarah and Laurent!

Sharon’s abstract was selected for a talk at the EuroBiofilms 2013 Meeting in Ghent, Belgium, September 9-12.

Iris has completed a year in the lab as part of the CN Yang Scholar’s Program.   From here, she will spend the summer doing research in a great lab at Vanderbilt University as part of their International Summer Research Academy. Good luck Iris!