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Congratulations all around!

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To Anu: for her selection by the NTU School of Biological Sciences as a student presenter at the Asian Pacific Organization of Cell Biology (APOCB) / American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) 2014 Congress.

 

To Sharon and Damien, for recent 1st author publications from their previous labs:

Molecular analysis of the Acinetobacter baumannii biofilm-associated protein.
Goh HM, Beatson SA, Totsika M, Moriel DG, Phan MD, Szubert J, Runnegar N, Sidjabat HE, Paterson DL, Nimmo GR, Lipman J, Schembri MA.
Appl Environ Microbiol. 2013 Nov;79(21):6535-43. 
 
Generating Novel Recombinant Prokaryotic Lectins with Altered Carbohydrate Binding Properties Through Mutagenesis of the PA-IL Protein from Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Keogh D, ThompsonR, Larragy R, McMahon K, O’Connell M, O’Connor B, Clarke P.
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta, accepted.

Why are female speakers under-represented at scientific conferences?

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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