Astronaut and electrical engineer Christina Koch went for a dramatic finish to 2019 – on December 28, her 289th day in space, she broke the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman, surpassing the 2017 record of Peggy Whitson (don’t worry – Whitson, a great mentor to Koch, was excited, tweeting out...
Biochemist Sylvy Kornberg performed important research in the quest to understand how DNA gets copied (a process that’s required before each cell splitting so that each cell gets a complete genetic instruction manual). She’s often mentioned in passing as a mother and wife (mother to Nobel laureate Roger Kornberg and wife of Nobel laureate...
On December 5, WiSE had the honor of hosting Austrian-American cell biologist and expert in aneuploidy Angelika Amon as a McClintock lecturer. WiSE established this invited speaker series, named in honor of Barbara McClintock who discovered transposable elements (the so-called “jumping genes”) in order to recognize female scientists who are pioneers in their field...
Sunday December 1 was World AIDS Day. A lot of progress towards combatting HIV/AIDS has been made possible by female scientists, so this #WiSEWednesday we’re dipping into the archives to tell you about some of them. French virologist Françoise Barré-Sinoussi , who co-discovered HIV; Flossie Wong-Staal, who was the first person to clone and...
Last week, the 2019 CSHL WiSE Mentorship Award in the postdoc/student category was presented to neuroscientist Dr. Sarah Starosta, a postdoctoral researcher in Adam Kepecs’ lab, by MD/PhD student and labmate Tzvia Pinkhasov with a beautiful speech, so I asked Tzvia to write a guest #WiSEWednesday for this amazing mentor and scientist. Thank you...
