Join us for a round table discussion sponsored by the Committee for Professional Opportunities for Women designed to help researchers reignite their research and career trajectory as the COVID-19 pandemic limitations are lifted in many areas. Topics to be discussed include ramping up research and productivity, funding, mentoring and supervising lab members, and special challenges faced by early career scientists.  A key goal is to prevent the leaky pipeline due to COVID for women in academia, who may have had a lot more family care commitments during the pandemic.

Panelists:

Lukasz Cwiklik, Moderator

Professor and senior scientist, J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Constance J. Jeffery

Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago

Dorothy Beckett

Director of the Division of Biophysics, Biomedical Technology, and Computational Biosciences, National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institutes of Health

Michaela Jansen

Associate Professor of Cell Physiology and of Molecular Biophysics, and of Medical Education, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center

Somaye Badieyan

Research Laboratory Specialist, University of Michigan

Yuhan Wang

Graduate student, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign