Scientific Speaker Series – Registration

The Community Engagement WG will be hosting a Scientific Speaker Series the second Tuesday of the Month at 10 am Pacific/12 pm Central/1 pm Eastern.

Register to join us each month for presentations from scientists using imaging to advance their research. You only need to register once to receive notifications/reminders for each event in the series.

Please note that in order to encourage free participation, most presentations will not be recorded. 

Talk Abstract: 

In today’s society, many organizations have gender diversity on their agenda. This true also for Uppsala University, the first university in Sweden, where we aim for gender balance and diversity in all activities in order to achieve a higher quality at all levels of the organization. To reach this, we specifically encourage applicants of any gender and with different birth background, functionality, and life experience in our recruitment’s. However, good recruitment statistics is not a result per se to reach equal opportunities. In addition, we ought to have transparency in the decisions leading to promotion of our staff members. In this talk, I will present my research lab from the perspective of gender and diversity. I will give my views on how our academic leadership foster good work environments, where job satisfaction – and thereby higher scientific quality – is reached thanks to diversity in gender and other grounds of discrimination. In fact, we as leaders are role models who either become (or do not become) successful in recruiting, promoting, and thereby retaining women as well as men. In addition, I will present the forming of WOMHER – Uppsala University´s interdisciplinary research center dedicated to improving women´s mental health.

Find Details on each upcoming presentation here!   Watch past presentations on YouTube!  

2026 Presenters:

• April 14th- Ingela Nyström, Uppsala University, Sweden
• February 10th – David Kirchenbuechler, Northwestern University
  

2025 Presenters

• May
  • May 13 – Nhu Trieu, University of New Brunswick
  • May 20 – Vani Rajendran, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
  • May 27 – Aussie Suzuki, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• April
  • April 15 Panel
    • Abhishek Kumar
    • Paula Montero Llopis
    • Peter O’Toole
    • Wendy Salmon
    • Andy Stone
• March
  • March 11 Panel
    • Constadina Arvanitis
    • Christina Baer
    • Claire Brown
    • Valeria Piazza
  • March 25 Panel 
    • Prachee Avasthi
    • Ulrike Boehm
    • Beth Cimini
    • Quinn Lee
    • Rita Strack
• February
  • February 11 – Katiannah Moise, Northwestern University

2024 Presenters

• February – Celebration of Black History Month!
  • February 6 – Muyinatu Bell, Johns Hopkins University
  • February 13 – Abdoulaye Ndao, University of California, San Diego
  • February 20 – Sharonda LeBlanc, North Carolina State University
  • February 27 – Antentor Hinton, Jr., Vanderbilt School of Medicine Basic Sciences
• March 12 – Mariana De Niz, Northwestern University
• April 9 – Dayenari Caballero Rodriguez, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
• May 14 – Michelle Digman, University of California, Irvine
• May 21 – Ivy Xiong & Mariana De Niz,  UCLA and Northwestern University
• September 10 – Oct 15 – Celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month! Each presentation will be available in English and Spanish via live interpretation during the session!
  • September 10 – Carlos Bustamante, University of California, Berkeley
  • September 17 – Pablo Ariel, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • September 24 – No Speaker – BINA Community Congress
  • October 1 – Luisa Iruela-Arispe, Northwestern University
  • October 8 – Esteban Miglietta, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard
  • October 15 – Guillermina Ramirez-San Juan, EPF Lausanne
• December 10 – Panelist of Speakers

2023 Presenters

• February 14 – Andres Nevarez, MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas
• March 14 – Delissa McMillen, Allen Institute for Brain Science
• April 11 – Eunice Fabian-Morales, Advanced Microscopy Applications Unit (ADMiRA) at the National Cancer Institute of Mexico
• May 9 – Alissa Armstrong, University of South Carolina
• June 13 – Chantell Evans, Duke University
• July 11 – Paul Hernandez-Herrera, Mexican National Laboratory for Advanced Microscopy
• August 8 – Crystal Rodgers, University of California, Davis
• September 12 – Ana Paula Arruda, University of California, Berkeley
• October 10 – Adán Guerrero, National Laboratory for Advanced Microscopy, National Autonomous University of Mexico
• November 14 – Vanessa Torres, Denali Therapeutics