ONLINE CONFERENCE
Fondazione Zoé (www.fondazionezoe.it) is pleased to invite you to its online conference
To mark the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on 11 February, Fondazione Zoé - Zambon Open Education, in collaboration with OpenZone, is organising a discussion on the role of women in science, whose contribution to scientific progress risks remaining in the shadows due to gender stereotypes that are yet to be fully overcome. An inspiration and an invitation to young women to get passionate about Science and become active participants.
At the same time, there will be the opening of the STEM Passion photography exhibition by photographer and molecular biologist Elisabetta Citterio, in collaboration with Claudia Cagliano, lecturer and communication consultant. The exhibition, which celebrates the successes of forty international female scientists working in Life Sciences, will be held at OpenZone, the science campus dedicated to Health, located just outside Milan (Bresso).
There will be talks by:
Elisabetta Citterio, Molecular Biologist and Photographer
Rana Dajani, Professor of Molecular Biology at Hashemite University in Jordan, President of SASTA, and Founder and Director of the We Love Reading NGO
Elena Zambon, President of Fondazione Zoé
A message from Maria Cristina Messa, Italian Minister of University and Research
A videomessage from Ilaria Capua, Director of One Health Center of Excellence, University of Florida
There will also be the testimony of a female Afghan doctor.
Chair: Marta Dassù, Editor-in-Chief of Aspenia, and Senior Director of European Affairs at The Aspen Institute.
Some of the photographed scientists will take part in the discussions:
Asifa Akhtar, Vice President at the Max Planck Society and Director at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg
Susan Gasser, Director of the ISREC Foundation in Lausanne and Director Emeritus of the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Basel
Christine L. Mummery, Professor of Developmental Biology at Leiden University Medical Centre
The conference will be held via the Zoom platform
with simultaneous translation.
To view the live event, click HERE