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Hired as technician "she had a hard time convincing [her superior, PhD student] Heezen, who initially dismissed her ideas as "old wives’ tale". In fact, it took #Tharp a whole year to persuade her male colleague that she was right, by showing the correlation between her #bathymetricMaps and that of earthquakes in the Atlantic"

"Being a #woman, she wasn't at that time allowed to embark on oceanographic vessels, or earn a PhD" 

ENIAC hiess der erste Computer ohne festes Aufgabengebiet. Vorgestellt am 14. Februar 1946. Wer hat ihn programmiert? Die Frauen Betty Holberton, Jean Bartik, Kay McNulty, Ruth Teitelbaum, Marlyn Meltzer, und Frances Spence . Ihre Namen wurden mehr als 34 Jahre lang nicht genannt. Computer bauen war Kunst, Programmieren unwichtige Sekretärinnenarbeit. Dabei legten 6 Frauen den Grundstein für jede Software. Bis heute. #WomenInScience #Science #frauenpower

📢 Save the date! Our next IRIS Insights is coming up this Thursday, June 26 at 2:00 PM (CEST).

We’re delighted to welcome Prof. Monilola Olayioye, who will speak on:
🎙️ "Tumors in Dishes: New Opportunities for Personalized Medicine"

In her talk, Prof. Olayioye will explore how patient-derived tissue samples can be used to advance cancer treatment. She’ll share insights from the 3R-US team on developing human tumor models – often called “tumors in dishes” – and how they are applied in the lab to test new therapies. The talk will also highlight approaches like bioprinting, alternatives to animal testing, and cancer biotherapeutics designed to activate the immune system.

🎯 The goal: more personalized and more effective cancer therapies.

This is the third talk in our IRIS Insights series, which showcases interdisciplinary research from the IRIS community and provides a space for dialogue across fields.

🗓️ Thursday, 26 June
🕑 2:00 PM (CEST)
🔗 Join via Webex – link in bio/comments
🗣️ Language: English

We’re looking forward to an inspiring session and hope to see you online!

#IRISInsights #CancerResearch #3R #PersonalizedMedicine #Bioprinting #TumorModels #ScienceCommunication #SRFIRIS #UnivStuttgart
#BiomedicalResearch #Immunotherapy #FutureOfMedicine #TranslationalResearch #HumanTissueModels #NoAnimalTesting #OpenScience
#LifeSciences #HealthInnovation #AcademicTalk #InterdisciplinaryResearch #MedicalInnovation #WomenInScience #ScienceEvent #UniversityResearch

IRIS Board of Directors
Prof. Dr. André Bächtiger
Prof. Dr. Reinhold Bauer
Prof. Dr. Sibylle Baumbach
Dr. Miriam K.
Prof. Dr. @ai Staab
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Maria Wirzberger

ℹ️ Public science event tomorrow 💡

Join Soapbox Science Berlin on June 15 from 15:00-19:00 CEST at Holzmarkt 25, Berlin. The nearest station is S-Bahn Jannowitzbrücke.

Twelve amazing women in science will present their research in engaging, fun 10-minute talks.

Among them is August Muller, a Fulbright research fellow in theoretical astrophysics at @mpi_grav. Her talk is scheduled for 16:00.

ℹ️ berlinsoapboxscience.wordpress

ℹ️ Public science event this Sunday 💡

Join Soapbox Science Berlin on June 15 from 15:00-19:00 CEST at Holzmarkt 25, Berlin. Tne nearest station is S-Bahn Jannowitzbrücke.

Twelve amazing women in science will present their research in engaging, fun 10-minute talks.

Among them is August Muller, a Fulbright research fellow in theoretical astrophysics at @mpi_grav. Her talk is scheduled for 16:00.

ℹ️ berlinsoapboxscience.wordpress

#notjustaliens

Dr. Anastasia Yanchilina earned her Ph.D. in Earth and Environmental Sciences from Columbia University, where her research focused on the impacts of the last deglaciation on the Black and Marmara Seas.

She subsequently furthered her expertise in isotope geochemistry, spectroscopy, and planetary sciences through research at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Impossible Sensing, LLC., and the California Institute of Technology, respectively.

Hosting this podcast episode was so much fun! Dr. Sarah Gabbott described her discovery of a remarkably preserved 444-million-year-old fossil that puzzled her for 25 years, her prior work on ancient hagfish that overturned the prevailing theory for the evolution of the eye, her path to becoming a paleontologist, her new book on technofossils, her favorite hobbies outside of work, and more!

peoplebehindthescience.com/dr-

On 20 May 1983 the first publications of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by a team of French scientists including Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Jean-Claude Chermann, and Luc Montagnier. The first news story on the disease appeared two years earlier on 18 May 1981, in the gay newspaper New York Native.