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Women network event rescheduled to 26.10.2018

Dear colleagues,

We would like to inform you the reschedule of our next event in Meilahti campus,  Sharing experiences with women scientists. Since there is an EMBL symposium at the same time, we decided to change the date. We are sorry for the last minute notification.

The new date is: 26.10.18, Friday.

Time: 14-16

Place: Biomedicum I, Seminar room3, P-floor

 

Prof. Elina Ikonen, Prof. Anna-Elina Lehesjoki and Dr. Gulayse Ince-Dunn, will share with us their personal experience as women scientists and we will have an open discussion afterwards. Following the networking, we will have a more informal hour with drinks and dinner for those interested.  Everyone (men/women) is welcome!!

Please, register for the event in the link below until 25.10.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sharing-experiences-with-women-scientists-tickets-51018282055

-Blanca Fernández López

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Meilahti networking event

Dear Colleague,

We would like to invite you to our first networking event in Meilahti campus, organised by Viikki Women’s Lifescience Network.

This event aims to bring together female researchers from different stages of their careers within life science field in Meilahti campus. We will introduce you the activities we have been organising in Viikki last year and we would like to use this occasion to discuss and develop together the network. The meeting is open to everybody (men and women) and all ideas and suggestions are welcome! 

Date: 13th of June, Wednesday

Time: 14:00-15:00

Place: Biomedicum I, Meeting room1, P-floor

 

Please, fill in the registration form by Monday June 11th for the convenience for coffee preparation.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/womens-lifescience-network-tickets-45899614984

https://blogs.helsinki.fi/wmn-network/

Blanca Fernández

Svetlana Sharifulina

Fumi Suomi

On behalf of the Viikki Women’s Lifescience Network

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WMN Networking event 5th April with working life expert guest speaker

On behalf of the Viikki Women’s Network I am happy to welcome you to our next Women’s Networking event on Thursday 5th of April from 2-3 pm at BI Lounge !

This time we will be focusing on the importance of finding your passion and motivation to work, and how to balance your working life and personal life. To start the discussions, we will have talk by guest speaker Linnea Alho, who is a work-life strategist and an expert in working life development. She supports ambitious women who yearn to influence, impact and change the world through their work. 

Her talk is titled  “How to create your dream career without sacrificing your soul”

Keynotes of the talk

–       Why working harder is not the answer

–       Reclaiming your passion and vision

–       Your Personal First Aid Kit: 3 simple tools for empowering yourself

 
Coffee and cookies will be served! Let us know whether you can make it latest by Wednesday 4th,  and we can cater accordingly. Also, feel free to distribute the invitation within your research groups!
 

Best regards,

Johanna

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End of the year for Viikki Women’s Life Science Network

We would like to thank you for your involvement in the network. We hope that you have enjoyed the activities and have gotten something useful out of it. We aim to continue to develop this initiative so all feedback and suggestions are welcome.
 
To thank you all and to celebrate the first year of operation, we would like to invite you to the last networking session this year on Wednesday 13th of December at 2pm in the BI lounge. We will celebrate it with some traditional Finnish glögi. Feel free to bring along any colleagues who do not know us yet. Please let us know by Tuesday 12th if you think you’ll make it for catering purposes.
 
Hope to see as many of you as possible there!
 
With best wishes,
Kira and Johanna
 
On behalf of the Viikki Women’s Life Science Network
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Professor Lea Sistonen’s Lecture on Viikki Monday Seminar Series

We have a guest speaker, Professor Lea Sistonen from Åbo Academi University on January 8th Monday for the Viikki Monday seminar series.

On the same day, we are organising an networking coffee time where you can have a rather more casual occasion to talk with Professor Lea Sistonen.

Viikki Biocenter Monday seminar on  January 8th at 15:15-16:00, Biocenter 2, Auditorium 1041

Speaker:          Lea Sistonen

 Title:                 Transcriptional memory and re-programming of gene expression in cell stress
         
Host:                Uwe Richter
 
Prof. Sistonen leads a laboratory at the Faculty of Science and Engineering and Centre of Biotechnology at Åbo Akademi University. After her post-doctoral studies in Rick Morimoto’s group at Northwestern University, she established herself as a world leader in the field of stress response regulation. Her work has been key for understanding how heat shock transcription factors (HSFs) transactivate heat shock protein networks to preserve cellular homeostasis. Her current research interest is to decipher the major HSF-related regulatory mechanisms under different stress conditions, including increased temperature, oxidative stress, and cancer. For this purpose, Prof. Sistonen’s group applies state-of-the-art methods to the analysis of transcriptional machineries in dynamic chromatin contexts.

 

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100 Acts for gender equality

 

The event “100 Acts for Gender Equality” is part of the official programme of the centenary of Finland’s independence, Suomi 2017.  It will be held in the great hall of the University of Helsinki (Aleksanterinkatu 5) on November 10th, 2017 from 13 – 16.

Event details are available at:

http://tasaarvo100.fi/100-tasa-arvotekoa/ylavalikko/in-english/

You have until October 26th to register for the event here.

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Best wishes,
Kira

 

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Navigating the Dreaded Conference Presentation – How to communicate your results and findings effectively

Dear colleagues,
 
Autumn has arrived and it is time to start this season’s Women’s Networking sessions. On Thursday September 28th at 2-3pm in the BI lounge, we would like to invite all of you who are interested in effective communication to join our workshop with Vanessa L Fuller. Please let us know by Monday 25th of Sept if you want to participate so we can cater accordingly. Coffee will be served.
 
Topic: Navigating the Dreaded Conference Presentation – How to communicate your results and findings effectively
 
Vanessa L. Fuller is an applied medical anthropologist, who has more than 25 years experience as an international public health expert and as a member of multi-disciplinary research teams. Currently, she serves as an instructor and reviser at the University of Helsinki, mentoring PhD students, post-doctoral fellows and members of the academic community on developing manuscripts for peer review and writing grant applications and donor requests. She also provides guidance a range of other transferrable skills, in particular communicating the relevance of academic research to the public at large. 
 
We would also like to remind you of the upcoming  Irma Thesleff Honorary Women in Science lecture on Nov 21st. Invited speaker is Gaelle Legube who will talk about ‘Chromatin and chromosome dynamics at DNA Double Strand Breaks’. http://www.biocenter.helsinki.fi/lectures/viikki_lectures.html
 
Please join our mailing list for more information about these and upcoming events or follow us on: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/wmn-network/
 
With best wishes,
Kira and Johanna
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Women’s networking event Thursday 8th of June 2-3pm

Announcement for the last Women’s networking event of this spring.

Date: Thursday 8th of June

Time: 14:00-15:00

Place: BI Lounge

Speaker: Ritva Niemelä from Finnish biotech company Glykos/Career in and outside academia

We will also discuss about where we are with our mentoring and other initiatives and what we have accomplished so far. Please join us for the discussion and share your thoughts on how to develop our network further!

Kira & Johanna

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Meeting on Thursday 5.4. at 14-15

Dear everyone,
The next meeting will be on Thursday 5.4. at 14-15 in the BI lounge. We will do a hot topic discussion session, where everyone who would like to discuss or listen to the topic can join in at the table. The three topics are:
  • What’s outside of academia?
  • Work – life balance
  • GRANTS
Please come with your enthusiasm and questions! Afterwards we will update you on the progress regarding the blog and mentoring. Let us know by Tuesday 2.5 if you will be able to attend so we can cater accordingly. If you have a spare euro, bring it with for the coffee.
Kira & Johanna