Mini-Symposium "Women in Science"

Venerdì 9 febbraio 2024, alle ore 9:30, si terrà l'evento online "Women in Science" per celebrare l’International Day of Women and Girls in Science che ricorre l’11 febbraio. 

Il workshop rientra nell’ambito del progetto PRIMA BENEFIT-Med.

Programma

MORNING SESSION – Inspiring Women in Science

9.30. Alma Balestrazzi, University of Pavia, Italy.
Opening remarks and Benefit-Med project presentation.

9.45. Aliénor de Moucheron, Monitoring Officer PRIMA Foundation, Spain.
PRIMA, Embedding Gender Dimensions into Science.

10.00. Fiona Hay, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Following a career in seed science – luck and resilience.

10.30. Marie Noelle Ndjiondjop Nzenkam, Africa Rice, Côte d'Ivoire
The unwinding of the journey.

11.00. Inez Slamet-Loedin, International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Philippines.
'Grant me the courage to change'A learning journey from Bogor to TWAS Trieste via golden, FeZn and CRISPR rice fields.

11.30. Open questions and Discussions

12.00-14.00 Lunch Break

AFTERNOON SESSION – Young Women in Science

14:00. Hanen El Abed, Department of Biology, University of Sfax, Tunisia.
Effect of seed priming on germination and seedling growth of grass pea (Lathyrus sativus L.) cultivars under salinity conditions.

14:15. Dalal Boulainine, Laboratory of Applied Microbiology, Ferhat Abbas University of Sétif, Algeria. Impacts of climate on the dynamics of feacal indicators and microbial communities in an Algerian watershed used for water production.

14.30. Anna Bertoncini, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, University of Pavia, Italy.
Old maize for new times: rediscovering landraces.

14.45. Wiem Alloun, Laboratory of Microbial Genetics, Department of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Pavia, Italy.
Advancing bioprocess optimization and modeling of actinobacteria-derived bioactive metabolites by integrating machine learning approaches.

15.00. Shraddha Shridhar Gaonkar, Plant Biotechnology Lab, Department of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Pavia, Italy.
Designing seed treatments to improve germination of naturally aged poplar seeds.

15.15. Maria Gerakari, Laboratory of Plant Breeding and Biometry, Agricultural University of Athens, Greece.
Molecular Technologies' contribution in plant breeding, regarding plant species adaptability in biotic and abiotic stresses.

15.30. Belfadil Doha, Materials engineering laboratory for the environment and valorization, University Hassan II of Casablanca, Marocco.
Production of biofilm for biomedical application.

15.45. Francesca Messina, Seed Molecular Physiology Lab, Department of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Pavia, Italy.
Seed priming on lettuce: how to cope with climate change.

16.00. Rania DJEMAL, Higher Institute of Biotechnology of Sfax, Tunisia.
Wheat type-one protein phosphatase promotes salt and osmotic stress tolerance in Arabidopsis via auxin-mediated remodelling of the root system.