Women in life sciences research
Help us celebrate the women of cryo-EM by listening to their inspiring stories from a variety of life sciences fields and locations across the globe. Listen, discover, and set out to make your own mark in the cryo-EM movement.
Meet some of the women in life sciences research using cryo-EM
Dr. Bridget Carragher
Founding Technical Director
Chan Zuckerberg Institute for Advanced Biological Imaging
Dr. Danielle Grotjahn
Assistant Professor
Integrative Structural and Computational Biology
Scripps Research Institute
Dr. Elizabeth Kellogg
Assistant Professor
Molecular Biology and Genetics
Cornell University
Dr. Gaia Pigino
Associate Head
Structural Biology Research Center
Human Technopole, Milan
Dr. Montserrat Samso
Associate Professor
School of Medicine Physiology and Biophysics
Virginia Commonwealth University
Learn about Dr. Samso’s career journey and expanding the cryo-EM facility at VCU “Cryo-EM Facility Leader at Virginia Commonwealth University Helps Bring One of the First Tundra Cryo-TEMs to the U.S.”
Dr. Erica Ollmann Saphire
President & Chief Executive Officer
Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine
Research
La Jolla Institute of Immunology
Dr. Cameron Varano
Assistant Research Professor
Center for Structural Oncology
Penn State University
Dr. Elizabeth Villa
Associate Professor
Biological Sciences
University of California, San Diego
Dr. Lisa Eshun-Wilson
NSF Postdoctoral Fellow
Integrative Structural and Computational Biology
The Scripps Research Institute
Dr. Elizabeth Wasmuth
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry & Structural Biology
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Dr. Shujia Zhu
Principal Investigator
Institute of Neuroscience
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Read Dr. Zhu’s take on cryo-EM in Neuroscience research: “Cryo-EM is accelerating basic research and discovery (and) is the first step in integrating different disciplines”
Looking for your next guest speaker?
We are always looking for new ways to honor the legacy of women in science and share the incredible research they’re doing. If you need a guest speaker for your next event, we can point you to an ever-growing list of standout female scientists in cryo-EM.