Thread by @H3ABioNet

It's women's month in South Africa and as such, we will be celebrating different women in #STEM to put some light on their achievements and impact- first is PROF @Nicky_Mulder who's a PI for @H3ABioNet B2 rated scholar: cbio.uct.ac.za/profile-nicola… #womansmonth #Africa #Bioinformatics

@Nicky_Mulder @UCTIDM @embl @NIH @Fogarty_NIH @AASciences @AAS_AESA A computer scientist by background, Dr @AmelGhouila earned her PhD in Bioinformatics & a bioinformatician working @H3ABioNet supporting researchers and their projects while developing African bioinformatics capacity
More:amelgh.github.io/about/ #WomenInSTEM #WomasMonth

@Nicky_Mulder @UCTIDM @embl @NIH @Fogarty_NIH @AASciences @AAS_AESA @AmelGhouila @Pasteur_Tunis @RUBi_news @mgen_africa Dr Michelle Skelton currently @H3Africa Project Manager did her undergraduate training at @UWConline . After completing her Master's degree, she was employed as a Research Officer at @WitsUniversity, in the Department of Molecular Hepatology. #WomenInSTEM #WomansMonth

@Nicky_Mulder @UCTIDM @embl @NIH @Fogarty_NIH @AASciences @AAS_AESA @AmelGhouila @Pasteur_Tunis @RUBi_news @mgen_africa @H3Africa @UWConline @WitsUniversity @UCT_news Dr @ShakunBaichoo has a PhD in Computer Science from @University_MU and is currently part of the University of Mauritius, Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty Member. Her field of research in Algorithms, Bioinformatics and Distributed Computing. #WomenInSTEM #WomansMonth

@Nicky_Mulder @UCTIDM @embl @NIH @Fogarty_NIH @AASciences @AAS_AESA @AmelGhouila @Pasteur_Tunis @RUBi_news @mgen_africa @H3Africa @UWConline @WitsUniversity @UCT_news @ShakunBaichoo @University_MU A Prof @NickiT_CT started her research career in molecular genetics @UCT_news, followed by a PhD in molecular oncology at the University of London. She continued in medical genomics and bioinformatics as a PI at @SANBI_SA She works in data integration @H3ABioNet #WomenInSTEM

@Nicky_Mulder @UCTIDM @embl @NIH @Fogarty_NIH @AASciences @AAS_AESA @AmelGhouila @Pasteur_Tunis @RUBi_news @mgen_africa @H3Africa @UWConline @WitsUniversity @UCT_news @ShakunBaichoo @University_MU @NickiT_CT @SANBI_SA Ms. @synthymama Nchangwi (Ethics Consultant) is a student @UCT_news currently exploring issues of governance of global health research consortia, specifically, justice and fairness in genomics research and biobanking consortia in Africa. #WomenInSTEM #WomansMonth

@Nicky_Mulder @UCTIDM @embl @NIH @Fogarty_NIH @AASciences @AAS_AESA @AmelGhouila @Pasteur_Tunis @RUBi_news @mgen_africa @H3Africa @UWConline @WitsUniversity @UCT_news @ShakunBaichoo @University_MU @NickiT_CT @SANBI_SA @synthymama @GeneMAPOfficial Prof Michèle Ramsay obtained her PhD in Human Molecular Genetics from the @WitsUniversity and is currently the head of the Molecular Genetics Laboratory in the Division of Human Genetics at the National Health Laboratory Service. #WomenInSTEM #WomensMonth2019

@Nicky_Mulder @UCTIDM @embl @NIH @Fogarty_NIH @AASciences @AAS_AESA @AmelGhouila @Pasteur_Tunis @RUBi_news @mgen_africa @H3Africa @UWConline @WitsUniversity @UCT_news @ShakunBaichoo @University_MU @NickiT_CT @SANBI_SA @synthymama @GeneMAPOfficial Prof Özlem Tastan Bishop, current director @RUBi_news received her BSc degree in Physics from Bogazici University. She obtained her PhD from @maxplanckpress Özlem’s broad research interest is comparative genomics and structural bioinformatics. #WomenInSTEM #WomensMonth2019

@Nicky_Mulder @UCTIDM @embl @NIH @Fogarty_NIH @AASciences @AAS_AESA @AmelGhouila @Pasteur_Tunis @RUBi_news @mgen_africa @H3Africa @UWConline @WitsUniversity @UCT_news @ShakunBaichoo @University_MU @NickiT_CT @SANBI_SA @synthymama @GeneMAPOfficial @maxplanckpress Professor @juliemakani is Head of the Department of Haematology and Blood Transfusion @muhimbiliuniver She trained in Medicine (Tanzania) and Internal Medicine (UK), and completed her PhD in clinical epidemiology of SCD (UK). She's passionate about SCD research #WomenInSTEM

@Nicky_Mulder @UCTIDM @embl @NIH @Fogarty_NIH @AASciences @AAS_AESA @AmelGhouila @Pasteur_Tunis @RUBi_news @mgen_africa @H3Africa @UWConline @WitsUniversity @UCT_news @ShakunBaichoo @University_MU @NickiT_CT @SANBI_SA @synthymama @GeneMAPOfficial @maxplanckpress @juliemakani @muhimbiliuniver @TamsaMuhas @humangeneticstz @SCCConsortium Dr. Sonia Abdelhak is a principal biologist
@Pasteur_Tunis, head of a research unit on orphan genetic diseases, and is mainly involved in the study of the molecular basis of monogenic rare disorders (genodermatosis, DNA repair diseases) and multifactorial disorders #WomenInSTEM

@Nicky_Mulder @UCTIDM @embl @NIH @Fogarty_NIH @AASciences @AAS_AESA @AmelGhouila @Pasteur_Tunis @RUBi_news @mgen_africa @H3Africa @UWConline @WitsUniversity @UCT_news @ShakunBaichoo @University_MU @NickiT_CT @SANBI_SA @synthymama @GeneMAPOfficial @maxplanckpress @juliemakani @muhimbiliuniver @TamsaMuhas @humangeneticstz @SCCConsortium @PHINDaccess Dr Angela Makolo has a Ph.D (Computer Science-Bioinformatics, Ibadan), OCP (Oracle Incorporations) and is currently the PI for the University of Ibadan node in Nigeria. Area(s) of Specialization include Bioinformatics, Data Mining & Machine Learning to name a few #WomenInSTEM

@Nicky_Mulder @UCTIDM @embl @NIH @Fogarty_NIH @AASciences @AAS_AESA @AmelGhouila @Pasteur_Tunis @RUBi_news @mgen_africa @H3Africa @UWConline @WitsUniversity @UCT_news @ShakunBaichoo @University_MU @NickiT_CT @SANBI_SA @synthymama @GeneMAPOfficial @maxplanckpress @juliemakani @muhimbiliuniver @TamsaMuhas @humangeneticstz @SCCConsortium @PHINDaccess @UniIbadan Celebrating African Women in #STEM by highlighting their achievements not only applauds their contributions to Science in many ways, It is admitting that for many women, and the young girls after them, navigating this field is a challenge yet they achieve regardless #WomenInSTEM

@Nicky_Mulder @UCTIDM @embl @NIH @Fogarty_NIH @AASciences @AAS_AESA @AmelGhouila @Pasteur_Tunis @RUBi_news @mgen_africa @H3Africa @UWConline @WitsUniversity @UCT_news @ShakunBaichoo @University_MU @NickiT_CT @SANBI_SA @synthymama @GeneMAPOfficial @maxplanckpress @juliemakani @muhimbiliuniver @TamsaMuhas @humangeneticstz @SCCConsortium @PHINDaccess @UniIbadan Dr. @samar_kassim is a Professor of Medical Biochemistry & Molecular Biology & Director of the Oncology Diagnostic Unit in the Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Abbasseya, Egypt. She completed her doctorate in Medical Biochemistry & Molecular Biology #WomenInSTEM

@Nicky_Mulder @UCTIDM @embl @NIH @Fogarty_NIH @AASciences @AAS_AESA @AmelGhouila @Pasteur_Tunis @RUBi_news @mgen_africa @H3Africa @UWConline @WitsUniversity @UCT_news @ShakunBaichoo @University_MU @NickiT_CT @SANBI_SA @synthymama @GeneMAPOfficial @maxplanckpress @juliemakani @muhimbiliuniver @TamsaMuhas @humangeneticstz @SCCConsortium @PHINDaccess @UniIbadan @samar_kassim Dr. Paulina Tindana is a Senior Research fellow/Deputy Chief Health Research Officer at the Navrongo Health Research Centre in northern Ghana. She received her DPhil (Public Health) at the Ethox Centre, University of Oxford in 2013. #WomenInSTEM