Speakers attending the Women's Careers and Networks Symposium on 26th of February 2016:


Opening addresses:

• Ulrike Beisiegel, President of the Georg-August-University Göttingen


• Viola von Cramon, Member of the "Alliance '90/The Greens", former member of the German Federal Parliament

Opening Keynote Speaker:

• Joan A. Steitz, Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry at Yale University and Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, New Haven, CT, USA

Closing Keynote Speaker:

• Elizabeth Pollitzer, Director of Portia Ltd, an organization devoted to improving gender equality in STEM, London, UK

Session Speakers:

• Belén Begines Ruiz, Postdoctoral research fellow in the Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Research Group at the University of Nottingham, UK
• Christel Fenge, Vice President of Marketing, Fermentation Technologies at Sartorius, Göttingen
• Elizabeth Gaskell, Associate Scientific Editor, Molecular Cell, Cambridge, MA, USA
• Ruth Wellenreuther, Alliance Manager & Project Coordinator at DKFZ, Heidelberg
• Mimma Pernetti, Director Global Marketing, GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines, Rixensart, Belgium
• Ute Kothe, Associate Professor of Biochemistry, University of Lethbridge, Canada