On International Women’s Day, the STEM Tea podcast was taken over by the wonderful Andrea Marshall, a staff scientist in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Vanderbilt University (TN, USA) studying age-related changes in mitochondrial networks. Andrea was joined by guests Heather Beasley and Mariya Sweetwyne; together, they drew on their experiences to discuss motherhood while in academia, the differences between equality and equity, why DEI efforts need to be more proactive than just providing visibility, and they consider starting their own institution…
Heather is a Postdoc at the Hinton Lab (Vanderbilt University) studying cancer biology, and Mariya is an Assistant Professor at the University of Washington in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology (WA, USA) whose research focuses on cellular mechanisms in kidneys.
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