In an article by Peter Hotez, “Stigma: The stealth weapon of NTD,” he discusses the social implications of many NTDs.
For instance, Jorge Alvar and his colleagues at the World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently pointed out that women have a higher disease burden from leishmaniasis than [...]
I just signed up for a mentor on Mentornet. The forum discussion had some very pertinent topics, such as work/life balance and how to make yourself heard in a room of men! I found out about it through AWIS, the Association of Women in Science.
Mentorship is something I really want to start [...]
Science women, sounds kind of like superwomen - I like it! Just found a great blog at Scienceblogs called, you guessed it, Sciencewomen. So please, go and enjoy. Not that I want to direct anyone away from this site, but I want this site to be more of a resource in blog [...]
I was looking for some “cool mosquito” pictures for the header and came across The Mosquito Bag. This is THE bag for the girl in the tropics, or just for the girl missing the tropics, missing sleeping under a mosquito net…umm, so I don’t quite know what the creators were thinking with this one but [...]
I really enjoyed the stories of Micella’s journey through grad school and now a post doc. She is in engineering, which is some what different, but her experiences still seem very apropriate.
http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career_development/previous_issues/articles/1400/educated_woman_the_grad_school_adventures_of_micella_phoenix_dewhyse_chapter_1_why_am_i_here
This is a fascinating paper I came across, measuring the seropositivity for Flaviviridae, Togaviridae and Bunyaviridae in Cameroon. It might be that I really want to go back to Africa, but I found the study full of leads for future research. For example, they discover one village where the % of seropositive adults to DENV-2 is [...]
As you can all see, I have been trying to beef-up the website before you got here with a little information. I haven’t decided what other kind of stuff we want to post, such as news, research, etc. So that is really up to all of you!
Please contact be for a user account! I need [...]
There are some great investigators as the Wadsworth Center in upstate NY. On the website they published lectures and interviews with the featured lecturers so that you can see real women in medical entomology in action. Dr. Laura Kramer is talking about WNV and Arbovirus surveillence ans some recent research.
http://www.wadsworth.org/educate/lecture_series/2008/wmp/kramer_wmp.html
And Dr. Kristen Bernard it talking [...]
My favorite science and culture (tag-line “Science as Culture”) has an article on mosquitoes. Not necessarily anything new to most of us, but a good introduction to one of the craziest psedo-science magazines out there.
The Booming Mosquito Battle
How can we kill, repel or avoid them? Let us count the ways.
http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/09/the_booming_battle_against_mos.php?page=2
This is an excellent book (well, I’ve only heard the author talk and haven’t read the book) about barriers and choices that female scientists make through out their careers. She talks about why women leave science at all different points in their lives and what factors are valuable to keep women in scientific fields. Some [...]
