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MENTORING committee

Chair

Nathalia Chica Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Institute of Cancer Research, Norwegian Hospital University.
Natalia Jimenez Moreno University of Edinburgh

Co-chair

Goals

Foster activities to promote careers of trainees and young scientists interested in autophagy.
Generate a network of e-mentors all around the globe providing trainees with access to expert advice on autophagy-related topics, career development and work-family balance.

Maria Dimitriadi University of Hertfordshire,UK
Caroline Mauvezin
Alysia Vrailas-Mortimer Oregon State University
Natalia Jimenez Moreno University of Edinburgh
Nathalia Chica Institute of Cancer Research, Norwegian Hospital University
Saska Ivanova Ageing and Metabolism Programme, IRB Barcelona
Sharon Tooze The Francis Crick Institute London, UK
Malene Hansen Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novata, CA, USA
Salwa Sebti UT Southwestern Dallas, USA
Patricia Boya University of Fribourg
Lisa Frankel Danish Cancer Society Research Center København, Denmark
Muriel pic University Medical Center Groningen Groningen, The Netherlands
Naomi Okugbeni Stellenbosch University Stellenbosch, South Africa
Anne Simonsen University of Oslo, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences Oslo, Norway
Surbhi Verma ICGEB New Delhi, India
Ghita Ghislat Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
Stephanie Kermorgant Barts Cancer Institute - Queen Mary University London London, UK
Carolina Alquezar Hospital 12 de Octubre Madrid, Spain
María Soledad Alvarez Instituto de Medicina y Biología Experimental de Cuyo - CONICET Mendoza, Argentina Twitter: @Sol_alvarezz Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7062-014X LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-soledad-alvarez-31421666/

Ongoing / planned activities:

Careers in Science Workshops & Panel Discussions
- Workshops and panel discussions on challenges for women in science, teaching, job search & lab start, grant- and manuscript writing, scientific editing, DEI, etc.

E-Mentoring
- Monthly ‘office hours’ hosted by mentors for mentees to discuss career-related questions
- Online Discussion forum - Members can access here.

wia.ementoring@gmail.com

Mentoring

ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM committee

wia.annualsymposium@gmail.com

Faculty Chair

Sophie Pattingre Inserm, Paris, France
ALICIA City University of New York

Faculty

Co-Chair

Goal

Organization of the Annual Women in Autophagy Beth Levine's legacy network symposium.

Fellow chair

Thabata-Duque University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, USA
Lorelei Ayala-Guerrero Universidad Nacional Autonoma De Mexico

Fellow Co-chair

Ongoing activities:

Organizing the 5th WIA Annual Symposium.
Expanding into Asia and Africa

Rebecca Sereda Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, USA
Paloma Liton Duke University, North Carolina, USA
Floralba Gjergjova Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York
Susmita Kaushik Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York, USA
Thuy Nguyen Harvard Medical School Boston, MA, USA
Malena Herrera Lopez University of Buenos Aires - CONICET - IBIMOL Buenos Aires, Argentina
Aurora Scrivo Ilias Moraitis Spain
Amruta Singh National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India
Mariana Tadic University of Buenos Aires, CONICET-IBIMOL Buenos Aires, Argentina
Eunice A. Domínguez-Martín National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)/NIH
Sandra Pelka Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York
Zi Gao Scripps, California, USA
Mika Minami
Saori Yoshii University of Tokyo, Japan
Jing Zhang University of Tokyo, Japan
Ayca Sezen Us Istanbul University, Turkey
Kaylee Petraccione Virginia Tech, USA
Patricia Gonzalez Rodriguez University of Oslo, Norway
Danyelle Amaral University of Campinas, Laboratory of Neuroproteomics
Elly Lewerissa Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Netherlands

Abstracts committee:

Ana Maria Cuervo - Albert Einstein College of Medicine (New York, USA)

Sophie Pattingre - Inserm (Paris, France)

Maho Hamasaki - Osaka University (Osaka, Japan)

Marja Jäättelä - University of Copenhagen (Copenhagen, Denmark)

Maria Ines Vaccaro - University of Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Patricia Boya - University of Fribourg (Fribourg, Switzerland)

Laura Delgui - National University of Cuyo (Mendoza, Argentina)

Mondira Kundu - St Jude Children's Research Hospital (Tennessee, USA)

Tassula Proikas-Cezanne - University of Tübingen (Tübingen, Germany)

Sharon Tooze - The Francis Crick Institute (London, UK)

Salwa Sebti - UT Southwestern (Texas, USA)

Congcong He - Northwestern University (Evanston, USA)

Alicia Melendez - CUNY (New York, USA)

Comms Liason

Kaylee Petraccione Virginia Tech, Virginia, USA

Annual Symposium

SCIENTIFIC ADVICE committee

wia.scientificadvice@gmail.com

Chair

Raquel Gomez-Sintes Centro Investigaciones Biologicas Margarita Salas- CSIC- Madrid
RUT VALDOR ALONSO University of Murcia, Spain

Co-chair

Protocol and

Q&A Team

Marta Martinez-Vicente Faculty Advisor, Vall d’ Hebron Research Institute (VHIR) Mediterranean Building, Lab 014-015, Pg. Vall d’ Hebron 119-129,08035 Barcelona (Spain)

Goals

Coordinate the share-for-feedback platform of the WIA website member portal, where members ask questions about experimental setup, troubleshoot analysis and results.
Organize workshops on specific aspects of autophagy.

Workshop Team

Muriel Mari Aarhus University, Denmark
Ghada Alsaleh University of Oxford, NDORMS, Botnar Research Centre
Virginie Hubert Medical University of Vienna Vienna, Austria
Shirin Pourteymour University of Oldenburg Oldenburg, Germany

Danyelle Silva-Amaral UNICAMP, Brazil
Dr. Juliet Goldsmith Assistant Professor Department of Pharmacology, Physiology and Cancer Biology Department of Neuroscience Thomas Jefferson University USA
Clàudia Río Bergé Department of Biomedicine Aarhus University Denmark
Irene Sambri 1. Telethon, Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM), Pozzuoli, Italy. 2. School of Advanced Studies, Genomics and Experimental Medicine Program (GEM), Naples, Italy.
Anna Lechado Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research University of Tübingen Germany

Comm

Liaison

Caterina Miceli Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (TIGEM). Naples, Italy.
Assalla Abu Shamseye Forschungszentrum Jülich Jülich, Germany

Ongoing activities:

Manage and coordinate the Scientific Advice Platform, which includes:

Question and Answer Forum.
Protocol-sharing platform.
Workshops on Methods and Techniques.

Scientific Advice

JOURNAL CLUB committee

wiajournalclub@gmail.com

Chair

Karla Alvarez Valadez Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers Paris - France
Aurore Claude-Taupin Institut Necker Enfants Malades (INEM) - INSERM U1151 Paris

Co-chair

Myra Chavez University of Bern

Head of Communications

Goals

To review articles to foster scientific discourse amongst WIA members

To acquire deeper understanding of autophagy.
To learn technical skills.
To discuss review process of articles.
To present and promote publications of WIA members.

Carlos Alarcon Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Rabia Khawaja Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York, USA
Prasoon Jaya Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York, USA
Christin Naumann Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry Halle, Germany
Marie Nollet Barts Cancer Institute London, UK
Pamela Mattar UCLA

Carine Joffre Inserm, CRCT

Faculty

Advisor

Ongoing activities:

Journal Club meetings.
Organizational meetings.
Advertisement.
Journal Club registration.

Journal Club

FUNDRAISING committee

wia.fundraising@gmail.com

Chair

G-Ghislat Imperial College, London, United Kingdom
Stephanie Kermorgant Barts Cancer Institute, QMUL, London, UK

Co-chair

Goal

To find opportunities and plan activities to raise money in order to support WIA activities, including travel grants for fellows.

Patricia Gonzalez Rodriguez University of Oslo
Smriti Parashar Immunology Center of Georgia
Els-Kuiper Max Planck Institute of Biophysics
Valérie Pierrefite-Carle UMR E4320 CEA - Université Côte d'Azur Nice, France
Natalia Reglero Queen Mary University of London London, UK
Clara Sokn IBioBA-CONICET-MPSP Buenos Aires, Argentina
Inmaculada Tasset University of Córdoba Córdoba, Spain Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York, USA
Jin Zhou Duke NUS Medical School Singapore

Ongoing activities:

Identifying funding sources.
Contacting research agencies, companies and journals.
Planning activities for promoting private donations.

Comms Liason

Mericka McCabe Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY

Sponsors:

Fundraising

COMMUNICATIONS committee

womeninautophagy@gmail.com

Élise Jacquin Inserm U1231 Universite de Bourgogne Dijon, France
Laura Poillet UMR1037 Inserm - Université Paul Sabatier/CNRS - Centre de Recherches en Cancérologie de Toulouse, France

Chair

Co-chair

Goals

Communicate and disseminate WIA activities across the scientific community, using the website, blog and social network tools.
Connect scientists within the network to member resources through the webpage Member Portal.
Coordinate with all other WIA committees through committee liaisons.

Thanh Nguyen
Steffi Reji INRAE, France
Ruheena Javed University of New Mexico Health Science Center (New Mexico, USA)
Marina García Macia University of Salamanca (IBFG)
Azin Amin Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health Melbourne, Australia
Letizia Brogi Scuola Normale Superiore Pisa, Italy
Beatriz Dias UT Southwestern Dallas, USA
Shruti Ghai Toledo University Toledo, USA
Malena Herrera Lopez University of Buenos Aires - CONICET - IBIMOL Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ramya Lakshmana Iyer Institute of Biochemistry II, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Swathy Krishna Iowa State University Ames, USA
Mericka McCabe Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York, USA
Caterina Miceli Institute of Metabolic and Cardiovascular diseases (I2MC) Toulouse, France
IMG_8521 Virginia Tech and Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine Blacksburg, USA
Roxana Resnik University of Buenos Aires, CONICET-IBIMOL Buenos Aires, Argentina
Eleonora Stronati Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Philadelphia, USA
Satya Surabhi Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York, USA
Mariana Tadic University of Buenos Aires, CONICET-IBIMOL Buenos Aires, Argentina

Faculty

Advisors

Prof. Anne Simonsen University of Oslo, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences
Prof. Yan Zhao Southern University of Science and Technology Shenzhen, China

Ongoing activities:

Webpage management development.
Social media promotions (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram).
WIA monthly newsletter and mailing list.
WIA blog publications.
Mentoring, Annual Meeting, Scientific Advice and Journal Club liaison organization.

Communications

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MENTORING committee

Nathalia Chica

Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Institute of Cancer Research, Norwegian Hospital University.

Natalia Jimenez Moreno

University of Edinburgh

Maria Dimitriadi

University of Hertfordshire,UK

Caroline Mauvezin

Alysia Vrailas-Mortimer

Oregon State University

Natalia Jimenez Moreno

University of Edinburgh

Nathalia Chica

Institute of Cancer Research, Norwegian Hospital University

Saska Ivanova

Ageing and Metabolism Programme, IRB Barcelona

Sharon Tooze

The Francis Crick Institute London, UK

Malene Hansen

Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novata, CA, USA

Salwa Sebti

UT Southwestern Dallas, USA

Patricia Boya

University of Fribourg

Lisa Frankel

Danish Cancer Society Research Center København, Denmark

Muriel pic

University Medical Center Groningen Groningen, The Netherlands

Naomi Okugbeni

Stellenbosch University Stellenbosch, South Africa

Anne Simonsen

University of Oslo, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences Oslo, Norway

Surbhi Verma

ICGEB New Delhi, India

Ghita Ghislat

Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Stephanie Kermorgant

Barts Cancer Institute - Queen Mary University London London, UK

Carolina Alquezar

Hospital 12 de Octubre Madrid, Spain

María Soledad Alvarez

Instituto de Medicina y Biología Experimental de Cuyo - CONICET Mendoza, Argentina Twitter: @Sol_alvarezz Orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7062-014X LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-soledad-alvarez-31421666/

ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM committee

Sophie Pattingre

Inserm, Paris, France

ALICIA

City University of New York

Thabata-Duque

University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM, USA

Lorelei Ayala-Guerrero

Universidad Nacional Autonoma De Mexico

Rebecca Sereda

Albert Einstein College of Medicine, NY, USA

Paloma Liton

Duke University, North Carolina, USA

Floralba Gjergjova

Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York

Susmita Kaushik

Albert Einstein College of Medicine New York, USA

Thuy Nguyen

Harvard Medical School Boston, MA, USA

Malena Herrera Lopez

University of Buenos Aires - CONICET - IBIMOL Buenos Aires, Argentina

Aurora Scrivo

Ilias Moraitis Spain

Amruta Singh

National Institute of Technology Rourkela, India

Mariana Tadic

University of Buenos Aires, CONICET-IBIMOL Buenos Aires, Argentina

Eunice A. Domínguez-Martín

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