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WIA Committees

Mentoring

Annual

Symposium

Scientific Advice

Journal Club

Fundraising

Communications

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MENTORING committee

Chair

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.

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.

Mentoring

ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM committee

Faculty Chair

Faculty

Co-Chair

Fellow chair

Fellow Co-chair

Comms Liason

Ongoing activities:

  • Organizing the 5th WIA Annual Symposium.

  • Expanding into Asia and Africa

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)

Annual Symposium

SCIENTIFIC ADVICE committee

Chair

Co-chair

Protocol and

Q&A Team

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

Comm 

Liaison

Ongoing activities:

  1. Question and Answer Forum.

  2. Protocol-sharing platform.

  3. Workshops on Methods and Techniques.

Scientific Advice

JOURNAL CLUB committee

Chair

Co-chair

Head of Communications

Goals

  • To review articles to foster scientific discourse amongst WIA members

  1. To acquire deeper understanding of autophagy.

  2. To learn technical skills.

  3. To discuss review process of articles.

  4. To present and promote publications of WIA members.

Faculty

Advisor

Ongoing activities:

Journal Club

FUNDRAISING committee

Chair

Co-chair

Goal

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

Ongoing activities:

  • Identifying funding sources.

  • Contacting research agencies, companies and journals.

  • Planning activities for promoting private donations.

Comms Liason

Sponsors:

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Fundraising

COMMUNICATIONS committee

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.

Faculty

Advisors

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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