NeuroFemIndia 2021

Archived live streams and recorded videos from the completed conference are available here

Indian Neuroscience suffers from a lack of women voices and representation.

NeuroFemIndia 2021 aims to showcase the work and increase visibility of Indian women neuroscientists.

Register to listen to talks by women neuroscientists – including early and middle career scientists along with field leaders and Indian-origin scientists working outside India.

Special events include The ALBA Network session on ‘Bias in Indian STEM’ moderated by Prof. Shubha Tole and a workshop on Gender Awareness and Bias Sensitisation by Ungender

Field Leaders
Prof. vidita vaidya
9th april
(tifr mumbai)
Prof. shubha tole
11th april
(tifr mumbai)
Prof. nandini chatterjee singh
13th april
(nbrc/unesco-MGIEP)
Prof. shashi bala singh
10th april
(niper hyderabad)
Prof. kavita babu
12th april
(cns – iisc)
Speakers – 9/4/2021
Anupama Sathyamurthy
(CNS – IISc Bengaluru)
Mallika Chatterjee
(Amity University Noida)
Kanaka Rajan
(Icahn School of Medicine)
Nisha Kannan
(IISER-TVM)
Indrani Datta
(NIMHANS Biophysics)
Speakers – 10/4/2021
Pinky Kain Sharma
(RCB Faridabad)
POONAM THAKUR
(iiser thiruvananthapuram)
Rejji Kuruvilla
(johns hopkins)
Sonal Nagarkar-Jaiswal
(ccmb hyderabad)
Kavita Vemuri
(iiit hyderabad)
Speakers – 11/4/2021
Sonia Sen
(tigs – instem)
Aditi Bhattacharya
(cactus/instem)
Shantala Hegde
(nimhans bengaluru)
Nivethida Thirugnanasambandam
(NBRC gurgaon)
Jayalakshmi Krishnan
(Central university tamilnadu)
Speakers – 12/4/2021
Swagata Dey
(nbrc gurgaon)
Neha Jain
(iit jodhpur)
Devika Narain
(erasmus medical centre)
Hena Firdaus
(central university jharkhand)
Uttama Lahiri
(iit gandhinagar)
Speakers – 13/4/2021
APARNA BHADURI
(UCLA)
YOGITA ADLAKHA
(THSTI FARIDABAD)
KOEL DAS
(IISER KOLKATA)
SHARIKA K M
(IIT KANPUR)
VASUDHARANI DEVANATHAN
(IISER TIRUPATI)
Special events
WELCOME ADDRESS
9th April
Vaishnavi ananthanarayanan
biaswatch co-founder
(unsw sydney)
gender awareness and
bias sensitisation workshop
12th april
PALLAVI PAREEK
founder & ceo, ungender
panel discussion
10th april
bias in indian stem
in partnership with
the alba network
closing address
13th april
shruti muralidhar
biaswatch co-founder
(picower instt MIT)
panel discussion on bias in indian stem
Dr. Bittu kaveri rajaraman
associate professor of biology and psychology, Ashoka university
grace banu
Engineer
/Founder & Director,
Trans rights now collective
moderator & alba advisor
DR. Shubha tole
Senior professor,
DEpt. of biological sciences, TIFR Mumbai

Dr. Farah ishtiaq
senior scientist, tigs-instem
dr. Shambhavi naik
head of research, takshashila instt
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breakout rooms

Daily sessions will end with breakout rooms where a small group of students can interact with the speakers to discuss neuroscience questions in specific and academic life in general

DateTime (IST)
9th April4:30 to 5pm
10th April4 to 4:30pm
11th April4 TO 4:30PM
12th April4 TO 4:30PM
13th April4 TO 4:30PM

Scientific Talk Titles and Abstracts available here

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