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)

Indrani Datta
(NIMHANS Biophysics)

Speakers – 10/4/2021

**Pinky Kain Sharma**
**(RCB Faridabad)**

**POONAM THAKUR**
**(iiser thiruvananthapuram)**

**Sonal Nagarkar-Jaiswal**
**(ccmb hyderabad)**

Speakers – 11/4/2021

**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)

Speakers – 13/4/2021

**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

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**
**/cloudkrate**

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