Issue 67 – 7th March 2014
This special issue of GCP News celebrates International Women's Day tomorrow, with a detailed focus on women in science whose lives and work inspire change around them. We get up close and personal with a few GCP women science leaders. Few they are, but they bring a broad perspective from all around the world; working on cereals, legumes and root crops, using a variety of molecular-breeding methods, slick data management skills and the latest tools and technology. We learn how they cleared the hurdles of the science education marathon to the finishing line while others fell by the wayside, and all this, whilst balancing work, life and family.
First, we celebrate in name a starry selection of GCP women scientists:
| Amelia Henry International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) |
Cécile Grenier Agropolis–Centre de coopération internationale en recherche agronomique pour le développement (CIRAD)/Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT) |
Claudia Guimãraes Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA), Brazil |
Elizabeth Arnaud Bioversity |
| Eva Weltzien International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) |
Fernanda Dreccer Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia |
Morag Ferguson International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) |
Ruilian Jing Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) |
We next go multimedia, turning the limelight on some of our women scientists who will feature in our International Women's Day Multimedia Expo. They are...
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| Arllet Portugal Generation Challenge Programme |
Armin Bhuiya Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) |
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| Elizabeth Parkes Crops Research Institute (CRI) of Ghana's Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), on leave of absence at IITA |
Jonaliza Lanceras-Siangliw National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), Thailand |
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| Marie-Noëlle Ndjiondjop Africa Rice Center |
Masdiar Bustamam formerly of the Indonesian Center for Agricultural Biotechnology and Genetic Resources Research and Development (ICABIOGRAD) |
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| Rebecca Nelson Cornell University, USA |
Sigrid Heuer Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics (ACPFG) |
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| Soraya Leal-Bertioli Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA), Brazil |
Zeba Seraj University of Dhaka, Bangladesh |
Done with rapid introductions, and on to the celebratory Multimedia Expo!
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