On 8 March 2019, with the support from the members of Bio-IT, Staff Association, Equality and Diversity Committee and LGBTQ+ committee at EMBL Heidelberg, I co-organised a skill-building and networking event under the title “International Women’s day: ‘TheyForShe’ Networking and Skill-Building Event“. On March 7th, the event was launched with an Inspirational Seminar by Edith Heard, the EMBL Director General, who shared her career and life story in her talk “Life with two X chromosomes”.

Participate in our community assessment survey!! This year we want to focus on the sustainability of this community and involve more voices of its members in shaping Bio-IT equity and support strategy. As an effort in this direction, we invite you to participate in our community assessment survey. Your opinion matters to us. Many of you have attended one or several Bio-IT training and networking events organized by Bio-IT coordinators and several community members.

Bio-IT Community Blog Disclaimer: This post is a summary of about and contribute pages of this website. So if you have read them, you should probably skip it! :) Bio-IT Community Blog is an Open Source project where you as a community member are the contributor of its contents. This project will be developed by me (Hi! I am Malvika Sharan, a coordinator of EMBL Bio-IT) to engage with the members of Bio-IT community at EMBL.