A guest professor with Professors Without Borders, which works to enable equality and opportunity in academia and learning worldwide, in celebration of International Day of Women and Girls in Science 2022, I shared some thoughts on issues impacting women and girls in STEM. Read the Q&A here.

For those that wanted to join our BIOfutures Instagram IG session yesterday, but couldn’t, sharing the link to the footage of our session, here. Hosted by Aterre Society, the session featured Prof. Dr. Claudia Pasquero - professor for Landscape Architecture at the Synthetic Landscape Lab and Head of Institute at IOUD, Maria Kuptsova - research associate and doctoral student at the lab, and I discussing issues of biodesign, biomaterials, biocomputing, biomimetics, and more, you can watch the session here.

The first in a series of BIOfutures talks I’ll be hosting with seminal figures from across the bio-fields, follow @melissasterry on Instagram for updates on the forthcoming sessions.

In the latest edition of The BioChemist journal, former British science minister, STEM expert and champion, Ian Taylor of PlanIT Ventures shares his thoughts on critical policy, budget, and other changes needed to help Britain's science industries thrive. Read his article, which includes thoughts from peers in the scientific field including Sir Paul Nurse and myself here.

Looking forward to joining peers inc. Prof. Claudia Pasquero, Dr. Marco Poletto, Prof. Rachel Armstrong, Terezia Greskova and Korbinian Enzinger for the final jury session of Synthetic Landscape Lab courses exploring ecological intelligence through the fusion of processes and systems human, animal, microbiological, technological and digital. Tune into the lab's YouTube channel to join the live streamed sessions. 

​Watch footage of the session here.