Emma and Emlyn teach each other about historic (and current) women in STEM and remind each other about things they DEF should know.
Episodes
Monday Aug 26, 2019
Monday Aug 26, 2019
Alternate Title: Proteins: Gotta Catch 'Em All!
Emlyn tells Emma about the founder of bioinformatics and modern sequence databases, Dr. Margaret Dayhoff, and Emma tells Emlyn about the winners of the Science Fiction Hugo Awards!
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Sources
Main Story - Dr. Margaret Dayhoff
- “How Margaret Dayhoff brought Modern Computing to Biology” by Leila McNeill. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-margaret-dayhoff-helped-bring-computing-scientific-research-180971904/
- Wikipedia page on Margaret Dayhoff. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Oakley_Dayhoff
- Professor Margaret Dayhoff: https://www.whatisbiotechnology.org/index.php/people/summary/Dayhoff
Women who Werk
- Gartenberg, Chaim. “Women swept through the Hugo awards -- again.” The Verge 2019. https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/19/20812571/hugo-award-2019-winners-worldcon-mary-robinette-kowal-best-novel-into-the-spider-verse
- More info: http://www.thehugoawards.org/
Music
“Mary Anning” by Artichoke
Cover Image
By Ruth Dayhoff
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