Hi Jiawen and other readers. First of all, it’s a great initiative taken by you to make a list of outreach activities as it will provide new ideas to us, how we can promote such activities.

My name is Prakshi and I am a Ph.D. student at the National Institute of Plant Genome Research, India. Every year our Institute organizes Science Open Day…

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It is great to know about the viewpoints and opinions on the topic across the countries. I always use to discuss this with my friends and the lab members. Glad to know at some or the other point we all are on the same page.

Thank you @eva_ga96 for initiating the discussion and making us aware of the perspectives on such a delicate issue 🙂

Yes, I would completely agree with that. But I have observed that in a research institute, the proportion of male PI is higher than the female PIs, while the number of female Ph.D. students is more than the male Ph.D. students. As a female researcher that really bothers me.

I could never figure out the reason, what are your views on that?

I think maintaining an equal male: female ratio in a lab would have perspectives from both sides, and the collaborated efforts could lead to a more equal work environment.

Your work seems to be quite interesting. Is it related to Plant memory?

Greetings! I am Prakshi Aneja, a Ph.D. scholar at the National Institute of Plant Genome Research, India. Our lab focuses on the effects of environmental cues on plant development and optimizing plant developmental features for efficient photosynthesis in crop plants. The objective of my Ph.D. is to investigate the genetic basis of leaf…

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