International Day of Women and Girls in Science ⁞ 11. February 2022
The Cluster of Excellence NeuroCure and the Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin in cooperation with Luna Productions invite you to join us for a screening of the award-winning science documentary:
“My Love Affair with the Brain: The Life and Science of Dr. Marian Diamond”
When:
Friday, 11 February 22
4.30 pm
In English
Where:
online
Register: here
(we will send you the zoom link)
The event is free of charge
We invite the audience to discuss the film and about being a woman in science afterwards with Dr. Marta Orlando, Charité Berlin and Kim Mason (NeuroCure), Charité Berlin.
Dr. Marta Orlando currently works as a postdoctoral researcher at Charité University Hospital in Berlin. She performs electron microscopy analysis to investigate activity-induced membrane and protein structural plasticity at high spatial and temporal resolution.
She obtained a PhD in neuroscience at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genova, a Master and Bachelor in Medical Biotechnology at the University of Milan.
She is very passionate about education and brain science outreach as a means to empower society.
Kim Mason is the equal opportunity and diversity officer at the Cluster of Excellence NeuroCure. She coordinates the Cluster’s efforts to recruit more women and other underrepresented groups to the Berlin neuroscience community; to retain them in science especially through measures to combine career and family; to empower their career development; and to promote greater visibility of their contributions to science.
About the film
Meet Dr. Marian Diamond … and prepare to be smitten. Experience for yourself why she describes her 60 year career researching the human brain as “pure joy.” It is no exaggeration to say that Dr. Diamond changed science and society in dramatic ways over the course of her career. Her groundbreaking work is all the more remarkable as it began when so few women entered science at all. Shouted at from the back of the conference hall by noteworthy male academics as she presented her research, and disparaged in the scientific journals of a more conservative era, Dr. Diamond simply did the work and followed where her curiosity led her, bringing about a worldwide paradigm shift or two in the process. As she points out, in order to get to the answers that matter, you have to start by asking the right questions.
Part biography, part scientific adventure story, part inspirational tale; this is a story of a worthy role model - a woman who has lived joyously at the forefront of scientific exploration and education, finding and sharing fact-based good news about the brain.
