Discover magazine, AAAS, and L’Oreal recently convened a panel “to explore ways to help the research community—and the nation—make the most of its female intellectual firepower”. The panel included several interesting female personalities, but the most interesting to genome scientists was Joan Steitz. Joan Steitz was James Watson’s first female graduate student and made important discoveries concerning RNA structure and function and the role of snRNPs in splicing. Read an abbreviated transcript from the panel here.
