ZDMS DEI committee

 

CHAIR - Sylvia Brugman, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
Wageningen University, Netherlands
Sylvia.brugman@wur.nl

Carmen G. feijoo, phd

Full Professor
Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile
cfeijoo@unab.cl

Poormina Geemon

PH.D. Student
University of Manchester, UK
poornima.geemon@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk

Priyanka Jamadagni

Postdoctoral Associate
Yale University School of Medicine
priyanka.jamadagni@yale.edu

 

Ben Shih-Lei Lai, Ph.D.

Assistant Research Fellow
The Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
ben.s.lai@ibms.sinica.edu.tw

Kelly Petersen-Ross

Stellenbosch University, South Africa
ksross@sun.ac.za

Marta Popovic, Ph.d.

Senior Research Associate (Tenure-track)
Institute Ruder Boskovic, Croatia
mpopovic@irb.hr

 
 
 

Our Mission

Our mission is to raise awareness and promote diversity, equity, and inclusion within ZDMS by increasing member engagement, conference participation, and leadership representation across gender, race, ethnicity, and geographic areas. We are committed to encouraging academic growth and active participation of trainees, with a particular focus on supporting individuals from underrepresented groups in science and from socioeconomically disadvantaged regions.

 
 

Ongoing Efforts

What we have been doing

1. Formed the committee

2. Held multiple meetings to identify the problems and solutions

3. Submitted the initial DEI goals to the ZDMS executive committee

4. Design and analyze the DEI surveys

5. Work with IZFS-DEI committee

6. Work with the location conference organizers to host DEI sessions

7. Make recommendations for actionable items to the executive committee

 
 

ZDMS-DEI working with IZFS-DEI

One community

  • Meetings and discussion with Kirsten Sadler, Ph.D., Chair of the IZFS-DEI

  • Sharing our ZDMS-DEI survey results with IZFS-DEI

  • Working together to improve DEI among the zebrafish community

 

You have a voice! Please reach out to us by email with more ideas.

The DEI Committee was initiated by Hui Feng, Myron Ignatius and Sofia de Oliveira following the Strategic review.