Rochester Bridges to the Doctorate - WoW Seminar Feature
Rochester Bridges to the Doctorate
WoW Seminar Feature
Dr. Lea Michel
Dr. Lea Vacca Michel, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the School of Chemistry and Materials Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Currently, her work is focused on dual oriented bacterial lipoproteins and crystallin proteins, which are localized in the eye lens. Dr. Michel is the Chair of the Women in Science program at RIT, Director of the Rochester Project SEED program, and Director of the Research Strand for the HHMI-funded Inclusive Excellence program at RIT. She strives to increase the participation of women and underrepresented minorities (including those who are deaf and hard-of-hearing) in science and math. Dr. Michel was recently featured in an article that appeared in Nature (Nature 558, 149-151 (2018).
Supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number T32GM150525.
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