{"id":88278,"date":"2016-08-11T10:53:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T14:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/?page_id=88278"},"modified":"2022-05-31T00:10:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T04:10:58","slug":"thinking-fast-makes-changing-slow-human-thought-processes-interfere-with-achieving-diversity","status":"publish","type":"conversation","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/conversations\/diversity-and-inclusion\/thinking-fast-makes-changing-slow-human-thought-processes-interfere-with-achieving-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking Fast Makes Changing Slow: Human Thought Processes Interfere with Achieving Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><strong>Tuesday, September 20, 2016<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Noon\u20131 p.m.<br \/>\nInstructional Building<br \/>\n72 East Concord Street<br \/>\nHiebert Lounge<\/p>\n<p>#BUSPHdiversity<\/p>\n<h3>Speaker<\/h3>\n<h5>Lydia Villa-Komaroff<\/h5>\n<p>Board Member, Cytonome\/ST, LLC; Board Member, American Type Culture Collection (ATCC); Board Member, Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC)<\/p>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h6 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Read More<\/h6><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\">Lydia Villa-Komaroff is a molecular biologist, an executive, and a diversity advocate. She is co-founder, board member, and former CEO and CSO of Cytonome\/ST LLC, a company developing and manufacturing purpose-built cell sorters. Villa-Komaroff received her BA from Goucher College and her PhD in cell biology from MIT. As a postdoc, she was lead author of a landmark paper reporting the first synthesis of mammalian insulin in bacterial cells. During her career as a bench scientist, she focused on using the methods of recombinant DNA to address a number of fundamental questions in different fields in collaboration with neurologists, developmental biologists, endocrinologists, and cell biologists. She has held faculty positions at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Children&#8217;s Hospital, Boston, and Harvard Medical School. She served as vice president for research at Northwestern University and vice president for research and chief operating officer of the Whitehead Institute (Cambridge). Villa-Komoraff currently serves on the boards of the Massachusetts Life Science Center (gubernatorial appointment); American Type Culture Collection (ATCC), an independent, private, nonprofit biological resource center and research organization; the Keck Graduate Institute; and the Boston-based Biomedical Careers Program. She is a member of the NSF Committee on Equal Opportunity in Science and Engineering; the Advisory Council of the NSF Directorate for Social, Behavioral &amp; Economic Sciences; and the Committee on Women in Science, Engineering and Medicine, a joint committee of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. She is a founding member of the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos\/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, September 20, 2016 Noon\u20131 p.m. Instructional Building 72 East Concord Street Hiebert Lounge #BUSPHdiversity Speaker Lydia Villa-Komaroff Board Member, Cytonome\/ST, LLC; Board Member, American Type Culture Collection (ATCC); Board Member, Massachusetts Life Sciences Center (MLSC) &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","conversation_topic":[3919],"conversation_date":[3926],"conversation_status":[3515],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/conversation\/88278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/conversation"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/conversation"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/conversation\/88278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90696,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/conversation\/88278\/revisions\/90696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"conversation_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/conversation_topic?post=88278"},{"taxonomy":"conversation_date","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/conversation_date?post=88278"},{"taxonomy":"conversation_status","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sph\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/conversation_status?post=88278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}