b'0412.30 - 13.00 The Visibility of Role Models in STEMInterviews with STEM colleaguesProfesso Cliona OFarrellyChair in Comparative ImmunologyProfessor Jane Memmott (University of Bristol Cliona is Professor of Comparative& President of British Ecological Society) Immunology at the School ofdemonstrated how to be a great scientist and Biochemistry & Immunology andmother at the same time. Professor Dame at the School of Medicine TCD;Georgina Mace (University College London) was she is also the first woman to bean amazing scientist, communicator and Chair of Fellows at TCD.Herinfluencer, and also modelled a quiet but major research interest is in thepowerful & assured management.immunology of viral infection andshe was recently awarded an SFI grant to exploreinnate immune mechanisms of resistance toSARSCoV2.She co-chaired the Research Advisorygroup to NPHET and is on the steering group ofProfessor Yvonne Buckley PRECISE, a National Study of Covid19 Sero-Professor of Zoology (1871), /Prevalence in HealthCareWorkers.Zoology COF was the first woman in Trinity and in Ireland to beProfessor Yvonne Buckley is an awarded a PhD in Immunology. After some yearsHonorary Professor atTrinity College spent researching and teaching Immunology atDublin and an Honorary Professor at the University of Harvard University, COF became Director of theQueensland in Australia. She is a Member of the Royal Research Labs at St.Vincents University Hospital.Irish Academy, an Irish Research Council Laureate Around that time, COF was the first woman to becomeFellow and Vice President of the British Ecological President of the Irish Society of Immunology.SheSociety. She is an ecologist specializing in tookup her current appointment at TCD in 2007.environmental decision making, natural capitalmanagement and population ecology. She co-directsNature+, the Trinity Centre for Biodiversity andSustainable Nature-based Solutions. She hasmentored many PhD students and post-docs and is One of Clionas role models is herregularly called on to contribute to discussions about mother, Hilary OFarrelly ne Binchy, onewomen in science and mentoring including invitations of the first people to study the hottestto Switzerland, USA and UK. Several of her former new biological topic at the time,mentees, who are women, have gone on to become Biochemistry -in UCD under Professorhighly successful researchers, at senior scientist, Conway; she graduated in 1955.lecturer, associate professor and professor levels inAustralia, Sweden, Hungary and the UK.'