UN Day: Women in Science

A journey through the natural sciences with female doctoral students

On the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, female doctoral candidates from various institutes of the Faculty of Science and the Digital Engineering Faculty will give an insight into their respective field of research and their career so far. The researchers will each give a 10-minute talk in English or German. A subsequent discussion round will allow younger and more experienced female researchers to exchange ideas with the audience. Among other things, specific career decisions and obstacles for women and paths to a career in science can be discussed.

This year, PhD student Marta Lemanczyk from the Digital Engineering Faculty is participating and will give a talk on "Identifizierung von Interaktionen in genomischen Sequenzen durch künstliche neuronale Netze" (Identifying interactions in genomic sequences using artificial neural networks).

Artificial neural networks are nowadays used in biology and medicine, for example, to predict rare hereditary diseases based on gene sequences. Due to the complexity of these methods, it is often difficult to understand their decisions. In my PhD thesis I am working on the interpretation of genomic convolutional neural networks.