The Center for the Study of Race + Ethnicity in America (CSREA) invites you to an informal, lunchtime conversation with Professor Karine Gibbs (Harvard University) on Wednesday, March 16 at 12 - 1 p.m. This discussion presents an opportunity to learn more about her experiences as a researcher of molecular and cellular biology, and talk about challenges faced by women and historically underrepresented groups (HUGs) in STEM fields.

Lunch will be provided. Please RSVP by Monday, March 14 if you would like to attend: [email protected]. (The location of this lunch may change if the number of RSVPs received exceeds the capacity of our conference room.)

Later that evening, Professor Gibbs will give a lecture titled, "Sociality and Identity in a Bacterial World" as part of the Brown University Presidential Colloquium Series, Thinking Out Loud: Deciphering Mysteries of Our World and Beyond. For more information, visit: www.brown.edu/thinking-out-loud/

Karine Gibbs is an Associate Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University. There she has built (and is continuing to build) a research group that examines the interface of two emerging fields: sociomicrobiology and bacterial cell biology.