Navigating during the Pandemic: Dialogues across Career Stages.

Abstract

There is no doubting the fact that the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a tremendous impact on every aspect of our life over the past year and a half. Fueled by the lack of voices by young researchers and investigators, Dr Shabaana Khader [Professor of Microbiology, Washington University in St Louis (WUSTL)] and I decided that it was time that we had a panel to discuss how the pandemic has impacted scientists across different career stages. Our (all-women) panel included Liza Loza, a graduate student at WUSTL, Dr Leticia Monin, a postdoctoral researcher at the Francis Crick Institute, and Dr Alissa Rothchild, an Assistant Professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst). I hope that the following conversation strikes a chord with the readers of the journal.