User:TinyAtoms

I am excited to be part of the Wikipedia Fellows program which is designed to train subject-area experts how to contribute to Wikipedia. Wiki Education facilitates this program. Learn more at http://fellows.wikiedu.org. All of my contributions are my own and I take responsibility for them.

Improving pages for Women in Science
The goal of reducing gender bias in the representation of women scientists and their accomplishments.

Improving Susan Lindquist's page

 * 1) Split "Research" and "Career" into separate sections.
 * 2) Research contributions
 * 3) Heat shock proteins HSP. Prions. Chaperones as "evolutionary capacitors".
 * 4) Non-mendelian inheritance. (Lamarckian). Prions catalyze conformational change of other prions.
 * 5) Helped answer long-standing puzzle about changes in how environmental stress leads to changes in phenotype.
 * 6) Career
 * 7) Lindquist was an entrepreneur. Co-founded FoldX with Jeff Kelly. FoldX commercialized Tamifidis, now sold by Pfizer. Co-founded Yumanity with Tony Coles.
 * 8) Contextualize awards if it is documented. "Won X for contributions to Y."