{"id":226,"date":"2008-09-14T00:00:09","date_gmt":"2008-09-14T00:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/upvarrons.org\/wp_tudla\/?p=226"},"modified":"2016-10-12T10:10:18","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T17:10:18","slug":"olahs-story-on-life-and-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/upvarrons.org\/wp_tudla\/olahs-story-on-life-and-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Olah&#8217;s Story: On Life and Career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><em>by Rhodora &#8220;Olah&#8221; Romero-Aldemita (DST &#8217;77)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I am the second of five children of a middle class family. My mother Cecilia Ortega was a public school teacher and my late father Romeo B. Romero was a Singer Sewing Machine Company sales supervisor and a businessman in San Pablo City where I was born and raised. I dreamed of becoming a medical doctor, which became my motivation to excel in school. However, after my father died in a motorbike accident when I was only 11 years old, my dream drastically changed into taking any career that would allow me to finish my education quickly and get a job with reasonable pay in order to help my mother support the family and the education of my siblings.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-overflow:visible;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last fusion-column-no-min-height\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div id=\"attachment_227\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/upvarrons.org\/wp_tudla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Olah-portrait2.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-227\" data-attachment-id=\"227\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/upvarrons.org\/wp_tudla\/olahs-story-on-life-and-career\/olah-portrait2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/upvarrons.org\/wp_tudla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Olah-portrait2.jpg?fit=150%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"150,225\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Olah\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/upvarrons.org\/wp_tudla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Olah-portrait2.jpg?fit=150%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-227\" title=\"Olah\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/upvarrons.org\/wp_tudla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Olah-portrait2.jpg?resize=150%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Olah\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-227\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olah<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I graduated valedictorian in Ambray Elementary School, was a scholar and honor student all throughout high school in Laguna College, San Pablo City and was able to enter the University of the Philippines Los Ba\u00f1os in 1975 under the grant-in-aid program. We were only required to have at least 2.5 average yata, so it was a bit easy. The stipend I got from this program was always remitted entirely to my mother to be shared with my other siblings. I was initially in the BS Sugar Technology program but was discouraged to continue because the sugar industry was not doing well back then and many major students were invited to shift to another course. So I shifted to the BS Agriculture program major in Plant Pathology with the help of my then roommate and best friend Evelyn &#8220;Lelen&#8221; Fernandez-Delfin (Crystal &#8217;77). I obtained my Bachelor\u2019s degree in 1980.<\/p>\n<p>While writing my thesis, I was able to get a student assistantship at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) under the mentorship of our sis Lina Baraoidan-Torrizo (batch Hipon &#8217;72), of course with the help of Malou Torrizo-Santos (Repertory &#8217;76), my high school classmate, and roommate in Women\u2019s dorm together with Lelen. So when I obtained my bachelor\u2019s degree I already had a waiting employment. I worked with sis Lina for 11 years under Dr. Francisco Javier Zapata. It was really \u201ca dream come\u201d true for me because being employed in IRRI and receiving good salary was a welcome relief for my mother who was supporting the university education of my three other siblings.<\/p>\n<p>During my employment at IRRI I was exposed to the exciting world of biotechnology and was sent two times abroad for training: in Beijing, China for three weeks and then in Gif-sur-Yvette, Paris, France for 9 months.<\/p>\n<p>I got married in 1983 to Nestor Aldemita, a forester and a co-choir member of the First Evangelical Church, a member of the protestant United Church of Christ in the Philippines based in San Pablo City. At the same time I started my master\u2019s degree program and started having babies too. It was really tough but my husband and my in-laws were super supportive. I obtained my Master of Science degree major in Agronomy in 1988 through the IRRI Junior Researchers Advancement Program. I had two baby girls in 1984 and 1986.<\/p>\n<p>I was soon promoted to research assistant, but the rising cost of living and the instability of junior researchers at IRRI prompted me to go for further studies. My younger brother, Gabriel, received a Rockefeller Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship, resigned from IRRI, and got a study leave with pay from his new employer, the Philippine Rice Research Institute (PhilRice). Since my children were still in their formative years, I followed his lead. I was also granted a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship to pursue doctoral studies at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana under the Plant Physiology Program of the Department of Plant Pathology and Physiology. With this, I was able to get a study leave with pay from my new employer, the PhilRice.<\/p>\n<p>Things were different in the United States. We moved there when my girls were 4 and 6. We neither had house help nor in-laws, thus it was hard at first. Slowly, we taught the girls how to do certain house chores and to care for themselves. With the help and cooperation of my husband, and a lot of organizing, and systematizing, I was able to raise my girls well, was an \u201cokey\u201d wife and a doctoral student at Purdue University. My husband took a Masters Course in Computing and computer programming units in the same university while taking odd jobs in his extra time.<!--nextpage--><\/p>\n<p>At Purdue University, from a mere tissue culture expert (the training I got from IRRI), I became a full-blown genetic engineer. With hard work and persistence, I tackled four projects which all produced good results, enough for a PhD.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last fusion-column-no-min-height\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div id=\"attachment_229\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/upvarrons.org\/wp_tudla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/With-PhD-Adviser1.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-229\" data-attachment-id=\"229\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/upvarrons.org\/wp_tudla\/olahs-story-on-life-and-career\/with-phd-adviser-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/upvarrons.org\/wp_tudla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/With-PhD-Adviser1.jpg?fit=1103%2C797&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1103,797\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;HP ScanJet 3770&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Olah with PhD Adviser and family\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Olah with her family and Dr. T. Hodges, her mentor while pursuing her PhD at Purdue University.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/upvarrons.org\/wp_tudla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/With-PhD-Adviser1.jpg?fit=1024%2C740&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-229\" title=\"Olah with PhD Adviser and family\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/upvarrons.org\/wp_tudla\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/With-PhD-Adviser1.jpg?resize=300%2C216&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Olah with PhD Adviser and family\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-229\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Olah with her family and Dr. T. Hodges, her mentor while pursuing her PhD at Purdue University.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After nearly six years in the US, we came back home &#8211; that totally shocked a lot of our friends who thought that since my two siblings were there as well as my mother, we would be settling there for good. The nationalism instilled by being a Christian and a Varron was still with me, which made me turn-down two postdoctoral positions.<\/p>\n<p>I re-joined PhilRice as a Supervising Science Research Specialist and in two years was promoted to Chief Science Research Specialist. I started to build the PhilRice biotechnology capacity and worked on the improvement of rice with resistance to pests and diseases through genetic engineering. I was designated Biotechnology Coordinator in 2000, providing direction on the various biotech researches, overseeing the smooth implementation of the projects, recommending staff development plans, writing and consolidating proposals to source-out funds from national and international funding agencies, building the biotech capacity, facilities and manpower; and representing PhilRice in biotechnology fora.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2002, after a seven-year stint at PhiRice, I was ready for a postdoctoral research or a sabbatical leave. I presented a poster in an international meeting in Beijing and met Prof. Peter Beyer, one of the inventors of the Golden Rice (Vitamin A rice). He gave an excellent presentation on Golden Rice, which interested me very much because we also had similar research at PhilRice. Dr. Beyer and I discussed postdoctoral possibilities and told me that they were looking for a scientist with my expertise to establish a rice transformation lab at the University of Freiburg, Germany. So in June the following year, my husband and I flew to Germany leaving my two girls who were already university students in UPLB. As usual, I was at home with laboratory work, enriching the nutritional quality of rice through transgenesis. My husband was my greenhouse manager and sometimes my free lab (and love) assistant.<\/p>\n<p>After two and a half years in Freiburg, I was back at PhilRice, taking back my old position and designation. I brought home a Bill and Melinda Gates fund worth $800 thousand which helped me to conduct another round of biotechnology capacity building and the strengthening of the research on Golden Rice. I continued my researches and produced promising transgenic lines which can be further evaluated in the field for the expression of introduced pest and disease resistance genes.<\/p>\n<p>At PhilRice, I was again in the midst of colleagues and friends who were sacrificing a lot for the sake of rice research in the country with low compensation\u2026.lower than the administrative personnel (sucks). I started to revive the DOST Magna Carta application of PhilRice. I led the committee who worked hard for nearly a year in putting all the requirements until its submission and approval. I hope that the PhilRice administration will finally relent and give the researchers what is due to them.<\/p>\n<p>I left PhilRice in July 2007 with a heavy heart and a big debt: financially and morally.<div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Rhodora &#8220;Olah&#8221; Romero-Aldemita (DST &#8217;77) I am the second of five children of a middle class family. 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