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<div id="AppleMailSignature">Looks like an interesting meeting. Why do you send an email advertising it with just eight male speakers highlighted. I looked on the website and there are a number of women speakers too. This attitude is offensive and off-putting
for many scientists and people in general. I decided not to tweet about it, but perhaps I should to make you think more carefully next time. You could even make some amends by sending out a new email and pointing out your initial unthinking bias.</div>
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On 26 Jul 2016, at 08:56, Bert Overduin <<a href="mailto:Bert.Overduin@ed.ac.uk">Bert.Overduin@ed.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’m delighted to invite you to a conference I help organise every year, Genome Science, with speakers who use the latest genomic technologies to tackle problems from across the life sciences:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Genome Science 2016 <a href="http://genomescience.org.uk/" target="_blank">
http://genomescience.org.uk/</a>, Liverpool, 30th August - 1st September 2016<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We have sessions on:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Bioinformatics and Computational genomics<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Clinical and translational genomics<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Environmental genomics<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Developmental biology<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Genome engineering and synthetic biology (NEW this year)<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Microbial genomics<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">New Technologies, incl. highlight single cell genomics<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Plant and animal genomics<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Vendor sessions<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Science Communication<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Career development/opportunities<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Speakers include:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ed Yong, Science Communicator and author recent book “I contain multitudes” (<a href="http://tinyurl.com/zk6qaw3" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/zk6qaw3</a>)<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dr Kosuke Yusa, Sanger, Genome Engineering<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dr Jack Gilbert, Argonne National Laboratory, Microbiome<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dr Jose Clemente, Mount Sinai<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dr David Aanensen, Sanger, Pathogen Surveillanece<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Prof Allan Downie, John Innes, Ash Dieback<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Our very own Jeffrey Schoenebeck!<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Michael Baym, Harvard, Systems Biology<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">And many many more!<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I look forward to seeing you there!<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Cheers<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Mick<u></u><u></u></p>
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