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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Dear Veronica<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">You are absolutely right and this was an error on my part. I am aware of subconscious bias, and obviously need to do more to correct
this! I can assure you the conference committee has put gender balance at the heart of speaker selection; and I have in fact championed it during our discussions, as have others. We expect a good gender balance in the final agenda. As you say there are
already many good female speakers, and we expect many more.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Please accept my apologies for this error.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> VAN HEYNINGEN Veronica
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<b>Sent:</b> 26 July 2016 09:19<br>
<b>To:</b> OVERDUIN Bert <Bert.Overduin@ed.ac.uk><br>
<b>Cc:</b> edinburgh_bioinformatics@mlist.is.ed.ac.uk; nextgenbug-archive@googlegroups.com; ashworthall@mlist.is.ed.ac.uk; icmb@mlist.is.ed.ac.uk; wcb@lists.ed.ac.uk; scrm-bio@mlist.is.ed.ac.uk; btostaff@mlist.is.ed.ac.uk; sbs-admin@mlist.is.ed.ac.uk; igmm-users@hgu.mrc.ac.uk;
sacrib@sac.ac.uk; 47-lfcrescent@mlist.is.ed.ac.uk; 49-lfcrescent@mlist.is.ed.ac.uk; 51-lfcrescent@mlist.is.ed.ac.uk; bionews <bionews@st-andrews.ac.uk>; idir@st-andrews.ac.uk; internal comms <internalcomms@hutton.ac.uk>; bbclist@psb.ugent.be; WATSON Mick <mick.watson@roslin.ed.ac.uk><br>
<b>Subject:</b> SUBCONSCIOUS? BIAS Re: [igmm-dm] [igmm-users] Genome Science, Liverpool, 30th August - 1st September 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Sent from my iPad<o:p></o:p></p>
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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:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<a href="http://genomescience.org.uk/" target="_blank">http://genomescience.org.uk/</a>, Liverpool, 30th August - 1st September 2016<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">We have sessions on:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Bioinformatics and Computational genomics<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Clinical and translational genomics<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Speakers include:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Ed Yong, Science Communicator and author recent book “I contain multitudes” (<a href="http://tinyurl.com/zk6qaw3" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/zk6qaw3</a>)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Dr Jack Gilbert, Argonne National Laboratory, Microbiome<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Dr David Aanensen, Sanger, Pathogen Surveillanece<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Prof Allan Downie, John Innes, Ash Dieback<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Our very own Jeffrey Schoenebeck!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Michael Baym, Harvard, Systems Biology<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">And many many more!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I look forward to seeing you there!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Cheers<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:#888888">Mick<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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