Dear Organisers
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.
Veronica

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On 26 Jul 2016, at 08:56, Bert Overduin <Bert.Overduin@ed.ac.uk> wrote:

Forwarding on behalf of Mick Watson:


Dear All

 

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:

 

Genome Science 2016 http://genomescience.org.uk/, Liverpool, 30th August - 1st September 2016

 

We have sessions on:

 

Bioinformatics and Computational genomics

Clinical and translational genomics

Environmental genomics

Developmental biology

Genome engineering and synthetic biology (NEW this year)

Microbial genomics

New Technologies, incl. highlight single cell genomics

Plant and animal genomics

Vendor sessions

Science Communication

Career development/opportunities

 

Speakers include:

 

Ed Yong, Science Communicator and author recent book “I contain multitudes” (http://tinyurl.com/zk6qaw3)

Dr Kosuke Yusa, Sanger, Genome Engineering

Dr Jack Gilbert, Argonne National Laboratory, Microbiome

Dr Jose Clemente, Mount Sinai

Dr David Aanensen, Sanger, Pathogen Surveillanece

Prof Allan Downie, John Innes, Ash Dieback

Our very own Jeffrey Schoenebeck!

Michael Baym, Harvard, Systems Biology

 

And many many more!

 

I look forward to seeing you there!

 

Cheers

Mick


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