Dear Veronica: This seems like a textbook example of unconscious bias. We all want to avoid this, but sometimes forget that it requires active mental engagement to do so. Thanks for pointing it out. Best regards, Bill On 26 Jul 2016, at 09:19, VAN HEYNINGEN Veronica <veronica.vanheyningen@igmm.ed.ac.uk> wrote: 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 *********************************** Sent from my iPad Veronica van Heyningen CBE FRS Tel: +44 20 7627 4206 Mobile: + 44 7740 965 986 Honorary Professor and Visiting Scientist Institute of Ophthalmology, UCL 11-43 Bath Street London EC1V 9EL & MRC Human Genetics Unit IGMM Crewe Road EDINBURGH EH4 2XU On 26 Jul 2016, at 08:56, Bert Overduin <Bert.Overduin@ed.ac.uk <mailto: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/ <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 <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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