Genome Science, Liverpool, 30th August - 1st September 2016
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 The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. -- Bert Overduin, PhD TRAINING AND OUTREACH BIOINFORMATICIAN Bert.Overduin@ed.ac.uk orcid.org/0000-0002-5281-8838 EDINBURGH GENOMICS The University of Edinburgh Ashworth Laboratories The King's Buildings Charlotte Auerbach Road Edinburgh EH9 3FL Scotland, United Kingdom tel. +44(0)1316507403 http://genomics.ed.ac.uk The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
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/, 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 The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. -- Bert Overduin, PhD TRAINING AND OUTREACH BIOINFORMATICIAN Bert.Overduin@ed.ac.uk<mailto:Bert.Overduin@ed.ac.uk> orcid.org/0000-0002-5281-8838<http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5281-8838> EDINBURGH GENOMICS The University of Edinburgh Ashworth Laboratories The King's Buildings Charlotte Auerbach Road Edinburgh EH9 3FL Scotland, United Kingdom tel. +44(0)1316507403 http://genomics.ed.ac.uk The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
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
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
-- Bert Overduin, PhD TRAINING AND OUTREACH BIOINFORMATICIAN Bert.Overduin@ed.ac.uk <mailto:Bert.Overduin@ed.ac.uk> orcid.org/0000-0002-5281-8838 <http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5281-8838>
EDINBURGH GENOMICS The University of Edinburgh Ashworth Laboratories The King's Buildings Charlotte Auerbach Road Edinburgh EH9 3FL Scotland, United Kingdom
tel. +44(0)1316507403 http://genomics.ed.ac.uk <http://genomics.ed.ac.uk/>The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
William C. Earnshaw, Ph.D., FRS, FRSE, FMedSci Professor and Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology University of Edinburgh, ICB Michael Swann Building, King's Buildings Max Born Crescent, Edinburgh EH9 3BF SCOTLAND, UK Phone - +44-(0)131-650-7101 FAX - +44-(0)131-650-7100 For news about the Earnshaw Lab see: http://earnshaw.bio.ed.ac.uk/ <http://www.wcb.ed.ac.uk/earnshaw> For news about Cell Biology 2nd edition, a textbook by T.D. Pollard and W.C. Earnshaw, with Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz and Graham T. Johnson see: http://www.us.elsevierhealth.com/product.jsp?isbn=9781416022558 <http://www.us.elsevierhealth.com/product.jsp?isbn=9781416022558> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
Dear Veronica 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. Please accept my apologies for this error. Mick From: VAN HEYNINGEN Veronica Sent: 26 July 2016 09:19 To: OVERDUIN Bert <Bert.Overduin@ed.ac.uk> Cc: 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> Subject: SUBCONSCIOUS? BIAS Re: [igmm-dm] [igmm-users] Genome Science, Liverpool, 30th August - 1st September 2016 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/, 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 The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. -- Bert Overduin, PhD TRAINING AND OUTREACH BIOINFORMATICIAN Bert.Overduin@ed.ac.uk<mailto:Bert.Overduin@ed.ac.uk> orcid.org/0000-0002-5281-8838<http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5281-8838> EDINBURGH GENOMICS The University of Edinburgh Ashworth Laboratories The King's Buildings Charlotte Auerbach Road Edinburgh EH9 3FL Scotland, United Kingdom tel. +44(0)1316507403 http://genomics.ed.ac.uk The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
Dear Prof. van Heyningen, I personally feel that the tone of these remarks is not appropriate. Even though the organizer was mistaken in his formulation, this is no reason for public shaming and veiled threats. Given that civility is quickly abandoning public discourse, we must strive for kind and respectful interactions. I apologize to the readers for feeding this thread and I will refrain from commenting further. Best regards, Prof. Yves Moreau
On 26 Jul 2016, at 17:19, 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
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
-- Bert Overduin, PhD TRAINING AND OUTREACH BIOINFORMATICIAN Bert.Overduin@ed.ac.uk <mailto:Bert.Overduin@ed.ac.uk> orcid.org/0000-0002-5281-8838 <http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5281-8838>
EDINBURGH GENOMICS The University of Edinburgh Ashworth Laboratories The King's Buildings Charlotte Auerbach Road Edinburgh EH9 3FL Scotland, United Kingdom
tel. +44(0)1316507403 http://genomics.ed.ac.uk <http://genomics.ed.ac.uk/>The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.
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Bert Overduin -
Bill Earnshaw -
VAN HEYNINGEN Veronica -
WATSON Mick -
Yves Moreau