If you want to go to a #manel or a #YAMMM check out Cold Spring Harbor Asia meetings - where men get to speak about stuff

I just got an email about this meeting: CSH Asia 2016 Conference on Microbial Communities in the Environment: Emerging Technologies and New Frontiers:So the first thing I did was to look at the gender ratio of speakers. I dug into each person listed here as much as a I could and attempted to infer what their gender is.  I realize this is fraught with problems and have written about this previously.  So as much as possible I looked for what pronouns were used to describe these people before infer their possible gender.  I was unable to get any clear gendered pronouns for one person but the others I think I got enough evidence to make a hypothesis.  I colored those I inferred to be male in yellow and those I inferred to be female in green. OrganizersDusko Ehrlich, INRA, FranceJack Gilbert, University of Chicago, USANan Qin, Zhejiang University, ChinaTing Zhu, Tsinghua University, ChinaKeynote Speakers:Dusko Ehrlich, INRA, FranceJack Gilbert, University of Chicago, USAInvited Speakers:Christopher Carr , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , USA Yehuda Cohen , Nanyang Technological University , SINGAPORE Alana Firl , University of California, Davis , USAAndrew Holmes , University of Sydney , AUSTRALIA George Kowalchuk , Utrecht University , NETHERLANDS Shuangjiang Liu , Institute of Microbiology, CAS , CHINANan Qin , Zhejiang University , CHINAJacques Ravel , University of Maryland , USA Peter Turnbaugh , University of Cali...
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