Yet another biased meeting from Oxford Global - their meetings should be shunned #YAMMM #GenderBias

Well, Oxford Global has done it again. They have found a way to be one of the most extremely gender biased conferences around. Their2016 Genome Editing Congress Speakers. Their web site lists 20 speakers, 19 of which are men. (One of the men is listed twice - I am not sure if that is due to giving two talks or a mistake. So this may be 19 speakers~ 95, 18 of which are men). Regardless that comes to ~ 95% male speakers.Andre Choulika, CEO CellectisGuna Rajagopal, VP – Global Head, Computational Sciences, Discovery Sciences JanssenLorenz Mayr, VP& Global Head, Reagents& Assay Development AstrazenecaZheng-Yi Chen, Associate Professor Harvard Medical SchoolDaniel Anderson, Associate Professor MITMarcello Maresca, Associate Principal Scientist AstrazenecaJohn Doench, Director; Associate Director, Genetic Perturbation Platform Broad InstituteChad Cowan, Associate Professor HarvardPablo Perez Pinera, Associate Professor University of IllinoisJim Collins, Professor MITChannabasavaiah Gurumurthy, Director, Transgenic Core Facility University of Nebraska Medical SchoolDanilo Maddalo, Senior Scientist and Lab Head Novartis Institutes for BioMedical ResearchRodolphe Barrangou, Associate Professor North Carolina State UniversityStephanie Mohr, DRSC Director Harvard Medical SchoolRobert Howes, Associate Director MedImmuneChannabasavaiah Gurumurthy, Director, Transgenic Core Facilit...
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