Today's YAMMM (Yet another mostly male meeting): pharma-nutrition #PN2015

Just got pointed to (by Elisabeth Bik) an announcement for a meeting: Home : Pharma-Nutrition 2015 with a focus on "Linking the Microbiome with Nutrition and Pharma".  And alas, the list of confirmed speakers is as follows:Keynote SpeakerMartin J. Blaser, NY University Medical Center, New York, NY, USASpeakersGregor Reid, University of Western Ontario, London, ON, Canada Alain van Gool, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands David Hafler, Yale, New Haven, CT, USA John F. Cryan, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland André Marette, Laval University, Montreal, QC, Canada Charles R. Mackay, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, AustraliaAlan L. Landay, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USAYay.  All men.  How wonderful.  Because, you know, there are no women working on the microbiome and nutrition right?  Ugg. Seems like they are still working on getting more speakers.  I will send this blog post to the organizers and see what they say.  But suffice it to say I am very disappointed in them.  Oh, and shockingly, the two organizers are men: Johan Garssen and Alan Landay. These YAMMMs (Yet Another Mostly Male Meeting) really have got to be killed.  People should not got to them.  People should not speak at them.  And the organizers should not be allowed to run other meetings unless they can explain themselves and provide evidence that they will work to not have this happen ag...
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