ICG Europe starts w/ "Omics & the future of man" & sticks to men the rest of the time
Fun. Another day. Another YAMMGM (yet another mostly male genomics meeting). This one is the International Conference on Genomics Europe 2013. I have copied the program as it is now here and then highlighted the men and women as far as I can tell. And, well, it is not very balanced. It starts off, ironically, with "Omics and the future of man" and then stays on both omics and alas, men, for most of the meeting. The first woman does not talk until 5 pm on the first day. Nothing against BGI per se. But they seem to be repeat offenders in having meetings with mostly male speakers. A difference between countries? Perhaps. But unfortunate and unpleasant nevertheless.
Sessions with speakers:
Plenary Session 1: Omics and the future of man
09:00-09:10: Opening ICG-Europe 2013 & Welcome: Hans Galjaard, Chairman of the Department of Clinical Genetics at Erasmus University
09:10-09:55: Talk 1: Huanming Yang, BGI, China
9:55-10:25: Talk 2: Jeremy Nicholsen, Head of the Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, UK
Topic: Molecular Phenotyping and Systems Medicine Approaches in Personalised and Public Healthcare
Chairman: Prof.Huanming Yang, BGI, China
Plenary Session 2 :
11:00-11:30: Talk 1 (30 min): Jun Wang, CEO, BGI, China
11:30-12:00: Talk 2 (30 min): Karsten Kristiansen, Head of the Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
12:00-12:30: Talk 3 (30 min): Nils Brunne...
Source: The Tree of Life - Category: Medical Scientists Authors: Jonathan Eisen Source Type: blogs
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