International Symposium on Subsurface Microbiology – where men tell us about deep things

Just saw this Tweet:

ISSM, a conference with no female plenary speakers. http://t.co/r3zUX8lEpt #fail cc @phylogenomics @pgirguis
— Jen Biddle (@subsurface_life) September 9, 2014

//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js This refers to this meeting: Call for Abstracts for 2014 Ninth International Symposium on Subsurface Microbiology, Pacific Grove California

The plenary speakers for this meeting are all men

• Peter Girguis
• Terry Hazen
• Rainer Meckenstock
• Lars Nielsen
• Aaron Packman
• Karsten Pedersen
• Timothy Scheibe
• Jack Schijven

The last meeting was in 2011 and it was not much better – with one female keynote speaker.

• Andreas Kappler
• Karsten Pedersen
• Christian Griebler
• Ian Head
• Frank Löffler
• Babara Sherwood-Lollar
• Bo Barker Jørgensen
• Ken Takai
• Kai-Uwe Hinrichs
• Tori Hoehler

Apparently, only men can talk about deep things.  Fun times.

Author: Jonathan Eisen

I am an evolutionary biologist and a Professor at U. C. Davis. (see my lab site here). My research focuses on the origin of novelty (how new processes and functions originate). To study this I focus on sequencing and analyzing genomes of organisms, especially microbes and using phylogenomic analysis View all posts by Jonathan Eisen