Today’s all male genomics meeting brought to you by Oxford Nanopores

The Tweets about this really say it all so I am just going to embed them here:

Disappointed that 9/9 speakers lined up for @nanopore’s MinION conference are men http://t.co/UJ8gSy32Rn #YAMMM cc @phylogenomics @hollybik

— Karen James (@kejames) February 25, 2015

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@kejames Was it renamed ManIon conference? @nanopore @phylogenomics @hollybik

— Claudia Taake (@ct_la) February 25, 2015

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@kejames @nanopore @phylogenomics @hollybik However, close to 100% of the attendees are woman, according to picture 1.

— Nicolas Robine (@notSoJunkDNA) February 25, 2015

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@notSoJunkDNA Yeah, I noticed that. Odd choice, considering. @nanopore @phylogenomics @hollybik

— Karen James (@kejames) February 25, 2015

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Really disappointed in Oxford Nanopores.  Perhaps we can get some of the speakers to cancel on them unless they fix things.

• Ron Ammar, University of Toronto, Canada
• Ewan Birney, European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
• Thomas Hoenen, NIH/NIAID, USA
• Nick Loman, University of Birmingham, UK
• Brook Milligan, New Mexico State University, USA
• Justin O’Grady, University of East Anglia, UK
• Jared Simpson, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Canada
• Yutaka Suzuki, University of Tokyo, Japan
• Mick Watson, The Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK

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So I decided to check the meeting today to see whether they “fixed” anything.

Right now they list 11 male and two female speakers.  So that added two males and two females.  Better ratio.  Still pretty bad.  They really could do better …

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