Just got invited to the “Plant Genomics Congress Asia” meeting. As usual, the first thing I look at now is gender ratio. From their web site I got a list of their speakers (so far) and their advisory board. I highlighted in Yellow ones I am inferring are male and in green ones I am inferring are female. For the meeting the ratio so far is 17:4 male to female. Not the worst I have seen but still pretty bad. Though if you look at their advisory board at least the ratio for the speakers is better — it is 17:0 for the Advisory Board.
- John Manners, Chief, CSIRO Plant Industry, Australia
- Dave Edwards, Principal Research Fellow, School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, University of Queensland, Australia
- Nagendra Singh National Professor-BP Pal Chair, National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology, Indian Council of Agricultural Research, India
- Han Zhao, Professor of Biology and Biotechnology, Institute of Biotechnology Jiangsu, Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
- Huaan Yang, Department of Agriculture and Food (DAFWA), Australia
- Rajeev K. Varshney, Principal Scientist (Applied Genomics) & Director, Centre of Excellence in Genomics, ICRISAT, India
- Apichart Vanavichit, Professor, The Rice Gene Discovery Unit, Kasetsart University, Thailand
- Norman Warthmann, Senior Post Doc, Borevitz Laboratory, ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, Australian National University, Australia
- Chungui Lu Lecturer in Post-Genomics, Faculty of Science, Nottingham University, UK
- Beng Kah (Bk) Song, Lecturer, Monash University, Sunway Campus, Australia/ Malaysia
- Kenneth Olsen, Associate Professor Department of Biology, Washington St Louis University, USA
- Yue-Ie Hsing, Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academica Sinica, Taiwan
- Meilina Ong Abdullah, Breeding and Tissue Culture Unit, The Advanced Biotechnology and Breeding Centre, Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) Malaysia
- Yijun Ruan, Professor and Director, Systems Biology Center, HuaZhong Agricultural University, Wuhan, China
- Sachiko Isobe, Head Applied Plant Genomics, Kaduza DNA Research Institute (KDRI), Japan
- Yuan-Ming Zhang, Professor of Statistical Genomics, State Key Lab. of Crop Genetics and Germplasm Enhancement, Nanjing Agricultural University, China
- Parveen Chhuneja, Geneticist, Bioinformatics Centre School of Agricultural Biotechnology, Punjab Agricultural University, India
- Shengyi Liu, Professor and Head, The Key Lab of Oil Crops Biology, the Ministry of Agriculture, PRC Department of Genomics, Oil Crops Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China
- Wen-Hsiung Li, Director and Distinguished Research Fellow, Biodiversity Research Center, Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology, Academica Sinica, Taiwan
- Graham King, Director, Southern Cross Plant Science Professor of Plant Genomics and Epigenetics, Southern Cross University, Australia
- Ryan Lister, Professor/ARC Future Fellow, Plant Energy Biology ARC CoE, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Western Australia
- Amitabh Mohanty, Lead Trait Discovery, E.I. DuPont India Pvt Ltd.
- Robin G Allaby, Associate Professor, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, UK
- Todd Blevins, Senior Postdoctoral Associate, Pikaard Lab, Indiana University
- Roger Bossé, Global Product Line Leader, PerkinElmer
- James Coomer, Senior Technical Advisor for Europe. Data Direct Networks
- Tamas Dalmay, Professor of RNA Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich
- Massimo Delledonne, Professor, Department of Biotechnology & Director, Functional Genomics Center, University of Verona, Italy
- Joe Duran, Director – HPC Systems, Technology Solutions Division, Fujitsu
- Alberto Ferrarini , Biotechnology Professional, University of Verona
- Keywan Hassani-Pak, Group Leader Applied Bioinformatics, Computational and Systems Biology, Rothamsted Research
- Julin Maloof, Professor, Department of Plant Biology, University of California, Davis
- Piotr Mieczkowski, Director of NGS Facility, Research Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina
- Stephen P. Moose, Associate Professor, Maize Genomics, Department of Crop Sciences,, Program Leader, Feedstock Genomics, Energy Biosciences Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
- Lukas Mueller, Professor, Plant Breeding and Genetics, Boyce Thompson Institute, Cornell University
- Odd-Arne Olsen, Professor at Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences (IPM), Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB) , Faculty of Education & Natural Sciences, Hamar University College (HUC), Norway
- Chris Pires, Associate Professor Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia
- Uwe Scholz, Group Leader, Research Group Bioinformatics and Information Technology, IPK
- Alan Schulman, MTT Agrifood Research and Institute of Biotechnology, University of Helsinki