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.
Advisory Board:
- 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
So after checking out this meeting I decided – at their suggestion to check out the meetings in Europe and the USA they are organizing. The
speakers for the US meeting are a whopping 33:4 male to female according to my count and the ratio for the
European meeting is about the same (mind you I like some of the speakers – am not blaming them — but this meeting should be avoided in my opinion). Definitely not impressed with the organizers here or the Global Engage organization behind these meetings. Uggh. What is wrong with people? It is really not actually that hard to do better than this.
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