Yet another biased meeting from Oxford Global - their meetings should be shunned #YAMMM #GenderBias

Well, Oxford Global has done it again.  They have found a way to be one of the most extremely gender biased conferences around.  Their 2016 Genome Editing Congress Speakers. Their web site lists 20 speakers, 19 of which are men.  (One of the men is listed twice - I am not sure if that is due to giving two talks or a mistake.  So this may be 19 speakers~ 95, 18 of which are men).  Regardless that comes to ~ 95% male speakers.

• Andre Choulika, CEO Cellectis
• Guna Rajagopal, VP – Global Head, Computational Sciences, Discovery Sciences Janssen
• Lorenz Mayr, VP & Global Head, Reagents & Assay Development Astrazeneca
• Zheng-Yi Chen, Associate Professor Harvard Medical School
• Daniel Anderson, Associate Professor MIT
• Marcello Maresca, Associate Principal Scientist Astrazeneca
• John Doench, Director; Associate Director, Genetic Perturbation Platform Broad Institute
• Chad Cowan, Associate Professor  Harvard
• Pablo Perez Pinera, Associate Professor University of Illinois
• Jim Collins, Professor MIT
• Channabasavaiah Gurumurthy, Director, Transgenic Core Facility University of Nebraska Medical School
• Danilo Maddalo, Senior Scientist and Lab Head Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
• Rodolphe Barrangou, Associate Professor North Carolina State University
• Stephanie Mohr, DRSC Director Harvard Medical School
• Robert Howes, Associate Director MedImmune
• Channabasavaiah Gurumurthy, Director, Transgenic Core Facility University of Nebraska Medical Center
• James Carothers, Assistant Professor University of Washington
• William Theodorus Hendriks, Instructor in Neurology Harvard Medical School
• Mark Osborn, Assistant Professor University of Minnesota
• Jeff Chamberlain, Professor University of Washington

1 and 19 were counted at Genome Editing USA Congress #OxfordGlobal. Learn more at GenderAvenger Tally

Sponsors of the meeting should be contacted about this:

Sadly this is a consistent pattern for Oxford Global. See for example Oxford Global Sequencing Meetings: Where MEN Tell You About Sequencing #YAMMM and also Time to boycott Oxford Global meetings due to blatant sexism

Really - we need as a community to stand up to these types of meetings.  Oxford Global meetings should be boycotted.  And the companies that sponsor their meetings are complicit in their gender bias.



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UPDATE  10/2 12:56 PM - decided to look at another one of their meetings that is linked from this one

2nd Annual Next Generation Sequencing USA Congress
3-4 October 2016, Boston, USA

83 % male speakers.  Grand.

• James Knight, Director of Bioinformatics Yale University
• John Quackenbush, Professor Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
• Shanrong Zhao, Director Pfizer Inc.
• Nazneen Aziz, Research Professor Arizona State University
• George Weinstock, Director and Professor Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine
• Alexander Wait Zaranek, Director Informatics Harvard Medical School
• Rong Mao, Medical Director, Molecular Genetics and Genomics, ARUP Laboratories; Associate Professor, Pathology University of Utah School of Medicine
• Mark Gerstein, Albert L Williams Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, and Computer Science Co-Director of the Yale Program in Computational Biology & Bioinformatics
• James Willey, Professor of Medicine and Pathology University of Toledo
• Neil R. Smalheiser, Associate Professor in Psychiatry University of Illinois College of Medicine
• Mark Borodovsky, Regents’ Professor Georgia Tech
• Scott J. Tebbutt, Associate Professor & Chief Scientific Officer University of British Columbia & PROOF Centre of Excellence
• Michael Fraser, Program Director, Cancer Genomics, Radiation Medicine Program Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
• Justin Johnson, Associate Director and Principal Scientist AstraZeneca
• Leonora Balaj, Instructor in Neurology Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Medical School
• Aleksandra Markovets, Senior Scientist AstraZeneca
• Baohong Zhang, Director of Clinical Bioinformatics Pfizer, Inc.
• Steven Hart, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics Mayo Clinic
• Manolis Kellis, Professor and Head, MIT Computational Biology Group MIT
• John Methot, Head of Scientific Computing Biogen
• Andrew Hollinger, Associate Director: Scientific Communications Broad Institute
• Yingtao Bi, Senior Manager in Statistics Abbvie Bioresearch Center
• Paul Blainey, Assistant Professor of Biological Engineering, MIT and Core Faculty Member Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard

4 and 19 were counted at #oxfordglobal. Learn more at GenderAvenger Tally

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