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This is clearly unfortunate, as there are outstanding women researchers in
the field of advanced microscopy.
This last week article from Nature News about the uproar surrounding the
lack of female speakers at the 15th International Congress of Quantum
Chemistry may be relevant, as it shows that people care about this issue:
http://blogs.nature.com/news/2014/02/chemists-call-for-boycott-over-all-male-speaker-line-up.html
Christophe
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Christophe Leterrier
Researcher
Axonal Domains Architecture Team
CRN2M CNRS UMR 7286
Aix Marseille University, France
2014-02-24 10:04 GMT+01:00 Jeremy Adler <[log in to unmask]>:
> The 30 odd speakers for the
>
> International Conference "Trends in Microscopy 2014" March 27th -29th in
> Freiburg/Germany
>
> Includes not even a single women.
>
> Is this a record ?
>
> Statistically women are squeezed out from the hierarchy of science and
> male only speaker lists are clearly part of the problem.
>
>
>
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> Subject: International Conference "Trends in Microscopy 2014" March 27th
> -29th in Freiburg/Germany
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> Dear colleagues,
>
> I like to draw your attention to the following upcoming event
>
> International Conference
> Trends in Microscopy 2014
> "Keeping pace with techniques, increasing resolution and data flood" March
> 27th -29th in Freiburg/Germany sponsored by the German research Foundation
> (DFG)
>
> All information can be found on the following
>
> http://www.imaging.uni-freiburg.de/TIM2014.php
>
> This 3 day conference has an excellent selection of the following 30
> speakers:
> Fernando Amat (Janelia Farms), Emmanuel Beaurepaire (Paris), Jörg
> Bewersdorf (Yale), Christoph Cremer (Mainz), Winfried Denk (Munich), Rainer
> Heintzmann (Jena), Stefan Hell (Göttingen), Lars Hufnagel (Heidelberg), Jan
> Huisken (Dresden), Kai Johnsson (Lausanne), Eric Jorgensen (Salt Lake
> City), Bram Koster (Leiden), Ulrich Kubitscheck (Bonn), Urban Liebel
> (Karlsruhe), Pablo Loza-Alvarez (Barcelona), Ulrich Nienhaus (Karlsruhe)
> Douglas Richardson (Cambridge), Alexander Rohrbach (Freiburg), Olaf
> Ronneberger (Freiburg), Markus Sauer (Würzburg) Walter Schubert
> (Magdeburg), Heinz Schwarz (Tübingen), Hari Shroff (Bethesda), Ernst
> Stelzer (Frankfurt) Jason Swedlow (Dundee), Pavel Tomancak (Dresden),
> Rainer Uhl (Munich), Paul Verkade (Bristol), Roger Wepf (Zuerich), Alipasha
> Vaziri (Vienna)
>
> The conference brings together leading High-end microscope techniques
> developers and users from Germany with their world-wide colleagues.
> Main Topics:
> Super Resolution Microscopy
> Light-Sheet Microscopy
> Correlative Microscopy (Super Resolution + EM) Big Data Analysis and
> Handling But also other new microscopy developments and all the biological
> results obtained by these techniques will be covered.
> The detailed program is enclosed in the PDF Flyer.
> It will be an excellent opportunity for you to get an update and overview
> of the newest cutting-edge developments in microscopy and many spectacular
> results obtained in life science applications.
> A small exhibition area with 14 companies in the field of microscopy is on
> site.
>
> The registration fee is 100 EURO for scientists and industry; and 30 EURO for
> PhD, master and bachelor students.
> Hotel rooms in freiburg are running short due to a large fair in Basel so
> hurry up with the registration.
> Registration is obligatory as the number of seats in the auditorium is
> limited to 230.
>
> Best regards
>
> Roland Nitschke
>
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