This is not to make light of a serious problem. But I am having a hard
time in my classes predicting anything about gender based on peoples'
names. The people no longer name their children in any way that allows
one to predict their gender. Maybe this is progress.
Carol Heckman
On 2/24/14 6:16 AM, "Eduardo Rosa-Molinar, Ph.D." <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Let's not even start taking about minorities.
>
>Best regards,
>
>Sent by Eduardo Rosa-Molinar, Ph.D. on the Sprint® Now Network from my
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>From: Mark Cannell <[log in to unmask]>
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>Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 09:30:16
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>Subject: Re: Women in microscopy
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>Don’t know if it’s a record, but are you suggesting the speakers were
>selected on the basis of gender? if not, then what is the explanation?
>
>Cheers
>
>On 24/02/2014, at 9:04 am, Jeremy Adler <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Confocal Microscopy List
>>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Roland Nitschke
>> Sent: den 23 februari 2014 20:36
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> 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 € for scientists and industry; and 30 € 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
>>
>> --
>> ___________________________
>>
>> Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
>> Life Imaging Center in ZBSA
>> Dr. Roland Nitschke
>> Habsburgerstr.49
>> D-79104 Freiburg
>> Germany
>> ___________________________
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>> phone: 49-761-2032934 or 2902
>> fax: 49-761-2032941
>> http://www.imaging.uni-freiburg.de/
>
>Mark B. Cannell Ph.D. FRSNZ
>Professor of Cardiac Cell Biology
>School of Physiology & Pharmacology
>Medical Sciences Building
>University of Bristol
>Bristol
>BS8 1TD UK
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