Hey Susan,
I totally agree with you and Pietro. Here's an idea - why don't you organise a structural biology workshop with a females-only speaker list? Don't give it some stupid feminist name and don't exclude male participants. Also don't exclude male speakers deliberately - that would be discrimination, wouldn't it - just don't invite any on the speakers list. I think that would make for a wonderful and very interesting workshop for everyone involved. Bärbel Von: "Roversi, Pietro (Dr.)" <pr...@leicester.ac.uk> An: <CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> Gesendet: 05.02.2020 18:21 Betreff: Re: [ccp4bb] Macromolecular Crystallography workshop in South America 2020 Dear all, my twopenny worth - when Helen Walden and I put together the 2013 CCP4 Weekend list of speakers, we were delighted to end up with a not-so-gender-imbalanced list of speakers, but we did achieve that balance *intentionally*. As we attempt to redress a de facto longstanding bias against women in the workplace, everybody in charge of this kind of decision is expected to *intentionally* look for excellent women scientists. They will find them if they look - and the event will be better because of participation of women as well as male scientists. with best wishes, Pietro Pietro Roversi Lecturer (Teaching and Research) https://le.ac.uk/natural-sciences/ LISCB Wellcome Trust ISSF Fellow https://le.ac.uk/liscb/research-groups/pietro-roversi Leicester Institute of Structural and Chemical Biology Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Leicester Henry Wellcome Building Lancaster Road, Leicester, LE1 7HB England, United Kingdom Tel. +44 (0)116 2297237 ---------------- From: CCP4 bulletin board on behalf of Tim Gruene Sent: Wednesday, 05 February 2020 16:18 To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Macromolecular Crystallography workshop in South America 2020 Dear Susan, dear Silvia, why don't both of you offer to teach as tutors at this CCP4 workshop? I do not believe that this 'imbalance' has been done intentionally by any of the people involved. Both of you should take a step forward, tutor in South America. In case your offer is rejected, you may start to argue. Best regards, Tim On Wednesday, February 5, 2020 1:48:32 PM CET Susan Lea wrote: > ‘Role’ models are not what are needed - just a better representation of our > community. This is lazy scheduling and in a community where there have > always been influential women we should do better - CCP4 has let the whole > community down by allowing their name to be associated with this. Perhaps > we could encourage the speakers to do as many of my colleagues have started > to do - ask who else is speaking at a meeting and refuse to participate if > the list does not reflect the community. > Susan > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 5 Feb 2020, at 07:38, Silvia Onesti <silvia.one...@elettra.eu> wrote: > > Maybe CCP4 should explicitely ask for gender balance before sponsoring a > workshop? > Silvia > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Silvia Onesti - Head of Structural Biology > > Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A. > AREA Science Park, 34149 Basovizza, Trieste ITALY > > Email: silvia.one...@elettra.eu<mailto:silvia.one...@elettra.eu> > Tel. +39 040 3758451 Mob +39 366 6878001 > > http://www.elettra.trieste.it/People/SilviaOnesti > http://www.elettra.trieste.it/labs/structural-biology > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > On 5 Feb 2020, at 03:09, Alejandro Buschiazzo > <ale...@pasteur.edu.uy<mailto:ale...@pasteur.edu.uy>> wrote: > Thank you for your comment, we cannot agree more. > > We are aware of this, and still are in the process of inviting a few more > speakers. We shall thus bring more women on board, and achieve a > balanced group! > Cheers, > Alejandro (on behalf of the organizers) > > > El 4 feb. 2020, a la(s) 22:02, Edward Snell > <esn...@hwi.buffalo.edu<mailto:esn...@hwi.buffalo.edu>> escribió: > > It is great that this workshop is occurring but I couldn't help but notice > that there seem to be a lot of male speakers and tutors. I was wondering if > it might be appropriate to add some female role models. There are some > great candidates? > > > ________________________________ > From: CCP4 bulletin board > <CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK<mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK>> on behalf of > Alejandro Buschiazzo <ale...@pasteur.edu.uy<mailto:ale...@pasteur.edu.uy>> > Sent: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 7:30 PM > To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK<mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK> > Subject: [ccp4bb] Macromolecular Crystallography workshop in South America > 2020 > Dear colleagues, > > We are pleased to announce the 8th South American Macromolecular > Crystallography School: > Macromolecular Crystallography School 2020 > "Structural Biology to enhance high impact research in health and disease” > > To be held at the Institut Pasteur de Montevideo (Uruguay) - September 9-19, > 2020 > http://pasteur.uy/novedades/mx2020/ > > The application deadline is July 9, 2020. For further inquiries : > mx2...@pasteur.edu.uy<mailto:mx2...@pasteur.edu.uy> > > Main Topics: > > • data processing; > > • phasing and structure determination; > > • model refinement and validation; > > • introduction to crystallography + cryo-electron microscopy > integration > Confirmed speakers and tutors (so far... a few more will join the crew): > > Alejandro Buschiazzo (Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Uruguay) > Paul Emsley (Laboratory of Molecular Biology MRC, Cambridge, UK) > Rafael Junqueira Borges (Instituto de Biociências UNESP, Botucatu, Brazil) > Ronan Keegan (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab - CCP4, Didcot, UK) > Eugene Krissinel (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab - CCP4, Didcot, UK) > Joāo Muniz (Instituto de Fisica de São Carlos, Brazil) > Garib Murshudov (Laboratory of Molecular Biology MRC, Cambridge, UK) > Colin Palmer (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab - CCP-EM, Didcot, UK) > James Parkhurst (Diamond Light Source, Didcot, UK) > Randy Read (University of Cambridge, UK) > Kyle Stevenson (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab - CCP4, Didcot, UK) > Clemens Vonrhein (Global Phasing Ltd, Cambridge, UK) > > Please find the application form and further contact information at > http://pasteur.uy/novedades/mx2020/ (this www site will be updated > regularly, so stay tuned!) > > This Workshop is supported by the Collaborative Computational Project Nº4 > (CCP4, UK) & Science and Technology Facilities Council (UK); the Centro de > Biologia Estructural del Mercosur (CeBEM); and the Programa Iberoamericano > de Ciencia y Tecnologia para el Desarrollo (CYTED) through de MICROBES > consortium. > Organizers: > Alejandro Buschiazzo, PhD. Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Uruguay > Kyle Stevenson, DPhil. CCP4, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, United > Kingdom Richard Garratt, PhD. Instituto de Fisica de Sao Carlos, USP, > Brazil > Applicants: > 25 students will be selected, prioritizing advanced PhD, postdocs and young > researchers. The Course will provide financial support covering > registration fees, and for the case of those students coming from abroad, > all local expenses (lodging, per diem and local transportation). Look in > the www site for details on application procedures. > The application deadline is July 9, 2020. > > Please address further inquiries to: > mx2...@pasteur.edu.uy<mailto:mx2...@pasteur.edu.uy> > Looking forward to hosting you in Montevideo! > > ________________________________ > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > > ________________________________ > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > > ________________________________ > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > > > ________________________________ > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > > ######################################################################## > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 -- -- Tim Gruene Head of the Centre for X-ray Structure Analysis Faculty of Chemistry University of Vienna Phone: +43-1-4277-70202 GPG Key ID = A46BEE1A ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 ---------------- To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1
