So far our invited speakers are as follows:
Amelie Baud, Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona
Augustine Kong, University of Oxford
Bogdan Pasaniuc, UCLA
Chiara Sabatti, Stanford University
Christine Baes, University of Guelph
Ed Buckler, Cornell and USDA
Gustavo de los Campos, Michigan State University
Guy Sella, Columbia University
Jack Dekkers, Iowa State University
Jacqueline Sztepanacz, University of Toronto
Jason Wolf, University of Bath
Jeff Endelman, University of Wisconsin
Joelle Mbatchou, Regeneron
Julien Ayroles, Princeton University
Kerry Geiler-Samerotte, Arizona State University
Lingzhao Fang, Aarhus University
Loic Yengo, University of Queensland
Naomi Wray, University of Queensland
Piter Bijma, Wageningen University
Po-Ru Loh, Harvard University
Susan Johnston, University of Edinburgh
Thomas Hansen, University of Oslo
Zach Lippman, CSHL
More will follow. Diversity: 33% of participants at ICQG5 and ICQG6 were female. Our invited speakers currently reflect this diversity within our field and we will seek to improve the female speaker representation over the coming weeks.