Racial controversy around plant genetics conference puts Australian scientists ‘on notice’
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on May 27, 2022
What does the postponement of a plant genetics conference in the Australian tropics have to do with the death of a Black American at the hands of US police?
They couldn't seem further apart, but there's a thread that connects them — a thread that became a lit fuse.
In late January, an Australian organiser of the International Congress on Plant Molecular Biology (IPMB), due to be held in October in Cairns, tweeted a poster.
It showed 94 faces, made up of headline speakers . . .
