Flies, worms, and robots: Combining perspectives on minibrains and behavior

Flies, worms, and robots: Combining perspectives on minibrains and behavior

Organizers: Matthieu Louis, Barbara Webb
Invited speaker gender ratio: 7 Females : 19 Males (27%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 16%
Base rate for NIH R01: 30% (taken from here and here)

*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER search with text keywords circuit AND (elegans OR drosophila OR worms OR nematodes OR flies OR fruitflies) count number of female first PIs in first, third and ninth set of 25 results and compute the average.