Organizers: Nicolas Brunel, Sandro Romani & Alex Roxin
Funded by: Simons Foundation, HHMI Janelia Research Campus
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 23 Men (8%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 34%
*Method of estimation: Since the website says that “topics include: spatial memory, biophysical models of synaptic plasticity” we searched NIH RePORTER with text keywords “memory” AND (“spatial memory” OR “biophysical models” OR “synaptic plasticity”) and counted the proportion of women among unique PIs on pages 5, 10, 15 & 25 of the 35 pages of results.
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