Organizers: Jérémie Barral, Florian Berger, Ben Urban, Kanaka Rajan, and Christoph Kirst
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 women : 2 men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 36%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “neurobiology”, narrowing down to only Eastern US states and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 30 pages using our python script. Search originally performed in February 2017.
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