Advances in Optical Imaging of Living Cells & Organisms: Focus on the Brain

Organizers: Guoqiang Bi, Haruhiko Bito, Arthur Konnerth, Yi Zuo
Sponsors: Novartis, Bruker, Inscopix, Tucsen Photonics
Invited speaker gender ratio:  4 Women :  22 Men (18%)
Keynote speaker gender ration: 1 Woman : 1 Man (50%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 36%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyphrase “optical imaging” AND neuro* and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 4 pages of results using our python script.