Molecular Mechanisms of Neuronal Connectivity
Organizers: Linda Richards, Peter Scheiffele, Kang Shen, Yimin Zou
Sponsors: see here
Invited speaker gender ratio: 7 Women : 11 Men (39%)
Keynote speaker gender ration: 1 Woman : 2 Men (33%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 32%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyphrase “connectivity” AND “neuronal”and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 43 pages of results using our python script.