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April 06-07, 2023
Organisers: Omar Ait-Ader, Romain Caron, Jérôme Coste, François Berry, P.M. Llorca, J-Jacques Lemaire, Ana Raquel Marques, Anna Sontheimer, CélineTeulière, François Vassal
Invited speakers gender ratio: 0 Women: 14 Men (0%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 32.5%*
BWN rating: 0, more than two standard deviations below base rate
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the Neural structure and brain modelling field
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September 22, 2022
Organisers: Brittany Greenough
Total keynote/talks gender ratio: 2 Women: 11 Men (15%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 43%*
BWN rating: 0, more than 2 standard deviations below the base rate
**Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the neuroscience field
Brain Mapping Society 2021 Annual Meeting: A Worldwide Video Symposium
Organizer: George Samandouras (Chair)
Invited speaker gender ratio: 4 Women: 24 Men (14%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 43%*
BWN rating: 0
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
OHBM Mini Conference: Multiscale, Multimethod Human Brain Mapping
Organizers: Organisation for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM)
Invited speaker gender ratio: 0 Women: 6 Men (0%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 37-52%*
BWN rating: 0
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in cognitive neuroscience.
2019 Systems Neuroscience Spring School
Statics and Dynamics of Neural Systems, March 11th-13rd, Kyoto
Director: Shin Ishii
Organizers: Ken Nakae, Hidetoshi Urakubo, Hiroshi Higashi, Yasuhiro Tanaka, Hideaki Shimazaki
Sponsors: Japanese Neural Network Society, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas “Brain information dynamics underlying multi-area interconnectivity and parallel processing”, Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development “Brain Mapping by Integrated Neurotechnologies for Disease Studies
Speaker gender ratio: 0 women : 7 men (0%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 42%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword systems AND neuroscience and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 16 pages using our python script. Search originally carried out in April 2019.
Brain Connectivity Workshop 2019 (BCW 2019)
Organizers: Marc Tittgemeyer, Michael Breakspeare, Viktor Jirsa
Sponsors: see here
Speaker gender ratio: 5 Women : 19 Men (21%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 42%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “brain connectivity” and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 7 pages of results using our python script.
Neuroeconomics and the Evolution of Economic Behavior Conference 2018
Organizer: Arthur Robson
Speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 15 Men (12%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 37-39%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroeconomics.
40th International Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC 2018)
Organizers: see here
Sponsors: see here
Total keynote speaker gender ratio: 2 women : 16 men (11%)
Plenary keynote speaker gender ratio: 2 women : 3 men (40%)
Theme keynote speaker gender ratio: 0 women : 13 men (0%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 39%
*Method of estimation: Percentage of doctoral degrees awarded to women in biomedical engineering in 2017 as reported by ASEE “Engineering by the Numbers“, by Brian L. Yoder, Ph.D.
Organizers: Yong-Hui Jiang, Zilong Qiu, Jonathan Sebat, Toru Takumi
Invited speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 23 Men (15%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 39%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword Autism OR “Neurodevelopment Disorders” and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 76 pages of results.
Brain Connectivity Workshop 2018 (BCW 2018)
Organizers: Jin Hyung Lee, Petra Ritter
Sponsors: see here
Speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 14 Men (7%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 42%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “brain connectivity” and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 7 pages of results using our python script. Search originally performed in September 2017.
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