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March 22-24, 2023
Program Committee: Dr. Christine Rose, Dr. Mathias Bähr, Dr. Tobias Böckers, Dr. Ansgar Büschges, Dr. Veronica Egger, Dr. Martin Göpfert, Dr. Sonja Grün, Dr. Eckart Gundelfinger, Dr. Ileana Hanganu-Opatz, Dr. Frank Kirchhoff, Dr. Albert Christian Ludolph, Dr. Heidrun Potschka, Dr. Constance Scharff, Sophie Seidenbecher, Dr. Christian Steinhäuser, Dr. Christiane Thiel

Plenary speakers gender ratio: 2 Women: 6 Men (25%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 43%*
BWN rating: 1, within 2 standard deviations below base rate

*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the neuroscience field

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November 30 – December 3 2022

Organisers: Aaron Gitler, Richard Ransohoff, Scott Small, Li-Huei Tsai

Total invited speakers gender ratio: 6 Women: 16 Men (27%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 43%*
BWN rating: 1, within 2 standard deviations below base rate

*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the neuroscience field

Saving the Brain: A Virtual Neuroscience Symposium [link]

Organisers:
Leslie Church (Conference Manager)
Gary Milgram (Conference Director)

Invited speakers gender ratio: 0 Women: 4 Men (0%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 32%*
BWN rating: 1 (i.e. at or within 2 standard deviations below base rate)

*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience

IBNS 31st Annual Meeting

Organisers:
Jill McGaughy, Greg Carr, Rachel Navarra, and Susan Sangha

Invited speakers gender ratio: 0 Women: 3 Men (0%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 32%*
BWN rating: 1 (i.e. within 2 standard deviations below base rate)

*Method of estimation: compared against base rate of women in general field of neuroscience.

Human Brains: Conversations (virtual seminars; 30 September 2021 to 14 April 2022)

Organisers:
Jubin Abutalebi, Massimo Cacciari, Ciancarlo Comi, Viviana Kasam, Udo Kittelmann, Andrea Moro, Daniela Perani, Letizia Leocani

Invited speakers gender ratio: 4 Women: 10 Men (29%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 43%*
BWN rating: 1 (i.e. 2 standard deviations below base rate)

*Method of estimation: established base rate of women in field of general neuroscience.

Riken Center for Brain Science: 2021 Brain Science Training Program

Organisers:
Andrea Benucci and Motomasa Tanaka

Invited speakers gender ratio: 7 Women: 24 Men (23%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 32%*
BWN rating: 1 (within 2 standard deviations below base rate)

*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women faculty members in general neuroscience.

NeuroMonster: The Second International Symposium on the Mathematics of Neuro-Science, Technology and Engineering

Organisers: Dan Nicolau & Ruairidh Battleday (Symposium Chairs)

Invited speaker gender ratio: 0 Women: 4 Men (0%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 25%*
BWN rating: 1

*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the field of computational neuroscience.

Decoding the sense of effort

Organizer: Florian Monjo
Invited speaker gender ratio: 0 Women: 6 Men (0%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 31%*
BWN rating: 1

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keywords effort AND motor AND regulation, and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in 5 pages of results using our python script.