38th International Symposium of the GRSNC The Neuroscience of Decision-Making

Organizers: Paul Cisek, Alain Dagher, Lesley Fellows, John Kalaska, Dr. Peter Shizgal
Invited speaker gender ratio: 3 Females : 17 Males (18%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 37%

*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER with text keywords “neuroscience” AND “decision making”

6th Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience Summer School, NYU-Shanghai

Organizers: Xiao-Jing Wang, Zach Mainen, Si Wu, John D. Murray, Eric DeWitt
Invited speaker gender ratio: 1 Female : 14 Males (7%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 21%

*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER with text keywords “neuroscience” AND “cognitive” AND “computational”

Decision Neuroscience in Humans

Organizers: Dr. Jean-Claude Dreher, Dr. Susanne Fuchs
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Females : 27 Males (7%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 22%

*Method of estimation: percentage of female PI’s contributing to Current Opinion in Behavioral Science’s neuroeconomics issue as well as contributing female authors to both the first and second editions of Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain

Barcelona Cognition, Brain, and Technology Summer School 

Organizers: N/A
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Females : 15 Males (12%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 26%

*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER with text keyword “cognition,” “brain,” and “technology”, count number of female PI’s out of first 100 results

Neural Circuits: From structure to Computation (symposium in honor of Haim Sompolinsky)

Organizers: Yonatan Loewenstein, Sebastian Seung
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Females : 12 Males (14%)
(1) Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 21% (28/135)
(2) Estimated** base rate of females in the field: 31% (46/103)

*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER with text keyword “computational neuroscience”
**Method of estimation: ISF with text keyword “neurobiology, biopsychology, cognitive psychology”

Optogenetics; from cells to circuits and behavior

Organizers: Ofer Yizhar, Alon Chen
Invited speaker gender ratio: 1 Female : 7 Males (13%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 36%

*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER with text keyword “optogenetics”, count number of female first PIs in first 50 results

Frontiers in Synaptic Functions

Organizers: Idan Segev, Micha Spira
Invited speaker gender ratio: 4 Females : 18 Males (18%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 30%

*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER with text keyword “Neuroscience”, count number of female first PIs in first 50 results

The 22nd Jerusalem Summer School in Life Science – Frontiers in Neuroscience

Organizers: Roger Kornberg, Daphne Atlas, Adi Mizrahi
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Females : 13 Males (13%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 30%

*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER with text keyword “Neuroscience”, count number of female first PIs in first 50 results

Animal vocalizations: Songs in Jerusalem

Organizers: Adi Mizrahi, Mickey London
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Females : 14 Males (13%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 32%

*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER with text keyword “Vocalization”, count number of female first PIs in first 50 results

Brainy Days in Jerusalem: An interdisciplinary celebration

Organizers: Yoram Burak, Yossi Yarom, Eilon Vaadia
Invited speaker gender ratio: 5 Females : 24 Males (17%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 30% 

*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER with text keyword “Neuroscience”, count number of female first PIs in first 50 results