EMBO Workshop: Molecular and physiological basis of behavioural/cognitive defects in Neurodevelopmental disorders

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October 31 – November 3 2022

Organisers: EMBO

Total invited speakers gender ratio: 14 Women: 24 Men (37%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 43%*
BWN rating: 2, within 1 standard deviation below base rate

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

SAN2022: Society of Applied Neuroscience 2022

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September 15-17, 2022

Organisers:
Society of Applied Neuroscience
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Invited (+ keynote) speakers gender ratio: 2 Women: 4 Men (33%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 43%*
BWN rating: 2, within 1 standard deviation below base rate

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

LabLinks: Decision-making: From molecular to cognitive neuroscience

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Organisers:
Athena Akrami, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre
Christina Konen, Editor, Neuron
Nikolay Tsanov, Editor, Cell Reports
Rita Gemayel, Editor, Cell Reports

Invited speakers gender ratio: 2 Women: 7 Men (22%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 35%*
BWN rating: 2 (i.e. 1 standard deviation below base rate)

*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the fields of molecular and cognitive neuroscience.

Cell Symposia 2022: The Biology of Neuropsychiatric Disorders

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Organisers:
Daniel Geschwind, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Hailan Hu, Zhejiang University, China
Ann Goldstein, Scientific Editor, Cell
Ulrich Schridde, Scientific Editor, Neuron

Invited speakers gender ratio: 6 Women: 13 Men (31.5%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 32%*
BWN rating: 2 (i.e. within or at 1 standard deviation below base rate)

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

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Massachusetts General Hospital Centre for Precision Psychiatry: First Annual Conference on Precision Psychiatry

Conference on Precision Psychiatry — The Promise of Precision Prediction, Prevention and Treatment in Mental Health (virtual; September 30-October 1, 2021)

Organisers:
Karmel Choi, Lee Cohen, Maurizio Fava, Amy Fitzpatrick, Robbie Mealer, Andy Nierenberg, Matt Nock, Roy Perlis, Jordan Smoller, Sabine Wilhelm

Invited speakers gender ratio: 9 Women: 14 Men (39%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 47%*
BWN rating: 2 (i.e. within 1 standard deviation below base rate)

*Method of estimation: base rate of women in field of precision psychiatry.

Junior Scientist Workshop on Mechanistic Cognitive Neuroscience

Junior Scientist Workshop on Mechanistic Cognitive Neuroscience

Organisers:
Gabriela Michel, Gowan Tervo, Michael Reiser, Emily Dennis, Josh Dudman, Vanessa Ruta, and Vivek Jayaraman

Invited speakers gender ratio: 3 Women: 4 Men (43%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 45%*
BWN rating: 2 (within 1 standard deviation below base rate)

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

Human Brain Project Summit 2021: Scientific Conference on Brain Research

Human Brain Project Summit 2021: Scientific Conference on Brain Research

Organisers (Program committee members):
Pawel Swieboda, Katrin Amunts, Lars Kluver, Jan Bjaalie, France Nivelle, Sabine Ruland, Patricia Carvajal, Lisa Otten, Roman Volchenkov

Invited speaker gender ratio: 17 Women: 27 Men (39%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 43%
BWN rating: 2

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

Current and Future Applications of Network and Control Sciences for Psychiatry – Summer School 2021, University of Tubingen

Current and Future Applications of Network and Control Sciences for Psychiatry

Organisers:
Jasper Bischofberger
Peter Dayan
Birgit Derntl
Andreas J. Fallgatter
Marc Hirt
Hamidreza Jamalabadi

Invited speakers gender ratio: 3 Women: 12 Men (20%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 29%*
BWN rating: 2

*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in computational psychiatry.