5th Annual Molecular Psychiatry Meeting

Organizers: Carrie Bearden, Ron Davis, Stephanie Dulawa, Rob Malenka, Tracey Petryshen, Stephan Sanders, Akira Sawa and Martin Schalling
Plenary speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 1 Man (50%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 58%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword molecular AND (psychiatry OR psychiatric) and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 44 pages of results.

VII Latin American School on Computational Neuroscience – LASCON 2018

Organizers: Antonio Galves, Antonio Roque and Nilton Kamiji 
Speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 18 Men (10%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%

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

HBP Hippocamp 2017: Collaborative and Integrative Modeling of Hippocampus

Organizers: Alain Destexhe, Katherine Fregnac, Szabolcs Kali, Audrey Mercer, Michele Migliore, Eilif Muller, Armando Romani, Katrien Van Look
Sponsors: see here
Speaker gender ratio: 4 women : 9 men (31%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 35%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword (modeling OR modelling) AND hippocampus and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 43 pages of results.

Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience: From Generation to Degeneration

Organizers: Chaya Kalcheim, Eran Meshorer and Hermona Soreq
Total speaker gender ratio (incl. keynote):  8 Women :  15 Men (35%)
Keynote speaker gender ratio:  0 Women : 1 Man (0%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 40%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword (molecular OR cellular) AND neuro and counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in pages 25, 49, 72 and 96 of 119 results pages.

Workshop on Perceptual Learning: Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience

Organizers: Kevin Connolly and Adrienne Prettyman
Sponsors: see here
Speaker gender ratio: 2 women : 3 men (40%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 41%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword (perception OR perceptual) AND learning and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 41 pages of results.

Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting 2017

Organizers: see here
Total speaker gender ratio: 44 Women : 56 Men (44%)
Invited symposia gender ratio: 11 Women : 11 Men (50%)
Submitted symposia gender ratio: 16 Women : 27 Men (37%)
Award lecture gender ratio: 2 Women : 3 Men (40%)
Data blitz gender ratio: 15 Women : 15 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 37-52%

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

5th Workshop on Biological Distributed Algorithms

Organizers: Yuval Emek and Saket Navlakha
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Invited speaker gender ratio: 0 Women : 4 Men (0%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 15%

*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neurally inspired machine learning.

Spring Brain Conference 2017: Learning, Memory and Synaptic Plasticity

Organizers: Robert Malenka and Richard Morris
Sponsors: Federation of European Neuroscience Societies and The Brain Prize
Speaker gender ratio:  8 Women :  23 Men (26%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 33%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword  “(learning OR memory) AND neuro*” and counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in pages 13, 27, 40 and 54 of 67 results pages. Search was performed in December 2016.

Machine Learning Meets Biology: Algorithms and Cortical Mechanisms

Organizers: Taylor Newton, Fabien Delalondre, Marc-Oliver Gewaltig, Eilif Muller, Henry Markram
Invited speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 11 Men (8%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 15%

*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neurally inspired machine learning.

The 2017 International Conference on Brain Informatics (BI’17)

Organizers (see here): Bo Xu, Hanchuan Peng, Qingming Luo, Yi Zeng, Yong He, Jeanette Kotaleski, Maryann Martone, Ning Zhong, Jianzhou Yan, Shengfu Lu, An’an Li, Sen Song, Wenming Zheng, Tielin Zhang, Yang Yang, Shouyi Wang, Ning Zhong
Sponsors: see here
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 6 Men (14%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%

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