Three Decades of Neuroscience on Glutamate Receptor Channels

Three Decades of Neuroscience on Glutamate Receptor Channels

Organizers: Kenton Swartz, Jeff Diamond, Story Landis
Invited speaker gender ratio: 1 Female : 11 Males (8%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 13%

*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER search with text keywords “neuroscience” and “glutamate receptor channels”; count number of female first PIs in all results

Scientific Research Network on Decision Neuroscience and Aging

Organizer: Gregory Samanez-Larkin
Invited speaker gender ratio: 7 Females : 13 Males (35%)
[including poster presenters, 12 Females : 20 Males, then 37%]
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 40%
*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER search with text keywords “decision making” AND “aging”; count number of female first PIs in first 25 results

Orbitofrontal Cortex and Cognition in the City of Lights

Orbitofrontal Cortex and Cognition in the City of Lights

Organizers: Jay Gottfried, Mehdi Khamassi, Elisabeth Murray, Mathias Pessiglione, Geoffrey Schoenbaum
Invited speaker gender ratio: 9 Females : 16 Males (36%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 45%

*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER search with text keywords “orbitofrontal cortex”; count number of female first PIs in first 50 results