21st International Neuroscience Winter Conference
Organizers: Tobias Bonhoeffer, Nils Brose, Thomas Mrsic-Flogel, Alois Saria, Stephan Schwarzacher
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 4 Men (20%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 32%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
FENS-Hertie Winter School: Neural control of instinctive and innate behaviour
Organizers: Tiago Branco and Dayu Lin
Faculty gender ratio: 3 Women : 8 Men (27%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 34%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword neural AND (instinctive OR innate) and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 19 pages of results using our python script.
The Dynamic Organism: from Molecules to Cognition – HUJI-UCL joint meeting
Organizers: Israel Nelken and Maria Chait
Sponsors: see here
Speaker gender ratio: 7 Women : 16 Men (30%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 32%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
8th International Conference “Aspects of Neuroscience”
Organizers: See here
Sponsors: See here
Speaker gender ratio: 1 Women : 5 Men (17%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 32%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
**At the time of posting, there was an error in our base rate using Society for Neuroscience registration data; this has now been corrected.
Bernstein 2018 Workshop: Dimensions of Neural Coding, Computation and Communication
Organizers: Andreas Herz, Alon Rubin
Speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 5 Men (17%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 7 Men (22%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 32%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
**At the time of posting, there was an error in our base rate using Society for Neuroscience registration data; this has now been corrected.
Organizers: Ahmed El Hady, Yonatan Loewenstein and David Hansel
Sponsors: see here
Faculty gender ratio: 1 Woman : 5 Men (17%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Giersch Summer School on the Logistics of Neuronal Function
Organizers: Jochen Triesch and Christian Tetzlaff
Sponsor: Giersch Foundation
Lecturer gender ratio: 2 Women : 6 Men (25%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 35%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “neuronal function” OR “neuron function” and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 14 pages of results using our python script.
Neural Oscillations in Speech and Language Processing
Organizers: Lars Meyer, Angela D. Friederici, Alessandro Tavano and David Poeppel
Invited speaker gender ratio: 8 Women : 14 Men (36%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 44%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword (speech OR language or oscillations) and neuro and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 13 pages of results using our python script.
The 41st Annual Meeting of the Japan Neuroscience Society
Organizers: see here
Sponsors: see here
Invited speaker gender ratio: 8 Women : 21 Men (28%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 32%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
**At the time of posting, there was an error in our base rate using Society for Neuroscience registration data; this has now been corrected.
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