PRNI 2018: 8th International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Neuroimaging

Organizers: Annabel Chen, Cuntai Guan, Jong-Hwan Lee, Nitish V. Thakor
Sponsors: see here
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 3 Men (40%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 33%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword Pattern AND recognition AND (neuroimaging OR MRI OR fMRI OR DTI OR EEG) and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 5 pages of results using our python script.

The Cerebellum: Cells, Systems and Behaviour

Organizers: Narender Ramnani, Claire O’Callaghan and Josh Balsters
Sponsor: Guarantors of Brain
Speaker gender ratio: 6 Women : 7 Men (46%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 33%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword Cerebellum and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 28 pages of results using our python script.

InSpire – New Insights on Complex Neural Dynamics

Organizers: Bruno Cessac, Antonio Politi, Alessandro Torcini, Marc Timme
Sponsors: Labex MME-DII, Institut d’études avancées – IEA – Université de Cergy-Pontoise, The Paris Seine Initiative
Speaker gender ratio: 4 women : 16 men (20%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%

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

8th Annual Computational Sensory-Motor Neuroscience Summer School (CoSMo 2018)

Organizers: Gunnar Blohm, Konrad Körding and Paul Schrater
Sponsors: NIH (R25), Brain Canada Foundation, CAPnet and NSF (DREAM)
Lecturer gender ratio: 2 women : 7 men (22%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 21%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword (Computational AND Sensory-Motor) OR (Computational AND Sensory AND Motor) and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 10 pages of results using our python script. Search originally performed in February 2017.

Sense 2 Synapse 2018

Organizers: Jérémie Barral, Florian Berger, Ben Urban, Kanaka Rajan, and Christoph Kirst
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 women : 2 men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 36%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “neurobiology”, narrowing down to only Eastern US states and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 30 pages using our python script. Search originally performed in February 2017.

COSYNE 2018 Workshop: Closed-loop control of neural systems and circuits for scientific discovery

Organizers: Christopher Rozell, Garrett Stanley
Speaker gender ratio: 3 Women : 7 Men (30%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 20%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword closed AND loop AND neural and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 4 pages of results found using our python script.

2018 MBL Methods in Computational Neuroscience Course

Organizers: Stephen Baccus and Xiao Jing Wang
Sponsors: National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute for Neurological Disorders and Stroke, the National Institute for Drug Abuse, NIH, Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain, and the Organization for Computational Neurosciences
Invited speaker gender ratio: 7 women : 24 men (23%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%

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

2018 Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience Summer School

Organizers: Xiao-Jing Wang, Zachary F Mainen, Si Wu, John D. Murray and Eric DeWitt
Sponsors: see here
Faculty gender ratio: 4 Women : 13 Men (24%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%

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

Probabilities and Optimal Inference to Understand the Brain

Organizers: Paul Apicella, Frederic Danion, Nicole Malfait, Anna Montagnini and Laurent Perrinet
Speaker gender ratio: 3 Women : 8 Men (27%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 19%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword (bayesian OR bayes) AND (neuro OR brain) and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 6 pages of results found using our python script.