Keystone Symposium “Connectomics“

Organizers: Olaf Sporns, Danielle Bassett and Jeremy Freeman
Sponsor: Takeda
Speaker gender ratio (incl. keynote):  15 Women: 27 Men (36%)
Keynote gender ratio: 2 Women: 2 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 27%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “connectome” and counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in pages 1, 3, 6 and 8 of 8 results pages. Double checking with our python script we got a base rate of 28% for this keyword.

Cell Symposia: Big Questions in Neuroscience

Organizers: Katja Brose, Ann Goldstein, Mariela Zirlinger
Sponsors: see here
Speaker gender ratio (incl. keynote): 4 Women: 11 Men (26.7%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 24%

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

Human Brain Project Satellite Symposium to SfN 2016: Collaborative Neuroscience and Enabling Infrastructure

Organizers: Marc-Oliver Gewaltig, Eilif Muller, Jeff Muller, David Lester and Andrew Davison
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 6 Men (25%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 24%

*Method of estimation: since the “symposium brings together researchers and engineers from the Human Brain Project (HBP) with the larger neuroscience community to discuss
how the HBP Platforms can catalyze collaborative neuroscience research by the community, and highlight selected complementary initiatives to explore synergies” we used the previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.

NIPS 2016 workshop: Computing with spikes

Organizers: Cristina Savin, Thomas Nowotny, Davide Zambrano and Sander Bohte
Invited speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 4 Men (20%) (one additional speaker to be announced)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-18%

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

9th Australasian Workshop on Neuro-Engineering and Computational Neuroscience

Organizers: Leonardo L Gollo, James Roberts, Vinh Nguyen, Michael Breakspear
Sponsored by: QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute & Australian Research Council Centre for Excellence for Integrative Brain Function
Keynote speakers gender ratio: 1 Woman : 2 Men (33.3%)
(Invited speakers: TBD)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-18%

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

Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain 2016 Meeting

Invited speaker gender ratio: 8 Women : 25 Men (24%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-18%

*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate for computational neuroscience (assuming the collaboration is focused only on computational approaches).

2016 Annual Meeting of the Memory Disorders Research Society (MDRS)

Organizers: Ken Norman and Nick Turk-Browne
Funded by: Department of Psychology, Princeton University (Langfeld Fund), Nature Neuroscience, Trends in Cognitive Science
Invited speaker gender ratio: 24 Women : 40 Men (38%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 36%

*Method of estimation: The annual meeting is open only to MDRS members, so we counted the number of females among members (although it is not clear that the membership is a true reflection of the gender distribution of researchers in the field).

2016 International Computational Psychiatry Course

Organizers: Frederike Petzschner & Klaas Enno Stephan,
Course speaker gender ratio: 10 Women : 18 Men (36%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 29% 

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

2016 Gordon Research Conference: Neurobiology of Cognition

Organizers: Tania Pasternak (Chair) and David Leopold (Vice Chair)
Invited speaker gender ratio: 18 Women : 25 Men (42%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 40% 

*Method of estimation: we searched NIH RePORTER with text keywords “Cognitive Neuroscience” in active RPG grants, and counted gender-identifiable names from the first two pages of results.

2016 Gordon Research Conference: Auditory System

Organizers: Stephen G. Lomber (Chair) and Jeffrey Holt (Vice Chair)
Invited speaker gender ratio: 20 Women : 29 Men (41%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 37% 

*Method of estimation: we searched NIH RePORTER with text keywords “auditory” AND “system” and counted the number of women among unique PIs in pages 4, 15, 25 & 35 of the 37 pages of results (notably, the first two pages we counted, 4 and 35, were exactly evenly split — hooray for auditory systems research!)