Conference link

Organisers:
Catherine Collins, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Rüdiger Klein, Max-Planck Institute of Neurobiology, Germany
Kang Shen, Stanford University
Yimin Zou, University of California San Diego

Invited speakers (and session chairs) gender ratio: 7 Women: 9 Men (44%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 33%*
BWN rating: 3 (i.e. 1 standard deviation above base rate)

*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the field of molecular neuroscience

Link to the Conference Agenda

Organisers:
Dan Goodman, Konrad Kording, Brad Wyble, Titipat Achakulvisut, Chris Rozell, Yiota Poirazi, Megan Peters, Bing Brunton, Anne Urai, Jennifer Bizley, Alberto Antonietti, Jeremy Forest

Invited speakers gender ratio: 2 Women: 3 Men (40%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 26%*
BWN rating: 3 (i.e. within or at 1 standard deviation above base rate)

*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the field of computational neuroscience.

Craniofacial Neuroscience Virtual Symposium [program link]

Organisers:
Limor Avivi-Arber
Teresa Lever
Kazutaka Takahashi

Invited speakers gender ratio: 3 Women: 5 Men (38%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 29%*
BWN rating: 3 (i.e. within or at 1 standard deviation above base rate)

*Method of estimation: calculated by counting the total number of women among the unique PI names in a NIH RePORTER grant search using the keyword “craniofacial neuroscience”.

ADNF Symposium XIII

Organisers:
Julian Heng, Nathalie Dehorter, Michael Piper, Kelly Glendining

Invited speakers gender ratio: 2 Women: 2 Men (50%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 39%*
BWN rating: 3 (i.e. within or at 1 standard deviation above base rate)

*Method of estimation: established base rate of women in the field of developmental neuroscience.

Cutting EEG 2021: 5th Symposium on cutting edge methods in clinical and cognitive neurophysiology research

Organisers:
Anne-Sophie Dubarry
Clement Francois
Maximilien Chaumon
Deirdre Bolger
Manuel Mercier
Adrien Schramm

Invited speakers gender ratio: 10 Women: 14 Men (42%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 34%*
BWN rating: 3 (i.e. within 1 standard deviation above base rate)

*Method of estimation: estimated base rate of women engaging in EEG research.

Ulster University Intelligent Systems Research Centre: Computational Neuroscience, Neurotechnology and Neuro-inspired Artificial Intelligence (ISRC-CN3) 2021 Autumn School

Organiser: KongFatt Wong-Lin

Invited speakers gender ratio: 5 Women: 13 Men (30%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 26%*
BWN rating: 3 (1 standard deviation at or above base rate)

*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the field of computational neuroscience

WorldWideNeuRise Seminar Series: Predictive Processing

Organisers:
Bill Podlaski, Christina Beutfering, Ellen Boven, Gily Ginosar, Joram Keijser, Loreen Hertag, & Lucie Descamps

Invited speaker gender ratio: 4 Women: 4 Men (50%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 45%*
BWN rating: 3

*Method of estimation: previously estimated base rate of women in the field of cognitive neuroscience.

The Brain Conference 2021: RNA Mechanisms and Brain Disease

Organisers: Erin Schuman & Giovanna Malluci (Co-Chairs)

Invited speaker ratio: 7 Women: 13 Men (35%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 33%*
BWN rating: 3

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

Spatio-temporal Aspects of Embodied Predictive Processing (ICDL Workshop StEPP’21)

Organisers: Stefan Heinrich, Shingo Murata, Yukie Nagai & Yuichi Yamashita
Invited speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman: 3 Men (25%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 20.5%*
BWN rating: 3

*Method of estimation: as the workshop covered multiple topics, a combination of base rates for computational neuroscience and neurally-inspired machine learning was used.