Brain Connectivity Workshop 2021
Organizer: Tanya Brown
Invited speaker gender ratio: 8 Women: 12 Men (40%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 33%*
BWN rating: 3
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keywords consciousness AND cognition and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 4 pages of results using our python script.
Director: Daniel Geschwind
Faculty gender ratio: 3 Women: 4 Men (42%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 36%*
BWN rating: 3, at or within 1 stdev of the base rate
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword neurogenetics, and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in 7 pages of results using our python script. We left 5 names unclassified.
Neuroscience School of Advanced Studies Advanced Course: Microbiota and the Brain (NSAS 2020)
Director: John Cryan
Faculty gender ratio: 4 Women: 4 Men (50%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 35%*
BWN rating: 3
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keywords microbiota AND brain, and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in 25 pages of results using our python script.
Neuroscience School of Advanced Studies Advanced Course: Computational Psychiatry (NSAS 2020)
Director: Ray Dolan
Faculty gender ratio: 3 Women: 5 Men (38%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 29%*
BWN rating: 3
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in computational psychiatry.
Organizers: Alexandra Tzilivaki & Spiros Chavlis
Invited speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman: 4 Men (20%)
Estimated base rate of females in the field: 17-20%*
BWN rating: 3
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Spiking neural networks as universal function approximators: Learning algorithms and applications
Organizers: Dan Goodman & Friedemann Zenke
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Women: 6 Men (25%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 15%*
BWN rating: 3
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neurally inspired machine learning.
ESI Systems Neuroscience Conference 2020
Organizers: Wolf Singer (Group Leader) & Pascal Fries (Departmental Director)
Invited speaker gender ratio: 3 Women: 4 Men (43%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 29%*
BWN rating: 3
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keywords “systems neuroscience”, and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in 5 pages of results using our python script.
OIST Computational Neuroscience Course (OCNC 2020) – cancelled
Organizers: Erik De Schutter, Kenji Doya, Tomoki Fukai & Bernd Kuhn
Lecturer gender ratio: 3 Women: 13 Men (19%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
BWN rating: 3
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Program Committee: Nikolai Axmacher, Sen Cheng, Gerald Echterhoff, Albert Newen, Ricarda Schubotz, Markus Werning, Laurenz Wiskott & Oliver Wolf
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 3 Women: 2 Men (60%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 40%*
BWN rating: 3
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword episodic memory, and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in 14 pages of results using our python script. We left 7 names unclassified.
Paris Neuro Course on Optical Imaging and Electrophysiological Recording in Neuroscience 2019
Organizers: David Ogden, Joana Lourenco, Cathie Ventalon, Brandon Stell, Jonathan Bradley, Boris Barbour, Federico Trigo, Adrien Schramm, Stéphane Dieudonné & David Digregorio
Sponsors: see here
Lecturer gender ratio: 6 Women: 24 Men (20%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 20%*
BWN rating: 3
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keywords (optical imaging OR electrophysiology) AND neuroscience, and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in 2 pages of results using our python script.
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