OIST Computational Neuroscience Course 2019
Organizers: Erik De Schutter, Kenji Doya, Bernd Kuhn and Jeff Wickens
Lecturer gender ratio: 4 Women : 12 Men (25%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
31st Annual Barrels Meeting: Barrels XXXI
International Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience 2019
Sponsors: Carlsberg Foundation and Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Copenhagen
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 2 Men (33%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
First IRCN Course in Neuro-Inspired Computation
Sponsors: KAKENHI Project on Artificial Intelligence and Brain Science and Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development
Lecturer gender ratio: 3 Women : 14 Men (18%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 15%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neurally inspired machine learning.
Organizers: Tim Kietzmann, Niko Kriegeskorte
Speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 4 Men (33%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
The 7th Mediterranean Neuroscience Conference
Organizer:Youssef Anouar
Sponsors: see here
Plenary speaker gender ratio: 3 Women : 4 Men (43%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 32%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
Molecular Mechanisms of Neuronal Connectivity
Organizers: Linda Richards, Peter Scheiffele, Kang Shen, Yimin Zou
Sponsors: see here
Invited speaker gender ratio: 7 Women : 11 Men (39%)
Keynote speaker gender ration: 1 Woman : 2 Men (33%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 32%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyphrase “connectivity” AND “neuronal”and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 43 pages of results using our python script.
Bernstein 2018 Workshop: “Neural computation of behaviorally relevant stimuli”
Organizers: Jan Benda, Rüdiger Krahe
Sponsors: Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), Tübingen, Germany
Speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 4 Men (33%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
2019 Society of Biological Psychiatry Annual Meeting
Organizer: Mary Phillips
Plenary speaker gender ratio: 6 Women : 6 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 40%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword biological AND psychiatry and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 11 pages of results using our python script. Search originally performed in May 2018.
20th International Neuroscience Winter Conference
Organizers: Tobias Bonhoeffer, Nils Brose, Alois Saria, Stephan Schwarzacher
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 3 Men (40%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 39%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
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