Neuroscience 2018

Organizers: see here
Invited speaker gender ratio: 11 Women : 11 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 39%

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

Dynamics of learning and computations in neuronal circuits

Organizers: Rainer J. Engelken, Farzad Farkhooi, Jonathan Kadmon, Fred Wolf
Sponsors: Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) and Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Speaker gender ratio: 5 women : 10 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 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.

Neuroinformatics 2018

Organizer: Angus Silver
Sponsors:  F1000Research, German Neuroinformatics Node (G-Node)
Speaker gender ratio: 6 women : 12 men (33%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%

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

Computational Theories of the Brain

Organizers: Wolfgang Maass, Christos Papadimitriou, S. Murray Sherman
Sponsor: National Science Foundation
Invited speaker gender ratio: 6 women : 16 men (27%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%

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

Eighth International Symposium on Biology of Decision Making

Organizers: Kenji Doya, Lesley Fellows, Mehdi Khamassi, Etienne Koechlin, Mathias Pessiglione, Chris Summerfield, Miriam Teschl
Invited speaker gender ratio: 10 women : 15 men (40%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 30%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword biology AND “decision making”and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 12 pages of results using our python script.

CAJAL Course in Computational Neuroscience 2018

Organizers: Joe Paton, Christian Machens and Jakob Macke
Faculty gender ratio: 6 women : 15 men (29%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%

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