4: within 2std above base rate

Frontiers in Addiction Research

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NIDA-NIAAA Mini Convention: Frontiers in Addiction Research

Organizers: ??
Invited speaker gender ratio: 10 Women : 6 Men (62.5%)
(of these: 5 women and 5 men giving full-length presentations, 5 women and 1 man giving short spotlight presentations)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 44%

*Method of estimation: Since the overall theme of the meeting is “relapse and recovery”, we searched NIH RePORTER for grants from NIDA and NIAAA only with keywords “relapse” OR “recovery” and counted the number of women among the unique researchers in pages 5,15,25, and 35 of the 37 pages of results.

New Insights into Psychiatric Disorders through Computational, Biological and Developmental Approaches

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New Insights into Psychiatric Disorders through Computational, Biological and Developmental Approaches

Organizers: John Krystal, Yael Niv, Oscar Marin
Invited speaker gender ratio: 13 Women : 16 Men (45%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 33%

*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER with text keywords”computational psychiatry” OR “biological psychiatry” OR “developmental psychiatry” and counting the proportion of women in all 23 answers (this is not a large sample, but the final result accords also with the base rate of women in computational psychiatry)

Cosyne – Computational and Systems Neuroscience 2016

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Computational and Systems Neuroscience 2016

Organizers: Anne Churchland, Tony Zador, Alex Pouget and Zach Mainen
Program Chairs: Megan Carey, Emilio Salinas
Invited speaker gender ratio: 5 Female : 8 Male (38%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 21%

*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER search with text keywords computational AND systems AND neuroscience. Count proportion of female PIs in all results, not including duplicates (99 results total)

10th European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology

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10th European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology

Organizer: Markus Owen
Invited speaker gender ratio: 3 Female : 5 Male (38%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17%

*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER search with text keywords mathematical AND theoretical AND biology. Count proportion of female PIs in all results, not including duplicates (41 results total)

Auditory Development: From Cochlea to Cognition

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Auditory Development: From Cochlea to Cognition

Organizers: Carolina Abdala, Allison Coffin, Karina Cramer, Matt Kelley, David Perkel, Dan Sanes, Jenny Stone, Bruce Tempel, and Lynne Werner
Invited Speaker Gender Ratio: 14 Females : 7 Males  (67%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 47%

*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER search with text keywords auditory AND development. R mechanisms only. Count proportion of female-first PIs in first 50 results, not including duplicates.

APAN 2015 – Advanced Perspectives in Auditory Neuroscience

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APAN 2015 – Advanced Perspectives in Auditory Neuroscience

Organizers: Yale Cohen, Liz Romanski and Xiaoqin Wang
Invited speaker gender ratio: 8 Females : 9 Males (47%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 33%

 

*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER search with text keywords auditory AND brain in R mechanisms only; count number of female first PIs in first 50 results, not counting duplicates (15 females out of 45 unique PI results)

Flies, worms, and robots: Combining perspectives on minibrains and behavior

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Flies, worms, and robots: Combining perspectives on minibrains and behavior

Organizers: Matthieu Louis, Barbara Webb
Invited speaker gender ratio: 7 Females : 19 Males (27%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 16%
Base rate for NIH R01: 30% (taken from here and here)

*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER search with text keywords circuit AND (elegans OR drosophila OR worms OR nematodes OR flies OR fruitflies) count number of female first PIs in first, third and ninth set of 25 results and compute the average.