Trafficking Pathways in Neurodegeneration: Wellcome Connecting Science

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September 6 – September 8, 2023
Organizing Committee: Craig Blackstone, Fiona Elwood, Patrick Lewis, Hélène Plun-Favreau, Lucy Criddle, Jane Murphy

Confirmed apeakers gender ratio: 8 women, 6 men (57%)**
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 43%*
BWN rating: 4, within 2 standard deviations above base rate

*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the neuroscience field
** We will update these numbers as more speakers become confirmed

Neuroethics & the Future of Reality

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June 15, 2023
Organizing Committee: Rolando Masís Obando, Javier Masís Obando, Justin Jungé

Speakers gender ratio: 5 women, 3 men (62%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 43%*
BWN rating: 4, within 2 standard deviations above base rate

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

Neuro-Evo: A Comparative Approach to Cracking Circuit Function III

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May 15 – May 18, 2023
Program Committee: Albert Cardona, David Stern, Maria Tosches

Invited participants gender ratio: 9 Women: 9 Men (50%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 33%*
BWN rating: 4, within 2 standard deviations above base rate

*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the molecular neuroscience and neural structure and brain modeling field

NeurIPS 2022: Thirty Sixth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems

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November 28 – December 9 2022

Organisers: Neural Information Processing Systems

Total invited talks speaker gender ratio: 3 Women: 4 Men (43%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 26%*
BWN rating: 4, within 2 standard deviations above base rate

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

Development and 3D Modeling of the Human Brain   

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December 7 – December 10 2022

Organisers: Guo-li Ming, Sergiu Pasca

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Total invited speakers gender ratio: 10 Women: 11 Men (48%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 32.5%*
BWN rating: 4, within 2 standard deviations above base rate

*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in the neural structure and brain modeling field