3rd HBP Student Conference on Interdisciplinary Brain Research
Organizers: Gabriel Urbain and Sandra Diaz-Pier
Speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 3 Men (57%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Winter conference on brain research
Organizers: Thomas Hyde, Paul Phillips, Lloyd Fricker, Peter Morgan, David Devilbiss, Isabelle Aubert, Gretchen Snyder, Susan Ferguson, Jacqueline F. McGinty
Sponsors: See here
Featured speaker gender ratio: 3 Women : 0 Men (100%)
Pioneer awardees: 0 Women: 2 Men (0%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 39%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
Pavlovian Society Meeting 2018
Organizer: John Freeman
Sponsors: Iowa Neuroscience Institute, The University of Iowa Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Plexon & Elsevier
Speaker gender ratio: 19 Women : 16 Men (54%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 29%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword pavlovian OR pavlov and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 9 pages of results using our python script.
Organizer: Marina Wosniack
Speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 2 Men (67%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Organizers: Eveline Crone and Silvia Bunge
Sponsors: see here
Speaker gender ratio: 21 Women : 9 Men (70%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 38%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword developmental AND cognitive AND neuroscience and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 20 pages of results using our python script.
2nd International Workshop on Neurodynamics (Ndy’18)
Organizers: Peter Ashwin, Roberto Barrio, Silvia Daun, Mathieu Desroches, Toni Guillamon, Serafim Rodrigues
Sponsors: see here
Speaker gender ratio: 10 Women : 19 Men (34%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain (SCGB) Postdoc Meeting Series**
NY-area meeting organizers: Kanaka Rajan and James Murray
West Coast meeting organizer: Anna Gillespie
Total invited speaker gender ratio: 12 Women : 16 Men (43%)
NY-area invited speaker ratio: 8 Women : 12 Men (40%)
West Coast invited speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 4 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
**Numbers are for all meeting held up until May 2018. 14 meetings are included: 10 NY-area meetings (since June 2016) and 4 West Coast meetings (since June 2017).
ICCM Organizers: Ion Juvina, Joseph Houpt, and Christopher Myers
MathPsych Organizers: Joseph Austerweil and Joseph Houpt
Invited speaker gender ratio: 4 women : 0 men (100%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Organizers: Caswell Barry, Tim Behrens, Freyja Olafsdottir and Mona Garvert
Sponsors: Google DeepMind, eLife, Brain: a Journal of Neurology, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit
Speaker and chair gender ratio: 10 Women : 12 Men (45%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 19%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword grid AND cell and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 5 pages of results found using our python script.
Organizers: Sacha van Albada and the EITN
Speaker gender ratio: 9 Women : 0 Men (100%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
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