AREADNE 2018: Research in Encoding and Decoding of Neural Ensembles

Organizers: Nicholas Hatsopoulos and John Pezaris
Speaker gender ratio: 8 women : 13 men (38%)
Moderator gender ratio: 4 women : 3 men (57%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-18%

*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience, specifically the numbers based on attendance at COSYNE (Computational and Systems Neuroscience) 2016.
**Previously there was an error in the counts for our gender ratio calculations. Correcting the counts affected the post’s category.

Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain

Organizers: Michael A. Buice, Shawn Olsen, Christof Koch and Adrienne Fairhall
Sponsors: The Simons Foundation and IBRO
Faculty gender ratio: 5 Women : 7 Men (42%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%

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

BNA Christmas Symposium 2017

Sponsors: see here
Speaker gender ratio: 7 Women : 5 Men (58%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 27%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword neurotechnology OR neurotech OR ((brain OR neuro) AND technologies) and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 61 pages of results found using our python script.

Cell Symposia: Big Questions in Neuroscience 2017

Organizers: Ann Goldstein, Ulli Schridde
Sponsors: see here
Speaker gender ratio (incl. keynote): 8 women: 8 men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 24%

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

2nd HBP Student Conference: “Transdisciplinary Research Linking Neuroscience, Brain Medicine and Computer Science”

Organizer: Andrea Santuy
Speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 4 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%

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

Computational and Systems Neuroscience (Cosyne) 2018

Organizers: Stephanie Palmer, Tony Zador, Alex Pouget and Zach Mainen
Program Chairs: Ilana Witten and Eric Shea-Brown
Invited speaker gender ratio: 6 Women : 7 Men (46%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-18%

*Method of estimation: Base rate of women in computational neuroscience previously established through attendance at COSYNE conferences

Neuroscience 2017

Organizers: see here
Invited speaker gender ratio: 10 Women : 14 Men (42%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 24%

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

11th Annual Canadian Neuroscience Meeting

Organizers: see here
Total speaker gender ratio:  31 Women :  36 Men (46%)
Invited speaker gender ratio: 8 Women :  7 Men (53%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 24%

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

Neural Coding, Computation and Dynamics (NCCD) 2017

Organizers: Peter Latham, Srdjan Ostojic and Maneesh Sahani
Speaker gender ratio: 4 women : 4 men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%

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

CAJAL Course in Computational Neuroscience 2017

Organizers: Gilles Laurent, Christian Machens and Jakob Macke
Invited speaker gender ratio: 8 women : 13 men (38%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%

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