Misconceptions of the Mind Conference

Organizers: June Gruber, Tania Lombrozo
Invited speaker gender ratio: 9 Females : 0 Males (100%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: READ ME!

Addiction, in Theory

Organizers: Peter Dayan, Yael Niv, Geoffrey Shoenbaum
Invited speaker gender ratio: 12 Females : 9 Males (60%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 32%

*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER with text keywords “addiction” AND “neuroscience”

Sixth International Symposium on Biology of Decision Making

Organizers: Thomas Boraud, Kenji Doya, Mehdi Khamassi, Etienne Koechlin, Mathias Pessig
Invited speaker gender ratio: 13 Females : 18 Males (42%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 26%

*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER with text keywords “biology” AND “decision making”

 

 

Therapy Development in the Era of Team Science and Big Data: What Will the Future Bring to the Patient with Epilepsy?

Organizers: Karen Wilcox, H. Steve White, Misty Smith, Peter West, and Melissa Barker-Haliski, and Harold Wolf
Invited speaker gender ratio: 20 Females : 25 Males (44%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 26%

*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER search with text keyword epilepsy, limited to project title or abstract and to R mechanisms; count number of female first PIs in pages 3 and 18 of the results not counting multiple grants to same PI (10 women out of 39 unique PIs on these pages overall).