FENS Brain Conference: Structuring knowledge for flexible behaviour

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October 18 – 21, 2023
Organizing Committee: Timothy Behrens, Alla Karpova

Speakers gender ratio: 15 women, 19 men (44%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 52%*
BWN rating: 2, within 1 standard deviation below base rate

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

GRC: Integrating Cerebellar Neurobiology, Neurocomputation and Neurotherapeutics

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August 6 – 11, 2023
Organizing Committee: Roy V. Sillitoe, Daniela Popa, Alanna Watt, Samuel S. Wang

Speakers gender ratio: 26 women, 27 men (58%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 43%*
BWN rating: 3, within 1 standard deviation above base rate

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

Keystone Symposia: Mammalian Somatosensation: Mechanisms of Itch, Touch, Pain and Interoception in Health and Disease

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January 14 – 17, 2024
Organizing Committee: Diana Bautista, Rebecca Seal, Ishmail Abdus-Saboor

Speakers gender ratio: 11 women, 8 men (58%)
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

SONA Conference 2023

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July 11-14, 2023
Organizing Committee: The Society of Neuroscientists of Africa (SONA)

Keynote speakers gender ratio: 2 women, 3 men (40%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 43%*
BWN rating: 2, within 1 standard deviation below base rate

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