2nd Conference on The Neurobiology of Mental Health
Speaker gender ratio: 12 Women : 14 Men (46%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 40%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword biological AND psychiatry and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 11 pages of results using our python script. Search originally performed in May 2018.
Organizer: Daniel Wójcik
Speaker gender ratio: 1 woman : 8 men (11%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
2019 Lake Ontario Visionary Establishment (L.O.V.E.) Conference
Organizers: Michael Barnett-Cowen, Jennifer Campos, Jonathan Cant, Christopher Fiacconi
Sponsors: Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science, Oculus VR, SR Research
Speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 3 Men (40%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 32%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
European Neuroscience Conference by Doctoral Students (ENCODS 2019)
Organizers: Allessio Bellato, Adnan Levent, Margaux Silvestre, Tai-Ying Lee, Domhnall MacDonald
Sponsors: Birkbeck, Guarantors of Brain, FENS, The Francis Crick Institute, Centre for Educational Neuroscience
Guest speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 2 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 32%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
Organizers: Haim Sompolinsky, Daphna Weinshall, Daniel Lee and Andrew Saxe
Invited speaker gender ratio: 7 Women : 18 Men (28%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Ninth Summer School of the Centre of Neural Dynamics (SSCND9)
Organizers: André Longtin, John Lewis and Richard Naud
Sponsor: University of Ottawa Brain and Mind Research Institute
Faculty gender ratio: 1 Woman : 10 Men (9%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Statistical Analysis of Neural Data (SAND9)
Organizers: Zhe (Sage) Chen, Matthew Harrison, Rob Kass, Sri
Sarma, Byron Yu
Speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 7 Men (36%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Organizers: Sam Sober and Tim Gentner
Speaker gender ratio: 5 Women : 6 Men (45%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 34-36%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword Songbirds for projects in fiscal years 2014-2019. We then counted the ratio of women among the resulting 62 unique researchers using our python script. Gender was undetermined for one name.
2019 Neuroeconomics Summer Institute at NYU Shanghai
Organizers: Paul Glimcher, Hilke Plassmann, Agnieszka Tymula, Nathaniel Daw, Joseph Kable
Faculty gender ratio: 5 Women : 15 Men (25%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 37-39%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroeconomics.
Columbia Workshop on Brain Circuits, Memory and Computation 2019 (BCMC 2019)
Organizer: Aurel A. Lazar
Sponsors: Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University; Center for Computing Systems for Data-Driven Science, Data Science Institute, Columbia University; School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University
Invited speaker gender ratio: 3 Women : 12 Men (20%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
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