Bernstein 2018 Workshop: “Neural computation of behaviorally relevant stimuli”
Organizers: Jan Benda, Rüdiger Krahe
Sponsors: Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), Tübingen, Germany
Speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 4 Men (33%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 7 Men (22%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 32%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
**At the time of posting, there was an error in our base rate using Society for Neuroscience registration data; this has now been corrected.
Computational Psychiatry: from theory to practice
Organizers: Peter Dayan, Xiaosi Gu and Read Montague
Speaker gender ratio: 7 Women : 7 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 29%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in computational psychiatry.
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.
Organizers: Ahmed El Hady, Yonatan Loewenstein and David Hansel
Sponsors: see here
Faculty gender ratio: 1 Woman : 5 Men (17%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
2019 Society of Biological Psychiatry Annual Meeting
Organizer: Mary Phillips
Plenary speaker gender ratio: 6 Women : 6 Men (50%)
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.
Giersch Summer School on the Logistics of Neuronal Function
Organizers: Jochen Triesch and Christian Tetzlaff
Sponsor: Giersch Foundation
Lecturer gender ratio: 2 Women : 6 Men (25%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 35%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “neuronal function” OR “neuron function” and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 14 pages of results using our python script.
Neuroeconomics and the Evolution of Economic Behavior Conference 2018
Organizer: Arthur Robson
Speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 15 Men (12%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 37-39%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroeconomics.
G-Node Advanced Neural Data Analysis Course (ANDA 2019)
Organizers: Sonja Grün, Martin Nawrot, Yifat Prut and Thomas Wachtler
Sponsor: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
Faculty gender ratio: 4 Women : 8 Men (33%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
20th International Neuroscience Winter Conference
Organizers: Tobias Bonhoeffer, Nils Brose, Alois Saria, Stephan Schwarzacher
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 3 Men (40%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 39%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
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