NeuroMath, Mathematical and Computational Neuroscience: cell, network and data analysis
Organizers: Giovanni Naldi, Claudio Canuto & Thierry Nieus
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 16 Men (13%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 18%
*Method of estimation: base rate in computational neuroscience as assessed through attendance at the annual COSYNE conference.
International Symposium on the Neuromechanics of Human Movement
Organizers: Manish Sreenivasa
Invited speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 18 Men (18%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 30%
*Method of estimation: Searching NIH RePORTER with the term “neuromechanics” brought 13 results, 12 unique PIs, out of them 2 women (17%). As the conference website notes that “talks will be delivered by researchers working in computational neuroscience, biomechanics, clinical gait analysis and rehabilitation robotics”, we also searched with those terms (with an OR relationship) and obtained 34 pages of results. We then counted the percentage of women out of unique PIs on pages 10 and 20.
Organizers: Michael Brecht (local scientific organizer), Richard Kempter (program chair)
Funded by: German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin
Invited speaker gender ratio: 5 Women : 7 Men (42%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-18%
*Method of estimation: Since the conference is advertised as “the largest annual Computational Neuroscience Conference in Europe” we used the base rate in the field of computational neuroscience as calculated from attendance at COSYNE 2016.
15th Brain Connectivity Workshop
Organizers: Viktor Jirsa (Scientific Organizer), Demian Battaglia, Christian Bénar, Mirerille Bonnard, Andrea Brovelli, Monique Esclapez, Maxime Guye, Ingo Bojak (local scientific committee)
Funders: see here
Invited speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 19 Men (5%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 40%
*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER with text keyword “brain connectivity” and count the proportion of women among unique PIs on pages 1 & 4 of the 6 pages of results.
Organizers: Nicolas Brunel, Sandro Romani & Alex Roxin
Funded by: Simons Foundation, HHMI Janelia Research Campus
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 23 Men (8%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 34%
*Method of estimation: Since the website says that “topics include: spatial memory, biophysical models of synaptic plasticity” we searched NIH RePORTER with text keywords “memory” AND (“spatial memory” OR “biophysical models” OR “synaptic plasticity”) and counted the proportion of women among unique PIs on pages 5, 10, 15 & 25 of the 35 pages of results.
Organizers: John Krystal, Yael Niv, Oscar Marin
Invited speaker gender ratio: 13 Women : 16 Men (45%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 33%
*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER with text keywords”computational psychiatry” OR “biological psychiatry” OR “developmental psychiatry” and counting the proportion of women in all 23 answers (this is not a large sample, but the final result accords also with the base rate of women in computational psychiatry)
Gordon Research Conference: Optogenetic Approaches to Understanding Neural Circuits & Behavior
Organizers: Karl Deisseroth (Chair) and Kay M. Tye (Vice Chair)
Invited speaker gender ratio: 11 Women : 31 Men (27%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 28%
*Method of estimation: we searched NIH RePORTER with text keywords “optogenetics” AND “neural circuits” AND “behavior” and counted the number of women among unique PIs in pages 1,3 & 5 of the 6 pages of results
2016 International Computational Psychiatry Course
Organizers: Frederike Petzschner & Klaas Enno Stephan,
Course speaker gender ratio: 10 Women : 18 Men (36%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 29%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in computational psychiatry.
2016 Gordon Research Conference: Neurobiology of Cognition
Organizers: Tania Pasternak (Chair) and David Leopold (Vice Chair)
Invited speaker gender ratio: 18 Women : 25 Men (42%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 40%
*Method of estimation: we searched NIH RePORTER with text keywords “Cognitive Neuroscience” in active RPG grants, and counted gender-identifiable names from the first two pages of results.
2016 Gordon Research Conference: Auditory System
Organizers: Stephen G. Lomber (Chair) and Jeffrey Holt (Vice Chair)
Invited speaker gender ratio: 20 Women : 29 Men (41%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 37%
*Method of estimation: we searched NIH RePORTER with text keywords “auditory” AND “system” and counted the number of women among unique PIs in pages 4, 15, 25 & 35 of the 37 pages of results (notably, the first two pages we counted, 4 and 35, were exactly evenly split — hooray for auditory systems research!)
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