Organizers: Ned Block and David Chalmers
Invited speaker gender ratio: 3 Females : 12 Males (20%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 21%
*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER with text keyword “computational” and “neuroscience”, count number of female PI’s out of 135 results
Neural Circuits: From structure to Computation (symposium in honor of Haim Sompolinsky)
Organizers: Yonatan Loewenstein, Sebastian Seung
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Females : 12 Males (14%)
(1) Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 21% (28/135)
(2) Estimated** base rate of females in the field: 31% (46/103)
*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER with text keyword “computational neuroscience”
**Method of estimation: ISF with text keyword “neurobiology, biopsychology, cognitive psychology”
Good stress, Bad stress and Very Bad stress
Organizers: Mouna Maroun and Gal Richter-Levin
Invited speaker gender ratio: 15 Females : 28 Males (35%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 64%
*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER with text keyword “stress” and “PTSD”, count number of female first PIs in first 50 results
Optogenetics; from cells to circuits and behavior
Organizers: Ofer Yizhar, Alon Chen
Invited speaker gender ratio: 1 Female : 7 Males (13%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 36%
*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER with text keyword “optogenetics”, count number of female first PIs in first 50 results
Stress, PTSD & Psychiatric Disorders: From Basic Science to Therapeutic Intervention
Organizers: Alon Chen, Orit Furman, Rony Paz, Gal Richter-Levin, and Yavin Shaham
Invited speaker gender ratio: 21 Females : 42 Males (33%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field:64%
*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER with text keyword “stress” and “PTSD”, count number of female first PIs in first 50 results
Frontiers in Synaptic Functions
Organizers: Idan Segev, Micha Spira
Invited speaker gender ratio: 4 Females : 18 Males (18%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 30%
*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER with text keyword “Neuroscience”, count number of female first PIs in first 50 results
The 22nd Jerusalem Summer School in Life Science – Frontiers in Neuroscience
Organizers: Roger Kornberg, Daphne Atlas, Adi Mizrahi
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Females : 13 Males (13%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 30%
*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER with text keyword “Neuroscience”, count number of female first PIs in first 50 results
Animal vocalizations: Songs in Jerusalem
Organizers: Adi Mizrahi, Mickey London
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Females : 14 Males (13%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 32%
*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER with text keyword “Vocalization”, count number of female first PIs in first 50 results
Brainy Days in Jerusalem: An interdisciplinary celebration
Organizers: Yoram Burak, Yossi Yarom, Eilon Vaadia
Invited speaker gender ratio: 5 Females : 24 Males (17%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 30%
*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER with text keyword “Neuroscience”, count number of female first PIs in first 50 results
GDR 2904 Multielectrode systems for Neuroscience: 6th annual meeting
Organizer: Blaise Yvert
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Female : 8 Male (20%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 11%
*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER search with text keywords multielectrode AND systems AND neuroscience. Count proportion of female PIs in all results, not including duplicates (9 results total)
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