Computational and Systems Neuroscience 2016

Organizers: Anne Churchland, Tony Zador, Alex Pouget and Zach Mainen
Program Chairs: Megan Carey, Emilio Salinas
Invited speaker gender ratio: 5 Female : 8 Male (38%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 21%

*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER search with text keywords computational AND systems AND neuroscience. Count proportion of female PIs in all results, not including duplicates (99 results total)

10th European Conference on Mathematical and Theoretical Biology

Organizer: Markus Owen
Invited speaker gender ratio: 3 Female : 5 Male (38%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17%

*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER search with text keywords mathematical AND theoretical AND biology. Count proportion of female PIs in all results, not including duplicates (41 results total)

Symposium: Frontiers in the Integrative Study of Animal Behavior: Nothing in Neuroscience Makes Sense Except in the Light of Behavior

Organizer: Suzy Renn, Hans Hofmann, Dustin Rubenstein
Invited speaker gender ratio: 5 Female : 6 Male (45%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 34%

*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER search with text keywords integrative AND animal AND behavior. Count proportion of female PIs in all results, not including duplicates (52 results total)

SRNDNA Workshop on Computational Modeling

Organizer: Gregory Samanez-Larkin
Invited speaker gender ratio: 1 Female : 1 Male (50%)
[Selected workshop participants: 16 Female : 13 Male (55%)]
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 24%

*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER search with text keywords “computational modeling”; count number of female first PIs in first 25 results

SRNDNA Workshop on Multilevel Modeling

Organizer: Gregory Samanez-Larkin
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Females : 0 Males (100%)
[Workshop participants: 8 Females : 10 Males (total 50%)]
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 52%

*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER search with text keywords “multilevel modeling”; count number of female first PIs in first 25 results

Biology of the Inner Ear Course, August 2015

Organizers: Paul Fuchs, Stephan Heller
Invited speaker gender ratio: 13 Females : 21 Males (38%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 24%

*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER search with text keywords biology AND ear. Count proportion of female PIs in all results, not including duplicates (200 results total).

Auditory Development: From Cochlea to Cognition

Organizers: Carolina Abdala, Allison Coffin, Karina Cramer, Matt Kelley, David Perkel, Dan Sanes, Jenny Stone, Bruce Tempel, and Lynne Werner
Invited Speaker Gender Ratio: 14 Females : 7 Males  (67%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 47%

*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER search with text keywords auditory AND development. R mechanisms only. Count proportion of female-first PIs in first 50 results, not including duplicates.