Conference Watch

APAN 2015 – Advanced Perspectives in Auditory Neuroscience

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APAN 2015 – Advanced Perspectives in Auditory Neuroscience

Organizers: Yale Cohen, Liz Romanski and Xiaoqin Wang
Invited speaker gender ratio: 8 Females : 9 Males (47%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 33%

 

*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER search with text keywords auditory AND brain in R mechanisms only; count number of female first PIs in first 50 results, not counting duplicates (15 females out of 45 unique PI results)

Therapy Development in the Era of Team Science and Big Data: What Will the Future Bring to the Patient with Epilepsy?

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Therapy Development in the Era of Team Science and Big Data: What Will the Future Bring to the Patient with Epilepsy?

Organizers: Karen Wilcox, H. Steve White, Misty Smith, Peter West, and Melissa Barker-Haliski, and Harold Wolf
Invited speaker gender ratio: 20 Females : 25 Males (44%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 26%

*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER search with text keyword epilepsy, limited to project title or abstract and to R mechanisms; count number of female first PIs in pages 3 and 18 of the results not counting multiple grants to same PI (10 women out of 39 unique PIs on these pages overall).

Society of General Physiologists Annual Meeting, Sensory Transduction, 2014

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Society of General Physiologists Annual Meeting, Sensory Transduction, 2014

Organizers: Miriam B. Goodman, Emily Liman
Invited speaker gender ratio: 9 Females : 18 Males (33%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 28% 
Base rate for NIH R01: 30% (taken from here and here)

*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER search with text keywords sensory AND transduction, limited to project title, abstract and keywords; count number of female first PIs in first 25 results.

Flies, worms, and robots: Combining perspectives on minibrains and behavior

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Flies, worms, and robots: Combining perspectives on minibrains and behavior

Organizers: Matthieu Louis, Barbara Webb
Invited speaker gender ratio: 7 Females : 19 Males (27%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 16%
Base rate for NIH R01: 30% (taken from here and here)

*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER search with text keywords circuit AND (elegans OR drosophila OR worms OR nematodes OR flies OR fruitflies) count number of female first PIs in first, third and ninth set of 25 results and compute the average.

Bernstein Conference 2015

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Bernstein Conference 2015

Organizers: Peter Bastian, Andreas Draguhn, Daniel Durstewitz, Martin Gerchen, Joachim Hass, Elke Jochum, Peter Kirsch, Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, Christoph Schuster, Simone Seeger
Invited speaker gender ratio: 1 Female : 14 Males (7%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 32%

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

Orbitofrontal Cortex and Cognition in the City of Lights

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Orbitofrontal Cortex and Cognition in the City of Lights

Organizers: Jay Gottfried, Mehdi Khamassi, Elisabeth Murray, Mathias Pessiglione, Geoffrey Schoenbaum
Invited speaker gender ratio: 9 Females : 16 Males (36%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 45%

*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER search with text keywords “orbitofrontal cortex”; count number of female first PIs in first 50 results

Cognitive Computation @ NIPS 2015 – Integrating Neural and Symbolic Approaches

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Cognitive Computation @ NIPS 2015 – Integrating Neural and Symbolic Approaches

Organizers: Tarek R. Besold, Artur d’Avila Garcez, Gary F. Marcus, Risto Miikkulainen
Invited speaker gender ratio: 1 Female : 10 Males (9%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 36%

*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER search with text keywords “neural-symbolic integration” or “neural computation” or “logic and artificial intelligence” or “natural language understanding” or “cognitive science” or “computational neuroscience”; count number of female first PIs in first 25 results