Neuroscience School of Advanced Studies Advanced Course: Neuroinflammation (NSAS 2020)
Director: Robert Dantzer
Faculty gender ratio: 1 Woman: 6 Men (14%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 35%*
BWN rating: 1
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword neuroinflammation, and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in 51 pages of results using our python script. We left 38 names unclassified.
Neuroscience School of Advanced Studies Advanced Course: Computational Psychiatry (NSAS 2020)
Director: Ray Dolan
Faculty gender ratio: 3 Women: 5 Men (38%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 29%*
BWN rating: 3
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in computational psychiatry.
Organizers: Kael Dai, Salvador Dura-Bernal & Padraig Gleeson
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Women: 13 Men (13%)
Estimated base rate of females in the field: 17-20%*
BWN rating: 2
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Organizers: Alexandra Tzilivaki & Spiros Chavlis
Invited speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman: 4 Men (20%)
Estimated base rate of females in the field: 17-20%*
BWN rating: 3
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Spiking neural networks as universal function approximators: Learning algorithms and applications
Organizers: Dan Goodman & Friedemann Zenke
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Women: 6 Men (25%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 15%*
BWN rating: 3
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neurally inspired machine learning.
Allen Institute Modeling Workshop: Towards multipurpose models of cortical circuits
Invited speaker gender ratio: 4 Women: 17 Men (19%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 24%*
BWN rating: 2
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keywords “cortical circuits” and modeling, and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in 3 pages of results using our python script.
ESI Systems Neuroscience Conference 2020
Organizers: Wolf Singer (Group Leader) & Pascal Fries (Departmental Director)
Invited speaker gender ratio: 3 Women: 4 Men (43%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 29%*
BWN rating: 3
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keywords “systems neuroscience”, and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in 5 pages of results using our python script.
Organizers: William Lytton & Samuel Neymotin
Invited speaker gender ratio: 0 Women: 8 Men (0%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
BWN rating: 1
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Organizers: Pengxing Cao, Maurizio De Pittà & Ivo Siekmann
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Women: 19 Men (10%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 28%*
BWN rating: 1
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keywords “calcium signaling” AND modeling, and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in 8 pages of results using our python script. We left 5 names unclassified.
VII Latin American School on Computational Neuroscience (LASCON 2020)
Organizers: Antonio Galves, Antonio Roque, Mauricio Girardi-Schappo & Nilton Kamiji
Speaker gender ratio: 2 Women: 19 Men (10%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
BWN rating: 1
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
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