Curiosity, Creativity, and Complexity
Organizer: Jacqueline Gottlieb (Chair)
Invited speaker gender ratio: 9 Women: 13 Men (41%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 37-52%*
BWN rating: 2
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in cognitive neuroscience.
NeuroBridges 2020: A Mediterranean, Middle Eastern Summer School in Neuroscience
Organizers: Ahmed El Hady, Yonatan Loewenstein & David Hansel
Sponsors: The Simons Foundation, ELSC, CNRS
Faculty gender ratio: 1 Woman: 8 Men (11%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 26%*
BWN rating: 1
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keywords “decision making” AND neuroscience, and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in 8 pages of results using our python script.
OIST Computational Neuroscience Course (OCNC 2020) – cancelled
Organizers: Erik De Schutter, Kenji Doya, Tomoki Fukai & Bernd Kuhn
Lecturer gender ratio: 3 Women: 13 Men (19%)
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.
3rd HBP Curriculum Workshop Series – Final Workshop on Measuring and Modelling Brain States
Organizers: Sylvia Aßlaber, Judith Kathrein & Alois Saria
Invited speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman: 6 Men (14%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-18%
BWN rating: 2
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
OHBM Mini Conference: Multiscale, Multimethod Human Brain Mapping
Organizers: Organisation for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM)
Invited speaker gender ratio: 0 Women: 6 Men (0%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 37-52%*
BWN rating: 0
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in cognitive neuroscience.
This week’s BWN Friday Post is from Stories of Women in Neuroscience. Dr. Gina Poe shares her research on interplay between memory and sleep, and her experience of mentoring underrepresented trainees in STEM.
Program Committee: Nikolai Axmacher, Sen Cheng, Gerald Echterhoff, Albert Newen, Ricarda Schubotz, Markus Werning, Laurenz Wiskott & Oliver Wolf
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 3 Women: 2 Men (60%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 40%*
BWN rating: 3
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword episodic memory, and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in 14 pages of results using our python script. We left 7 names unclassified.
This week’s BWN Friday post is announcing the virtual conference on “Gender Roles and their Impact in Academia”.
Uncovering Mechanisms of Olfactory Sensing and Olfactory-Driven Behaviors (Part 1 / Part 2)
Organizer: Cheng Ly
Invited speaker gender ratio: 5 Women: 3 Men (63%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 28%*
BWN rating: 5
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keywords (olfactory AND neural system) AND (computational modeling OR electrophysiology), and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in 1 page of results using our python script.
Paris Neuro Course on Optical Imaging and Electrophysiological Recording in Neuroscience 2019
Organizers: David Ogden, Joana Lourenco, Cathie Ventalon, Brandon Stell, Jonathan Bradley, Boris Barbour, Federico Trigo, Adrien Schramm, Stéphane Dieudonné & David Digregorio
Sponsors: see here
Lecturer gender ratio: 6 Women: 24 Men (20%)
Estimated base rate of women in the field: 20%*
BWN rating: 3
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keywords (optical imaging OR electrophysiology) AND neuroscience, and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in 2 pages of results using our python script.
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