21st International Neuroscience Winter Conference
Organizers: Tobias Bonhoeffer, Nils Brose, Thomas Mrsic-Flogel, Alois Saria, Stephan Schwarzacher
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 4 Men (20%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 32%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
FENS-Hertie Winter School: Neural control of instinctive and innate behaviour
Organizers: Tiago Branco and Dayu Lin
Faculty gender ratio: 3 Women : 8 Men (27%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 34%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword neural AND (instinctive OR innate) and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 19 pages of results using our python script.
Organization for Computational Neurosciences 28th Annual Meeting (CNS2019)
Organizer: Thomas Nowotny (Program Chair)
Sponsors: see here
Invited keynote speaker gender ratio: 2 Women : 2 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
First IRCN Course in Neuro-Inspired Computation
Sponsors: KAKENHI Project on Artificial Intelligence and Brain Science and Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development
Lecturer gender ratio: 3 Women : 14 Men (18%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 15%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neurally inspired machine learning.
3rd HBP Student Conference on Interdisciplinary Brain Research
Organizers: Gabriel Urbain and Sandra Diaz-Pier
Speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 3 Men (57%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
The Dynamic Organism: from Molecules to Cognition – HUJI-UCL joint meeting
Organizers: Israel Nelken and Maria Chait
Sponsors: see here
Speaker gender ratio: 7 Women : 16 Men (30%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 32%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
Workshop on “Neuronal Circuits in Motor Behavior” (NCMB)
Organizers: Marylka Yoe Uusisaari, Aleksandra Badura, Erik De Schutter
Invited faculty gender ratio: 5 women : 8 men (38%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-18%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience, specifically the numbers based on attendance at COSYNE (Computational and Systems Neuroscience) 2016.
Congress on Robotics and Neuroscience
Sponsor: Centro de Innovacion y Robotica, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Innovacion y Eobotica Estudiantil, Feutfsm
Speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 2 Men (67%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 38%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keywords robotics AND neuro and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in both pages of results found using our python script. Search originally performed in October 2018.
Winter conference on brain research
Organizers: Thomas Hyde, Paul Phillips, Lloyd Fricker, Peter Morgan, David Devilbiss, Isabelle Aubert, Gretchen Snyder, Susan Ferguson, Jacqueline F. McGinty
Sponsors: See here
Featured speaker gender ratio: 3 Women : 0 Men (100%)
Pioneer awardees: 0 Women: 2 Men (0%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 39%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
8th International Conference “Aspects of Neuroscience”
Organizers: See here
Sponsors: See here
Speaker gender ratio: 1 Women : 5 Men (17%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 32%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
**At the time of posting, there was an error in our base rate using Society for Neuroscience registration data; this has now been corrected.
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