CSH Asia: Latest Advances in Development & Function of Neuronal Circuits

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Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Latest Advances in Development & Function of Neuronal Circuits

Organizers: Frank Bradke, Kazuo Emoto, Hailan Hu, Alcino Silva
Sponsor: Novartis
Total speaker gender ratio: 7 women : 17 men (29%)
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 0 women : 2 men (0%)
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.

CNS*2018 Workshop on Methods of Information Theory in Computational Neuroscience

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CNS*2018 Workshop on Methods of Information Theory in Computational Neuroscience

Organizer: Joseph Lizier
Sponsor: Entropy
Speaker gender ratio: 5 women : 9 men (36%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%

*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.

NEURONUS 2018 IBRO Neuroscience Forum

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 NEURONUS 2018 IBRO Neuroscience Forum

Organizers: Aleksandra Krugolec and Przemysław Kac
Sponsors: see here
Total invited speaker gender ratio: 7 Women : 18 Men (28%)
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 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.

SCGB Postdoc Meeting Series

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 Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain (SCGB) Postdoc Meeting Series**

NY-area meeting organizers: Kanaka Rajan and  James Murray
West Coast meeting organizer: Anna Gillespie
Total invited speaker gender ratio: 12 Women : 16 Men (43%)
NY-area invited speaker ratio: 8 Women :  12 Men (40%)
West Coast invited speaker gender ratio: 4 Women : 4 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 17-20%

*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
**Numbers are for all meeting held up until May 2018. 14 meetings are included: 10 NY-area meetings (since June 2016) and 4 West Coast meetings (since June 2017).

12th Annual Canadian Neuroscience Meeting

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12th Annual Canadian Neuroscience Meeting

Organizers: Shernaz Bamji and Paul Frankland
Sponsors: see here
Invited speaker gender ratio: 4 Women :  4 Men (50%)
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.

2018 Context and Episodic Memory Symposium (CEMS)

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2018 Context and Episodic Memory Symposium (CEMS)

Speaker gender ratio: 9 Women : 19 Men (32%)
Data Blitz gender ratio: 7 Women : 7 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 42%

*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “episodic memory” and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 10 pages of results using our python script. Search originally performed in September 2017.