Second Heidelberg Neuronal Ensemble Conference (HeiNEC 2)
Speaker gender ratio: 1 woman : 11 men (8%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 27%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with (neuronal OR neural) AND (ensemble OR ensembles) and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 7 pages of results using our python script.
Organizers: Russell Poldrack and Jean-Baptiste Poline
Sponsors: see here
Speaker gender ratio: 4 women : 6 men (40%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword neuroinformatics and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 29 results using our python script.
2017 Berkeley Summer Course In Mining And Modeling Of Neuroscience Data
Organizers: Fritz Sommer and Jeff Teeters
Instructor gender ratio: 1 woman : 5 men (17%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Organizers: Adam Sanborn, Gordon Brown, James Adelman (MathPsych co-chairs) and Marieke van Vugt, Adrian Banks, Bill Kennedy (ICCM co-chairs)
Sponsor: Warwick Behavioural Science
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 0 women : 3 men (0%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Integrated Systems Neuroscience Workshop
Organizers: Mark Humphries & Rasmus Petersen
Sponsor: Medical Research Council
Speaker gender ratio: 3 women : 7 men (30%)
Estimated* base rate of females 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.
Cognitive Computational Neuroscience Meeting (CCN)
Organizers: Danielle Bassett, Alyson “Allie” Fletcher, Kendrick Kay, Konrad Kording, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, Thomas Naselaris, Hendrikje Nienborg, Russ Poldrack and Daphna Shohamy
Sponsors: see here
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 4 women : 6 men (40%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 17-20%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in computational neuroscience.
Summer School in Systems Medicine: Systems Genetics of Neurodegeneration
Organizers: Rupert Overall, Robert Williams, Gerd Kempermann and Rudi Balling
Speaker gender ratio: 1 woman : 6 men (14%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 23.6%
*Method of estimation: ACGT blog’s estimate of senior researchers in genomics and/or bioinformatics
Gordon Research Conference on Eye Movements 2017
Organizers: Marc A. Sommer and Douglas Crawford (Chairs) and Miriam Spering and Jeffrey D. Schall (Vice Chairs)
Speaker gender ratio (incl. keynote): 10 women : 24 men (29%)
Keynote speaker gender ratio: 1 woman : 1 man (50%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 32%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with gaze OR saccade OR (eye movement) and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 14 pages of results using our python script.
Barcelona Young Neuroscientists Symposium (BYNS) 2017
Sponsors: see here
Plenary speaker gender ratio: 1 Woman : 0 Men (100%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 24%
*Method of estimation: previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
Frontiers in Serotonin Research – Crossing Scales and Boundaries
Organizers: Da-Hui Wang and KongFatt Wong-Lin
Speaker gender ratio: 1 woman : 8 men (11%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 32%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword serotonin and then counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in all 28 pages of results using our python script.
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