6th International Conference on Transcranial Brain Stimulation 2016
Organizer: Walter Paulus
Speaker gender ratio: 9 Women : 55 Men (14%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 22%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “transcranial AND stimulation” and counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in pages 1, 3, 7 and 10 of 11 results pages.
15th Neural Computation and Psychology Workshop
Organizers: Jay McClelland, Stefan Frank and Daniel Mirman
Sponsors: W. K. & K. W. Estes Fund, Google DeepMind and the Rumelhart Emergent Cognitive Functions Fund
Invited speaker 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.
The American Society for Neural Therapy and Repair: 2016 Conference
Sponsors: see here, NIH R13
Speaker gender ratio (incl. keynote and symposium): 12 Women : 35 Men (26%)
Presidential keynote and symposium speakers: 0 Women : 2 Men (0%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 26%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “(therapy OR repair) AND neuro” and counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in pages 25, 50, 75 and 100 of 127 results pages.
UT Austin Conference on Learning & Memory
Sponsors: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and the NIH National Institute on Aging
Speaker gender ratio (incl. keynote): 3 Women : 10 Men (23%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 33%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “(learning OR memory) AND neuro*” and counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in pages 13, 27, 40 and 54 of 67 results pages.
International Symposium « Cognition & Psychiatry »
Speaker gender ratio: 3 Women: 12 Men (20%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 38%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “cognition AND psychiatry” and used our python script to classify results, manually adding in names that were not found.
American Clinical Neurophysiology Society Annual Meeting
Organizers: Meriem Bensalem-Owen, MD, FACNS and Frank W. Drislane, MD, FACNS
Speaker gender ratio: 41 Women : 138 Men (23%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 29%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “clinical neurophysiology” and counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in pages 1, 25, 45 and 65 of 68 results pages.
15th Annual Molecular and Cellular Cognition Society Symposium
Organizers: Li-Huei Tsai, Bong-Kiun Kang and Ted Abel
Sponsors: Science Signaling (AAAS), Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press (CSHL), Neurobiology of Learning and Memory (Elsevier) GENENTECH and The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
Invited speaker gender ratio: 10 Women : 7 Men (59%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 33%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “(molecular OR cellular) AND cognition” and counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in pages 1, 19, 37, 54 and 71 of 71 results pages.
Australian Research Council Centre for Integrative Brain Function – 2016 Science Meeting “Painting the Big Picture”
Speaker gender ratio: 6 Women: 6 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 24%
*Method of estimation: Previously established base rate of women in neuroscience.
Keystone Symposium “Connectomics“
Organizers: Olaf Sporns, Danielle Bassett and Jeremy Freeman
Sponsor: Takeda
Speaker gender ratio (incl. keynote): 15 Women: 27 Men (36%)
Keynote gender ratio: 2 Women: 2 Men (50%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 27%
*Method of estimation: We searched NIH RePORTER with keyword “connectome” and counted the ratio of women among the unique researchers in pages 1, 3, 6 and 8 of 8 results pages. Double checking with our python script we got a base rate of 28% for this keyword.
Arrowhead 10 years on: What have we learned and what is there still to learn about the neural bases of decision-making?
Organizers: Bernard Balleine, Simon Killcross, Kenji Doya, John O’Doherty and Masamichi Sakagami
Sponsors: UNSW Brain Sciences, California Institute of Technology, National Institute on Drug Abuse and KAKENHI Project on AI and Brain Science, MEXT, Japan
Speaker gender ratio: 3 Women : 27 Men (10%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 37%
*Method of estimation: The topic of this conference is decision making and neuroscience so we used our established base rate of women in neuroeconomics (also called “decision neuroscience”).
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