International Titisee Conference: Building tools for quantifying brain and behaviour
Organizers: Jason Kerr, Loren Looger & Richard Hahnenloser
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Females : 37 Males (7%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 20%
*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER with text keywords (“method development” OR “tool development”) AND “neuroscience”, count number of women PI’s in all 25 unique results
Organizers:Tobias Bartsch, Christoph Kirst, Gonzalo Otazu
Invited speaker gender ratio: 1 Females : 3 Males (25%)
Contributed speaker gender ratio: 5 Females : 3 Males (62.5%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 37%
*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER with text keyword “neurobiology,” count number of female PI’s out of the first 200 results
Symposium on Gender Bias in Scientific Publishing
Organizers: Anh Le, Sarah Millar
Friday, April 8, 2016; 8:30am to 4:30pm
Arthur H. Rubenstein Auditorium & Lobby
Smilow Center for Translational Research
3400 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104
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CAJAL Course in Computational Neuroscience
Organizers: Giles Laurent, Christian Machens, Máté Lengyel
Invited speaker gender ratio: 5 Females : 22 Males (19%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 21%
*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER with text keyword “computational” and “neuroscience”, count number of female PI’s out of 135 results
Organizers: Peter Dayan, Yael Niv, Geoffrey Shoenbaum
Invited speaker gender ratio: 12 Females : 9 Males (60%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 32%
*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER with text keywords “addiction” AND “neuroscience”
The Neurobiology of Mental Health – a SYNAPSY Conference
Organizers: SYNAPSY EPFL
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Females : 24 Males (8%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 35%
*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER with text keywords “neurobiology” AND “mental health”
Sixth International Symposium on Biology of Decision Making
Organizers: Thomas Boraud, Kenji Doya, Mehdi Khamassi, Etienne Koechlin, Mathias Pessig
Invited speaker gender ratio: 13 Females : 18 Males (42%)
Estimated* base rate of women in the field: 26%
*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER with text keywords “biology” AND “decision making”
38th International Symposium of the GRSNC The Neuroscience of Decision-Making
Organizers: Paul Cisek, Alain Dagher, Lesley Fellows, John Kalaska, Dr. Peter Shizgal
Invited speaker gender ratio: 3 Females : 17 Males (18%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 37%
*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER with text keywords “neuroscience” AND “decision making”
6th Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience Summer School, NYU-Shanghai
Organizers: Xiao-Jing Wang, Zach Mainen, Si Wu, John D. Murray, Eric DeWitt
Invited speaker gender ratio: 1 Female : 14 Males (7%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 21%
*Method of estimation: NIH RePORTER with text keywords “neuroscience” AND “cognitive” AND “computational”
Decision Neuroscience in Humans
Organizers: Dr. Jean-Claude Dreher, Dr. Susanne Fuchs
Invited speaker gender ratio: 2 Females : 27 Males (7%)
Estimated* base rate of females in the field: 22%
*Method of estimation: percentage of female PI’s contributing to Current Opinion in Behavioral Science’s neuroeconomics issue as well as contributing female authors to both the first and second editions of Neuroeconomics: Decision Making and the Brain
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