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CCN Neural Data Analysis Workshop @ FENS 2026

Workshop

Computational Neuroscience

When

July 3, 2026
All Day
July 4, 2026
All Day

Where

Melia Barcelona Sky Hotel

Pere IV, 272 - 286

Spain

Workshop Goals:

We are excited to see everyone at the Neural Data Analysis Workshop @ FENS 2026 on using open source packages to analyze neural data in July 2026!

Over the course of this two-day workshop, we will walk you through jupyter notebooks in order to demonstrate how to use pynapple and NeMoS to analyze and visualize your data. We will split into group projects for more hands-on applications of these packages.

This website will be updated as the workshop approaches with links to the presentations for the workshop, as well as to other useful information.

Intended Audience

This workshop is intended for grad students and postdocs who are systems neuroscientists, i.e., who analyze electrophysiology or calcium imaging data.

In order to make best use of the limited space in the workshop, we will prioritize accepting one applicant per lab.

Applicants are expected to have basic familiarity with python:

They should have used python and standard scientific python libraries (e.g., numpy, matplotlib, scikit-learn).
They should be able to write their own functions to analyze and visualize data.
They are not expected to be familiar with either pynapple or NeMoS.

To date, NeMoS and pynapple have been used to analyze non-human calcium imaging, single unit electrophysiology, and multi-unit electrophysiology. We will thus prioritize applicants who are currently or planning to analyze those data modalities.

The workshop is open to everyone.

Application Information

The application will be a Formstack form to fill out with basic information about your lab, career level, and research. When describing your research, please include information about your model organisms and data modalities. Given the focus of our packages, we will be prioritizing applicants who are currently or planning to analyse non-human calcium imaging or electrophysiology data.

Important Dates

Applications: Closed!
Applications due: April 10 ,2026
Applicants notified of acceptance by: Week of April 27
Workshop: July 3 to 4, 2026

Useful Links

https://neurorse.flatironinstitute.org/: Information about our team and past workshops.
https://pynapple.org/: pynapple documentation website.
https://nemos.readthedocs.io/en/latest/: NeMoS documentation website.
https://compneuro.neuromatch.io/tutorials/W1D3_GeneralizedLinearModels/student/W1D3_Tutorial1.html: Background on GLMs.
https://flatironinstitute.github.io/neurorse-workshops/workshops/jan-2025/branch/main/: Workshop materials from January 2025 workshop, so applicants can get a sense of the material covered.

Schedule

Day 0 Thursday, July 2, 2026.

7:15 PM
9:15 PM

Dinner @ Més de Vi

Day 1 Friday, July 3, 2026.

9:00 AM 10 AM	Check-In and Breakfast
10:00 AM 10:30 AM	Welcome
10:30 AM 11:15 AM	Introduction to Pynapple (Guillaume Viejo)
11:15 AM 11:45 AM	Coffee Break
11:45 AM 12:30 PM	Pynapple API guided tour (Sarah Jo Venditto)
12:30 PM 1:00 PM	Plenoptic advertisement
1:00 PM 2:00 PM	Lunch
2:00 PM 2:45 PM	Conceptual Introduction to Generalized Linear Models (Edoardo Balzani)
2:45 PM 4:00 PM	Fitting Basic GLMs with NeMoS (Billy Broderick)
4:00 PM 4:30 PM	Coffee Break
4:30 PM 6:00 PM	Group project: Analyzing single head-direction neuron with Pynapple & Nemos (+ Calcium imaging)
6:30 PM 8:30 PM	Dinner @ Finca Nebot

Day 2 Saturday, July 4, 2026

9:00 AM 10:00 AM	Breakfast
10:00 AM 10:30 AM	Neuroinformatics Unit: Building Community-Driven Software for Neuroscience : Adam Tyson
10:30 AM 11:00 AM	Advanced Pynapple and Pynaviz (Guillaume Viejo)
11:00 AM 11:30 AM	Coffee Break
11:30 AM 1:00 PM	Group project: Analyzing hippocampal place cells with Pynapple and NeMoS
1:00 PM 2:00 PM	Lunch
2:00 PM 2:30 PM	Intro to GLM-HMM (Sarah Jo Venditto)
2:30 PM 3:30 PM	GLM-HMM guided tour (Camila Maura)
3:30 PM 4:00 PM	Coffee Break
4:00 PM 6:00 PM	Finish earlier notebooks or Group project: Exploring the Allen Institute’s Visual Coding dataset
6:30 PM 8:30 PM	Dinner @ Racó de la Vila

Participant Groups & Support

A small number of travel grants (flight/rail and accommodation) will be provided to those who wouldn’t be able to attend the workshop without travel support.

Participants receiving travel grants should look out for an email from Anna Michelsen ([email protected]), which contains important information on booking travel.

Once the workshop is over, we ask participants to please submit their reimbursement within 2 weeks (by Jul 19, 2026).

Group A – Participants with transport and accommodation

All flights in Economy class

Hotel during workshop

Meals during workshop

Group B – Participants with accommodation

Hotel during workshop

Meals during workshop

Contacts

Organizers:
[email protected]

TAs :
Camila Maura
Pablo Crespo Darriba
Wolf De Wulf

Admin & Events team :
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