Events

The Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain hosts a Boston-area group meeting to bring together postdocs and PhD students interested in neural coding and dynamics. This month's speaker is:

Mariela Petkova
Postdoctoral Fellow, Engert and Lichtman Labs
Harvard University
Correlative light and electron microscopy in the zebrafish nervous system

The Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain hosts a Global group meeting to bring together postdocs and PhD students interested in neural coding and dynamics to discuss ideas and data. This month's speaker is:

C. Ann Duan
SCGB Postdoctoral Fellow, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Incoming Group Leader, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre
Cortical and collicular contributions to decision making in rats and mice

The Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain hosts an NY-area group meeting to bring together postdocs and PhD students interested in neural coding and dynamics to discuss ideas and data. This month's speaker is:

Danique Jeurissen
SCGB Fellow
Postdoctoral Researcher, Shadlen Laboratory
Columbia University
Parietal cortex: Useless or flexible? - Deficits in decision making after cortical inactivation dissipate on two time scales

The Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain hosts a West Coast group meeting to bring together postdocs and PhD students interested in neural coding and dynamics. This month's speaker is:

Yatang Li
Postdoctoral Researcher, Meister Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
Functional Architecture of Motion Direction in the Mouse Superior Colliculus

The Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain hosts a Boston-area group meeting to bring together postdocs and PhD students interested in neural coding and dynamics to discuss ideas and data. This month's speaker is:

Tiago Marques
Postdoctoral Researcher, DiCarlo Laboratory
MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
What does the primary visual cortex tell us about object recognition?

The Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain holds a virtual program-wide postdoc and student group meeting to bring together trainees interested in neural coding and dynamics to discuss ideas and data. Our speaker is:

Cheng Xue
Postdoctoral Researcher, Cohen Laboratory
University of Pittsburgh
Decisions in an ever-evolving world: how the brain makes perceptual judgements under dynamic belief states

The Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain hosts a postdoc-focused Boston-area group meeting every other month to bring together postdocs interested in neural coding and dynamics, to discuss ideas and data.

Zeinab Fazlali
Postdoctoral Research Scientist
School of Cognitive Sciences, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran
Department of Psychiatry, Division of Integrative Neuroscience, Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute
Locus Coeruleus Modulation of Brain State and Sensory Coding in Rat Barrel Cortex

On Day 1 (5/19), Gordon Berman;.’s group will discuss methods for quantifying, analyzing, and modeling animal behavior in the context of neuroscientific experiments. On Day 2 (5/20), Chethan Pandarinath’s group will discuss analyzing and denoising the latent dynamics of neural populations and EMG data using techniques from deep learning. Lastly, on Day 3 (5/21), Ilya Nemenman’s group will discuss methods of estimating mutual information and discovering important patterns in single unit spiking data. Please go here to register. Participation will be limited to 100 individuals.

The scientific content of the meeting reflects the breadth of topics in modern vision science, from visual coding to perception, recognition and the visual control of action, as well as the recent development of new methodologies from cognitive psychology, computer vision and neuroimaging.

UPDATE:
This event has been postponed to June 2021. Stay tuned for more information.

TENSS concentrates top-level international expertise to teach a dozen students techniques and concepts in experimental systems neuroscience. We focus on modern optical and electrophysiological methods to study the connectivity and function of neuronal circuits. The course is designed to be intensive and highly interactive, including both lab sessions and theoretical lectures. Coursework will take place in a land of myth and legend, beyond large forests (Transylvania), on the shores of a picturesque natural reserve called Pike Lake. Applications are welcome from interested (and interesting) graduate students and postdocs. Application deadline: March 1st 2020

The BRAIN Initiative Investigators Meeting convenes BRAIN Initiative awardees, staff, and leadership from the contributing federal agencies (NIH, NSF, DARPA, IARPA, and FDA), plus representatives and investigators from participating non-federal organizations, and members of the media, public, and Congress. The purpose of this open meeting is to provide a forum for discussing exciting scientific developments and potential new directions, and to identify areas for collaboration and research coordination.

ViDA is pleased to announce our second virtual dopamine meeting in June 2021! This three-day event will feature a range of talks, panel and posters on dopamine, the basal ganglia and related fields. Stay tuned for updates on registration information and full program.

Started in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Neuromatch Academy is a non-profit course in computational neuroscience. Neuromatch Academy aims to introduce traditional and emerging tools of computational neuroscience to trainees. Our student population ranges from undergraduates to faculty in academic settings and also includes industry professionals. Students have a diversity of backgrounds including experimental and computational neuroscience and machine learning. NMA-Computational Neuroscience: July 5-23 NMA-Deep Learning: Aug 2-20. Applications open on April 15 and you can pre-register here.

Designed to emphasize higher cognitive functions and their underlying neural circuit mechanisms, the course aims at training talented and highly motivated students and postdoctoral fellows from Asia and around the world. We welcome both applicants with quantitative backgrounds (including Physics, Mathematics, Engineering and Computer Science) and those with experimental backgrounds. Deadline to apply: May 7

This course introduces students to the computational and mathematical techniques that are used to address how the brain solves these problems at levels of neural organization ranging from single membrane channels to operations of the entire brain. The course is appropriate for graduate students, postdocs and faculty in a variety of fields, from zoology, ethology, and neurobiology, to physics, engineering, and mathematics. Students are expected to have a strong background in one discipline, and to have made some effort to introduce themselves to a complementary discipline.

The Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain is an intensive, project-based residential course with a focus on the neurobiology of sensory processing, coding, and neural population dynamics. This program is intended for researchers at the graduate and postdoctoral level with an interest in developing the intersection of their scientific knowledge and their computational skills. Founded by Adrienne Fairhall and Christof Koch, the Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain is co-hosted by the Allen Institute for Brain Science and the Computational Neuroscience Center at the University of Washington. Application deadline: Thursday, March 25, 2021

Each year the Bernstein Network invites the international computational neuroscience community to the annual Bernstein Conference for intensive scientific exchange. Deadline to propose a workshop: May 10.

The 2021 Champalimaud Research Symposium (CRS21) focuses on the interface of neuroscience, artificial intelligence and machine learning with the main goal of starting an interdisciplinary conversation about the deep conceptual problems that emerge when trying to understand how intelligent behavior is produced in animals and machines. The topic will be highlighted from different angles to promote a worthwhile cross-talk between experimental and computational researchers. Professor Manuela Veloso (Carnegie Mellon University), Professor Jim DiCarlo (MIT McGovern Institute) and Professor Anthony Zador (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) will be the keynote lecturers. Due to the outbreak of the new coronavirus, the CRS21 may be held as a hybrid or virtual event. Abstract submission is open until July 23.

SfN's 50th annual meeting is the premier venue for neuroscientists to present emerging science, learn from experts, forge collaborations with peers, explore new tools and technologies, and advance careers. Abstract submission will open on Tuesday, July 6 and will close on Thursday, July 15.

Europe’s largest international neuroscience conference, covering all domains in modern brain research from basic to translational research. Deadline to submit a session proposal: May 20, 2021.