Events

Speakers: Marie Burns, UC Davis and Marty Banks, UC Berkeley

This meeting will bring together researchers who study the question of how neurons generate directionally selective responses to local visual motion, as well as the global problem of how local motion signals are integrated to guide behavior.
Application deadline: June 14, 2017

A follow-up to the first conference held at Janelia in 2015, this meeting focuses on emerging optical techniques enabling near-simultaneous acquisition of neuronal activity at the whole-brain level with single-cell resolution in a variety of model organisms.
Application deadline: June 28, 2017

This year’s “Big Questions” span from how to understand the complexity of the human brain to the cellular features of neurons and non-neural cells and will feature visionary scientists with an eye to the future of the field.

SfN’s 47th annual meeting, Neuroscience 2017, is the world’s largest neuroscience conference for scientists and physicians devoted to understanding the brain and nervous system.

This satellite event at SFN is open to all who are interested in the BRAIN Initiative. It will offer the opportunity for BRAIN Initiative grantees and BRAIN Initiative Alliance members, as well as those who are not yet BRAIN investigators, Alliance members or partners, to network with each other and the wide range of public and private BRAIN funders. This social can also be a place where people who are interested in the Initiative can meet to ask the others questions and learn more about the BRAIN Initiative. Sponsored By: BRAIN Initiative Alliance

The Thirty-first Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) is a single-track machine learning and computational neuroscience conference that includes invited talks, demonstrations and oral and poster presentations of refereed papers.
Registration starts Sept 13, 2017

Save the date, new location!
Main meeting: 01--04 March 2018 in Denver, CO
Workshops: 05--06 March 2018 in Breckenridge, CO

Speakers: Tom Clandinin, Stanford and Ruth Rosenholtz, MIT

This meeting will explore how connectomes can be best utilized by bringing together experts spanning the range of expertise required to make use of connectomics, including systems neuroscientists, computational modelers, and theoreticians. Recent successes in the field of connectomics will be covered as well as computational methods for modeling connectomes, ranging from statistical modeling of graphs and networks to dynamical neural network modeling.

Explore Outstanding Phenomena in Animal Behavior
Jointly hosted by Janelia and the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), this program will bring together 15-20 advanced PhD students with complementary expertise who are interested in working at the interface of mathematics and biology.

The AREADNE conferences bring scientific leaders from around the world to present their recent findings on the functioning of neuronal ensembles in an informal yet spectacular setting on Santorini. The conference series emphasizes interaction with a size and pace that encourages in-depth discussion. Interested researchers are strongly encouraged to submit an abstract for poster presentation as attendance is strictly limited, and the conference typically sells out.
Abstract submission deadline: tentatively Feb., 2018 (attendance limited, presenters gain priorty).

Equally emphasizes experimental, model based, and more theoretical approaches to understanding neurobiological computation.