Events

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

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 to discuss ideas and data.

Christina K. Kim
Postdoctoral Researcher, Ting Laboratory
Department of Genetics and Bioengineering, Stanford University
Optical and molecular approaches for accessing activated neural ensembles

A neuroscience seminar series for postdocs and graduate students. Talks will take place every other week on Wednesdays (March 10, 24 and April 7, 21, Wednesdays at 5pm CET), featuring two presentations of 30 minutes, followed by a “meet the speaker” session. Talks will be streamed on Crowdcast. More information on this and upcoming seminars is available here.

Techniques to record neuronal data from populations of neurons are rapidly improving. Simultaneous recordings from hundreds of channels are possible while animals perform complex behavioral tasks. The analysis of such massive and complex data becomes increasingly challenging. This advanced course aims at providing deeper training in state-of-the-art analysis approaches in systems neuroscience. Applications are due by January 31, 2021

From its outset, the goal of NCM has been to offer investigators in the field of motor control an opportunity to present their work and to discuss its implications in an open, informal setting. The meeting was conceived to be unique in style, with sessions formulated and proposed by small groups of society members. As a result, sessions change in content with each yearly meeting, taking up themes reflecting timely topics and the diversity of the membership. Each year, the meeting successfully brings together a diverse community of neurophysiologists, engineers, and clinicians, to talk about opportunities and challenges for the field, and to determine how NCM might best promote a common agenda to advance our field.

The 11th NTC symposium of the NeuroTechnology Center at Columbia University: Neuronal Ensembles. The symposium will feature talks from leading investigators in the fields of developmental neuroscience, sensory neuroscience, neural cognition, and computational neuroscience. This symposium is co-organized by the NeuroTechnology Center at Columbia University and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, with the generous sponsorship of the Kavli Foundation.

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.

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.