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Edoardo Balzani, Ph.D.Data Scientist - Software, CCN, Flatiron Institute -
Billy Broderick, Ph.D.Associate Data Scientist, NeuroRSE, CCN, Flatiron Institute -
Sarah Jo Venditto, Ph.D.Associate Research Scientist, NeuroRSE and Statistical Analysis of Neural Data, CCN, Flatiron Institute -
Guillaume Viejo, Ph.D.Associate Research Scientist, NeuroRSE, CCN, Flatiron Institute
Application due date: April 16, 2026
Workshop Goals:
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.
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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.
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Applications : Open now!
Applications due : April 16 ,2026
Applicants notified of acceptance by : TBD
Workshop: July 3 to 4, 2026 -
- 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.
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Day 1
Friday, July 3, 2026.8:30 AM 10 AM Check-In, Installation, and Breakfast 10:00 AM 11:00 AM Welcome and introduction to data standards 11:00 AM 11:30 AM Coffee Break 11:30 AM 1:00 PM Pynapple core 1:00 PM 2:00 PM Lunch 2:00 PM 3:30 PM Standard analyses in systems neuroscience: cross-correlations and tuning curves 3:30 PM 4:00 PM Coffee Break 4:00 PM 5:45 PM Breakout groups: Further analyses of head-direction populations with Pynapple 6:00 PM 8:00 PM Dinner Day 2
Saturday, July 4, 2026 NeMos9:00 AM 10:00 AM Breakfast 10:00 AM 11:00 AM Intro to GLM 11:00 AM 11:30 AM Coffee Break 11:30 AM 1:00 PM Fitting a basic GLM to the Allen Institute’s Visual Coding – Neuropixels dataset 1:00 PM 2:00 PM Lunch 2:00 PM 3:30 PM Breakout groups: Further modeling of Visual Coding dataset 3:30 PM 4:00 PM Coffee Break 4:30 PM 6:00 PM Breakout groups: Further modeling of Visual Coding dataset 6:00 PM 8:00 PM Dinner -
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
Group C – Unfunded Participants
Meals during workshop
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