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CCN Neural Data Analysis Workshop @ FENS 2026

  • Organized by
  • 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
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Location

Melia Barcelona Sky Hotel
Pere IV, 272 - 286 Spain

Fri: 8:30 AM – 6 PM
Sat: 9:00 AM – 6 PM

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Application due date: April 10, 2026

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.

  • 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.

     

     

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

  • Day 0
    Thursday, July 2, 2026.

    6:00 PM 8:00 PMDinner

    Day 1
    Friday, July 3, 2026.

    8:30 AM 10 AMCheck-In, Installation, and Breakfast
    10:00 AM 10:30 AMWelcome
    10:30 AM 11:15 AMIntroduction to Pynapple (Guillaume Viejo)
    11:15 AM 11:45 AMCoffee Break
    11:45 AM 12:30 PMPynapple API guided tour (Sarah Jo Venditto)
    12:00 PM 1:00 PMPlenoptic advertisement
    1:00 PM 2:00 PMLunch
    2:00 PM 2:45 PMConceptual Introduction to Generalized Linear Models (Edoardo Balzani)
    2:45 PM 4:00 PMFitting Basic GLMs with NeMoS (Billy Broderick)
    4:00 PM 4:30 PMCoffee Break
    4:30 PM 6:00 PMGroup project: Analyzing single head-direction neuron with Pynapple & Nemos (+ Calcium imaging)
    6:00 PM 8:00 PMDinner

    Day 2
    Saturday, July 4, 2026

    9:00 AM 10:00 AMBreakfast
    10:00 AM 10:30 AMNeuroinformatics Unit: Building Community-Driven Software for Neuroscience : Adam Tyson
    10:30 AM 11:00 AMAdvanced Pynapple and Pynaviz (Guillaume Viejo)
    11:00 AM 11:30 AMCoffee Break
    11:30 AM 1:00 PMGroup project: Analyzing hippocampal place cells with Pynapple and NeMoS
    1:00 PM 2:00 PMLunch
    2:00 PM 2:30 PMIntro to GLM-HMM (Sarah Jo Venditto)
    2:30 PM 3:30 PMGLM-HMM guided tour (Camila Maura)
    3:30 PM 4:00 PMCoffee Break
    4:00 PM 6:00 PMFinish earlier notebooks or Group project: Exploring the Allen Institute’s Visual Coding dataset
    6:30 PM 8:00 PMDinner

  • 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

  • Organizers:
    [email protected]

    TAs : 
    Camila Maura
    Pablo Crespo Darriba
    Wolf De Wulf

    Admin & Events team :
    [email protected]
    [email protected]

     

     

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