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Flatiron CCN Neural Data Analysis Workshop

Workshop

Computational Neuroscience

When

February 3, 2026
All Day
February 4, 2026
All Day
February 5, 2026
All Day

Where

Marion T. Greenup Conference Center

160 5th Ave, 3rd Floor

New York, 10010

Attendees should check this site for more information, including links to the notebooks they will be working through during the workshop

Workshop Goals:

We are excited to see everyone at the Flatiron Center for Computational Neuroscience workshop on using open source packages to analyze neural data in February 2026!

Over the course of this three-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.

Application Information

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.

Apply here.

Important Dates

Applications opens : Closed!
Applications due : November 20, 2025
Applicants notified of acceptance by : November 24, 2025 **Due to the large number of applicants, acceptance notices will go out starting Dec 1st.
Workshop: February 3 to 5, 2026

Useful Links

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.

Schedule

Day 1 <BR> Tuesday, February 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	Guided introduction to Pynapple API
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 9:00 PM	Dinner at Blackbarn (119 E 26th street)

Day 2 <BR> Wednesday, February 4, 2026 NeMos

9:00 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 single neuron patch-clamp recordings
1:00 PM 2:00 PM	Lunch
2:00 PM 3:30 PM	Breakout groups: Modeling head-direction populations with NeMoS
3:30 PM 4:00 PM	Coffee Break
4:00 PM 6:00 PM	Breakout groups: Analyzing Calcium Imaging data with Pynapple and NeMoS
6:00 PM 9:00 PM	Dinner at Casa Carmen (5W 21st street)

Day 3 <BR> Thursday, February 5, 2026

9:00 AM 10:00 AM	Breakfast
10:00 AM 10:30 AM	plenoptic advertisement
10:30 AM 11:00 AM	Pynapple Advanced
11:00 AM 11:30 AM	Coffee Break
11:30 PM 1:00 PM	Breakout groups: analyze place cells
1:00 PM 2:00 PM	Lunch
2:00 PM 3:30 PM	Model and Feature selection with place cell data
3:30 PM 4:00 PM	Coffee Break
4:00 PM 6:00 PM	Choose Your Own Adventure: bring your own data / analyze Allen Institute’s Visual Coding dataset
6:00 PM 9:00 PM	Dinner at Barlume (900 Broadway)

Participant Groups & Support

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 Marisa Dunnan ([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 Feb 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

Contacts

Organizers:
[email protected]