Community Outreach Events

Members of the International Brain Laboratory are committed to free and open sharing all of our data, tools and research results. We host free workshops and tutorials to facilitate the use of the shared data and present our research at prominent scientific meetings to raise awareness of all of our outputs.

Many of our scientific presentations and tutorials are recorded and available online through the links below. Links to the workbooks and slide decks associated with the tutorials are also available so that anyone can work through the tutorials at their own pace.

Upcoming Events

• Pre-COSYNE BrainHack 2025 - 25-26 March - the two days preceding the COSYNE conference.

• COSYNE 2025: Learn to Use the IBL Brainwide Map Dataset - 27 March:

  • TIME: 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

  • ORGANIZERS: Hannah Bayer, Gaelle Chapuis, and Mayo Faulkner

  • The IBL released a Brainwide Map of mouse brain neural activity during decision-making. We want you to use it to test your own hypotheses. In this tutorial, we will teach you to search and download datasets, do basic analyses, and give tips for more advanced computation. We will also demonstrate how to upload your analysis results to our visualization website. Bring your laptop to work along with the demonstration.

More events to be announced soon!

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Recordings of Past Events

• 2024 UCL Neuropixels Course - 14-16 October:
  Learn to use Neuropixels and take a deep dive into the Brainwide Map data set. Click here for links to all lecture videos.

  • SELECTED LECTURES FROM IBL MEMBERS

    1. Planning your Neuropixels trajectory - Dan Birman (UW and IBL)

    2. Recording techniques: acute recordings - Karolina Socha (UCLA and IBL)

    3. Inspecting raw data - Olivier Winter (IBL)

    4. Spike sorting with IBLSort  - Olivier Winter (IBL)

    5. Exercises: inspecting and sorting raw data - Olivier Winter (IBL)

    6. Review of exercises: planning your Neuropixels trajectory  - Dan Birman (UW and IBL)

    7. Review of exercises: inspecting and sorting raw data  - Olivier Winter (IBL)

    8. Quality control with IBL metrics - Christopher Langfield (IBL)

    9. Aligning spikes to brains with the IBL GUI - Mayo Faulkner (IBL) 

    10. IBL visualization - Matt Whiteway (Columbia University and IBL)

    11. Review of exercises: Align data to histology - Mayo Faulkner (IBL)

    12. Review of exercises: IBL data visualization - Matt Whiteway (IBL)

    13. The IBL brainwide map: accessing the data - Mayo Faulkner, Miles Wells (IBL)

    14. The IBL brainwide map: electrophysiological atlas - Yanliang Shi (IBL)

    15. The IBL brainwide map: reproducibility - Marsa Taheri (IBL)

    16. The IBL brainwide map: effect of age - Fenyin Zang (IBL)

• Computational and Systems Neuroscience (COSYNE):

  • Tutorial: Learn How to Use IBL Brainwide Map Dataset, February 29, 2024, 9:45-10:45 a.m., Lisbon, Portugal.

    1. The following notebooks accompany the tutorial:

       1. Tutorial 1 (Use IBL data) - slides

       2. Tutorial 1 (Use IBL data) - Colab notebook

       3. Tutorial 2 (Advanced analysis) - Colab notebook

• Open Data In Neurophysiology Symposium:

  • Invited Talk: IBL: Brain-Wide Map of Neuronal Activity during Behavior, October 10, 2023, MIT, Boston, MA

• Neuropixels Course:

  • Trajectory planning with Pinpoint, October 17, 2023, Virtual

  • Aligning spikes to histology with the IBL GUI, October 17, 2023, Virtual

  • Reproducible Neuropixels recordings and the IBL map, October 17, 2023, Virtual

  • Spike sorting quality metrics, October 17, 2023, Virtual