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: Georg Raiser and Olivier Winter

    • 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.

  • COSYNE 2025 Workshop - Building a foundation model for the brain - 31 March - 1 April

    • TIME: 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | 3:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

    • Advances in neurotechnology have enabled the collection of large-scale neural recordings during animal behavior. To extract insights from these datasets, researchers are now faced with significant challenges when comparing data across different brain regions, subjects, and tasks. Inspired by recent successes in large-scale "foundation" modeling of natural language and computational biology, there has been a push towards developing "neuro-foundation models" that can be trained across diverse datasets and then fine-tuned for downstream tasks and analyses including neural encoding, decoding, cell-type classification, and activity prediction. In this workshop, we aim to provide an overview of current neuro-foundation model approaches and to bring together experimentalists, theoreticians, and model builders to discuss how this paradigm can lead to a deeper understanding of the brain. In particular, we plan to highlight the utility of neuro-foundation models in analyses across recording modalities, brain regions, individuals, species, and contexts. In addition to these talks, we will also host a panel to discuss challenges, opportunities, and risks of building these models. Read More.

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