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 2026 - 10-11 March 2026 - A two-day, hands-on hackathon focused on open science and reproducible analysis in computational and systems neuroscience. Participants collaborate in small teams using shared electrophysiology datasets. In addition to hands-on work, Research Software Engineers (RSEs) will provide talks about current tools and practices in systems neuroscience, offering insights into making analyses more reproducible through cleaner code, standard data layouts, and effective testing practices. Learn more.
Open Neurophysiology Data Tutorial @ COSYNE 2026 - 12 March 2026 - In this one-hour tutorial, we will introduce participants to the IBL's open-data platform and its associated software ecosystem. Attendees will learn how to access, navigate, and analyze rich datasets spanning behavior, electrophysiology, and imaging, and how to integrate these resources into their own experimental and computational pipelines. The session will combine live demonstrations with hands-on examples in Python, highlighting best practices for reproducibility and collaborative tool development.
The tutorial is intended for both experimentalists seeking ready-to-use tools for data collection and management, and computational neuroscientists looking for large-scale, standardized datasets to test and develop models of brain function.
You can register during your COSYNE 2026 registration. There is no additional cost.
More events to be announced soon!
Recordings of Past Events
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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
Planning your Neuropixels trajectory - Dan Birman (UW and IBL)
Recording techniques: acute recordings - Karolina Socha (UCLA and IBL)
Inspecting raw data - Olivier Winter (IBL)
Spike sorting with IBLSort - Olivier Winter (IBL)
Exercises: inspecting and sorting raw data - Olivier Winter (IBL)
Review of exercises: planning your Neuropixels trajectory - Dan Birman (UW and IBL)
Review of exercises: inspecting and sorting raw data - Olivier Winter (IBL)
Quality control with IBL metrics - Christopher Langfield (IBL)
Aligning spikes to brains with the IBL GUI - Mayo Faulkner (IBL)
IBL visualization - Matt Whiteway (Columbia University and IBL)
Review of exercises: Align data to histology - Mayo Faulkner (IBL)
Review of exercises: IBL data visualization - Matt Whiteway (IBL)
The IBL brainwide map: accessing the data - Mayo Faulkner, Miles Wells (IBL)
The IBL brainwide map: electrophysiological atlas - Yanliang Shi (IBL)
The IBL brainwide map: reproducibility - Marsa Taheri (IBL)
The IBL brainwide map: effect of age - Fenyin Zang (IBL)
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Tutorial: Learn How to Use IBL Brainwide Map Dataset, February 29, 2024, 9:45-10:45 a.m., Lisbon, Portugal.
The following notebooks accompany the tutorial:
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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
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The International Brain Laboratory (IBL) Data Architecture, April 23, 2021, Virtual