Activities

The BRAIN Initiative® Meeting convenes BRAIN Initiative awardees, staff, and leadership from the contributing federal agencies (NIH, NSF, DARPA, IARPA, and FDA), plus representatives and investigators from participating non-federal organizations, and members of the media, public, and Congress. The purpose of this open meeting is to continue to build the BRAIN community and provide a forum for discussing exciting scientific developments and potential new directions, and to identify areas for collaboration and research coordination.

Multiphoton excitation is a key technology in neuroscience for imaging and photostimulation. New tools and techniques are constantly being developed, enabling new and better neuroscience experiments. This workshop will provide instruction and hands-on training for advanced techniques in multiphoton imaging.

The workshop is hosted by SLAB, a neuroscience and neuroengineering lab located at The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Funding is provided by the NSF NeuroNex program.

Join the NSF Convergence Accelerator to learn about the DCL/RFI and the program’s ideation process at a DCL/RFI webinar. Attendees will learn about the Convergence Accelerator’s program model and fundamentals, designed to leverage a convergence approach to transition basic research and discovery into practice.

Join the NSF Convergence Accelerator to learn about the DCL/RFI and the program’s ideation process at a DCL/RFI webinar. Attendees will learn about the Convergence Accelerator’s program model and fundamentals, designed to leverage a convergence approach to transition basic research and discovery into practice.

Registration for the 2021 BRAIN Investigators meeting now is open. Plenary speakers include Drs. Danielle Bassett, Jennifer Doudna, Erich Jarvis, Ed Lein, and Mala Murthy. Registration is free.

Exciting new opportunities at the interface of neuroscience and other science and engineering disciplines, catalyzed by transformative new discoveries and technologies, are poised to reshape brain research and its applications. Advances at these interdisciplinary frontiers depend on dialogue across many areas of scholarship as well as fields that have not traditionally been linked to neuroscience. NSF seeks community input that illuminates these interdisciplinary opportunities, from theory to applications, and points to how they might best be realized.

Multiphoton excitation is a key technology in neuroscience for imaging and photostimulation. New tools and techniques are constantly being developed, enabling new and better neuroscience experiments. This workshop will provide instruction and hands-on training for advanced techniques in multiphoton imaging.

The workshop is hosted by SLAB, a neuroscience and neuroengineering lab located at The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Funding is provided by the NSF NeuroNex program.

Five workshops bring together researchers with broad expertise to discuss the state of the art in mapping whole neural circuits, current opportunities for advancing technologies in mammalian whole-brain connectomics, and the challenges to be overcome to generate complete maps of brain connectivity that span the entire brain. Registration is free.

Confirmed speakers for this online event include Daniella Witten, University of Washington; Claudia Clopath, Imperial College London; Bobby Kasthuri, University of Chicago; and Jonathan Cohen, Princeton University.

Confirmed speakers for this online event include Fabio Anselmi, Baylor College of Medicine; Bobby Kasthuri, University of Chicago; Zhengwei Wu, Baylor College of Medicine; and Jonathan Cohen, Princeton University. 

The Junior Scientist Workshop is organized in partnership with the NeuroNex Theory Team at the University of Houston and funded by the NSF's NeuroNex initiative.

This workshop is intended for PhD students and postdocs who want to learn and share with their peers new advanced techniques in data analysis and apply them to complex neural datasets.

2020 Meeting Theme: Dimensions of Team Science Diversity

The 10-week program runs in conjunction with several other REU programs on the Cornell campus. It will be a fantastic summer learning experience that will include organized lectures, workshops, recreational activities as well as hands-on research.

The 10-week program takes place on Cornell’s Ithaca campus and in 2020 includes: a stipend valued at $5,600; housing in a Cornell University dorm; and additional travel funds for non–CU students.

The BRAIN Initiative^® Investigators Meeting will convene BRAIN Initiative awardees, staff, and leadership from the contributing federal agencies (NIH, NSF, DARPA, IARPA, and FDA), plus representatives and investigators from participating non-federal organizations, and members of the media, public, and Congress. The purpose of this open meeting is to provide a forum for discussing exciting scientific developments and potential new directions, and to identify areas for collaboration and research coordination.

This two-day workshop, hosted jointly by the NSF NeuroNex Nemonic Hub as well as the Boston University Neurophotonics Center, is an opportunity to join in the discussion on optical approaches for cellular resolution imaging of neuronal populations that have been highly instrumental for uncovering the principles of neural circuit function. The topic of the workshop is focused on advancing cellular resolution brain imaging techniques in “larger” brains of mammalian species.

The NeuroNex Practicum in Bioluminescence is an intensive, hands-on learning experience investigating bioluminescence with a multifaceted approach. Students will examine this phenomenon from organismal, animal behavior, molecular biology, chemistry, physics, and neuroscience perspectives. 

Applications open October 1, 2019. 

Multiphoton excitation is a key technology in neuroscience for imaging and photostimulation. New tools and techniques are constantly being developed, enabling new and better neuroscience experiments. This workshop will provide instruction and hands-on training for advanced techniques in multiphoton imaging.

The workshop is hosted by SLAB, a neuroscience and neuroengineering lab located at The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Funding is provided by the NSF NeuroNex program.

The Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at Columbia University is happy to announce the second workshop of a series of monthly workshops in 2020 — Shreya Saxena: Interpretable models of multi-regional calcium imaging data. These workshops are intended for PhD students and postdocs who want to learn new and advanced techniques in modelling and data analysis developed in the Theory Center. During the workshops, attendees will hear about a research project (published or pre-print) followed by a hands-on tutorial and data-hacking sessions.

Hands-on, monthly workshops for PhD students and Postdocs who want to learn new and advanced techniques in modelling and data analysis. Open to experimentalists and theorists, funded by NSF's NeuroNex initiative.

The Social Decisions Workshop will bring together researchers working in neuroscience, complex systems, game theory, evolutionary biology, collective animal behavior, psychology and behavioral economics to discuss how they can better coordinate theory, data and experiment to understand how people make social decisions.

This workshop, organized in partnership with the NeuroNex Theory Team at the University of Houston and funded by NSF's NeuroNex initiative, is intended for PhD students and postdocs who want to learn and share with their peers new advanced techniques in data analysis and apply them to complex neural datasets. During the workshop, attendees will present their research projects, followed by a hands-on programming tutorial on the computational techniques used in their work.  The purpose is to gain detailed understanding of the complexity of data and of the appropriateness of the different analysis techniques.

Application deadline: May 31, 2019

The goal of the NSF NeuroNex initiative is to clear major technological hurdles in order to better study and understand the brain. 

The University of Michigan's MINT Hub will offer a workshop on the week of June 17 to a limited number of researchers interested in structure and function tools. This hands-on workshop has three full days for one of two separate tracks. The first option covers all the surgical techniques and practical usage of our uLED optoelectrodes and electrodes in general. Workshop organizers hope to send all attendees home with two uLEDs for immediate use.  Or attendees may choose training for the use of Brainbow labeling, Clarity, and Expansion Microscopy.  
 

Connecting Neuronal Circuits to Subcellular Resources That Influence Synaptic Weight

Workshop topics will include next generation electron microscopy, alignment and segmentation tools, proofreading and reconstruction tools, quantitative analysis, and 3DEM discovery environments. To apply, submit title, abstract (~200 words), author names and affiliations, and contact information to Anna-Maria Escherich (amescherich@austin.utexas.edu). Competitive travel grants are available. 

Organizers
Kristen Harris, James Carson, Terry Sejnowski 

Webinar

April 5, 2019 11 a.m.- Noon ET

NeuroNex New Solicitation Webinar:

NSF's NeuroNex Program will be hosting a webinar regarding the new NeuroNex solicitation (NSF 19-563) on Friday, April 5^that 11 AM EDT.

The goal of the new NeuroNex solicitation is to support collaborative networks comprised of international teams with disciplinarily diverse experimentalists, theorists, and research resource developers working on a common foundational question in neuroscience. 

Those interested can join the webinar using the instructions shown below.

Instructions for Participants:

• Event: NeuroNex Webinar
• Date/Time: Friday, 4/5/19 from 11:00am – 12:00pm Eastern Time

• URL: https://nsf2.webex.com/nsf2/onstage/g.php?MTID=ec3f5bf06b3007378ea983f1bd6b4fcec
• Event Number: 902 825 912
• Event Password: NeuroNex19!
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Meeting Type
Webcast

Contacts
Edda Thiels, (703) 292-8167, ethiels@nsf.gov

Sridhar Raghavachari, (703) 292-4845, sraghava@nsf.gov

Reed Beaman, (703) 292-7163, rsbeaman@nsf.gov

NSF Related Organizations
Division of Biological Infrastructure, Division of Integrative Organismal Systems

Applications are now open for the second annual MBL Practicum for Undergraduates. The Practicum — tentatively scheduled from March 24-29, 2019 — is an intensive, hands-on learning experience investigating bioluminescence with a multifaceted approach. 

The hackashop will focus on emerging tools for collaborative neuroimaging research, with a focus on "hybrid" or "core" open source models that can support sustainable development. Topics will include data management, pipelines, reproducible environments, and easier access to cloud and owned compute resources.

Multiphoton excitation is a key technology in neuroscience for imaging and photostimulation. New tools and techniques are constantly being developed, enabling new and better neuroscience experiments. This workshop will provide instruction and hands-on training for advanced techniques in multiphoton imaging. The workshop is hosted by SLAB (slslab.org), a neuroscience and neuroengineering lab located at The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). Funding is provided by the NSF NeuroNex program.

Learn more about the workshop. 

The BRAIN initiative will result in the generation of tools to collect enormous amounts of data. To make sense of it all it is necessary to develop theories that will integrate results across scales. The goal of this meeting is to determine the present theoretical framework in neuroscience, identify challenges, and define strategies to tackle future problems in the field.

Organizers
Horacio G. Rotstein (NJIT) and Fidel Santamaria (UTSA)

On Thursday December 13th and Friday December 14th, 2018 the Neurotechnology Center at Columbia University will hold its 7th Symposium on the topic of Voltage Imaging, sponsored by the generous support of the NSF and Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute. The symposium will feature talks from selected leaders in the fields of voltage imaging, voltage sensors, optics, and computation.