Flatiron CCN Software Workshop, February 2026

We are excited to see everyone at the Flatiron Center for Computational Neuroscience SfN Satellite event 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 the notebooks that will be included on this site in order to demonstrate how to use pynapple and NeMoS to analyze and visualize your data.

This website will contain links to the presentations for the workshop, as well as to other useful information.

Useful links

Workshop schedule
Notebook site
Websites for the packages used in this workshop:
- pynapple: documentation, github repo, twitter, bluesky
- NeMoS: documentation, github repo, twitter

Setup

Before the workshop begins, please follow the setup instructions found on the workshop notebook site

Presentations, in chronological order

Welcome, Billy Broderick
Neurodata Without Borders, Ben Dichter
Pynapple, Guillaume Viejo
A conceptual introduction to Generalized Linear Models, Edoardo Balzani
Basic Generalized Linear Models with NeMoS, Billy Broderick (pdf version)
Group project structure, Billy Broderick
Plenoptic, Billy Broderick
Advanced Pynapple, Sarah Jo Venditto
Signal processing and decoding, Sarah Jo Venditto
Model Selection and Cross-Validation, Edoardo Balzani
scikit-learn and nemos, Billy Broderick (pdf version)
Conclusion, Billy Broderick

Schedule

Day 1 (Tues, Feb 3)
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 – 8:00 PM	Dinner
Day 2 (Wed, Feb 4)	Day 2
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
4:30 PM – 6:00 PM	Breakout groups: Analyzing Calcium Imaging data with Pynapple and NeMoS
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM	Dinner
Day 3 (Thurs, Feb 5)	Day 3
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 – 8:00 PM	Dinner