Flatiron CCN Software Workshop at FENS Forum, July 2026

We are excited to see everyone at the Neural Data Analysis Workshop @ FENS 2026 on using open source packages to analyze neural data!

Over the course of this two-day workshop, we will walk you through jupyter notebooks in order to demonstrate how to use pynapple and NeMoS to analyze and visualize your data. We will split into group projects for more hands-on applications of these packages.

Over the course of this two-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. Check back soon! In the meantime, see our main page for previous workshop schedules and materials.

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 (pdf version)
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 (pdf version)
Advanced Pynapple, Sarah Jo Venditto
Signal processing and decoding, Sarah Jo Venditto
Conclusion, Billy Broderick (pdf version)

Schedule

Day 0 (Thurs, July 2)
6pm – 8pm	Welcome reception
Day 1 (Fri, July 3)	Day 1
9 – 10am	Breakfast
10 – 10:30am	Welcome
10:30 – 11:15am	Introduction to Pynapple (Guillaume)
11:15 – 11:45am	Coffee break
11:45am – 12:30pm	Pynapple API guided tour (Sarah Jo)
12:30 – 1pm	Plenoptic advertisement
1 – 2pm	Lunch
2 – 2:45pm	Conceptual Introduction to Generalized Linear Models (Edoardo)
2:45 – 4pm	Fitting Basic GLMs with NeMoS (Billy)
4 – 4:30pm	Coffee break
4:30 – 6pm	Group project: Analyzing single head-direction neuron with Pynapple & Nemos (+ Calcium imaging)
6 – 8pm	Dinner
Day 2 (Sat, July 4)	Day 2
9 – 10am	Breakfast
10 – 10:30am	“Neuroinformatics Unit: Building Community-Driven Software for Neuroscience”, Adam Tyson
10:30 – 11am	Advanced Pynapple and Pynaviz (Guillaume)
11 – 11:30am	Coffee break
11:30am – 1pm	Group project: Analyzing hippocampal place cells with Pynapple and NeMoS
1 – 2pm	Lunch
2 – 2:30pm	Intro to GLM-HMM (Sarah Jo)
2:30 – 3:30pm	GLM-HMM guided tour (Camila)
3:30 – 4pm	Coffee break
4 – 6pm	Finish earlier notebooks or Group project: Exploring the Allen Institute’s Visual Coding dataset
6:30 – 8pm	Dinner