Upcoming Workshops & Hackathons:

March 5th & 6th, 2020: Hackathon! (at Harvard University)

  • The application is now open! (closes Feb 1st)

  • NEWS! This hackathon will feature several special guests!

  • NEWS! Thanks to the support of CZI, we will have hackathon scholarships available to help offset costs of attending. Please apply, and the outcomes of the selection will be announced by Feb 10th!

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Jonny Saunders is a systems neuroscience PhD student at the University of Oregon. They study computational mechanisms of complex sounds in auditory cortex with Michael Wehr. Currently they are working on grounding theoretical models of speech processing in neurophysiological data, investigating the unexpected role of extracellular protein matrices in auditory cortical plasticity, and a project about the neural computation of hip-hop that you can only faintly make out as billows of smoke and vague mumbling noises coming from behind a veil of mystery. They recently released Autopilot (https://auto-pi-lot.com), a Python framework that leverages distributed swarms of Raspberry Pis to perform the next generation of complex behavioral neuroscience experiments. They are looking for collaborators to test and develop Autopilot, as well as labs that are willing to host them for a few weeks in this coming summer to develop an experiment for them in order to build out Autopilot's capabilities. At this workshop, Jonny will be working on integrating DeepLabCut into a realtime image-processing pipeline in Autopilot so that tracked points can be used as parameters and triggers in behavioral experiments.

Likes: messy, intractable scientific problems; unlikely cross-disciplinary collaboration; that ancient geocities page that you can't delete because you forgot the password in 2002. Dislikes: bad science; opaque, entrenched power; people googling their old screennames.


WORKSHOPS

Jan 16th & 17th, 2020: new users (Harvard University)

  • The application is now closed! (closes Dec 1st)

  • There will be another workshop in Europe (CH) in Fall 2020.


Past Events

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In 2019 we hosted a workshop for new users of DeepLabCut at Harvard and other locations:

  • CSHL July 2019

  • MBL June 2019: Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA

  • June 29-July 6, 2019: CVSS 2019: Black Forest, Germany (http://orga.cvss.cc/)

  • Jan 28-29 2019: Rowland Institute, Cambridge, MA*

  • Jan 7th, 2019: Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA (locally organized by Dr. Yisrael Schnytzer)

  • Dec 13-14th, 2018: Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw (locally organized by Mateusz Kostecki)

  • Dec 10-11th, 21018: Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich (locally organized by Kate Stynik)