Future courses and workshops

Building mechanistic multiscale models with NEURON, NetPyNE, and TREES

WHEN

15 July 2023

WHERE

Leipzig, Germany

WHAT

Brain interactions occur across many temporal and spatial scales. Massive neuroscience-databasing projects throughout the world provide data at all these scales, data that can only be “compiled” and understood using simulation. Mechanistic multiscale modeling provides insights into how changes at molecular, synaptic, morphological and network + areal scales; produced by development, learning, brain disease, or drugs; affect dynamics and brain function.

NEURON Summer Course 2023

WHEN

11 June 2023 to 16 June 2023

WHERE

Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA

WHAT

The NEURON Summer Course provides a comprehensive introduction to the design and construction of models of individual neurons and networks of neurons. It includes:

2021 CNS NEURON + NetPyNE tutorial

WHEN

3 July 2021

WHERE

CNS Conference (online)

WHAT

Understanding brain function requires characterizing the interactions occurring across many temporal and spatial scales. Mechanistic multiscale modeling aims to organize and explore these interactions. In this way, multiscale models provide insights into how changes at molecular and cellular levels, caused by development, learning, brain disease, drugs, or other factors, affect the dynamics of local networks and of brain areas. Large neuroscience data-gathering projects throughout the world (e.g.

2021 NEURON Webinar Series

WHEN

3 June 2021 to 3 August 2021

WHERE

Online

WHAT

This course maps the first half of the NEURON Summer Course into a series of interactive online workshops about building and working with models of single neurons. It is designed for those who are planning to use NEURON in neuroscience research or teaching, or already have active projects that involve NEURON, and is suitable for users at all levels of expertise.

  • Beginners with little or no modeling experience will learn the philosophical basis, scientific rationale, and technical aspects of modeling. 

2019 NEURON Summer Course

WHEN

10 June 2019 to 15 June 2019

WHERE

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

WHAT

This intensive multi-day course is suitable for users at all levels of expertise. It is designed for those who are planning to use NEURON in neuroscience research or teaching, or already have active modeling projects that involve NEURON. It presents what you need to know to build and work with models of individual neurons and networks of neurons, and includes an introduction to simulation on parallel hardware.

Using NEURON to model cells and networks

WHEN

2 November 2018

WHERE

San Diego, CA location TBA

WHAT

This course emphasizes practical issues that are key to the most productive use of NEURON, an advanced simulation environment for realistic modeling of biological neurons and neural circuits. Through lectures and live computer demonstrations, we will address topics that include the following:

2018 NEURON Summer Course

WHEN

6 August 2018 to 11 August 2018

WHERE

Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

WHAT

This intensive multi-day course is suitable for users at all levels of expertise. It is designed for those who are planning to use NEURON in neuroscience research or teaching, or already have active modeling projects that involve NEURON. It presents what you need to know to build and work with models of individual neurons and networks of neurons, and includes an introduction to simulation on parallel hardware.

Using the Neuroscience Gateway Portal for parallel simulations

WHEN

11 November 2017

WHERE

Downtown Washington DC

WHAT

This workshop is intended for neuroscientists who need to use high performance computing (HPC) resources computationally intensive tasks such as large modeling projects or analysis of neuroimaging data.

Using NEURON to model cells and circuits

WHEN

10 November 2017

WHERE

Downtown Washington DC site TBA

WHAT

This course will be held from 9 AM to 5 PM on Friday, Nov. 10, 2017, as a satellite to the SFN 2017 meeting. It emphasizes practical issues that are key to the most productive use of NEURON, an advanced simulation environment for realistic modeling of biological neurons and neural circuits. Through lectures and live computer demonstrations, we will address topics that include the following:

Reaction-diffusion modeling for neurobiology

WHEN

20 July 2017

WHERE

This is part of the CNS 2017 conference in Antwerp, Belgium.

WHAT

This workshop will be held from 9 AM to 6 PM on Thursday, July 20, 2017. NEURON's own RxD module will be one of the topics of discussion.