2023
On-site courses
Neuro-vascular function in health and disease
20 March – 7 April 2023, Bordeaux School of Neuroscience
Interacting with neural circuits
18 June – 8 July 2023, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lisbon, Portugal
Glial cells in health and diseases
19 June – 7 July 2023, Bordeaux School of Neuroscience, Bordeaux, France
Machine learning for neuroscience
9 – 29 July 2023, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown
NeuroKits
Experimental Neuroscience Bootcamp 2023
Dates: 10-14 July 2023.
Directors: Adam Kampff (Voight Kampff, London, UK), Andreas Kist (AIBE, Erlangen, DE), Elena Dreosti (UCL, UK)
Modern Approaches to Behavioural Analysis
Dates: 6-10 November
Directors: Alexander Mathis (EPFL, Switzerland) & Danbee Kim (NeuroGEARS, UK).
Extracellular Electrophysiology Acquisition (EEA)
Dates: 23-27 May
Directors: Jakob Voigts (MIT and Open Ephys, USA), Cecilia Hoebert (Open Ephys Production Site, Portugal), Filipe Carvalho (Open Ephys Production Site, Portugal)
2022
On-site courses
Bioenergetics for brain function
28 February – 18 March, Bordeaux School of Neuroscience
Directors: Juan P Bolanos (University of Salamanca, Spain), Giovanni Marsicano (NeuroCentre Magendie, INSERM and University of Bordeaux, France), Anne-Karine Bouzier-Sore (Centre RMSB, CNRS, Bordeaux, France)
Neural circuit basis of computation and behaviour
2-20 May, Bordeaux School of Neuroscience
Directors: Fritjof Helmchen (Brain Research Institute, University of Zurich, Switzerland), Andreas Frick (Neurocentre Magendie – INSERM U1215, University of Bordeaux, France), Cyril Herry (Neurocentre Magendie – INSERM U1215, University of Bordeaux, France)
Quantitative approaches to behaviour
22 May – 11 June 2022, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown
Directors: Gonzalo G. de Polavieja (Champalimaud Research, Portugal), Benjamin de Bivort (Harvard University, USA), Greg Stephens (VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Gordon Berman (Emory University, USA), Orit Peleg (University of Colorado, USA)
Single cell profiling and analysis in neuroscience
13 June – 1 July, Bordeaux School of Neuroscience
Directors: Jens Hjerling-Leffler (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden), Peter Kharchenko (Harvard University, USA), Ana Munoz-Manchado (University of Cádiz/INiBICA, Spain), Alexandre Favereaux (CNRS – IINS, University of Bordeaux, France)
Interacting with Neural Circuits
19 June – 9 July, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown
Directors: Tiago Branco (Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, London, UK), Michael Hausser (University College London, UK), Susana Lima (Champalimaud Research, Portugal), Claire Wyart (Institut du Cerveau, Paris, France)
Computational Neuroscience
17 July – 6 August, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown
Pre-school in Mathematics and Programming: 12-15 July
Directors: Brent Doiron (University of Pittsburgh, USA), Maria Geffen (University of Pennsylvania, USA), Julijana Gjorgjieva (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Germany), Joe Paton (Champalimaud Research, Portugal)
Brain Organoids
10-28 October, Bordeaux School of Neuroscience
Directors: Guo-Li Ming (University of Pennsylvania, US), Hongjun Song (University of Pennsylvania, US) & Marisa Karow (Germany, DE)
Neuroepigenetics: writing, reading and erasing the epigenome
21 November- 9 December, Bordeaux School of Neuroscience
Directors: Karine Merienne (University of Strasbourg, FR), Angel Barco (UMH-CSIC Alicante, ES), Bartek Wilczyński (University of Warsaw, PL) & André Fischer (DZNE, DE)
NeuroKits
Extracellular Electrophysiology Acquisition (EEA)
Dates: 23-27 May
Directors: Jakob Voigts (MIT and Open Ephys, USA), Alex Leighton (Open Ephys Production Site, Portugal), Filipe Carvalho (Open Ephys Production Site, Portugal)
Visual reactive programming – Bonsai (VRP)
Dates: 24-28 October
Director: Gonçalo Lopes (NeuroGEARS, London, UK)
Modern Approaches to Behavioural Analysis
Dates: 21-25 November
Directors: Alexander Mathis (EPFL, Switzerland) & Danbee Kim (NeuroGEARS, UK)
2021
On-site courses
Ageing cognition
20 September – 8 October, Bordeaux School of Neuroscience
Advanced imaging techniques for cellular and systems neuroscience
18 October – 5 November, Bordeaux School of Neuroscience
Optogenetics, chemogenetics and biosensors for cellular and circuit neuroscience
22 November – 11 December, Bordeaux School of Neuroscience
NeuroKits
Visual reactive programming – Bonsai (VRP)
Dates: 18-22 January
Faculty: Gonçalo Lopes (NeuroGEARS, London, UK)
Extracellular Electrophysiology Acquisition (EEA)
Dates: 22-28 March & 6-10 December
Faculty: Jakob Voigts (MIT and Open Ephys, US), Alex Leighton (Open Ephys Production Site, PT), Filipe Carvalho (Open Ephys Production Site, PT)
Experimental Neuroscience Bootcamp
Dates: 11-15 October
Faculty: Adam Kampff (Voight Kampff, London, UK), Andreas Kist (AIBE, Erlangen, DE), Elena Dreosti (UCL, UK)
2020
Dates: 14 September- 2 October
Faculty: Adam Kampff, Elena Dreosti, Wilson, Spencer, Vincent, Peter, Mackay, Eirinn, Virginia Rutten
Students: Shanice Bailey, Tom George, Chris Hall, Ali Haydaroglu, Marta Maciel, Nicole Maug, Nicole Vissers, Will Dorrell, Clementine Domine, Kevin Huang, Rodrigo Carrasco Davis
Cajal online lecture series: Single Cell Transcriptomics
Dates: 2-6 November
Faculty: Jens Hjerling-Leffler, Peter Kharchenko
2019
Brain Homeostasis and Neurovascular Coupling
19 May – 8 June, Bordeaux School of Neuroscience
Biosensors and actuators for cellular and systems neuroscience
23 June – 13 July, Bordeaux School of Neuroscience
Interacting with neural circuits
14 July – 3 August, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown
Computational Neuroscience
11-31 August, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown
Whole brain imaging
8-28 September, Bordeaux School of Neuroscience
Advanced Techniques for Synapse Biology
13 October – 1 November, Bordeaux School of Neuroscience
2018
Developmental Neurobiology and Pathologies
3-21 April , Bordeaux Neurocampus
Neuroinflammation and How to Study It
25 June – 7 July, Bordeaux Neurocampus
Behaviour of Neural Systems
15 July – 4 August , Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown
Computational Neuroscience
12 August – 1 September , Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown
Advanced Imaging Methods for Cellular Neuroscience
10-28 September , Bordeaux Neurocampus
Linking Neural Circuits and Behaviour
8-26 October 2018 , Bordeaux Neurocampus
2017
Interacting with neural circuits
2-22 July, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown
CAJAL course in Computational Neuroscience
6-26 August, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown
Advanced Techniques in Synapse Biology
3-23 July, Bordeaux Neurocampus
Ion channels in the brain in health and disease
4-22 September, Bordeaux Neurocampus
Connectomics: from Micro- to Meso- and Macro-Scales
2-21 October, Bordeaux Neurocampus
2016
Behaviour of Neural Systems
10-31 July , Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown
CAJAL course in Computational Neuroscience
7-27 August , Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown
Neuronal Cell Biology – Cytoskeleton and Trafficking
10-31 July , Bordeaux Neurocampus
Nutrition and Brain functions
19 September – 7 October, Bordeaux Neurocampus
The Brain Prize course. The Hippocampus: from Circuits to Cognition
10-31 October , Bordeaux Neurocampus
The CAJAL-ISN course. Glial cells in health and disease
27 November – 10 December, Bordeaux Neurocampus
2015
Behaviour and Neural Systems
12 July – 1 August, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown
Advanced Course in Computational Neuroscience
9-29 August, Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown
Bio-informatics for the Neuroscientist
21 September – 2 October, Bordeaux Neurocampus
Advanced Techniques for Synapse Biology
10-31 October, Bordeaux Neurocampus