Accelerate your neuroscience research with EBRAINS: Tutorials and Users Day in Heidelberg

The event will take place on 12 March 2025 at the Kirchhoff-Institute for Physics, European Institute for Neuromorphic Computing building, in Heidelberg, Germany. 

The Tutorials and Users Day is aimed at both newcomers and experienced users of EBRAINS tools. Newcomers will have the chance to explore the wide range of Open Science tools and services available on the research infrastructure, while seasoned EBRAINS users can dive deeper with advanced tutorials and discuss with developers. 

The morning sessions will feature plenary introduction talks and “tools in action” demonstrations. The afternoon of the event will be dedicated to three slots for parallel hands-on sessions on a selection of EBRAINS tools and services. 

Hands-on tutorials will be offered on the following:

Foundation elements:

• EBRAINS software distribution (ESD)

• EBRAINS Knowledge Graph

Simulation and emulation:

• Arbor, multicompartmental simulation library

• SpiNNaker neuromorphic compute system (simulation of spiking neural networks)

• BrainScaleS neuromorphic compute system (emulation of spiking neural networks in accelerated time)

• tauRAMD (computation of relative residence times (τ) or dissociation rates of protein-ligand complexes) and SDA (Simulation of Diffusional Association)

• NEST related: 

  • NEST Desktop

  • NEST astrocyte module tutorial

  • NESTML tutorial

Specialised workflows:

• QUINT workflow (workflow to support atlas-based quantification)

• Snudda (building networks of neurons with synaptic connectivity based on the morphologies of reconstructed neurons and touch detection)

• Building reproducible workflows with EBRAINS atlases using siibra-python

• Hodgkin-Huxley Neuron Builder / Hippocampus Hub tools/web app

• Vast parameter space explorations using L2L on EBRAINS

• Using Neo and Elephant for the Analysis of Electrophysiological Data

• Brain Scaffold Builder (BSB)

• Cobrawap (Collaborative Brain Wave Analysis Pipeline)

Medicine related:

• Dopaminergic regulation in schizophrenia with TVB (The Virtual Brain)

• Demonstration session in the context of Sensitive data / Health related EBRAINS offerings (MIP / HIP related)

Neuromorphic computing: 

• SpiNNaker (digital many core system)

• BrainScaleS (continuous time accelerated analog system)

Registration 

• On-site attendance: €40 for students, €80 for general attendance (includes lunch, dinner, and breaks). 

• Online access: Zoom access to the short talks in the morning is free of charge. 

Registration links, the meeting agenda, and further information about the event are available here. 

EBRAINS Developers Day on 13 March 2025 

The day after, on 13 March, the 'Integrate Your Software with the EBRAINS Research Infrastructure: EBRAINS Developers Day' will take place. The event will feature introductions for developers on how to integrate tools and services into the EBRAINS software distribution (ESD) or to integrate services via EBRAINS (workflows). Click here to learn more.