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The 2025 Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain is an intensive, project-based residential course with a focus on the neurobiology of sensory processing, coding, and neural population dynamics. This program is intended for researchers at the graduate and postdoctoral level with an interest in developing the intersection of their scientific knowledge and their computational skills.
Applications for 2025 will open by December 1, 2024.
Join the Allen Institute and Circuit Neuroscience Basel for the Lake Conference in Seattle, Washington this October. This interactive and intimate conference will bring together leaders and top researchers in Comparative and Evolutionary Neurobiology for engaging presentations, discussions, and networking.
The 3.5 day forum will focus on discussing emerging technologies, topics, and views in the use of comparative and evolutionary strategies to understand human brain cellular and circuit function.
Applications are now closed.
The scientific program will include about 30 talks by invited speakers, short talks selected from participant abstracts, and two poster sessions. The conference will address remarkable new technologies, resources, and tools for understanding conserved and species-specialized cellular and circuit makeup of the adult and developing brain across mammalian species. Focused themes will explore comparative analyses of functional systems underlying motor control, language, visual and basal ganglia circuitry, and comparative genomics identifying conserved and human lineage-specific genomic changes that could impact brain circuit function and disease.
We invite applicants at all career stages to apply to attend. In addition to speaker presentations, we will feature a number of short talks and posters from accepted applicants. Applications are now closed.
All applicants will be notified of the decision on their applications in July.
The conference registration fee is $650 USD for a general ticket and $550 for students, to be paid only by accepted applicants after notification. Application is free. Registration includes:
Please contact events@alleninstitute.org with questions.
The conference will take place at the Hyatt Regency Lake Washington hotel in Renton, WA. Located on the south shores of Lake Washington, the Hyatt Regency combines modern meeting spaces and guest rooms with unparalleled access to the beauty of the Pacific Northwest.
The hotel is a convenient 10 minutes from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport and just 20 minutes from downtown Seattle. The hotel can be reached by public transport, taxis, sea plane and kayak!
Accepted applicants will receive additional travel and accommodation details in advance of the event.
Meet our scientists and learn about our latest neuroscience research, open resources, and career opportunities at the 2024 Society for Neuroscience (SfN) annual meeting in Chicago, IL.
Visit us at Booth #1301!
Founded by Adrienne Fairhall and Christof Koch, the Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain is co-hosted by the Allen Institute and the Computational Neuroscience Center at the University of Washington. It is directed by Drs. Michael A. Buice, Saskia de Vries, Adrienne Fairhall, Shawn Olsen, and Eric Shea-Brown.
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