Neuroscience workshops

Researchers from neuroscience, engineering and clinical practice will examine technologies for understanding brain function and treating disorders. Three tracks cover emerging neural recording and imaging methods, machine learning and brain-inspired computation, and clinical translation through neuroprosthetics, neuromodulation and brain-computer interfaces. The programme connects multiscale measurement, interpretable models, multimodal data and biomarkers with deployment challenges. Panels consider ethics, standards, clinical needs, careers and funding; posters, live demonstrations, exhibits and an aging-brain symposium support exchange. In-person at the National Housing Center, 1201 15th St NW, Washington, DC 20005, November 11–13. All times are US Eastern (America/New_York): November 11 registration 12:00, activities 13:00; November 12–13 registration 08:00, sessions 08:30; closing events end November 13 at 18:00. Regular fees: IEEE members USD 425, non-members USD 475; students USD 50/75 respectively. Early rates ended October 1. General poster/demo abstracts close October 19. Member and non-member registration is available through the event website.

Build a three-dimensional understanding of human brain structure through focused lectures, filmed dissections and live expert commentary. The programme follows cortical landmarks and the limbic lobe into subcortical white matter, ventricles, hippocampus, fornix, basal ganglia and thalamus, with further exploration of the brainstem and cerebellum. Traditional blunt dissection reveals major pathways, while axial, sagittal and coronal MRI comparisons connect anatomy to imaging. Consolidation and self-assessment sessions help participants test their recognition of structures. Live online via Zoom on 14–15 November 2026, 10:00–16:00 GMT each day, followed by questions until 16:15. Fee: GBP 395. The enrollment route requires a Neurocourses account.

The workshop brings senior and early-career researchers together to examine emerging challenges in neurotechnology, neural engineering, bioelectronics and biological interfaces. Invited talks cover materials and devices for neuroelectronics and bioinspired materials for tissue engineering. Editor panels, an IDEA League focus session and posters provide opportunities to compare approaches and develop collaborations. A poster award is sponsored by Advanced Electronic Materials. In-person at the Central Library, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Wilhelm-Johnen-Straße, 52428 Jülich, Germany. Starts November 17 at 09:00 and ends November 18 at 13:30, Europe/Berlin (CET). Apply by October 20 through the event registration form. Participation requires organizer approval; the form includes an Other affiliation option. Fees are not stated on the registration page.

The emergence of organoids, simulations and AI-based approaches raises practical questions about how neuroscience should combine human studies with animal models. This workshop examines why animal models remain necessary for some medical questions and how complementary experimental systems can support stronger conclusions. Case studies connect brain organoids and zebrafish in rare genetic disease, rodent and human neuromodulatory systems, translation from rat experiments to clinical research, and human versus non-human primate contributions to understanding decisions and movement. A concluding roundtable compares the uses and limits of these approaches. The French-language programme runs on 17 November 2026, beginning at 09:30 CET (Europe/Paris). Expert presentations start at 10:30, the roundtable at 12:45 and a buffet at 13:30. The workshop counts toward continuing training in animal experimentation. Registration uses a Sciencesconf or HAL account. Attendees must present identification and their registration certificate at the hospital's pedestrian entrance.

This four-day workshop combines whole-brain modelling, machine learning and high-order interaction analysis to study human neuroimaging data beyond pairwise descriptions. Through reproducible Python workflows, participants combine theory-driven simulations with multivariate descriptors of collective brain dynamics to capture individual variability, explore brain health and support more mechanistic analyses of M/EEG and fMRI data. Opening lectures by Rodrigo Cofré on whole-brain models and high-order interactions, Kaichao Wu on modelling brain criticality in health and disease, Yonatan Sanz Perl on brain modelling and the physics of cognition, and Joana Cabral on functional connectivity as eigenmode resonance are followed by theory and hands-on tutorials on brain clocks (Carlos Coronel), brain high-order interactions (Marilyn Gatica), propagation of perturbations in brain networks (Xiaoge Bao) and HOI-based digital twins (Rubén Herzog), with poster sessions and flash talks. Lei Zhao gives the closing lecture on cognitive impairments in chronic pain within a brain-ageing framework, and the final day is devoted to developing project proposals in collaborative groups. Sessions run from 10:00 to 18:30 on 17–20 November 2026 at the Complex Balear de Recerca, Parc BIT, Universitat de les Illes Balears, in Palma de Mallorca. The workshop is held in person and in English for 40 participants selected by application, with no registration fee, and targets students and early-career researchers with scientific Python experience; applications closed on 25 September 2026.

The NeuralNet minischool combines theory with practical work on participants’ laptops to develop skills in extracting and interpreting neuronal spikes. Spike-sorting sessions introduce available methods and the SpikeInterface framework, then cover preprocessing, running sorters, postprocessing, automatic and manual curation, and visualization. Participants can bring their own data for supervised analysis. The final morning addresses spike-train methods, including firing rates, population representations, waveform and cell-type analysis, connectivity through cross-correlograms, and decoding, with exercises using an open DANDI dataset. Pierre Yger, Pierre Le Merre and Samuel Garcia teach the programme. In-person sessions take place at the Saint Germain Campus, 45 rue des Saints-Pères, Paris: 23 November 14:00–18:00; 24 November 09:00–12:00 and 14:00–18:00; 25 November 09:00–12:00. Times are Europe/Paris, CET (UTC+01:00). The minischool itself is free, but registration for the paid main NeuralNet meeting is required first. Use the separate minischool registration form linked from the official page; main-meeting registration remains open until capacity is reached.

CIFMA connects researchers studying cognition across psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy, education, robotics and computer science. The workshop explores attention, memory, reasoning, language, learning and human interaction with physical and computational environments. It brings formal modelling and analysis methods into dialogue with cognitive science, with applications in cognitive robotics, biomedical signals and imaging, neural interfaces, human–computer interaction and intelligent educational systems. The meeting is co-located with SEFM 2026 in Malta. Abstract and paper submission deadlines have passed.

A workshop in IMSI's Connectomics program on the statistical analysis of non-Euclidean data, where random objects are random variables and data samples taking values in general metric spaces, with emphasis on applications to brain connectomics. It covers theory, methodology and applications for samples of networks, distributions, compositional data, covariance matrices and surfaces, tree data, data on manifolds, and high-dimensional and functional data viewed as elements of a metric space. Topics include means, barycenters and variance, conditional Fréchet means and Fréchet regression, and extensions towards metric principal component analysis, uncertainty quantification, deep learning, causal inference and longitudinal and time-series methods. The programme includes lightning talks and a poster session for early-career researchers. All registrants, online and in person, receive Zoom links and can attend online. In-person seats are limited and in-person registrants must wait for an invitation from IMSI before travelling; invited in-person participants pay a non-refundable fee of $25 (students) or $50 (non-students).

How reliably can non-invasive brain stimulation establish causal relationships in cognition, and which factors change its effects? This workshop examines the empirical, methodological and theoretical limits of causal inference with transcranial stimulation. It connects stimulation protocols, individual variability and biomarkers with multi-laboratory replication and open-science practice. The programme covers concurrent TMS-fMRI, white-matter pathways, paired associative stimulation, electric-field modelling and memory-related electrical stimulation. A satellite session includes practical TMS-EEG work. The satellite starts on 2 December with check-in at 13:30 and talks at 14:00. Main-workshop check-in begins at 08:20 on 3 December, followed by the introduction at 09:20; sessions resume at 09:00 on 4 December. Times are local CET (Europe/Rome). Registration and abstracts close on 31 October 2026, or earlier if capacity is reached. Fees are €100 for postdocs, doctoral students, residents and master's students; €200 for faculty and non-academic research or clinical staff; and €360 for company participants. The first 20 IMT doctoral students may register free. Registration includes the satellite, main programme, breaks and receptions; accommodation, lunches and the social dinner are additional. Fees are non-refundable.

Brain-restricted somatic variants can cause cortical malformations, developmental tumors and other focal epilepsies while escaping routine germline tests. This investigators workshop examines sensitive methods for detecting variants present in only a small fraction of cells. Sessions cover minimally invasive sampling, genomic assays, single-nucleus RNA sequencing and spatial analysis of brain tissue, then connect these approaches to genotype–phenotype relationships and mechanistic studies in human cells and mosaic mouse models. The aim is to improve diagnosis and identify more targeted therapeutic strategies. Saturday 5 December, 14:30–16:00 Mountain Standard Time (America/Denver). Part of the 2026 American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting. In-person meeting registration and a free myAES account are required. Standard full-meeting rates are USD 800 for member scientists and USD 1,075 for non-member scientists; student rates are USD 250 and USD 360, respectively. Other professional and one-day categories are available. Seating priority goes to registered attendees.

Many epilepsies remain unexplained after exome or genome sequencing. This workshop investigates mechanisms that conventional testing may miss: somatic mosaicism, repeat expansions, epigenetic changes and microRNA regulation. It relates biological and technical detection limits to neuronal excitability, clinical heterogeneity and treatment resistance. Thematic presentations and an interactive panel address multi-omics study design, clinical phenotyping, biomarkers and therapeutic development, connecting molecular mechanisms to precision medicine and surgical decisions. Sunday 6 December, 08:30–10:00 Mountain Standard Time (America/Denver). Part of the 2026 American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting. In-person meeting registration and a free myAES account are required. Standard full-meeting rates are USD 800 for member scientists and USD 1,075 for non-member scientists; student rates are USD 250 and USD 360, respectively. Other professional and one-day categories are available. Seating priority goes to registered attendees.

This investigators workshop examines adeno-associated virus gene therapies for epilepsy from design and animal testing through clinical translation. Research examples concern Lafora disease, SCN1B-related Dravet syndrome and SLC6A1-related neurodevelopmental disorder. The panel considers treatment efficacy, seizure-associated adverse effects and AAV toxicity, alongside strategies for overcoming current limitations. Discussion also covers biomarkers, scalability and the evidence needed to advance candidates beyond preclinical studies. Sunday 6 December, 14:00–15:30 Mountain Standard Time (America/Denver). Part of the 2026 American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting. In-person meeting registration and a free myAES account are required. Standard full-meeting rates are USD 800 for member scientists and USD 1,075 for non-member scientists; student rates are USD 250 and USD 360, respectively. Other professional and one-day categories are available. Seating priority goes to registered attendees.

This workshop connects genomic discovery with prediction of epilepsy outcomes. It examines genome-based multi-omics in multigenerational cohorts, multimodal deep learning that combines clinical and genomic information to predict antiseizure medication response, and polygenic risk scores integrated with machine learning to estimate disease severity and seizure control. The presentations link these complementary approaches to the problem of clinical heterogeneity and assess their practical role in more individualized treatment. Sunday 6 December, 14:00–15:30 Mountain Standard Time (America/Denver). Part of the 2026 American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting. In-person meeting registration and a free myAES account are required. Standard full-meeting rates are USD 800 for member scientists and USD 1,075 for non-member scientists; student rates are USD 250 and USD 360, respectively. Other professional and one-day categories are available. Seating priority goes to registered attendees.

This practical workshop explains how to establish chronic video-EEG recordings in rodent epilepsy models, from equipment and electrode placement to seizure monitoring and data management. Analysis ranges from spike and seizure quantification to machine learning. A second component introduces Motion Sequencing (MoSeq), an unbiased method for identifying and measuring behavior from video, with workflows for studying seizures, behavioral changes and associated conditions. Participants examine the hardware, software and implementation choices needed to introduce both approaches into their laboratories. Monday 7 December, 10:00–11:30 Mountain Standard Time (America/Denver). Part of the 2026 American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting. In-person meeting registration and a free myAES account are required. Standard full-meeting rates are USD 800 for member scientists and USD 1,075 for non-member scientists; student rates are USD 250 and USD 360, respectively. Other professional and one-day categories are available. Seating priority goes to registered attendees.

The Patagonian School of Science, Dynamics of Large-Scale Neural Systems, is an 11-day residential school in circuit neuroscience that brings leading neuroscientists together with 20–25 PhD students and postdocs for in-depth discussion of significant questions in the field without time constraints. Co-directed by Inés Samengo (Instituto Balseiro) and Rafael Yuste (Columbia University), it runs from 8 to 19 December 2026 at Peumayen, Brazo Huemul, on the northern shore of Lake Nahuel Huapi near Bariloche, Argentina. Faculty include Susanne Schreiber (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Carina Curto (Penn State University), Valeria Della Maggiore (CONICET, UBA), Soledad Gonzalo Cogno and Edvard Moser (Kavli Institute, Trondheim), Nachum Ulanovsky (Weizmann Institute), Christian Machens (Champalimaud Foundation), Emilio Kropff (Instituto Leloir) and Iván Davidovich, working across scales from single cells to populations and from rodents to bats. The daily schedule combines faculty talks, participant presentations and informal discussion at a site without connectivity, and includes a module on research ethics. Selection gives special consideration to applicants from Argentina and elsewhere in Latin America. Tuition is USD 1,200, covering lodging and meals for the 11 days, with scholarships supported by Fundación Bunge y Born and private funds; applications closed on 25 September 2026 (AoE).

NeurReps, Symmetry and Geometry in Neural Representations, is a NeurIPS workshop that brings together mathematicians, machine learning researchers and neuroscientists working to uncover the geometric principles shared by brains and machines. In neuroscience, mounting evidence suggests that neural circuits encode task and environmental structure through low-dimensional manifolds, conserved symmetries and structured transformations; in deep learning, sparsity, equivariance and compositionality are guiding the development of more generalisable and interpretable models. Following editions from 2022 to 2025, NeurReps 2026 expands into geometric representation steering and geometric mechanistic interpretability and introduces a Findings track to foster collaboration between experimentalists and theorists, alongside an archival proceedings track published in a dedicated PMLR volume. The programme combines invited talks, contributed papers and a panel session on topology, geometry and neuroscience towards a unified framework. The workshop runs from 8:00 to 17:00 AEDT on Friday 11 December 2026 in Hall 4 of the International Convention Centre (ICC) Sydney. It is organised by Francisco Acosta, David Klindt, Louisa Cornelis, Alison Pouplin, Nina Miolane and Fatih Dinc.

UniReps asks when, how and why different neural models learn the same representations. Findings in neuroscience and artificial intelligence show that biological brains and artificial models often form similar representations when exposed to similar stimuli. The workshop brings machine learning, neuroscience and cognitive science together to discuss theoretical findings, empirical evidence and practical applications of this phenomenon: learning dynamics in neuroscience, identifiability in the functional and parameter spaces of artificial networks, representation alignment for model merging, stitching and reuse and for multimodal settings, and the invariances that emerge across learning processes, with the aim of unifying internal representations across distinct neural models. The 2026 workshop takes place in Paris on 12 December 2026, coinciding with NeurIPS in Paris. Invited speakers are Marco Baroni (Pompeu Fabra University), Alex Cayco-Gajic (École Normale Supérieure), Sophia Koepke (TUM/University of Tübingen), Joao Sacramento (Google) and Greta Tuckute (Harvard University). Technical paper submissions were due on 10 October 2026 (AoE).

Foundation Models for the Brain and Body is the second edition of a NeurIPS workshop on large-scale pretrained AI models of neural and physiological signals. Advances in brain interfacing and wearable technologies, including EEG, intracortical electrophysiology, EMG, MEG and ECG, now yield large and diverse biosignal datasets collected across real-world contexts, but these timeseries are noisy, heterogeneous and recorded under variable conditions across subjects, devices and environments. The workshop brings together neuroscientists, biomedical engineers, wearable-technology researchers and machine learning experts to develop foundation models that generalise across applications from brain-computer interfacing to health monitoring. This edition broadens the scope to embodied intelligence, with foundation models for movement, motor control and closed-loop interaction between brain, body and machine, and adds a panel discussion on benchmarking that compares evaluation practices across modalities. Invited speakers and panelists are Giulia Lioi (IMT Atlantique), Simon Dahan (Meta), Chethan Pandarinath (Emory, Georgia Tech), A. Ali Heydari (Google), Hubert J. Banville (Meta), Konstantinos Kontras (KU Leuven, MIT) and Sergey D. Stavisky (UC Davis). The workshop runs from 8:00 to 17:00 AEDT on Saturday 12 December 2026 in Hall 1 at NeurIPS 2026 in Sydney. Papers and travel-award applications were due on 5 September 2026 and demos on 19 September 2026.

Connect neuromuscular diagnosis with therapeutic decision-making through clinical lectures, interactive case workshops and participant case reports. The live programme addresses muscle imaging, channelopathies, myasthenic syndromes, muscular dystrophies and metabolic disorders, alongside clinical-trial methods and treatment challenges in settings with limited resources. Each day includes a 90-minute case-based workshop and discussion with experts, complemented by a library of recorded teaching. 14–16 December, 15:00–19:00 each day; Europe/Paris (CET, UTC+01:00). Entirely online, with up to 200 participants working in neuromuscular disorders. Applications require a CV and a short professional biography by 20 November. Fees including VAT: €250 regular or €1,000 industry; payment is due 10 December.

The second UK Theoretical Neuroscience Workshop is a one-day meeting of talks and posters on mathematical and computational approaches to brain function, organised by Stephen Coombes (University of Nottingham) and Dimitrios Pinotsis (City St George's, University of London). Talks include Peter Latham (UCL) on time and task management in complex environments; Magnus Richardson (University of Warwick) on spatiotemporal coarse-graining of activity within neurons and across networks; Rafal Bogacz (University of Oxford) on predictive dendrites as a foundation for biological learning; Arnd Roth (UCL) on brain-wide dendritic signals that exhibit circuit-specific behavioural modulation; Mark Humphries (University of Nottingham) on cortical control of rhythmic and discrete arm movements; Vladimir Litvak (UCL) on why the low effective dimensionality of the human functional connectome does not invalidate lesion network mapping; and Massimiliano Di Luca (University of Birmingham) on temporal inference in perception and coordinated action. Angus Chadwick (University of Edinburgh) and Eirini Mavritsaki (Birmingham City University) also speak. The workshop runs from 09:00 to 18:10 on Friday 18 December 2026 at City St George's, University of London, with talks in the Northampton Suite (B411) and posters in The Pavilion of the University Building, Northampton Square. Attendance is free but registration is mandatory. Poster abstracts are due on 20 November 2026, and a poster award will be given.