Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain 2026

Description

The 2026 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 are due February 1, 2026.

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Mesoscale Anatomy

This platform builds on turn-key lightsheet microscopes to image mouse brains at high resolution and throughput. Analysis of the resulting volumetric images, including registration to standard brain coordinates and segmentation and counting of individual neurons, is fully automated.

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SLAP2

This platform uses a two-photon microscope SLAP2 that records patterns of synaptic input and output in individual neurons at hundreds to thousands of frames per second in mice performing complex behaviors, using a flexible scan system that combines a digital micromirror device (DMD) with a high-speed scanner.

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Scientific Instrumentation & Process Engineering

The Scientific Instrumentation and Process Engineering (SIPE) team is a shared engineering resource within the Allen Institute, focused on enabling and scaling cutting-edge bioscience through integrated hardware and software systems.

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Surgery

This team performs a variety of surgical procedures, including stereotaxic injections and implanting chronic cranial windows and Neuropixels probes.

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Multi-Neuropixels Electrophysiology

This platform implements pioneering technology for highly reproducible, targeted, brain-wide, cell-type-specific electrophysiology to record neural activity from defined neuron types across the brain. Analysis and quality control of the electrophysiology data are fully automated.

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Brain-Wide Anatomy at Synaptic Resolution

This platform combines innovative histology, ExA-SPIM microscopy, image handling, and machine learning to map the morphology and molecular identity of individual neurons across the whole brain at high throughput.

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Fiber Photometry

This platform enables optical measurement of neural activity and neurotransmitter release in populations of neurons to study neural circuit dynamics in behaving animals.

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Behavior

The Behavior platform uses advanced technology to implement a standardized, modular, multi-task virtual reality gymnasium for mice, with the goal to study brain function across different behaviors at scale.

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