Course overview

LAST SPOTS AVAILABLE!

Modern neuroscience relies on the combination of multiple technologies to record precise measurements of neural activity and behaviour. Commercially available software for sampling and controlling data acquisition is often too expensive, closed to modification, and incompatible with this growing complexity, requiring experimenters to constantly patch together diverse pieces of software.

This course will introduce the basics of the Bonsai programming language, a high-performance, easy to use, and flexible visual environment for designing closed-loop neuroscience experiments combining physiology and behaviour data.

This language has allowed scientists with no previous programming experience to quickly develop and scale-up experimental rigs and can be used to integrate new open-source hardware and software.

What will you learn?

By the end of the course you will be able to use Bonsai to:

– create data acquisition and processing pipelines for video and visual stimulation.
– control behavioral task states and run your closed-loop experiments.
– collect data from cameras, microphones, Raspberry Pi Pico boards, electrophysiology devices, etc.
– achieve precise synchronization of independent data streams.

Registration

The workshop is limited to 30 participants. Last spots available.

Register here

Registration fee: 400€

Registration includes:
– participation in the workshop from June 5 to June 7, 2025;
– lunches on June 5, June 6 and June 7 (dinners not included);
– individual box with the kit of materials to use during the course;
– accommodation at this hotel close to the venue, for the nights of 4-5-6th June.