SfN Satellite Events


The BRAIN Initiative Alliance attended the 2019 Society for Neuroscience Conference in Chicago, IL. While there, the BIA put on a social that allowed individuals to meet and converse with BRAIN Initiative researchers about their cutting-edge work. Similar events have been hosted virtually in 2020 and early 2021 and in person in 2022 and 2023. Learn more about all of these events below.

Tools, Tech and Theory: A BRAIN Initiative Alliance Social at the 2023 Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting

Date & Time: Sunday, November 12, 2023, 6:30-9:00 p.m. ET
Location: Westin Downtown DC Hotel (formerly Renaissance – 999 9th St.), Potomac Ballroom Salon 2, Washington, DC

Interested in cutting-edge neuroscience tools & technology? Come ‘talk shop’ with some of the leading toolmakers funded by The BRAIN Initiative® Alliance. A broad array of technical tools and data resources are now available to the research community. Learn more at this informal and interactive social that is open to all Society for Neuroscience (SfN) attendees. Registration is not required. See below for the exciting line-up of tools and toolmakers that will be featured at this event!

TypeTool/TitleToolmaker
Cellular & Genetic EngineeringNABOR: Neuroscience antibody open resourceAmrita Rhoads, Andrew Hempstead, Brook Phytila, and Lynn Josephson
Cellular & Genetic EngineeringSecond-generation monosynaptic tracingIan Wickersham and Lei Jin
Cellular & Genetic EngineeringDART.2: Precision pharmacology with thousandfold cellular specificityMichael Tadross and Brenda Shields
Electrophysiology & ProbesFlexible polymer microelectrodesEllis Meng, Dong Song, and Kee Scholten
Electrophysiology & ProbesSensors for in vivo imaging of intracellular biochemical signaling events underlying neuromodulationHaining Zhong and Tianyi Mao
Electrophysiology & ProbesµLED optoelectrodes for simultaneous high spatio-temporal optoestimulation and electrophysiological recordingsJose Roberto Lopez Ruiz, Meng-Lin (Marine) Hsieh, Yi Tian, and Euisik Yoon
Electrophysiology & ProbesNext-generation chronic ephys toolsMattias Karlsson
Electrophysiology & ProbesReusable, flexible, and lightweight chronic implants for Neuropixels probesPhilip Coen and Celian Bimbard
HardwareConnectome 2.0 MRI scannerAnastasia Yendiki and Susie Huang
HardwareSpikerBot: A mobile robot for neuroscience educationChristopher A. Harris and Gregory J. Gage
HardwareBrain-wide neural recordings in mice navigating physical spaces enabled by a cranial exoskeletonJames Hope and Suhasa Kodandaramaiah
HardwareLong-term 24/7 monitoring of mouse maternal care and neglect with a low-cost, open-source systemLuisa Schuster, Rob Froemke, and Adam Mar
HardwareSimultaneous measurement of dopamine and neural activity (DANA)Stephen Cowen and Michael L. Heien
Optics & MicroscopyUCLA 2P miniature microscopeBlake Madruga and Peyman Golshani
Optics & MicroscopySpying on neuromodulator dynamics in vivo by constructing muti-color genetically-encoded sensorsYulong Li
Optics & MicroscopyThe Stanford Program for Integrated Neuroscience TechnologiesEmily Chu, Erwin Defensor, and Mehrdad Shamloo
Optics & MicroscopyRecording from freely-moving mice using CaMPARIHod Dana and Aniruddha Das
Optics & MicroscopyClear optically matched panoramic access channel technique (COMPACT) for large-volume deep brain imagingMeng Cui
Optics & MicroscopyResource for multiphoton characterization of genetically-encoded probesMikhail Drobizhev
SoftwareSuite3D: GPU-accelerated volumetric cell detection for 2P imagingAli Haydaroglu, Matteo Carandini, and Kenneth Harris
SoftwareFlyWireAmy Sterling, Arie Matsliah, and Szi-cheih Yu
SoftwareNeurodata Without Borders (NWB) GUIDE: Graphical user interface for data entryCody Baker, Ben Dichter, Oliver Ruebel, Ryan Ly, and Garrett Flynn
SoftwarePinpoint: Automated multi-probe insertions to improve the efficiency and reproducibility of electrophysiologyDaniel Birman, Kenneth Yang, and Nicholas Steinmetz
SoftwareDataJoint Works & DataJoint ElementsDimitri Yatsenko and Monty Kosma
SoftwareDNMF: Densely labeled imaging data analysis toolJayeeta Basu and Jason Moore
SoftwareInternational Brain Laboratory AtlasMayo Faulkner and Gaelle Chapuis
SoftwareBrain modeling toolkit (BMTK) / SONATA / Visual neural dynamics (VND)Xiao-Ping Liu

Tools, Tech and Theory: A BRAIN Initiative Alliance Social at the 2022 Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting

Date & Time: November 13, 2022, 6:30pm to 9pm 
Location: Hilton San Diego Bayfront
| Sapphire Ballroom C/D

Did you miss out on the 2022 BRAIN Initiative Alliance Neuroscience Social? See below for a list of featured toolmakers.

TypeTool/TitleToolmaker
SoftwareBrain Observatory Storage Service and Database (BossDB): A cloud-based solution for storing and accessing petascale image datasetsHannah Gooden, Daniel Xenes, Brock Wester
SoftwareDANDI Archive, DataLad, and Other BRAIN Initiative ToolsYaroslav Halchenko
SoftwareDataJoint Elements: Create and manage scientific data workflows for neurophysiologyDimitri Yatsenko, Kabilar Gunalan
SoftwareAlignEM-SwiFT: A GUI for aligning serial EMsJoel Yancey
SoftwareGraspologic: An open-source Python package to analyze networksBenjamin Pedigo
SoftwareFunctional Subnetwork Approach: Tuning parameters within conductance-based models of neural systems based on network functionNicholas Szczecinski
SoftwareBEADL: Behavioral task description languageAdam Kepecs, Michael Wulf
SoftwareTranslating Time: A bioinformatics online tool to find corresponding ages across model systemsMadison Bryant, Toni Lee, J. Kwadwo Ofori
SoftwareOpen Ephys Acquisition System (Second Generation)Jonathan Newman
SoftwareWhole-Brain Tissue Mapping Toolkit Using Large Scale Multiplex Immunohistochemistry Imaging and Deep Neural NetworksJahandar Jahanipour
SoftwareNeuropixels Tools: Desktop GUI for anatomical alignment and suite to process, store, and view dataGaelle Chapuis, Olivier Winter
Electrophysiology & ProbesPinpoint: A 3D virtual targeting environment for NeuropixelsDaniel Birman
Electrophysiology & ProbesPolymer Implantable Electrode (PIE) Foundry for the Development of Polymer Microelectrode ArraysDong Song
Electrophysiology & ProbesSoft and Stretchable Fiber-Shaped Neural ProbesSiyuan Rao
Electrophysiology & ProbesRobotic Multi-Probe-Single-Actuator Inchworm Neural Microdrive DeviceMladen Barbic
Optics & MicroscopyMINI2P: A new generation of two-photon (2P) miniscopeWeijian Zong
Optics & MicroscopyDiesel2P Two-Photon Imaging SystemChe-Hang Yu
Cellular & Genetic EngineeringdLight, iSeroSNFR, and psychLight BiosensorsErin Scott, Chunyang Dong
Cellular & Genetic EngineeringNeuroscience AntiBody Open Resource (NABOR): An open-access recombinant antibody resourceKate DeMaio, Ashley Waldron
Cellular & Genetic EngineeringMu Opioid Receptor Promoter (MORp)-based Viral ConstructsGregory Salimando
Cellular & Genetic EngineeringBRAIN NeuroTools Vector CoreKim Ritola
Cellular & Genetic EngineeringMAPseq & BARseq for High-throughput NeuroanatomyXiaoyin Chen, Huiqing Zhan, Li Yuan
Cellular & Genetic EngineeringGenetic and Transgenic Tools for Neuroethological Insect ModelsDianne Duncan
Cellular & Genetic EngineeringOptogenetics and Microscopy in C. elegansSophie Dvali

BRAIN Initiative Alliance Talk to Toolmakers social

The BIA hosted a social as part of the SfN Global Connectome virtual event on Jan 11-13, 2021. See below for more details.
Date: January 12, 2021 at 3:30-4:30pm ET

TypeTool(s)Toolmaker
Chemical / Small MoleculesNoninvasive Ultrasonic Drug Uncaging TechniqueRaag Airan
Chemical / Small moleculesRenewable Affinity ReagentsJim Trimmer
Electrophysiology / ProbesCMU ArrayEric Yttri and Rahul Panat
Electrophysiology / ProbesWireless Floating Microelectrode Array (WFMA)Philip Troyk
Electrophysiology / ProbesNeuronNex:MINTEuisik Yoon and Nathan Slager
Electrophysiology / ProbesCarbon Fiber Electrode ArrayParas Patel and Cynthia Chestek
Electrophysiology / ProbesPolymer Electrode ArrayLoren Frank
Electrophysiology / ProbesMagnetic Micro-coilsShelley Fried
Molecular / CellularsciMAP-ATACCasey Thornton and Andrew Adey
Molecular / CellularCaMPARI and VoltronEric Schreiter, Ahmed Abdelfattah
Molecular / CellularGenetically Encoded Voltage Indicators (GEVIs) Francois St-Pierre, Xiaoyu “Helen” Lu
Molecular / CellularMAPseq & BARseqXiaoyin Chen and Anthony Zador 
Optics / MicroscopyNeuroNex: CornellChris Xu and Chunyan Wu
Optics / MicroscopyMiniature Micro-EndoscopeWalter Gonzalez and Carlos Lois 
Optics / MicroscopyUCLA MiniscopeDaniel Aharoni and Peyman Golshani
Other Hardware DevelopmentCraniobot & See-ShellsSuhasa Kodandaramaiah and Mathew Rynes
SoftwareHuman Neocortical Neurosolver (HNN)Stephanie Jones
SoftwarecytoNet Amina Ann Qutub, Arun Mahadevan, and Byron Long 
SoftwareSocial LEAP Estimates Animal Poses (SLEAP)Talmo Pereira, Mala Murthy, and Joshua Shaevitz
Software Phase Calculator PluginAlik Widge and Mark Schatza

Tools & Tech: A BRAIN Initiative Alliance Social

Date: Sunday, October 20, 2019 at 6:30-8:30pm CT
Location: Hyatt Regency McCormick Place (Regency Ballroom CD); Chicago, IL

Did you miss out on the 2019 BRAIN Initiative Alliance Neuroscience Social? Catch up with a summary here and scroll down for further details. Many of these tools are also now listed on our Toolmakers’ Resources page!

Interested in cutting-edge neuroscience tools & technology? Come ‘talk shop’ with some of the leading toolmakers funded by the US BRAIN Initiative. Through the BRAIN Initiative, a broad array of these tools and resources are becoming available to the research community. This informal and interactive social is open to all SfN attendees.

2019 Featured Toolmakers:


Software

Tom Bartol, Lyndsey Kirk, and Kristen Harris, NeuroNex: 3DEM
Neuropil tools for enhanced resolution 3-dimensional electron microscopy.
Yazan Billeh, BMTK
The Brain Modeling Toolkit: A Python-based software package for creating and simulating neural network models.
Jian Chen, Lab
Tools for data visualization and analysis: Gene data exploration; brain meta-analysis.
Oliver Ruebel, Ben Dichter and Nathan Gouwens, NWB; Allen Institute software
Software development for the Neurodata Without Borders (NWB) data standard for neurophysiology, and data analysis and computational modeling
Stephanie Jones, HNN
Human Neocortical Neurosolver software tool: A user friendly software tool to test and develop hypothes on the circuit mechanism underlying EEG/MEG data
Talmo Pereira, LEAP
SLEAP (Social LEAP Estimates Animal Poses): A deep learning software framework for general purpose multi-animal limb tracking from video
Amina Ann Qutub, cytoNet
cytoNet: A Mathematical, web-based tool to rapidly characterize multiscale networks from images
Terrence Sejnowski, Lab
Nonlinear causal analysis of large-scale recordings
Alik Widge, Lab
Open source tools to precisely lock perturbations to the phase of ongoing LFP oscillations

Electrophysiology / Probes

Loren Frank, Lab
Very large scale multielectrode recording—flexible, biocompatible polymer electrodes
Shelley Fried, Lab
Micro-coils for magnetic stimulation of cortical neurons
Tim Harris and Josh Siegle, Neuropixels, Open Ephys
Neuropixel high channel count electrophysiology probes and the Open Ephys open-source, plugin-based cross-platform software for data acquisition
Eusik Yoon, Nate Slager, and Paras Patel, NeuronNex:MINT
High-density recordings: micro-LED optoelectrodes and carbon fiber electrodes for dopamine
Bryce Chung, Lab / Muhannad Bakir, Lab
Advanced technology for motorneurophysiology: Micro-scale EMG arrays and algorithms for recording and analyzing muscle activity
Philip Troyk, Lab
The Floating Microelectrode Array: CNS stimulation and recording through a magnetic, wireless link
Eric Yttri, Preprint; Lab
3D Nanoparticle printing for customized, ultra-high-density multielectrode arrays

Optics / Microscopy

Daniel Aharoni and Peyman Golshani, NeuroNex: Miniscope
New miniaturized open source microscopes integrated with electrophysiology.
Alison Barth, Lab, Preprint
High-throughput, quantitative connectomics using fluorescence microscopy.
Emily Gibson, Lab
2P-FCM: Miniature 2-photon fiber-coupled microscope for 3D neural imaging in freely moving animals
Walter Gonzalez, Preprint
Miniature micro-endoscope: record brain activity in multiple areas simultaneously in mice
Joe Fetcho and Chunyan Wu, NeuroNex: Cornell
Next generation optical microscopy to image deeper, wider and faster

Molecular / Cellular

Xiaoyin Chen, Technology
Mapping long-range projects at single neuron resolution using BARseq and MAPseq
Christopher Moore, NeuroNex: BioluminescenceHub
Novel bioluminescent molecular tools for controlling cells and tracking activity
Eric Schreiter, Lab
Fluorescent indicators for neuronal activity: CaMPARI and Voltron
Francois St-Pierre, Lab
Molecular technologies: Genetically encoded indicators for monitoring voltage in vivo (GEVIs)
Casey Thornton, Lab
Spatially-resolved epigenomic profiles of single cells in intact tissue

Chemical / Small Molecules

Raag Airan, Lab
Nanoparticles for ultrasonic uncaging of neuromodulatory drugs in the nervous system
Jim Trimmer, Lab
Renewable recombinant antibodies and affinity reagents for neuroscience research

Other Hardware Development

Baldwin Goodell, Graymatter Research
Hardware development for non-human primates: distributed recording systems and orthopedic implantation
Suhasa Kodandaramaiah, Lab
Robotic platforms for automated cranial microsurgery and transparent polymer skulls for neural interfacing