Schedule

28 September 2026

Time Speaker Content
09:00 Registration
09:10 (5 mins) Michael Hausser Opening
09:15 (60 mins) Tim Harris (Zoom) Neuropixels: History, Status, and Future
10:15 (50 mins) Nick Steinmetz The midbrain reticular formation in contextual control of perceptual decisions
11:05 (20 mins) Tea Break
11:25 (50 mins) Julie Fabre A retrospective, novelty-gated mechanism for assigning delayed illness to flavor
12:15 (50 mins) Zhiwen Ye From Single Spikes to Brain-wide Dynamics: Recording Neural Activity with Neuropixels Ultra and Widefield Imaging
13:05 (60 mins) Lunch
14:05 (50 mins) Xiaoxuan Jia Dynamic Signal Propagation in the Visual Cortex
14:55 (50 mins) Maxime Beau Identifying cell types from their extracellular electrophysiological signature
15:45 (25 mins) Tea Break
16:10 (50 mins) Yong Gu Vestibular and visual coding in primate’s cortex for self-motion perception
17:00 (50 mins) Sam Reiter Exploring the brains of emerging model organisms with Neuropixels
18:10 Shuttle to Central Pier No.7 (Northcote Close)
19:00 (2 hours) Harbour Cruise (Dinner and drinks included - Central / Victoria Harbour)

29 September 2026

Hands-on Probe Handling & Recording For registered participants only
Time Speaker Content
08:50 Arrivals
09:00 (5 mins) Michael Hausser Introduction to the Course
Course content, speakers, schedule, logistics
09:05 (30 mins) Nick Steinmetz Introduction to Neuropixels Technology
NP history, different probe types, NP future
09:35 (45 mins) Participants Participant introductions Introduce yourself, your work, and your goals with Neuropixels
10:20 (15 mins) Tea Break
10:35 (115 mins) Instructors Animal Surgery
Head-plate implantation, craniotomy
12:30 (60 mins) Lunch
13:30 (70 mins) Instructors Probe Handling
Group rotation: probe handling in box; soldering/Brainsaw; probe testing in saline
14:40 (20 mins) Tea Break
15:00 Instructors Recording
Pinpoint, probe insertion, recording, mock chronic experiments
18:00 Debriefing
Wrap-up and Q&A session
19:30 Pizza Dinner

30 September 2026

For registered participants only Materials of the Workshop will be available to participants approximately two weeks after the event. Please email neuropixels@hausserlab.com if you have any enquiries.
Time Speaker Content
09:00 Mengmeng Wu / Maxime Beau Overview of the data analysis pipeline
09:10 (90 mins) Maxime Beau Data preprocessing (40 mins)
Spike sorting theory (50 mins)
10:40 (20 mins) Tea Break
11:00 (90 mins) Julie Fabre Curation and quality metrics (1 hour) Phy and Bombcell
Nick Steinmetz Sliding Refractory Period metric (30 mins) A new spike sorting quality metric
12:30 (60 mins) Lunch
13:30 (120 mins) Maxime Beau Opto / cell type classification talk (30 mins) Intricacies in optogenetics and cell type classification during Neuropixels acquisition, preprocessing and analysis
Mengmeng Wu Practice preprocessing and spike sorting Use SpikeInterface to process recorded data, with time for practice and questions
Julie Fabre Practice curation and quality control 1/2 Run the pipeline on recorded data using Bombcell and Phy
15:30 (30 mins) Tea Break
16:00 (60 mins) Instructors Practice curation and quality control 2/2; aligning curated units to behaviour Run the pipeline on recorded data; plot ACG, waveforms and PSTHs, and explore cell types
17:00 (60 mins) Sabrina Perrenoud How to approach IBL data IBL notebook practical exercises
18:00 Michael Hausser Closing Remarks Workshop conclusion
19:30 Dinner at Ladies Street Sik Faan Co. (Mong Kok)