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
| Time | Speaker | Content |
|---|---|---|
| 08:50 | Arrivals | |
| 09:00 (10 mins) | Michael Hausser | Introduction to the Course Course content, speakers, schedule, logistics |
| 09:10 (60 mins) | Nick Steinmetz | Introduction to Neuropixels Technology NP history, different probe types, NP future, and Sliding Refractory Period metric |
| 10:10 (20 mins) | Tea Break | |
| 10:30 (120 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 |
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| 19:30 | Pizza Dinner | |
30 September 2026
| Time | Speaker | Content |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 (10 mins) | Mengmeng Wu / Maxime Beau | Overview of the Data Analysis Pipeline Introduction to spike sorting workflow |
| 09:10 (90 mins) | Maxime Beau & Julie Fabre | Data Preprocessing & Spike Sorting Theory Theory of data processing and template matching |
| 10:40 (20 mins) | Tea Break | |
| 11:00 (90 mins) | Julie Fabre & Maxime Beau | Curation, Quality Metrics & Cell Type Classification Phy, Bombcell, opto / cell type classification |
| 12:30 (60 mins) | Lunch | |
| 13:30 (120 mins) | Mengmeng Wu, Maxime Beau & Instructors | Practice: Preprocessing, Spike Sorting & Quality Control Hands-on pipeline practice using SpikeInterface, Bombcell and Phy on recorded data |
| 15:30 (30 mins) | Tea Break | |
| 16:00 (60 mins) | Instructors | Practice Curation & Aligning Units to Behaviour Plot ACG, waveform, PSTH and cell types on recorded data |
| 17:00 (60 mins) | Sabrina Perrenoud | How to Approach IBL Data IBL notebook practical exercises |
| 18:00 | Michael Hausser | Closing Remarks Course conclusion |
| 19:30 | Dinner at Ladies Street Sik Faan Co. (Tsim Sha Tsui) | |