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This lesson describes the Neuroscience Gateway , which facilitates access and use of National Science Foundation High Performance Computing resources by neuroscientists.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 39:27
Speaker: : Subha Sivagnanam

This lesson gives an introduction to high-performance computing with the Compute Canada network, first providing an overview of use cases for HPC and then a hands-on tutorial. Though some examples might seem specific to the Calcul Québec, all computing clusters in the Compute Canada network share the same software modules and environments.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 02:49:34

This lesson provides a short overview of the main features of the Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform (CONP) Portal, a web interface that facilitates open science for the neuroscience community by simplifying global access to and sharing of datasets and tools. The Portal internalizes the typical cycle of a research project, beginning with data acquisition, followed by data processing with published tools, and ultimately the publication of results with a link to the original dataset.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 14:03

This talk presents an overview of CBRAIN, a web-based platform that allows neuroscientists to perform computationally intensive data analyses by connecting them to high-performance computing facilities across Canada and around the world.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 56:07
Speaker: : Shawn Brown
Course:

The Mouse Phenome Database (MPD) provides access to primary experimental trait data, genotypic variation, protocols and analysis tools for mouse genetic studies. Data are contributed by investigators worldwide and represent a broad scope of phenotyping endpoints and disease-related traits in naïve mice and those exposed to drugs, environmental agents or other treatments. MPD ensures rigorous curation of phenotype data and supporting documentation using relevant ontologies and controlled vocabularies. As a repository of curated and integrated data, MPD provides a means to access/re-use baseline data, as well as allows users to identify sensitized backgrounds for making new mouse models with genome editing technologies, analyze trait co-inheritance, benchmark assays in their own laboratories, and many other research applications. MPD’s primary source of funding is NIDA. For this reason, a majority of MPD data is neuro- and behavior-related.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 55:36
Speaker: : Elissa Chesler

Overview of the content for Day 1 of this course.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 00:01:59
Speaker: : Tristan Shuman

Best practices: the tips and tricks on how to get your Miniscope to work and how to get your experiments off the ground.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 00:53:34

This talk delves into challenges and opportunities of Miniscope design, seeking the optimal balance between scale and function.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 00:21:51

Attendees of this talk will learn aobut computational imaging systems and associated pipelines, as well as open-source software solutions supporting miniscope use.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 00:17:56

This talk covers the present state and future directions of calcium imaging data analysis, particularly in the context of one-photon vs two-photon approaches. 

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 00:21:06

In this talk, results from rodent experimentation using in vivo imaging are presented, demonstrating how the monitoring of neural ensembles may reveal patterns of learning during spatial tasks.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 00:19:43

How to start processing the raw imaging data generated with a Miniscope, including developing a usable pipeline and demoing the Minion pipeline.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 00:57:26

The direction of miniature microscopes, including both MetaCell and other groups.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 00:49:16

Overview of the content for Day 2 of this course.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 00:11:01
Speaker: : Tristan Shuman

Summary and closing remarks for this three-day course.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 00:04:56
Speaker: : Stephen Larson

This lecture covers infrared LED oblique illumination for studying neuronal circuits in in vitro block-preparations of the spinal cord and brain stem.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 25:16
Speaker: : Péter Szucs

This lecture covers the application of diffusion MRI for clinical and preclinical studies.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 33:10
Speaker: : Silvia de Santis

This talk covers the differences between applying HED annotation to fMRI datasets versus other neuroimaging practices, and also introduces an analysis pipeline using HED tags. 

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 22:52
Speaker: : Monique Denissen

This lesson provides a thorough description of neuroimaging development over time, both conceptually and technologically. You will learn about the fundamentals of imaging techniques such as MRI and PET, as well as how the resultant data may be used to generate novel data visualization schemas. 

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 1:43:57
Speaker: : Jack Van Horn
Course:

Longitudinal Online Research and Imaging System (LORIS) is a web-based data and project management software for neuroimaging research studies. It is an open source framework for storing and processing behavioural, clinical, neuroimaging and genetic data. LORIS also makes it easy to manage large datasets acquired over time in a longitudinal study, or at different locations in a large multi-site study.

Difficulty level: Beginner
Duration: 0:35
Speaker: : Samir Das