Overview of the content for Day 1 of this course.

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

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

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

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. 

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.

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

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

Overview of the content for Day 2 of this course.

Summary and closing remarks for this three-day course.

This lesson explores how researchers try to understand neural networks, particularly in the case of observing neural activity. 

This introductory lesson welcomes users to the virtual learning series, explaining some of the background behind open-source miniscopes, as well as outlining the rest of the lessons in this course. 

This lesson provides an overview of the Miniscope project, explaining the motivation behind the how and why of Miniscope development, why Miniscopes may be useful for researchers, and the differences between previous and current versions.

This lesson will go through the theory and practical techniques for implanting a GRIN lens for imaging in mice.

This lesson provides instruction on how to build a Miniscope and stream data, including an overview of the software involved.

This lecture covers the history of behaviorism and the ultimate challenge to behaviorism. 

This lecture covers various learning theories.

This lesson characterizes different types of learning in a neuroscientific and cellular context, and various models employed by researchers to investigate the mechanisms involved. 

In this lesson, you will learn about different approaches to modeling learning in neural networks, particularly focusing on system parameters such as firing rates and synaptic weights impact a network.