LASCON 2026 offers an intensive four-week training program designed for graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and early-career researchers interested in applying computational and mathematical methods to the study of neurons and neural networks. The curriculum spans multiple scales of brain modeling—from biophysically detailed neurons to large-scale networks and theoretical frameworks of brain function and dysfunction—and covers topics such as extracellular field modeling, synaptic and structural plasticity, brain disease and brain state modeling, artificial intelligence, criticality in brain dynamics, consciousness, and brain–machine interfaces.

Imbizo is a Xhosa word meaning “a gathering to share knowledge”. The Simons Computational Neuroscience Imbizo is exactly that: an opportunity for African and international students to learn about cutting-edge research techniques in computational neuroscience. Applications until July 1, 2025.

Interested in learning how to use the tools and services available on EBRAINS? Join us on Thursday, 5 February 2026, for a dedicated webinar showcasing how EBRAINS supports advanced brain modelling and simulation across scales, from detailed single-neuron models to whole-brain, patient-specific simulations. This webinar will feature presentations by Viktor Jirsa, Chief Science Officer of EBRAINS, and Egidio D’Angelo, Director of the Neurophysiology Unit at the University of Pavia. Together, they will introduce how multiscale brain simulations on EBRAINS enable the integration of data and models across different levels of brain organisation, bridging cellular mechanisms and whole-brain dynamics. Multiscale simulation is a key step toward mechanistic understanding in neuroscience and medicine. By linking models across spatial and temporal scales, EBRAINS allows researchers to move beyond isolated descriptions toward coherent, predictive frameworks that connect experimental data, theory, and clinical application. This webinar will highlight how such approaches are implemented in practice within the EBRAINS ecosystem. It is aimed at neuroscientists, computational modellers, experimental researchers, clinicians, and early-career scientists interested in multiscale brain simulation. No prior experience with EBRAINS is required.

Das Bernstein Center Freiburg und die Fakultät für Biologie laden erneut zu spannenden Fragen, kreativen Ansätzen und praxisbezogenen Methoden rund um das Thema Neurowissenschaften ein. Herausragende Neurowissenschaftlerinnen und -wissenschaftler aus ganz Deutschland werden aus Sicht ihrer Disziplin anschaulich und verständlich über ihre Forschung berichten.
Angesprochen wird ein Publikum mit Interesse an den aktuellen Themen der Hirnforschung. Nach einem etwa 40-minütigen Vortrag gibt es Gelegenheit zur Diskussion. Der Eintritt ist frei.

The human brain is an incredibly complex system, best understood through a blend of knowledge and practices from various scientific fields. The EBRAINS Student Conference on Interdisciplinary Brain Research offers an open platform for early career researchers to exchange innovative ideas across disciplines relevant to brain research and neuroscience. Attendees will have the opportunity to engage with the data-driven, multidisciplinary approach to brain research fostered by EBRAINS, as well as gain hands-on experience with its platform and tools. The conference promotes extensive scientific dialogue, both intra- and interdisciplinary, among peers and faculty through lectures, workshops, hands-on training, and social events. The conference will take place on-site at Château de Valrose, University Côte d’Azur, in beautiful Nice, France. Organised by the EBRAINS Education Programme and the EBRAINS Student Ambassadors.

COSYNE brings together researchers from systems neuroscience, computational biology, artificial intelligence, and related fields to explore the neural basis of behavior and cognition. It is a unique meeting point for both experimental and theoretical work, known for fostering deep discussions, fresh ideas, and unexpected collaborations. Founded in 2004, COSYNE provides an inclusive forum for the exchange of empirical and theoretical approaches to problems in systems neuroscience. Today, it is recognized as the premier computational and systems neuroscience conference, drawing over 1,000 researchers annually from a wide variety of disciplines. The success of COSYNE and its scientific program depends critically on the free exchange of ideas and recent findings, which involves the international neuroscience community at large. Therefore, we sincerely hope that you will attend.

The international BonnBrain Conference brings together experts from diverse fields to explore how neural circuits control behavior. As an interdisciplinary meeting, BonnBrain highlights groundbreaking research and encourages lively discussions and informal exchanges among scientists at all career stages. The conference features a diverse lineup of speakers and discussion leaders from leading institutions worldwide. In addition to symposia and keynotes, it offers poster sessions, short talks selected from submitted abstracts, a student-organized symposium, and networking opportunities across disciplines. Jointly hosted by the University of Bonn, DZNE, and the Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior – caesar, the event aims to strengthen the local neuroscience community while fostering global collaborations.

Understanding how the brain generates perception and behavior remains a major challenge in neuroscience. Neurons communicate through synaptic inputs located on dendrites, complex, highly branched structures that shape sensory processing, memory formation, and behavior. Advances in imaging, electrophysiology, and computational modeling now allow researchers to explore dendritic function across multiple scales, from single-synapse plasticity to dendritic computations driving behavior. This EMBO Workshop brings together leading scientists from molecular, biophysical, anatomical, computational, and functional neuroscience, as well as neuro-inspired AI, to advance our understanding of dendrites in cognition and disease. By fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, we aim to uncover fundamental principles governing dendritic computations and their broader implications, including how they may be incorporated into new AI architectures for more efficient or brain-like computation. Set on the stunning island of Crete, this EMBO Workshop is designed to encourage scientific exchange beyond traditional presentations, creating an engaging and interactive environment. Dedicated sessions will support young researchers, such as (1) work-life balance, (2) mentorship across career stages, and (3) career paths within and beyond academia. Through open discussions and collaborative experiences, this meeting will inspire new insights into the role of dendrites in brain function and dysfunction, paving the way for important future discoveries in neuroscience.

The NEST Initiative invites everyone interested in Neural Simulation Technology and the NEST Simulator to the annual virtual NEST Conference. The NEST Conference provides an opportunity for the NEST Community to meet, exchange success stories, swap advice, learn about current developments in and around NEST spiking network simulation and its application. Take the opportunity to advance your skills in using NEST at our workshops! We particularly encourage young scientists to participate in the conference!

The AREADNE Conferences have been created to gather global scientific
leaders who work on neural ensembles and establish a touch-point for the
widely disparate and hybrid field. With a beautiful setting on Milos,
the conferences have been carefully planned to foster discussion and
interaction between attendees to encourage the establishment of lasting
professional relationships. The meetings continue our efforts to promote
systems neuroscience in Greece through creating a world-class forum for
cutting-edge research. For 2026, we will be Celebrating Twenty Years of
AREADNE Conferences!

A landmark symposium in computational neuroscience, gathering the field’s foremost experts from around the world to celebrate past achievements, share current breakthroughs, and brainstorm future directions.

Applications are invited for a virtual edition of the Systems Vision Science Summer School and Symposium that took place in Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tuebingen, Germany in August 2023 and August 2025 and virtual in 2024. This year, the virtual edition enables students to attend from afar by formal lectures via Zoom and informal and social communications via a Slack channel. Systems Vision Science combines computational, behavioral, and neuroscience methods to discover functions and algorithms for vision in various brain regions and their implementations in neural circuits. This summer school is designed for everyone interested in gaining a systems level understanding of biological vision. We plan a coherent, graduate-level, syllabus on the integration of experimental data with theory and models. The Summer School will be followed by a Systems Vision Science Virtual Symposium on July 31st. All admitted summer school students will be invited to attend this symposium and are encouraged to submit for a presentation at the symposium. The symposium will also feature two invited keynote presentations.

Understanding how the brain gives rise to behavior requires computational and theoretical methods. These allow us to formalize the function of neural circuits and to quantify behavior, as well as to analyze and understand complex high-dimensional datasets. Theoretical and experimental approaches work synergistically in modern neuroscience, where computational methods are critical for designing and interpreting experiments. This course teaches concepts, methods, and practices of modern computational neuroscience through a combination of lectures and hands-on project work. During the course’s mornings, distinguished international faculty deliver lectures on topics across the entire breadth of experimental and computational neuroscience. For the remainder of the time, students work on research projects in teams of 2 to 3 people under close supervision of expert tutors and faculty. Research projects are proposed by faculty before the course, and include the modeling of neurons, neural systems, and behavior, the analysis of state-of-the-art neural data (behavioral data, multi-electrode recordings, calcium imaging data, connectomics data, etc.), and the development of theories to explain experimental observations.

CCN is an annual forum for discussion among researchers in cognitive science, neuroscience, and artificial intelligence, dedicated to understanding the computations that underlie complex behavior. The conference began in 2017, with a goal to deepen interactions between these disciplines and to discover ways that the communities can benefit one another and leverage each other’s successes, articulated in this TICS commentary paper. The conference is primarily single-track featuring keynote speakers and oral presentations. Paper submissions are presented as posters with a few additionally selected for oral presentations. Community-proposed programming happens in single-track and parallel sessions, including "GACs", "K&Ts", and other community events. Generative Adversarial Collaborations (GACs), are symposia designed to clarify theoretical debates and scaffold forward progress. Keynote-and-Tutorial presentations (K&Ts) foster science and skill-building, presenting cutting-edge science as a talk, followed by the code and a tutorial of how to execute those methods. Open events are designed to welcome all creative ideas for community building, skill building, science exchange, mentorship and career development. We aspire to have an active, open, and responsive culture to meet the needs of this dynamic growing field. We encourage participation from experimentalists and theoreticians investigating complex brain computations in humans and animals.

Each year the Bernstein Network invites the international computational neuroscience community to the annual Bernstein Conference for intensive scientific exchange. It has established itself as one of the most renowned conferences worldwide in this field, attracting students, postdocs and PIs from around the world to meet and discuss new scientific discoveries.