Tag: neuroscience

• WetAI: Collaborative Neurobiology 

  

  Partners David Haussler, Scientific Director, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, University of California, Santa Cruz.  Matt Elliot, PhD Student, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute  David Parks, PhD Student, UC Santa Cruz Department of Computer Science  Lon Blauvelt, Software Engineer, UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute  SSEC Engineers Cordero Core, Senior Research Software Engineer  Don Setiawan, Senior…

• 2022 Hackweek Participant Testimonials

  

  This year the eScience Institute hosted another summer of our hackweek programs, including the SnowEx Hackweek in July and the NeuroHackademy program in August. Hackweeks are intentionally designed to foster an environment of collaboration among participants, and include participants from around the world. Here are some reflections shared by participants in our 2022 programs: SnowEx…

• Testimonials from our Summer 2021 Hackweek Programs

  

  This year the eScience Institute hosted another summer of our hackweek programs, including OceanHackweek, SnowEx Hackweek and NeuroHackademy. The sudden shift to a remote setting in spring 2020 brought new challenges for our eScience research team, and we came away with some valuable lessons learned and ideas to incorporate into this year’s iterations of hackweeks.…

• Help the Fibr Algorithm Learn to Read MRI Scans

  

  By: Louisa Gaylord The majority of mental health disorders are first diagnosed in childhood or adolescence. The disorders most commonly detected in young people include ADHD, anxiety, depression and behavior problems. Historically, individual labs and researchers interested in understanding the brain basis of mental health only had access to small amounts of data to analyze,…

• Participants offer insight on Neurohackademy

  

  September 5, 2019 We asked this year’s Neurohackademy participants to reflect on their experiences after joining us for this two-week neuroscience hacking event, and a record number responded! Here are there thoughts on this unique educational opportunity, in their own words. Hannah Coyle Neurohackademy 2019 was an amazing experience that left me with a very…

• NeuroHackademy participants offer perspectives

  

  NeuroHackademy, an event which brought together dozens of neuroscientists over a two-week period to solve problems, learn new data science techniques, and network, concluded earlier this month. Organized by Ariel Rokem, senior data scientist, and Tal Yarkoni, director of the Psychoinformatics Lab (University of Texas at Austin), the event offered tutorials and lectures on machine…

• NeuroHackademy debuts successfully

  

  By Ariel Rokem, eScience senior data scientist More than 60 neuroscientists flocked to Seattle and the UW campus during the last week of July and the first week of August to participate in a two-week conference/summer school/hackathon. This event, held for the first time under its new name “NeuroHackademy”, evolved out of Neurohackweek, an event…

• Neurohackweek: an international collaboration

  

  By Ariel Rokem, data scientist and Neurohackweek organizer Forty graduate students, postdocs, research staff and faculty took part in Neurohackweek 2017, including international attendees from Turkey, Russia, Canada, the United Kingdom and Denmark. The neuroscience conference, which ran Sept. 4 – 8, kicked off with a talk by Russ Poldrack (Stanford University) posing the problems of…