Outreach Events & Resources¶
The Data and Outreach group hosts a number of outreach events to make data, tools, and scientific workflows from the Allen Institute / Neural Dynamics accelerator accessible to the broader community. This page highlights useful resources, such as code tutorials, documentation, and GitHub repos, created for notable events.
Browse by project and platform to see specific events and their associated resources. Feel free to reuse any of these materials for your work.
To view a list of previous and upcoming outreach events, check out the Neural Dynamics events page.
Browse the full library of publicly available Code Ocean capsules.
Outreach Resources Organized by Project and Platform¶
Dynamic Routing¶
Project
This project studies task-switching behaviors in mice to determine how neuronal circuits are reconfigured to dynamically route information for different tasks.
Resources
Dynamic Routing code tutorial — Code Ocean public collection with code tutorials on how to access the electrophysiology and behavior datasets.
Events featuring this project
UW CNC–AIND Hackacollabathon: Dynamic Routing
Date: May 20, 2026
Audience: Graduate students, postdocs, researchers
Location: UW, Seattle, WA
A collaborative hackathon to share new data from the project with researchers at UW and the Allen Institute.
Summer Workshop on the Dynamic Brain 2026
Date: Aug 23 – Sept 6, 2026
Audience: Graduate students, postdocs
Location: Friday Harbor, WA
A project-based, residential summer course where students learn computational methods for analyzing large-scale neuroscience data.
Undergraduate Course at University of Puget Sound
Date: Sept 23, 2026
Audience: Undergraduate students
Location: UPS, Tacoma, WA
Lecture for a class where students developed semester-long research projects using Allen Institute datasets.
Resource: Course Materials
Credit Assignment During Learning¶
Project
This project uses a brain-computer interface (BCI) learning task coupled with an optical connection-mapping technique to investigate how the brain updates synaptic connections to support learning.
Resources
Credit Assignment During Learning code tutorial — Code Ocean public collection with code tutorials on how to access the neurophysiology and behavior datasets.
Events featuring this project
UW CNC–AIND Hackacollabathon: Credit Assignment During Learning
Date: May 14, 2025
Audience: Graduate students, postdocs, researchers
Location: UW, Seattle, WA
A collaborative hackathon to share new data from the project with researchers at UW and the Allen Institute.
University of Washington Neurohackathon (2025, 2026)
Dates: May 16–18, 2025 and Mar 6–8, 2026
Audience: Undergraduate students, graduate students, researchers
Location: UW, Seattle, WA
A long-standing hackathon hosted by the CoNECT and Synaptech student clubs where participants used neurotechnology devices and/or Allen Institute neural datasets to build a project.
Undergraduate Course at University of Puget Sound
Date: Sept 24, 2025
Audience: Undergraduate students
Location: UPS, Tacoma, WA
Lecture for a class where students developed semester-long research projects using Allen Institute datasets.
Resource: Course Materials
Workshop at Western Washington University
Date: Oct 30, 2025
Audience: Undergraduate students, graduate students
Location: WWU, Bellingham, WA
A workshop introducing the Allen Institute / Neural Dynamics accelerator to the research community at WWU, featuring talks from WWU alumni now at the Allen Institute, an overview of the group’s projects, platforms, and approach to science, and hands-on code tutorials using Exa-SPIM and BCI data.
Resource: Code Tutorial
Neural Dynamics in Multi-Regional Circuits with Thalamus in the Middle¶
Project
This project investigates how neural signals are transmitted from subcortical brain regions via the thalamus to modulate cortical activity and influence behavior.
Resources
Mesoscale Connectivity tutorial capsule — Code Ocean public collection with code tutorials on how to access the anatomy data.
Events featuring this project
UW CNC–AIND Hackacollabathon: Mesoscale Connectivity
Date: Dec 4, 2024
Audience: Undergraduate students, graduate students, postdocs, researchers
Location: UW, Seattle, WA
A collaborative hackathon to share new data from this project with researchers at UW and the Allen Institute.
Code Tutorial for High School Field Trip
Date: Feb 13, 2026
Audience: High school students
Location: Allen Institute, Seattle, WA
Introduced neural anatomy data and how to map connections between brain areas for high school students visiting the Institute.
Resource: Code Tutorial Repository
Brain-Wide Anatomy at Synaptic Resolution¶
Platform
Combines innovative histology, ExA-SPIM microscopy, image processing, and machine learning to map the morphology of individual neurons across the whole brain at high throughput.
Resources
Exa-SPIM tutorial capsule — Code Ocean public collection with code tutorials on how to access the morphology dataset.
Events featuring this platform
UW CNC–AIND Hackacollabathon: ExaSPIM
Date: Dec 6, 2023
Audience: Undergraduate students, graduate students, postdocs, researchers
Location: UW, Seattle, WA
A collaborative hackathon to share new data from this project with researchers at UW and the Allen Institute.
Workshop at Western Washington University
Date: Oct 30, 2025
Audience: Undergraduate students, graduate students
Location: WWU, Bellingham, WA
A workshop introducing the Allen Institute / Neural Dynamics accelerator to the research community at WWU, featuring talks from WWU alumni now at the Allen Institute, an overview of the group’s projects, platforms, and approach to science, and hands-on code tutorials using Exa-SPIM and BCI data.
Resource: Code Tutorial
Talk at Cosyne Tutorial Session
Date: Mar 12, 2026
Audience: Researchers
Location: Cosyne, Lisbon, PT
Talk highlighting datasets, tools, and resources from Neural Dynamics, sharing recent developments across projects and platforms.
Multi-Neuropixels Electrophysiology¶
Platform
Implements pioneering technology to support highly reproducible, targeted, brain-wide electrophysiology.
Resources
Ephys NWB Tutorial Capsule — Code Ocean public collection with code tutorials on how to access the electrophysiology dataset.
Events featuring this platform
UW CNC–AIND Hackacollabathon: Ephys
Date: Jan 18, 2023
Audience: Undergraduate students, graduate students, postdocs, researchers
Location: UW, Seattle, WA
A collaborative hackathon to share new data from this project with researchers at UW and the Allen Institute.
Talk at Cosyne Tutorial Session
Date: Mar 12, 2026
Audience: Researchers
Location: Cosyne, Lisbon, PT
Talk highlighting datasets, tools, and resources from the Institute, sharing recent developments across projects and platforms.
Have questions?¶
Contact the Data & Outreach team.