Open Source Neuroscience
Channel: Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)
Date: 18/09/2015

BIDS Data Science Lecture Series | September 18, 2015 | 1:45-2:30 p.m. | 190 Doe Library, UC Berkeley

Speaker: Jeremy Freeman, Neuroscientist, Janelia Research Campus
Sponsors: Berkeley Institute for Data Science, Data, Society and Inference Seminar

We want to understand how brains work. New technologies let us measure and manipulate neural activity, at the scale of large populations or entire brains, in behaving animals. However, this in turns yields a new challenge—how to make sense of our data. I will describe an ecosystem of open source technologies for flexible, scalable, and sharable data science. We leverage cloud computing, web technologies, and modern data structures to rapidly process neuroscience data, design new experiments, and collaboratively interpret the results. This effort stands at the intersection of several exciting disciplines and promises to begin to reveal the fundamental operating principles of the brain.