2017 Neuropixels course

University College London - 22-24 May 2017

Neuropixels probes are poised to transform neurophysiology. They have close to 1,000 sites closely spaced on a 1 cm shank, and allow recordings of up to 500 neurons per electrode. They are scheduled to be available to the public at cost in 2018.

In preparation for this release, this practical course aimed to train students and postdocs, from a wide array of laboratories, to use the Neuropixels probes and to spike sort using Kilosort and Phy.

As with all activities related to Neuropixels at UCL, this course was generously funded by the Wellcome Trust.

Organizers

Lecturers

Matteo Carandini
Kenneth Harris
Adam Kampff
Marius Pachitariu
Nick Steinmetz

Demonstrators

Marius Bauza
Lee Cossell
George Dimitriadis
Sepiedeh Keshavarzi
Andre Marques-Smith
Andrew Peters

Teaching assistants

Lorenza Calcaterra
Stephen Lenzi
Goncalo Lopes
Joana Neto
Matthew Phillips
Dario Quiñones

Schedule

Day 1

Morning: Introduction to Neuropixels, CMOS.
Afternoon: more CMOS, run dummy experiment, recording from populations
Evening: plan an experiment for the next day

Day 2

Morning: Chronic experiment.
Afternoon: Acute experiment.

Day 3

Morning: Installing and using Kilosort and Phy to spike sort
Afternoon: Analyse the data acquired on Day 2

Pictures

Some pictures from the course are available here.