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Trainings

New users are encouraged to attend one of the regularly organized user workshops or training courses prior to using the probes. 

2026 Course Offerings

July 13-15

We are excited to announce our next Neuropixels Training Course at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard University, July 13-15, 2026. This course, funded by an NIH U24 BRAIN grant, will take place in the Department of Neurology, BIDMC, Boston Mass. You can apply for the course here. The application portal will be open until July 1, 2026. The course can’t cover travel costs.

October 12-14

The second course in this program will be hosted by Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, MD, on October 12-14, 2026. This course is funded by an NIH U24 BRAIN grant, You can apply for the course here. The application portal will be open until October 1, 2026, 2026. The course can’t cover travel costs.

Past Trainings

1.01 - Course Introduction (Matteo Carandini )
09:15
1.02 - The Past and Future of Neuropixels (Tim Harris)
17:53
1.03 - Neuropixels NXT (Carolina Mora Lopez)
11:22
1.04 - Cracking circuits with Neuropixels Ultra and Opto Probes (Nick Steinmetz)
20:40
1.05 - Activating local populations with Neuropixels Opto probes (Karolina Socha)
12:43
1.06 - Optotagging with the Neuropixels Opto probe (Anna Lakunina)
10:04
1.07 - Neuropixels Recording Hardware (Flóra Takács)
11:59
1.08 - Planning Neuropixels trajectories with Pinpoint (Kenneth Yang)
15:58
2024 1.1 Introduction: the past and future of Neuropixels (Carandini)
11:17
2024 1.2 Planning your Neuropixels trajectory (Birman)
22:52
2024 1.3 Recording hardware (Tákacs)
09:38
2024 1.4.1 Recording software: SpikeGLX (Karsh)
13:04
2024 1.4.2 Recording software: OpenEphys (Siegle)
10:04
2024 1.5.1 Recording techniques: acute recordings (Socha)
22:50
2024 1.5.2 Recording techniques: chronic recordings (Bimbard)
15:54
2024 1.6 Inspecting raw data (Winter)
11:02
2023 1 01 Introduction to Neuropixels (Carandini)
09:39
2023 1 02 Neuropixels technology (Mora Lopez)
18:59
2023 1 03 1 Neuropixels trajectory explorer (Peters)
10:48
2023 1 03 2 Trajectory planning with HERBS (Saldanha)
09:32
2023 1 03 3 Trajectory planning with Pinpoint (Birman)
09:18
2023 1 04 Recording hardware (Fabre)
08:21
2023 1 05 1 Recording software SpikeGLX (Karsh)
14:39
2023 1 05 2 Recoding software Open Ephys (Siegle)
10:02
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