Sano co-organised a workshop at the NEURONUS & Young PTBUN Neuroscience Forum
A day dedicated to cutting-edge computational tools in neuroscience and biomedicine
On the day before the start of the 14th edition of the NEURONUS & Young PTBUN Neuroscience Forum, participants could take part in a special workshop day. One of these workshops was co-organised by the Computational Neuroscience team from Sano together with representatives of EBRAINS, the European research infrastructure supporting brain research.
The workshop was led by Marissa Diaz Pier and Thorsten Hater, together with experts associated with Forschungszentrum Jülich and EBRAINS.
Joint Sano and EBRAINS workshop
The workshop entitled “Neuroscience through EBRAINS Research Infrastructure: expand your research through workflows and high-performance computing” focused on the latest computational tools and methods used in neuroscience and biomedicine. Participants had the opportunity to explore the capabilities offered by EBRAINS – a platform that enables international scientific collaboration and provides access to data, simulation tools, workflows and high-performance computing resources. Attention was paid to how this infrastructure supports open, reproducible and FAIR-compliant science, and how it can be integrated into real research projects – from data organisation to advanced brain simulations.
From lab computer to HPC clusters
The programme also included an overview of different strategies for running computational workflows – from local processing on a lab computer, through cloud-based solutions, to advanced HPC clusters. This focus is closely aligned with Sano’s profile, as the centre develops methods for computational medicine based on high-performance computing and advanced information technologies. Using examples of simulation engines such as The Virtual Brain (TVB) and NEST, the speakers demonstrated how to design, automate and monitor complex computational processes in a transparent, collaborative way.
Sano’s commitment to advancing modern neuroscience
Co-organising this workshop is yet another example of Sano’s commitment to advancing modern research methods and creating spaces for collaboration between science and computational infrastructure. Our foundation, Sano Centre for Computational Medicine, develops advanced computational methods for medicine and conducts research including in the area of computational neuroscience, which gives this initiative a strong scientific grounding.
About the NEURONUS conference
The NEURONUS & Young PTBUN Neuroscience Forum is the largest international neuroscience conference in Poland, organised regularly by the student community of the Jagiellonian University. The event covers a broad range of topics – from general neurobiology to computational, cognitive, affective and clinical neuroscience – and brings together students, PhD candidates, researchers and enthusiasts from across the neuroscience community.
