Date
February 23-27, 2026
Duration
44 hrs / 1.6 ECTs
Location
VU, HG-3A10 – HG-Agora 4
Organizer
Dr. Ismail Koubiyr
The aim of this course is to learn the fundamentals of programming in Python and to apply them to neuroscience-related problems. By the end of the course, participants will be able to interact with Jupyter notebooks, load, manipulate, visualize, and analyze data, and apply Python tools to neuroimaging, electrophysiology, calcium imaging and network neuroscience. The course combines lectures with hands-on sessions, covering topics from basic coding practices to medical image processing, patch-clamp analysis, calcium imaging, and brain network analysis.
– Import and work with numerical and tabular data – Apply good coding practices: clean code, modularity, commenting, and efficient programming</span> – Gain hands-on experience with medical image processing (MRI, CT, microscopy) – Analyze electrophysiological patch‑clamp recordings with Python notebooks – Explore calcium imaging data (widefield and two‑photon microscopy) – Explore brain network analysis using graph theory, connectivity matrices, and statistical methods
– Python basics, functions, packages, and data frames – Importing and visualizing data – Univariate statistics and regression – Good coding practices and writing efficient code Neuroscience topics that will be covered: – Medical image processing – Brain network analysis, based on functional and diffusion MRI – Patch-clamp – Calcium imaging
No prior experience with Python is required, but participants should have some programming experience or a strong interest in learning programming concepts. Participants with (almost) no prior Python coding experience, are strongly recommended to complete a few online modules to prepare for the course. A few weeks before the course, all participants will receive an access to a short datacamp introductory course to Python that they should follow before the course starts.
– Dr. Ismail Koubiyr (Amsterdam UMC, Coordinator) – Dr. Tommy Broeders (Amsterdam UMC) – Dr. David Cabrera (NIN) – Dr. David van Nederpelt – Dr. Mario Tranfa
