UK Node Activities:

• 12-16th March 2012 - The Node is sponsoring the Convergence in Computational Neuroscience 2012.  Further details here.

• 26-28th March 2012 - Second UK NI Node Congress, Edinburgh, UK.
  The aim of the conference is to bring together people who are already working in the field and showcase opportunities in neuroinformatics to people working in related disciplines.
  The conference will have:
  * Presentations from invited speakers
  * Posters and Demonstrations including Poster Spotlights
  * Contributed sessions from UK people working in neuroinformatics
  * Updates from our Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
  * Conference Dinner at the Surgeons Hall including private tour of the Museum
  * Discussions on the future of the UK Node
  Further details of the congress are available here.

• The UK Neuroinformatics Road Map What does the current terrain look like and what are the future prospects? This activity has been initiated and will be taken forward through a series of discussions and small workshops. One of the workshops at the UK Node conference was focused on the Road Map.

• Progressing the Skills Exchange Project

Also planned are:

• Specialist workshops at which new ideas for using neuroinformatics methods for the benefit of neuroscience will be developed;
• Short training workshops;
• The initiation of a dating agency for people unaware of neuroinformatics expertises that would benefit them;
• Proposals for new international initiatives that can be taken up by the INCF.

Past events run by the UK Neuroinformatics Node

• 23-24th January 2012 - SIG2 workshop.  Further details can be found here.
• 29-30th November 2011 - Joint Workshop with SIG 3,4+5.  For further details, click here.
• 15-16th September 2011 - Special Interest Group 1 Workshop in York.  This was an excellent ane well-attended workshop.  A report from the event can be found here.
• 20th April 2011 - "Neuroinformatics for Neuroscientists".  A one day conference at the British Neuroscience Association (BNA) annual meeting at the International Conference Centre in Harrogate.
• 1st April 2011 - 3rd NeuralML Development Workshop - This was held in London on 31/3 - 1/4 2011. This meeting discussed the ongoing development of the next major version (v2.0) of the NeuroML language for describing neuronal & network models in a standardized format.  A report from this workshop can be found here.
• 13-14th September 2010 - Workshop on "Future Challenges in Mathematical and Computational Neuroscience" at Oxford University, hosted by Peter Dayan.  A report from the workshop can be found here.
• 31st August 2010 - Workshop on "Neural Coding and Computation" at University of Manchester hosted by Marcelo Montemurro.
• 2-3rd June 2010 - Workshop on "Spike train measures and their applications to Neural Coding" at University of Plymouth, hosted by Thomas Wenneker - for a report from this workshop, please click here.
• 2-4th June 2010 - Workshop on "Neurocomputational Basis of Motivational and Cognitive Control" at Oxford University, hosted by Rogier Mars and Jerome Sallet.  Report to follow.
• INCF UK Node Congress February 2010 - International conference on Analysing and modelling neural systems in health and disease: 7 plenary speakers, a set of collaborative workshops, poster sessions.  Hosted at the Informatics Forum at the University of Edinburgh.
• 23rd November 2009 - Workshop on "Computational Brain" at University of Leicester hosted by Ivan Tyukin - for a report from this workshop, please click here.
• November 2008 The UK INCF Node co-hosted a workshop on Computational Developmental Neuroscience.
• July 2008. International workshop in Edinburgh hosted by the UK INCF Node on current neuroinformatics training and future training needs. A report to the INCF was published in November 2008 and is available here.

Current events run by INCF:

• September 2012 - Neuroinformatics 2012 in Munich, Germany.  For further details, click here.

Past events run by INCF:

• September 2011 - Neuroinformatics 2011 in Boston, USA.  A report from the INCF should be availble soon.
• September 2010 - Neuroinformatics 2010 in Kobe, Japan was the 3rd Congress organized by INCF.  For further information, click here.
• December 2009 - 1st INCF Workshop on "Neuroinformatics in genetic animal models for brain diseases" held in Stockholm, Sweden - for a report on this workshop, click here.
• September 2009 - The 2nd INCF Congress of Neuroinformatics.  For further information, click here.

Reports from past events run by other Nodes:

• 14-15th January 2010 - Second Polish - Norwegian Neuroinformatics Workshop: "How to Model Neurons and Neural Systems?  Intergrating Biophysics, Morphology and Connectivity" held in Warsaw, Poland - for a report, please click here.

Past events run by the UK Neuroinformatics Network:

• April 2008 - Grant application submitted to MRC for support of the UK INCF Node.
• April 2008: Joint workshop with CARMEN looking at the neuroinformatics needs amongst UK neurophysiologists for storage and processing of time series data.
• 6-7th September, 2007: workshop on International Aspects of Neuroinformatics: plenary speakers reviewed the state of neuroinformatics in their own country. UK NI delegates voted to reconstitute the UK NI Network as the UK INCF Node, the UK community supporting the INCF. A Steering Committee was formed.
• 1st August 2007 - UK joins the International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility (INCF).
• 26th March 2007: workshop on Neural Coding, University of Manchester. Organised by Marcelo Montemurro, Stefano Panzeri and Rasmus Petersen.
• 15-16th March 2007: workshop on Deep Brain Stimulation, Imperial College, London. An international symposium where researchers from different backgrounds will be able to meet in person, identify the direction of future research, and discuss possible collaborative projects in the DBS field.
• Winter 2006/early-2007: a questionnaire on the benefits of neuroinformatics to neuroscience was circulated. This was targetted at experimental neuroscientists.
• 24-25th April 2006: workshop on Systems Biology Meets Neuroinformatics: five plenary talks and discussions aimed at bringing together leading researchers to explore areas of overlap between the two communities.
• February 2006 - two meetings exploring international neuroinformatics, with a view to the UK joining the INCF.
• July-December 2005 -  seedcorn funding for the preparation of the CARMEN proposal to EPSRC on sharing and integrating neural data, culminating in the award of £4.5M funding.  (CARMEN website can be found here)
• July-December 2005: a UK-wide report on neuroinformatics training from undergraduate level to postdoc and beyond: availability of training, availability of funding for training, perceived needs for future training.
• 27-28th June 2005: workshop on UK Neuroinformatics: three plenary talks followed by discussion sessions aimed at establishing the state-of-the-art of neuroinformatics and identifying important issues for the future.
• January-March 2005 - a survey was conducted to investigate how best the UKNN can serve the community.