Any (Computational) Neuroscientist Julia user here?

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I am the local organiser of this year annual conference of the Organisation for Computational Neuroscience - CNS2017 (CNS 2017) to be held in July 2017 in Antwerpen (Belgium). We expect ~700 participants from all around the world.

Any (Computational) Neuroscientist around, “proficiently” using Julia - besides me who I am still learning ? We might organise together a hands-on tutorial on Julia in Comp Neurosci.

Get in touch if interested: http://www.uantwerpen.be/michele-giugliano and sorry for the spam.

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You might want to get in touch with Alex Williams. I don’t know if he’s on the Discourse, but he (used to) frequent the Gitter, and he’s active on Twitter. He’s a computational neuroscientist who’s written a few really good packages.

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Unfortunately we don’t have any neuroscientists among us, but we are a company (http://dynactionize.com) filled with Julia programmers based in Antwerpen :wink: (I’ll be flying there tomorrow).

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Tnx!!!
Maybe I will send my CV to you as soon as I get confident with PyPlot :wink:
MG

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Also https://github.com/jmxpearson. He presented at the last Juliacon

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our lab uses Julia a lot to reconstruct neurons. There are a few open source Julia repos.
https://github.com/seung-lab

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Oh, and how can we forget this neuroscientist?

https://github.com/timholy

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Robert Luke has done quite a bit of work on his EEG package. It also looks like he’s based in Belgium.

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Thinking about getting more of a Julia Neuroscience community built-up too. Check out https://github.com/JuliaNeuro!

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our lab used Julia a lot:
https://github.com/seung-lab
http://seunglab.org/

Basically, we do 3D neuron reconstruction based on Electronic Microscopy images.

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We are also using Julia for neuroscience. We use it for extracting neural signals from multi-electrode arrays to perform some signal processing, spike sorting etc etc. I’m keen to get in touch with others who are also using Julia for neuroscience.

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Do you work in vivo or in vitro? I am starting to move from MATLAB to Julia for all our lab activities (simulations, data acquisition, and data analysis - patch clamp and extracellular recordings).

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We do in vivo work, multielectrode array recordings using Intan, which we import than do our signal processing and analysis all in Julia. We use PyCall to use a python peak finding function which is very handy. The great thing with Julia is that if you can find a python function you can use it.

We don’t use Julia for data acquisition, if you can get that working I’d be keen to find out more. I am completely unfamiliar with Julia’s capacity to connect with hardware, I haven’t explored that yet.

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I discovered (but not yet studied) this GitHub repository from the people at Janelia: https://github.com/JaneliaSciComp/NIDAQ.jl

It might be promising…

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There is now a #neuro thread on slack if you’re interested.

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I have joined it, thank you!

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Using Julia for neuroscience data acquisition over here at Karolinska (mostly imaging and ephys in slices atm) ccall makes working with NI boards, cameras, and other hardware a breeze :smiley: Seriously no idea why more neuroscientists aren’t keen on Julia…

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Because Matlab is so deeply ingrained in them.

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I also use Julia to process in-vivo neural data, from extracting raw data from our data acquisition system, to spike sorting, to single cell and population level analysis.

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I love that I’m finding more neuroscientists here! I really want a Neuro focused github organization. I’m working on a NeuroCore.jl package that will be a hodge-podge of neuroimaging, neuroanatomy, neural graph communities, and plotting tools for them. It will likely be a very basic for traits and interface syntax, not algorithms.