# Any (Computational) Neuroscientist Julia user here?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-computational-neuroscientist-julia-user-here/1827
**Category:** Community
**Tags:** proposal, announcement
**Created:** [February 1, 2017, 7:34pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-computational-neuroscientist-julia-user-here/1827 "2017-02-01T19:34:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@mgiugliano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mgiugliano)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2017, 7:34pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-computational-neuroscientist-julia-user-here/1827/1 "2017-02-01T19:34:21Z")
I am the local organiser of this year annual conference of the Organisation for Computational Neuroscience - CNS2017 ([CNS 2017](http://www.cnsorg.org/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](http://www.uantwerpen.be/michele-giugliano) and sorry for the spam.
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### Author:  [@ChrisRackauckas](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ChrisRackauckas)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2017, 7:45pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-computational-neuroscientist-julia-user-here/1827/2 "2017-02-01T19:45:43Z")
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.
> **[Alex Williams](http://alexhwilliams.info/)**
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> This is my (Alex Williams) research webpage. I'm a PhD student interested in neuroscience, molecular biology, epigenetics, statistics, optimization, and more.
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### Author:  [@ScottPJones](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ScottPJones)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2017, 10:04pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-computational-neuroscientist-julia-user-here/1827/3 "2017-02-01T22:04:55Z")
Unfortunately we don’t have any neuroscientists among us, but we are a company ([http://dynactionize.com](http://dynactionize.com)) filled with Julia programmers based in Antwerpen 😉 (I’ll be flying there tomorrow).
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### Author:  [@mgiugliano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mgiugliano)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2017, 10:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-computational-neuroscientist-julia-user-here/1827/4 "2017-02-01T22:10:57Z")
Tnx!!!
Maybe I will send my CV to you as soon as I get confident with PyPlot 😉
MG
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### Author:  [@cstjean](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cstjean)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2017, 12:10am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-computational-neuroscientist-julia-user-here/1827/5 "2017-02-02T00:10:57Z")
Also [https://github.com/jmxpearson](https://github.com/jmxpearson). He [presented](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfjRjljXYXk) at the last Juliacon
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### Author:  [@jwu](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jwu)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2017, 4:49am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-computational-neuroscientist-julia-user-here/1827/6 "2017-02-02T04:49:21Z")
our lab uses Julia a lot to reconstruct neurons. There are a few open source Julia repos.
[https://github.com/seung-lab](https://github.com/seung-lab)
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### Author:  [@ChrisRackauckas](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ChrisRackauckas)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2017, 4:59am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-computational-neuroscientist-julia-user-here/1827/7 "2017-02-02T04:59:43Z")
Oh, and how can we forget this neuroscientist?
[https://github.com/timholy](https://github.com/timholy)
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### Author:  [@mbauman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mbauman)
#### Post date: [February 2, 2017, 5:35am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-computational-neuroscientist-julia-user-here/1827/8 "2017-02-02T05:35:46Z")
Robert Luke has done quite a bit of work on his [EEG](https://github.com/codles/EEG.jl) package. It also looks like he’s based in Belgium.
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### Author:  [@alexmorley](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/alexmorley)
#### Post date: [August 11, 2017, 3:07pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-computational-neuroscientist-julia-user-here/1827/9 "2017-08-11T15:07:58Z")
Thinking about getting more of a Julia Neuroscience community built-up too. Check out [https://github.com/JuliaNeuro](https://github.com/JuliaNeuro)!
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### Author:  [@jwu](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jwu)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2017, 2:16pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-computational-neuroscientist-julia-user-here/1827/10 "2017-08-22T14:16:47Z")
our lab used Julia a lot:
[https://github.com/seung-lab](https://github.com/seung-lab)
[http://seunglab.org/](http://seunglab.org/)
Basically, we do 3D neuron reconstruction based on Electronic Microscopy images.
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### Author:  [@bionicinnovations](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/bionicinnovations)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2019, 2:00am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-computational-neuroscientist-julia-user-here/1827/11 "2019-09-11T02:00:30Z")
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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### Author:  [@mgiugliano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mgiugliano)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2019, 8:33am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-computational-neuroscientist-julia-user-here/1827/12 "2019-09-11T08:33:11Z")
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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### Author:  [@bionicinnovations](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/bionicinnovations)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2019, 1:00am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-computational-neuroscientist-julia-user-here/1827/13 "2019-09-14T01:00:28Z")
> [@mgiugliano](#):
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> am starting to move from MATLAB to Julia for
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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### Author:  [@mgiugliano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mgiugliano)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2019, 9:19am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-computational-neuroscientist-julia-user-here/1827/14 "2019-09-14T09:19:43Z")
I discovered (but not yet studied) this GitHub repository from the people at Janelia: [https://github.com/JaneliaSciComp/NIDAQ.jl](https://github.com/JaneliaSciComp/NIDAQ.jl)
It might be promising…
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### Author:  [@Zach\_Christensen](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Zach_Christensen)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2019, 11:13am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-computational-neuroscientist-julia-user-here/1827/15 "2019-09-14T11:13:31Z")
There is now a #neuro thread on slack if you’re interested.
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### Author:  [@mgiugliano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mgiugliano)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2019, 11:41am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-computational-neuroscientist-julia-user-here/1827/16 "2019-09-14T11:41:58Z")
I have joined it, thank you!
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### Author:  [@wsphillips](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/wsphillips)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2019, 6:34pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-computational-neuroscientist-julia-user-here/1827/17 "2019-09-14T18:34:36Z")
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 😃 Seriously no idea why more neuroscientists aren’t keen on Julia…
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### Author:  [@Zach\_Christensen](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Zach_Christensen)
#### Post date: [September 14, 2019, 7:19pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-computational-neuroscientist-julia-user-here/1827/18 "2019-09-14T19:19:49Z")
Because Matlab is so deeply ingrained in them.
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### Author:  [@grero](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/grero)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2019, 2:06am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-computational-neuroscientist-julia-user-here/1827/19 "2019-09-16T02:06:36Z")
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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### Author:  [@Zach\_Christensen](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Zach_Christensen)
#### Post date: [September 16, 2019, 2:59am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/any-computational-neuroscientist-julia-user-here/1827/20 "2019-09-16T02:59:59Z")
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.
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