Neuroscience resources available online

FENS is compiling a list of online resources intended to help the neuroscience community cope with the current situation. These initiatives can include educational materials, online events, platforms and other tools useful in these difficult times. They are listed below.

We are calling our community to help us collect as many useful resources as possible:

for an upcoming event, please add it directly to the FENS calendar, by selecting ‘Virtual event’. For “city”, please enter ‘n.a’ and for “country”, please fill in with the organiser’s country. Add your event here.

for any other resources, please send us an email with the subject “Online neuroscience resources” and we will add it to this list.

Upcoming events & webinars

• Forupcoming virtual events, please check the FENS Calendar for “virtual meetings” 

• Webinar “Toward Novel Therapies in Psychiatry: Zooming into Brain-Periphery, Dysfunction, and Crosstalk” (organised with the support of FENS)
• Traumatic Brain Injury Online Seminar Series (3x/week)
• Wednesdays: CamBRAIN, the Cambridge Neuroscience Society are organising regular events, open to all, including a Virtual Journal Club 
• Alzheimer Afternoons Seminar Series Info – a series of webinars organised by the Johnson Lab (University of Kentucky) every Tuesdays and Thursdays
• “100 years of Microglia”, a symposium organised by Rosa C. Paolicelli (Univ. of Lausanne), Amanda Sierra (Achucarro Basque Centre for Neuroscience) and Helmut Kettenmann (Max Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine), with the support of FENS CHET
• “A Large-scale Standardized Physiological Pipeline Reveals Functional Organization of the Mouse Visual Cortex” (IEEE Brain Webinar Series – Dr Saskia de Vries (Allen Institute for Brain Science)
• Cortex Club are holding all their talks online (Oxford Neuroscience Society)
• “Early Life Stress: Impact on Brain and Psychopathology” FENS webinar (Speakers: Gal Richter-Levin, Marian Joëls, Mathias V. Schmidt, Nichola Brydges)
• “Modulating the Mind” (Judy Illes, Past President of the International Neuroethics Society)
• Parkinson Postdoc Program 3P seminar series (organised by The Cure Parkinson’s Trust, Van Andel Institute and World Parkinson Coalition)
• World Wide Neuro, a platform of neuro talks (developed by Vogels Lab, University of Oxford)

Past events available online

• AAT-ADPD 2020 Virtual Meeting
• Epigenetics in Neurobiology (Society for Neuroscience virtual conference)
• Modelling human brain development in cerebral organoids (Dr Madeline Lancaster, MRC-LMB, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
• FENS schools on the following topics:  
  • Neural stem cells, brain organoids and brain repair (Summer School 2018)
  • Neural Control of Behaviour (Winter School 2017)  
  • Chemical Neuromodulation (Summer School 2017) 
  • Memory mechanisms in humans (Winter School 2016)
  • Cellular mechanisms and networks in addiction (Summer School 2016) 
  • Neurobiology of language and communication (Winter School 2015)
  • Neurodevelopmental Psychiatric Disorders (Summer School 2014)
• Human Brain Project online courses 
• COSYNE 2020 and 2019
• Columbia Workshop on Brain Circuits
• Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, Berkeley University of California
  • Representation, Coding and Computation in Neural Circuits
  • Computational Theories of the Brain
  • The Brain and Computation
  • Targeted Discovery in Brain Data
  • The Brain and Computation Bootcamp
• Dimensionality Reduction and Population Dynamics in Neural Data (Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience)
• Computational Psychiatry Course 2018 (ETH Zurich)
• NeurIPS 2019
• Methods in Computational Neuroscience Course 2019 (University of Chicago)
• Why it’s important to be open about animal research in Portugal – video of EARA Lisbon event, supported by CARE

• “Understanding the NIH Grant Review Process” webinar ( American Society for Cell Biology)
• Postdocs Share: Moving From Europe to the United States article (FENS – Alicja Puścian, Kevin Kenna, Marina Vidaki)
• The Power of Networks webinar (FENS, ENCODS, FKNE)
• Start your lab (FKNE-CHET event, FENS Forum 2018)
• The Crisis of Reproducibility in Biology (CHET event, FENS Forum 2018)
• Online seminars to support early-career researchers to present their research online: eLife

Resources – Institutions:

• Allen Institute for Brain Science
  • Brain Atlases
  • Brain Cell Types: Overview
  • Allen Cell Explorer
• Human Protein Atlas: Human Brain Proteome
• Lieber Institute for Brain Development: BrainCloud Brain Gene Expression
• OpenMIT Courseware
  • Brain and Cognitive Sciences
  • Health Sciences and Technology
• Hippomedics: a youtube channel on basic physiology (Dr Mason, University Physiologist, University of Cambridge)

Resources – Organisations

• British Neuroscience Association written resources about the science of the brain and nervous system
• Core competencies in neuroscience graduate training (developed by FENS and SfN)
• IBRO has listed online resources for training, fabrication & communication which focus on the Maker’s movement. Custom code, building plans, 3D-print files & more to create essential laboratory equipment and implement analysis routines. 
• INCF Training Space: a training space dedicated to neuro education, with online resources, full courses and tools
• Neuronline (Society for Neuroscience – free access for all FENS members)
• The Educated Brain resources for policy and practice (University of Cambridge with the support of the Economic and Social Research Council)

• Resources – Other

  • Coursera Courses: Brain-related courses
  • FutureLearn Online Courses: Brain-related courses

• The Berlin Institute of Health has put together a very useful list of educational resources to make the best out of the corona break which includes topics such as managing data, improving peer review skills, trying out systematic reviews and meta analyses, …
• Wiley offers free access to support educators, researchers and professionals
• Advice and insights from BNA members to help the neuroscience community get through this challenging situation.
• Working remotely:
• see some suggestions for online tools here
• If you are a user of the videoconferencing tool zoom, they have put together useful training resources (demos, tutorials etc)
• How to transition your courses online
• Useful tools to help you communicate your science
• Crastina.se
• Designing your poster
• Create professional science figures: www.biorender.com

European Journal of Neuroscience (free access for all FENS members)

Neuroscience, IBRO’s society journal

JNeurosci, Society for Neuroscience’s society journal

JoVE, all videos free until 15 June 2020

Brain and Neuroscience Advances (British Neuroscience Association society open access journal)

Specialised websites and channels

• Brainfacts.org and their video channel
• Dana Foundation
• Science Communication online workshops (the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science with the support of the Alda-Kavli Learning Center)
• Brainbook: neurosurgical resource dedicated to public engagement, science communication and education
• The European Brain Council Science & Society video series: the first episode in on Parkinson’s disease.
• Neuro Transmissions a Youtube playlist “on a mission to bring neuroscience to everyone”

Resources on dedicated topics

• Outreach for young audience:
  • Neuroscience webinars for children (organised by the British Neuroscience Association BNA)
  • My Neurogeneration, neuroscience-related resources toolkit for outreach in schools developed by the BNA
  • Tools for teachers developed by the BNA
  • Neuron Safari: explore neuroscience in Minecraft (for children of about 7 upwards)
• How animals are helping in COVID-19 research –  a global overview (EARA)
• History of neuroscience
• Brain Awareness Week
• Diversity and equality in brain sciences:
  • Dealing with gender bias in neuroscience (CHET-FKNE special event, FENS Forum 2018)
  • Check out the ALBA Network, they are developing a lot of resources about equality and diversity in brain science
  • Stories of women in neuroscience, a collection of profiles schowcasing  women in neuroscience
• Neuroscience for teenagers
• Documentary “Minds Wide Open”, commissioned by Tianqiao & Chrissy Chen

• Youtube Channels of interest: Dr Ew

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Help us collect as many useful resources as possible: please send us an email with the subject “Online neuroscience resources” and we will add it to this list.