Open Lab Online is an international, community-driven initiative that extends the Open Lab model into an online format. Building on the experience of the Nencki Open Lab and the broader Open Lab network, we aim to make practical training in open-source tools for neuroscience more accessible across institutions and countries.
Through a range of online activities – including hands-on workshops, seminars, and courses – Open Lab Online focuses on providing training in key technical areas, from designing behavioural experiments and setups, through experimental control, synchronisation, to data analysis, visualisation and presentation. The initiative brings together researchers with diverse expertise to share tools, methods, and best practices in a collaborative environment.
By connecting communities and promoting the exchange of technical knowledge, Open Lab Online supports more open, reproducible, accessible and technically empowered neuroscience.
Please find upcoming workshops below!
Open Lab Online Team
Nada el Mahmoudi is a postdoctoral researcher in neuroscience. She studies how behavior relates to neuronal activity, with a special interest in spatial cognition across species such as rats and marmosets. She believes in open science as a way to make scientific knowledge, tools, and resources accessible to as many people as possible. Outside the lab, she loves music and shares her home with a very big cat named Oréo.
Sabrina Du is an Honours Neuroscience, Computer Science, and Mathematics student at McGill University and Mila. She works on artificial and biological memory systems, with a particular interest in how microscopic neural properties and macroscale network dynamics interact to shape population-level behavior. She is currently building curiosity-driven RL agents to model rat exploratory behaviour and hippocampal activity, and developing Active-Vision Foundation Models to bring efficient, biologically plausible computational visual perception to life.