Professional Development Workshop at the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting

Can I Reuse Public Data for a Grant Proposal? Exploiting Online Archives of Neuroscience Data for Non-Data Scientists

November 14, 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Save the date: at Neuroscience 2026 in Washington, D.C., we're hosting a Professional Development Workshop on a question many bench scientists wrestle with — can existing public data support a new grant proposal?

"Can I Reuse Public Data for a Grant Proposal? Exploiting Online Archives of Neuroscience Data for Non-Data Scientists" will introduce AI-assisted tools and platforms from SPARC, the BRAIN Initiative, and HEAL that let researchers without deep coding backgrounds mine existing datasets for preliminary results, experimental planning, and new discoveries.

_Speakers:

Benjamin Dichter, PhD,

Founder of CatalystNeuro

Suparna Goswami, PhD,

Senior Research Scientist at the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI)

Mike Halle, PhD

Instructor in Radiology at Massachusetts General Hospital

Maryann Martone, PhD

Professor Emerita of Neuroscience at UC San Diego

Joost Wagenaar, PhD

Assistant Professor of Informatics in Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania

Abstract:

Presenting Research at Neuroscience 2026?

If your peripheral nervous system abstract is accepted by SfN, let us know! We would love to see it. Send to info@SPARC.science!

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