Pena Lab Computational Neuroscience Lab

Workshops

Featured upcoming workshop

School for Computational Applications in Neuroscience 2026

SCAN 2026

A focused training event at Florida Atlantic University bringing together computational neuroscience, connectomics, protein structure, artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, simulation, and emerging computational methods for neuroscience research.

Florida Atlantic University
Dates May 14–15, 2026

About SCAN

The School for Computational Applications in Neuroscience is designed as an immersive short school for students and researchers interested in modern computational approaches to neuroscience. The program highlights practical methods, active research directions, and community-building around computational neuroscience at FAU.

Workshop series

This page will grow into a home for Pena Lab workshops offered locally and around the world. SCAN is the first featured event in a broader effort to share computational neuroscience tools, training, and scientific exchange with diverse research communities.

SCAN Program Schedule

Thursday, May 14 Workshop start and computational neuroscience methods
  1. Opening Remarks and Workshop Start Dr. Rodrigo Pena, Introduction to SCAN
  2. Dr. Yue Liu Recurrent Neural Networks
  3. Dr. Cristina Ferrer Protein Structures
  4. Lunch Break
  5. Dr. Juan Lopez Methods for Connectomic Dataset Access
  6. Dr. Cesar Ceballos Connectomic Data Analysis
  7. Ty Roachford Large-scale Connectomic Simulations
  8. Lindsey Knowles Quantum Computing Introduction and Applications
  9. Dinner @ TBD
Friday, May 15 AI, bioinformatics, conclusion, and NeuroCollective
  1. Dhruvum Bajpai AI methods for Data Analysis
  2. Belle Krubitski Bioinformatics: Applications
  3. Workshop Conclusion
  4. Lunch & NeuroCollective Start SCAN continues into The NeuroCollective Symposium, FAU Jupiter's tri-institute neuroscience event highlighting trainee research, networking, and discovery across the local biomedical research community.