Open Brain Institute · Academy
University courses where every exercise is a live simulation: build models of ion channels, neurons and circuits in Jupyter notebooks on the Open Brain Platform, and get your grade back in Moodle.
From a single ion channel to the whole brain.
How does a patch of membrane become a neuron that fires? Build intuition from the passive membrane to the Hodgkin–Huxley action potential, simulating every step in NEURON on the...
From patch-clamp recordings to Hodgkin–Huxley and Markov models: fit ion channel kinetics to data and place them in neuron models.
Reconstruct, analyse and simulate detailed neurons: morphologies, electrical types, e-model optimisation and ME-model validation.
How neurons talk: synaptic transmission, short-term dynamics and long-term plasticity, studied with paired recordings and synaptome simulations.
Build, simulate and analyse a data-driven microcircuit of the somatosensory cortex: connectivity, spontaneous activity and responses to stimuli.
Neurons don't work alone: astrocytes, blood vessels and metabolism, and how energy supply shapes neural activity.
Navigate brain atlases, from cell densities to brain regions, and scale models up to the whole mouse brain.
Classify cell types, predict morphologies and analyse large simulation datasets with modern machine learning, in notebooks on the Open Brain Platform.
Pick an exercise in your Moodle course. You are signed in to the Open Brain Platform automatically.
A Jupyter notebook opens in your own virtual lab, with real models and data from the platform.
Submit your answers from the notebook. Each question is graded and lands in the Moodle gradebook.