Connectivity

The neuroscience training that exists elsewhere, what each one covers that this site does not, and the funding routes that pay for getting there.

Nobody should learn connectomics only from one site. This page is the map of what else is out there: 12 programmes, platforms and funding routes, each with a plain statement of what it covers that NeuroTrailblazers does not.

Where this page stops. Three neighbouring pages already cover ground that is easy to confuse with this one, and none of them is duplicated here:

• How we fit BRAIN CONNECTS — the programme structure this site is funded inside, and the division of labour with IC3 and APEX.
• Major Initiatives — the research consortia that built the field, not training.
• Global Outreach & Citizen Science — EyeWire, crowdsourced mapping, and public participation.

This page is only about training you can go and do, and what funds it.

How to choose between these

The honest ranking depends on what you have already finished here.

If you have…	Go to
Finished the fly material and want more of it	FlyWire Academy — same data, more practice
Finished the technical units and want modelling depth	Neuromatch Academy
Finished the units and want bench or circuit-physiology skill	CAJAL, MBL or CSHL
To teach this material to undergraduates	The Allen Institute educators’ workshop, then compare with the session kits
No budget and no application window	INCF TrainingSpace and SfN Neuronline
A plan but no money	The funding section below

Training built on connectome data

The closest neighbours to this site: programmes that teach with the same datasets NeuroTrailblazers teaches with. If you want more practice on MICrONS or FlyWire specifically, start here rather than with a general neuroscience course.

Intensive schools and summer courses

Residential or cohort-based courses in computational and experimental neuroscience. These are where a learner who has finished the technical units goes for bench or modelling depth this site cannot give online.

Open platforms and professional development

Free or low-cost material you can work through without an application, and the professional-skills training the societies run.

Routes that pay for the next step

Training is only reachable if something funds it. These are the standing NIH mechanisms most relevant to someone moving into connectomics. Specific funding opportunity announcements open and expire on their own schedule - always confirm a mechanism is currently active before building a plan on it.

What this page does not cover

• Conferences and meetings. SfN, COSYNE and OHBM matter for dissemination, but a list of annual meetings goes stale faster than it is useful and every society publishes its own calendar.
• Dates and deadlines. Deliberately absent from _data/connectivity.yml. Each entry says when to look; the link says the rest.
• Programmes we have not checked. Every entry above was verified against the provider’s own site on the date shown on its card. Anything we could not confirm is not listed.
• Any judgement of quality. These are the programmes a connectomics learner is most likely to need. Being listed is not a recommendation over something absent.

Suggest an addition

If you run relevant training, or know of something that belongs here, open an issue on the repository or email wgr@jhu.edu. Include a link to the provider’s own page describing it — that is what gets checked before anything is added.