FAU Hosts School for Computational Applications in Neuroscience Training Workshop

Florida Atlantic University recently hosted the School for Computational Applications in Neuroscience (SCAN) at the Stiles-Nicholson Brain Institute (SNBI) on the Jupiter campus.

SCAN is an immersive two-day workshop for students and researchers interested in modern computational approaches to neuroscience. This year’s program was organized by Rodrigo Pena, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, and taught by researchers and graduate trainees from FAU. The program offered a unique opportunity to learn about and practice leading-edge research techniques in computational neuroscience, protein structure, artificial intelligence, quantum computing, bioinformatics and more, utilizing the technology available through the Computational Neuroscience lab at SNBI.

“By bringing SCAN to FAU, we were able to combine education and community building around computational neuroscience,” Pena said. “This workshop is part of a broad effort to share tools, training and scientific exchange with research communities beyond our own university. We hope to bring more workshops and conferences like this to FAU.”

Students from five Florida universities participated, with the greatest representation from Florida Atlantic and Florida State University. This is the second year of the SCAN program, which was first organized by Pena and his lab at Florida State’s CompNeuroSociety in summer 2025.