<div dir="ltr"><div><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif">Hello, </p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif">We are happy to announce our next workshop – <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">From keypoints to behavior. Hands-on pose estimation and behavior analysis!</span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif">This practical workshop will guide you step by step through the process of pose estimation and unsupervised behavior analysis, focusing on two powerful tools: <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">DeepLabCut and Keypoint-MoSeq</span>. Many researchers use pose estimation tools but struggle to get consistent, high-quality results or move beyond tracking into real behavioral insights. This workshop is designed to close that gap.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif">The workshop is intended for young researchers, including Master’s and PhD students, as well as postdocs and established scientists who want to sharpen their practical understanding of state-of-the-art behavioral analysis tools.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif">Prior experience with experimental data and a basic understanding of Python are recommended, but not strictly required—motivated participants with a willingness to learn are very welcome.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">What will you learn?</span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif">By the end of this course, you will be able to:</p><ul class="gmail-wp-block-list" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.5em 1.25em;padding:0px;list-style-position:outside;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><li style="box-sizing:inherit">Confidently navigate the <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">DeepLabCut </span>workflow (via GUI and code)</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit">Annotate data properly, select the right model backbone, train your model, and evaluate its performance</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit">Analyze your videos and tune tracking in multi-animal projects</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit">Preprocess and structure your data for advanced behavioral analysis</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit">Implement <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">Keypoint-MoSeq</span> to discover and quantify behavioral motifs from DLC-derived keypoints</li></ul><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif">We encourage participants to bring video recordings from their own experiments—these can be used during practical sessions to kickstart your own analysis projects.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">When and Where?</span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif">The workshop will happen over 4 days from October 14th to 17th 2025 in <a href="https://maps.app.goo.gl/4JsWhve3nPdKRZfr7" style="color:rgb(8,139,136);box-sizing:inherit;background-color:transparent"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology – University of Coimbra in Cantanhede, Portugal.</span></a></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">Tutors</span></p><ul class="gmail-wp-block-list" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.5em 1.25em;padding:0px;list-style-position:outside;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><li style="box-sizing:inherit">Konrad Danielewski (data scientist, Nencki Institute)</li><li style="box-sizing:inherit">Flavia Riccardi (researcher, CNC-UC)</li></ul><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">Registration</span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif">The course is limited to 16 participants.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">For participants residing locally and not needing hotel accommodation:</span></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px 0px 1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Open Sans",sans-serif">Registration fee is <span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">150€</span> and it includes: </p><ul class="gmail-wp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Mateusz Kostecki</pre><pre cols="72" style="white-space:pre-wrap;color:rgb(34,34,34)">PhD Student</pre><pre cols="72"><font color="#222222"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Knapska Laboratory
Nencki Institute
02-093 Warsaw, Pasteura 3, Poland</span></font></pre><pre cols="72"><font color="#222222"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">
<a href="https://twitter.com/mtkostecki" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/mtkostecki</a></span></font></pre><pre cols="72"><a href="https://evolvingbehavior.blog/" target="_blank">https://evolvingbehavior.blog/</a></pre></div></div></div>