All NWB conversions

Paul Dudchenko

University of Stirling

Project started January 2026

Developed NWB conversion pipelines and analysis workflows for the Dudchenko lab's rodent navigation experiments studying age-dependent alterations in the head-direction signal in Fmr1-/y rats, a model of Fragile X Syndrome, as part of a Simons Foundation SFARI ARC project. The conversion standardized OpenEphys extracellular electrophysiology, spiking units, Bonsai behavioral tracking, sleep-state classification from processed LFP, video, and histology from juvenile and adult rats. The pipeline conformed the data to NWB best practices and made it fully Spyglass compatible, leveraged NeuroConv's backend configuration for state-of-the-art chunking and compression, and published the full dataset to the DANDI Archive along with example notebooks and documentation for the Autism Rat Models Consortium and broader neuroscience community.

Data and methods
Ratelectrophysiologybehavioral trackingvideospatial navigationautism
Conversion code
woodcode woodsort
Published datasets
Funded under
SFARI ARC Spyglass
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Adrien Peyrache

McGill University

Converting the Peyrache lab's raw Miniscope calcium imaging data to NWB and linking it to the processed outputs already published on DANDI, alongside development of an NWB extension for sleep data. The extension formalizes sleep stage annotations, staging method metadata, and sub-stage descriptors, with the lab's sleep recordings converted as a reference implementation.

Alfredo Gonzalez-Sulser

University of Edinburgh

Developing NWB conversion tools for the Gonzalez-Sulser lab's chronic EEG recordings across multiple SFARI rat lines, studying circadian rhythms, sleep-wake cycles, and seizure activity. The pipeline standardizes multi-day wireless TainiTec recordings alongside the lab's automated sleep state classifications and seizure timestamps, and adapts the resulting files for ingestion into a Spyglass pipeline.

Bence Olveczky

Harvard University

Developing NWB conversion tools for the Olveczky lab's behavioral and electrophysiological datasets studying learned and natural behaviors. The pipeline standardizes 256-channel flexible probe and Neuropixels recordings, continuous tetrode data, six-camera video with sDANNCE pose estimation, and trial structure, and adapts the resulting files for ingestion into a Spyglass pipeline.

Marino Pagan

University of Edinburgh

Developing NWB conversion tools for the Pagan lab's research on flexible decision-making in SFARI Autism Rat Models. The pipeline standardizes behavioral data from the Bcontrol system, behavioral video recordings, and future electrophysiological data from SpikeGadgets. These tools facilitate data sharing within the lab and publication on the DANDI Archive, while ensuring compatibility with Spyglass pipelines for reliable analysis.