Training School 2026: materials

Slides, notebooks and hands-on guides from the Working Group 3 Training School, held in Madrid and online from 30 September to 2 October 2026. Each presenter keeps their materials in a public repository under the CC BY 4.0 licence, and every release of a repository is archived on Zenodo with a DOI, so the materials can be reused and cited.

Sessions marked Materials to come are linked here as soon as their presenters share them.

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Oscar Esteban

Block 1: standards, data, environments

Mélanie Garcia

Block 2: how to read and review a paper, and the Journal Club

Guiomar Niso

Block 3: EEG/MEG preprocessing

Yasser Alemán-Gómez

Blocks 3 and 4: structural and diffusion MRI

Lea Waller

Block 5: fMRI preprocessing and quality control

Programme and materials

Day 1 · Wednesday 30 September

Block 1 · 09:00-13:00 · Standards, data, environments

TimeSessionMaterials
09:00-09:20 Plenary WelcomeOscar Esteban Slides
09:20-09:35 Plenary INDoS and Working Group 3Oscar Esteban Slides
09:35-10:00 Plenary Introductions
10:00-10:45 Theory Standardized preprocessingOscar Esteban Slides
10:45-11:15 Theory BIDS across modalitiesOscar Esteban Slides
11:30-12:00 Practice BIDS Manager hands-onMoustafa Almanla Materials to come
12:00-12:30 Theory ContainersOscar Esteban Slides
12:30-13:00 Practice Environment bring-up

Block 2 · 14:00-18:00 · Environments, provenance, how to read a paper

TimeSessionMaterials
14:00-15:00 Theory NeurodeskSteffen Bollmann Materials to come
15:00-15:45 Theory How to read and review a neuroimaging paperMélanie Garcia Slides
16:00-17:45 Practice Journal ClubMélanie Garcia SlidesJournal Club
17:45-18:00 Plenary Day wrap and preview of Thursday

Day 2 · Thursday 1 October

Block 3 · 09:00-13:00 · PET, EEG/MEG and structural MRI

TimeSessionMaterials
09:00-09:45 Theory PET: acquisition, preprocessing and PET-BIDSMartin Nørgaard Materials to come
09:45-10:30 Theory EEG/MEG preprocessingGuiomar Niso Materials to come
10:30-11:20 Practice EEG/MEG hands-on in NeurodeskGuiomar Niso Materials to come
11:35-12:05 Theory Structural MRI: FreeSurfer and VBMYasser Alemán-Gómez Slides (PDF)
12:05-13:00 Practice Structural MRI hands-onYasser Alemán-Gómez Setup guideNotebook

Block 4 · 14:00-18:00 · Diffusion MRI

TimeSessionMaterials
14:00-15:00 Theory Diffusion MRIYasser Alemán-Gómez Slides (PDF)
15:00-17:45 Practice Diffusion hands-onYasser Alemán-Gómez Notebook
17:45-18:00 Plenary Day wrap, and what to bring to Friday

Day 3 · Friday 2 October

Block 5 · 09:00-13:00 · Functional MRI: did it work?

TimeSessionMaterials
09:00-10:15 Theory fMRI preprocessing with fMRIPrepLea Waller SlidesVisualization notebooks
10:15-10:45 Practice Execution forensicsLea Waller SlidesNotebook
11:00-12:40 Practice QA/QC hands-onLea Waller SlidesQC appBrain-age notebook
12:40-13:00 Plenary Introduction to the afternoon's personal projects

Block 6 · 14:00-18:00 · Personal projects and closing

TimeSessionMaterials
14:00-14:20 Plenary Project pitches, roulette style
14:20-16:35 Practice Project work
16:35-17:25 Practice Project results presentation
17:25-18:00 Plenary Concluding remarks

This publication is based upon work from COST Action CA24161 (INDoS), supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology).