About

The VBL develops tools for experimenting with and exploring brains.

Please see the individual projects for installation instructions and documentation. You can find all our code on Github.

Team

Core Developers

Dan

Daniel Birman, PhD

Washington Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow

Dan maintains the core tools in the VBL.

Kenneth

Kenneth Yang

Undergraduate Researcher (Mary Gates Scholar, UW 2025)

Kenneth maintains ephys-link and the Pinpoint automation stack.


Collaborators

Mayo Faulkner

Mayo Faulkner, PhD

UX Engineer - IBL

Cyrille Rossant

Cyrille Rossant, PhD

Scientific Programmer - IBL

Yoni Browning

Yoni Browning, PhD

Scientist - Allen Institute


Past Developers

Kai Nylund

Kai Nylund

Undergraduate Researcher

Qiqi Liang

Qiqi Liang

Undergraduate Researcher

Selina Li

Selina Li

Undergraduate Researcher

Mayo Faulkner

Jasmine Schoch

Undergraduate Researcher


Funding

The VBL is funded indirectly by generous grants from the Washington Research Foundation, National Science Foundation, Simons Collaboration for the Global Brain, and the Wellcome Trust.