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
Software Engineer at the Allen Institute for Neural Dynamics
Dan maintains the core tools in the VBL, Pinpoint, Urchin, and BrainAtlas for Unity.
Undergraduate Researcher (Washington Research Foundation Fellow, Mary Gates Scholar, UW CS 2025)
Kenneth maintains Ephys Link and the Pinpoint automation stack.
Collaborators
![Mayo Faulkner](../_static/people/mayo.jpg)
Mayo Faulkner, PhD
UX Engineer - IBL
![Cyrille Rossant](../_static/people/cyrille.jpg)
Cyrille Rossant, PhD
Scientific Programmer - IBL
![Yoni Browning](../_static/people/yoni.jpg)
Yoni Browning, PhD
Scientist - Allen Institute
Past Developers
![Kai Nylund](../_static/people/kai.jpg)
Kai Nylund
Undergraduate Researcher
![Qiqi Liang](../_static/people/qiqi.jpg)
Qiqi Liang
Undergraduate Researcher
![Selina Li](../_static/people/selina.png)
Selina Li
Undergraduate Researcher
![Mayo Faulkner](../_static/people/jasmine.jpg)
Jasmine Schoch
Undergraduate Researcher
Funding
The VBL is funded indirectly by the Washington Research Foundation, National Science Foundation, Simons Collaboration for the Global Brain, the Wellcome Trust, and the Allen Institute.