News and Announcements¶
PETPrep sprint Aug 18-19, 2025¶
Several researchers across Europe and North America convened online to drive forward the development of PETPrep. Efforts focused on enhancing documentation and continuous integration infrastructure, automating packaging and release workflows, and setting up containerized environments. This work allowed us to merge 23 pull requests and to open another 9, and to publish the first alpha release to PyPI.
NSC election result Aug 5, 2025¶
Following our recent call to extend the NiPreps Steering Committee (NSC) from three to five members, we are pleased to announce that Eilidh MacNicol and Guiomar Niso have been appointed to occupy the new NSC seats.
Eilidh has played a key role in the development of the fMRIPrep extension to rodent data, and plans for generalizing the NiPreps tools to non-human data.
Guiomar has been an active contributor to the NiPreps ecosystem through repeated participation in our hackathons and community discussions. Notably, her plans to support the extension of NiPreps tools toward EEG and MEG aligns with our long-term vision for modality convergence.
We are also sensitive to the fact that the original NSC consisted of three male members, and are pleased that this appointment contributes to building a more sex-balanced leadership team.
We are deeply grateful to all nominees for their commitment and thoughtful applications. In particular, we want to recognize Steven Meisler and Jon Haitz Legarreta for their commitment and instrumental contributions to the NiPreps tools.
NSC call for new seat election May 21, 2025¶
With the growth of the NiPreps community, the current NSC has considered that increasing the number of seats from 3 to 5 is necessary. Thus, a call for nominations was made through this announcement.
NiFreeze receives best poster award at the ISMRM 2025 Diffusion Study Group meeting May 16, 2025¶
The NiFreeze abstract submitted to the ISMRM 2025 Annual Meeting was among the featured abstracts at the ISMRM 2025 Diffusion Study Group meeting. It received the best poster award in the Methods category.
NiPreps hackathon 2025 @ McGovern Institute for Brain Research May 5, 2025¶
Building on the success of the 2024, the NiPreppers gathered again virtually and in-person at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research in Cambridge (MA, USA) to hold another 3-day hackathon.
NiPost and fMRI infant/rodent extensions were among the projects that assembled most contributors.
NiPreps hackathon 2024 @ McGovern Institute for Brain Research May 20, 2024¶
The NiPreps community gathered both virtually and in-person at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research in Cambridge (MA, USA) to hold a 3-day hackathon.
Several NiPreps projects received relevant improvements and bug fixes, and extensive discussions about the NiTransforms component were held during the event.
Register for the NiPreps hackathon with the OHBM'23 Brainhack! Jun 12, 2023¶
We are thrilled to announce that the NiPreps Hackathon's second edition will be part of the upcoming OHBM'23 Brainhack (July 19-21, Maison Notman House, Montreal, Canada).
Registration To join us for this incredible event and work on NiPreps-related projects, please fill in our registration form.
Please remember to also register on the official webpage of the OHBM Brainhack. You will find all the necessary information, event schedule, and location details on Brainhack's website.
Approach and projects We will advance (online) some projects as much as possible before the BrainHack. We are putting together a list of potential projects at https://github.com/orgs/nipreps/projects/8. Please feel free to let us know your ideas and voice your questions. Projects can start at any moment (even at the venue in Montreal) to have the flexibility to accommodate all ideas.
Those projects with preliminary work will have project leaders who will organize meetings, coordinate a roadmap and help carry out the necessary tasks.
See you in Montreal!
NiPreps Roundups Feb 22, 2023¶
We resumed the bi-monthly NiPreps Roundups with a first meeting on February 22, 2023.