Alexander Woodward
RIKEN CBS
Keynote lecture
Brain Atlasing and Databasing in the Brain/MINDS Project
Japan’s Brain/MINDS project is a ten-year project that started in 2014 with a main goal to map the structure and function of the common marmoset brain (Callithrix jacchus) and connect this to human brain disease. (more…)
Andrzej Cichocki
Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow
and Artificial Intelligence project, Riken
Plenary lecture
Machine learning and tensor networks and their applications, in brain computer interface, neurofeedback and recognition of human emotions
Tensor decomposition (TD) and their generalizations tensor networks (TNs) are promising, and emerging tools in Machine Learning (ML), Big Data Analysis (BDA) and Deep Learning (DL). (more…)
Ariel Rokem
University of Washington
Keynote lecture
Training in the era of brain observatories: data science education and collaboration
Over the course of the last decade, neuroscience has gained access to massive new datasets through concerted data collection and data sharing efforts. While this data presents tremendous opportunities to unlock the mysteries of the brain, it also presents new challenges that arise from the difficulties that researchers encounter when they attempt to manage, store, analyze and understand it. (more…)
Carole Goble
University of Manchester
Plenary lecture
FAIRy stories: tales from building the FAIR Research Commons
Findable Accessable Interoperable Reusable. The “FAIR Principles” for research data, software, computational workflows, scripts, or any kind of Research Object is a mantra; a method; a meme; a myth; a mystery. For the past 15 years I have been working on FAIR in a range of projects and initiatives in the Life Sciences as we try to build the FAIR Research Commons. (more…)
Daniel Margulies
CNRS
Keynote lecture
Converging spaces of the human connectome
The structure and connectivity of the cerebral cortex describe distinct spaces of cortical organization. However, recent approaches for low-dimensional representation of the connectome reveal a principal axis that converges with cortical geometry, as well as various other features of cortical specialization.
Frances Skinner
University of Toronto
Plenary lecture
Theta rhythms in the hippocampus – being clear and open
Oscillatory activities are a ubiquitous feature of brain recordings and likely form part of the neural code. The multi-scale nature of brain dynamics makes it extremely challenging to obtain a cellular-based understanding of these activities. (more…)
Henry Kennedy
INSERM
Plenary lecture
Specifics of the primate connectome
Increasingly the mouse is being investigated as a model system in neuroscience. However, comparisons of the primate and rodent connectome reveals important differences suggesting that the mouse might have limited utility for understanding the human brain.
Jan Bjaalie
University of Oslo
Keynote lecture
A user-driven data sharing and data management infrastructure for neuroscience
The EU Human Brain Project has established a large-scale data sharing and data management infrastructure, providing the backbone for data distribution, sharing and searching, through the publicly accessible HBP Knowledge Graph Search. (more…)
Jaroslaw Zygierewicz
University of Warsaw
Keynote lecture
Training in neuroinformatics from the bachelor’s level at FUW
Traditionally people working in neuroinformatics have their educational background in various fields, such as biology, physics, informatics, math. In 2008 at the Faculty of Physics University of Warsaw we started a curriculum that trains students in a multidisciplinary way, starting from the undergraduate level. (more…)
Kirstie Whitaker
University of Cambridge
Keynote lecture
10 simple rules for running an open and inclusive projects online
There are many reasons why open source projects have difficulty attracting contributors. Current academic incentive structures are some of the strongest. (more…)
Maureen Clerc
Inria
Keynote lecture
Towards personalized brain-computer interfaces
In the early days of Brain-Computer Interfaces, the same processing was universally applied, leading to categorize some users as BCI-illiterate if they obtained poor performance. It is now acknowledged that one-size-fits-all BCI are not appropriate, and that on the contrary, they must be adapted to the user. (more…)
Michael Hawrylycz
Allen Institute for Brain Science
Keynote lecture
Community resources for single cell and cell type data in the brain
The goal of the NIH’s BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network (BICCN) project is to build comprehensive three-dimensional common reference brain cell atlases that integrate molecular, anatomical, and functional data describing cell types in mouse, human, and non-human primate brains. (more…)
Naomi Penfold
ASAPbio (Accelerating Science and Publication in Biology)
Keynote lecture
Preprinting for neuroinformatics: where are we at?
Preprints in biology have gained incredible momentum over the last few years, with over 2,000 now being posted each month. But, in the context of all published papers, these numbers are still tiny: the rate of preprint posting is <3% of the research that is indexed by PubMed. (more…)
Rafal Bogacz
University of Oxford
Keynote lecture
Computational models of decision making: a bridge between behavioural data and neurobiology
Over the last 2 decades, computational models played an important role in understanding the neural bases of decision making. They described the key computations occurring during a choice process, and helped identify how the observed behaviour arises from the underlying neurobiology. (more…)
Upinder Bhalla
National Centre for Biological Sciences
Keynote lecture
SANKET: The Signaling and Neurophysiology Knowledge-resource for Experiments and Theory
Complex multiscale signaling underlies many aspects of neural function in health and disease. The SANKET consortium (Sanket means Signal in Sanskrit) brings together researchers who address neural function at multiple scales. SANKET links together key tools, data resources, a portal, and several consortium projects. The tools include MOOSE for simulations, FINDSIM for structuring experiment definitions, and HOSS to perform optimization.
William Grisham
UCLA
Keynote lecture
Preparing students and a workforce for the big data tsunami: summary of recommendations from the iNEURO project workshop
The iNeuro Workshop convened stakeholders from a variety of disciplines and perspectives to determine what the workforce of the future will look like in Neuroinformatics and what curricula would prepare them for their roles. (more…)
