CNS*2019 Workshop in Barcelona

The workshop will introduce the VirtualBrainCloud – a EU project – that merges existing software tools and platforms to provide access to high quality clinical multi-disciplinary data in order to integrate them via computational modeling, and make them useful in clinical practice.

At the core of this project is The Virtual Brain (TVB) large-scale simulation platform. This simulation environment allows the biologically realistic modeling of network dynamics of human and mouse brain using connectome-based approaches across different brain scales: from cellular to whole-brain level. This computational modeling system is tailored to the individual, and bridges multiple scales to identify key mechanisms that predict disease progression and serves as Precision Decision Support System.

The workshop will provide insight in the interdisciplinary work and related challenges that range from computational and clinical neuroscience to infrastructure, and legal and ethical matters. Our international speakers team, from EU and Canada, comprises a balanced composition of genders and seniority levels.

The workshop will be held as a part of the CNS*2019 meeting in Barcelona, Spain.

Organizers

• Petra Ritter petra.ritter@charite.de
• Julie Courtiol julie.courtiol@charite.de

Speakers

• Hannelore Aerts, Ghent University, Belgium
• Anastasia Brovkin, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
• Julie Courtiol, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
• Sumit Madan, Fraunhofer SCAI, Germany
• Randy McIntosh, University of Toronto, Canada
• Alexander Peyser,Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
• Oleksandr Popovyh, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
• Hugo Richard, Paris-Saclay University, Paris, France
• Mariana Rissetto, University of Vienna, Austria
• Petra Ritter, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
• Gianluca Susi, Technical University of Madrid, Spain & University of Rome "Tor Vergara", Italy
• Riccardo Zucca, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

Program

The workshop consists of two half-day sessions:

See at the bottom of the page to download the program and full abstracts as PDF file.

Morning session, July 16, Room S3

• 09:30 - 10:00

  The Virtual Brain simulation platform and Virtual Brain Cloud

  Petra Ritter

• 10:00 - 10:30

  Modeling brain dynamics in brain tumor patients

  Hannelore Aerts

• 10:30 - 11:00

  Ethical and legal aspects of personalized brain simulation and data sharing

  Mariana Rissetto

• 11:00 - 11:30

  Coffee break

• 11:30 - 12:00

  Terminologies, ontologies and data curation

  Sumit Madan

• 12:00 - 12:30

  Cloud and HPC solutions

  Alexander Peyser

• 12.30 - 13.00

  Enriching big data analytics by computational modeling
  

  Oleksandr Popovyh

Afternoon session, July 17, Room S2

• 14:50 - 15:20

  BrainX3: a tool for multi-modal data integration, analysis, visualization and interaction

  Riccardo Zucca

• 15:20 - 15:50

  Machine-learning tools for large-scale data

  Hugo Richard

• 15:50 - 16:20

  Linking spiking neural networks to TVB

  Gianluca Susi

• 16:20 - 16:50

  Coffee break

• 16.50 - 17.20
  

Interfacing TVB with a digital atlas

Anastasia Brovkin

• 17:20 - 17:50

  The Virtual Epileptic Patient

  Julie Courtiol

• 17:50 - 18:20

  The Neurodegenerative Virtual Brain

  Randy McIntosh

• 18:20 - 18:30

  Final discussion & closing remarks

Location

The workshop will be held at the Historical Building of the Universitat de Barcelona (UB), which is located downtown Barcelona.

Registration

Registration to the VirtualBrainCloud workshop is required for attending the 2 sessions. Please see the CNS*2019 registration webpage.

Note that attendees registered for the main meeting only can attend the workshop session being held on July 16th.