Program
Day 1: Thursday, August 20
08:30 - 08:40 Opening statement Katrin Amunts, Program committee chair
08:40 - 09:00 Welcome Linda Lanyon, INCF Executive Director
09:00 - 09:50 Keynote: The molecular mechanisms of brain development and disorders Teiichi Furuichi, Tokyo University of Science
09:50 - 10:20 Coffee
10:20 - 12:10 Workshop 1: Small scale brain initiatives
12:10 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 15:30 Workshop 2: Large scale brain initiatives
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee
16:00 - 16:50 Keynote: Dopamine and learning mechanisms in the basal ganglia John Reynolds, University of Otago Medical School
17:00 - 19:00 Poster session and drink reception (complimentary, refreshments served 17-18)
Day 2: Friday, August 21
09:00 - 09:50 Keynote: Supercomputing and Big Data Analytics in the Neurosciences Thomas Lippert, Forschungzentrum Julich/University of Wuppertal
09:50 - 10:20 Coffee
10:20 - 12:10 Workhop 3: Neuromorphic computing and challenges
12:10 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 15:30 Poster and demos
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee
16:00 - 16:50 Keynote: Monash Vision Group’s Cortical Bionic Eye System: a wireless cortical stimulator Arthur Lowery, Monash University16:50 - 17:40 Investigator presentations
The preprocessed connectomes project quality assessment protocol-a resource for measuring the quality of MRI data
18:00 Banquet at the Salt House
Day 3: Saturday, August 22 - One day special session organized by the INCF Australia Node
08:30 - 08:45 Introduction Gary Egan, CIBF, Monash, Australian INCF node
08:45 Session 1: Neuroscience drivers for next generation neuroinformatics. Chair: Gary Egan
Sponsored by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function.
08:45 - 09:15 Predictive coding circuits in the brain - Michael Ibbotson, Melbourne
09:15 - 09:35 How do populations of neurons incorporate recent stimulus statistics? - Nicholas Price, Monash
09:35 - 09:55 Investigating human attention and prediction - Marta Garrido, UQ
09:55 - 10:15 Physiology-Based Quantitative Modeling and Analysis of Brain Dynamics Underlying Attention and Prediction - Peter Robinson, USyd
10:15 - 10:30 Discussion
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
11:00 Session 2: Imaging informatics. Chair: Graham Galloway, UQ
Sponsored by the Australian National Imaging Facility.
11:00 - 11:30 INCF Neuroimaging Data Sharing Model - Jean Baptiste Poline, UCB
11:30 - 11:50 Automated neuroimaging biomarkers computed on the cloud - Olivier Salvado, CSIRO
11:50 - 12:10 Integrating data-driven and model-based analysis tools for functional MRI - David Abbott,
The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
12:10 - 12:30 Workflows for large cohort neuroimaging datasets - Parnesh Raniga, Monash
12:30 - 12:45 Discussion
12:45 - 13:45 Lunch
13:45 Session 3: Simulation and visualization environments. Chair: Paul Bonnington, Monash
Sponsored by the MASSIVE Computational Facility.
13:45 - 14:15 Supercomputing and big data analytics in the neurosciences - Thomas Lippert, Jülich
14:15 - 14:35 MASSIVE CVL: a specialized imaging and neuroinformatics facility - Wojtek Goscinski, Monash
14:35 - 14:55 Visualisation architectures - Stefan Eilemann
14:55 - 15:15 Immersive visualisation environments for investigating the brain - Paul Bonnington
15:15 - 15:30 Discussion
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee
16:00 Session 4: Atlases, tools, and applications. Chair: George Paxinos
Sponsored by the Allen Brain Institute.
16:00 - 16:30 A next generation common coordinate framework of the adult mouse brain for data integration and discovery - Lydia Ng, Allen Brain Institute, Seattle
16:30 - 16:50 Tissuestack: an open source HTML5 web based imaging viewer - Andrew Janke (UQ)
16:50 - 17:10 Scalable atlases for non-human primate brain research - Daniel Wojcik (Nencki Institute, Poland)
17:10 - 17:25 Discussion
17:25 - 17:30 Closing remarks - Jan Bjaalie, Chair of the INCF Governing board
