Speakers

Sophia Ananiadou Sophia Ananiadou

University of Manchester
, Manchester, United Kingdom

Will talk about:
Integrating and ranking the evidence from pathways to text

Session:
Keynote lecture

Demian Battaglia Demian Battaglia

Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany

Will talk about:
Function follows dynamics: state-dependency of information flow in neural circuits

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 4

Gully Burns Gully Burns

University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, United States

Will talk about:
Using experimental design to design neuroinformatics data structures

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 2

Randal Burns Randal Burns

The 
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Will talk about:
Data-intensive computing for neuroscience: The open connectome project

Session:
Keynote lecture

Matteo Carandini Matteo Carandini

University College London, London, United Kingdom

Will talk about:
Looking for canonical neural computations in the visual system

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 1

Philip L. De Jager Philip L. De Jager

Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States

Will talk about:
Why we need disruptive innovation to accelerate MS research

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 3

Barbara Franke Barbara Franke


Radboud University Medical Centre in Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Will talk about:
How to make sense of genetics for psychiatric disorders?

Session:
Keynote lecture

Satrajit Ghosh Satrajit Ghosh

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, United States

Will talk about:
Enabling knowledge generation and reproducible research by embedding provenance models in metadata stores

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 2

Fred Hamprecht Fred Hamprecht

Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Will talk about:

Electron microscopy circuit reconstruction

Session:
Keynote lecture

Nicholas Hatsopoulos Nicholas Hatsopoulos

University of Chicago, Chicago, United States

Will talk about:
Large-scale spatio-temporal patterns in motor cortex involved in motor control

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 1

Jamie Heywood Jamie Heywood

PatientsLikeMe, Cambridge, MA, United States

Will talk about:
What we have learned from the patient’s experience

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 3

Michelle Freund Michelle Freund

National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Will talk about:
The BRAIN initiative

Session:
Special session on Large Scale Brain Initiatives

Rob Kass Rob Kass

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

Will talk about:
Point process regression models of neural synchrony

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 1

Iya Khalil Iya Khalil

GNS Healthcare, Cambridge, MA, United States

Will talk about:
Applying causal inference modeling in multiple sclerosis

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 3

Angie Laird Angie Laird

Florida International University, Miami, United States

Will talk about:
Data-driven approaches for deriving a semantic framework for cognitive paradigms

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 2

Stephen Larson Stephen Larson

One Mind for Research, , United States

Will talk about:
Applying hierarchical modeling principles to MS Research

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 3

Daniele Marinazzo Daniele Marinazzo

University of Gent, Gent, Belgium

Will talk about:
Information transfer in the brain: insights from a unified approach

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 4

Robert McBurney Robert McBurney

Accelerated Cure Project for Multiple Sclerosis (ACP), Waltham, MA, United States

Will talk about:
Orion Bionetworks: An innovative alliance for Multiple Sclerosis Disease Modeling

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 3

Karlheinz Meier Karlheinz Meier

Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

Will talk about:
The EU Human Brain Project - Scientific foundations and plans

Session:
Special session on Large Scale Brain Initiatives

Jonathan Pillow Jonathan Pillow

University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, United States

Will talk about:
Scalable nonparametric models for large-scale neural datasets

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 1

Clay Reid Clay Reid

Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, United States

Will talk about:

Neural coding and project MindScope

Session:
Special session on Large Scale Brain Initiatives

Zbigniew R. Struzik Zbigniew R. Struzik

The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

Will talk about:
Untangling the informational network of the brain-wide web

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 4

Hiroki Ueda Hiroki Ueda

RIKEN Quantitative Biology Center, Kobe, Japan

Will talk about:

Systems and synthetic biology of biological timings

Session:
Keynote lecture

Michael Wibral Michael Wibral

MEG Unit, Brain Imaging Center, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Will talk about:
Graphical analyses in delayed interaction networks

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 4

Tal Yarkoni Tal Yarkoni

University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States

Will talk about:
Automated annotation and meta-analysis of the fMRI literature: promises and challenges

Session:
Speaker of Workshop 2

Apostolos P. Georgopoulos Apostolos P. Georgopoulos

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States

Will talk about:
Brain Function in Healthy Aging

Session:
Keynote lecture