News About the BigBrain

Helmholtz AI conference 2022

date: Apr 12 2022

AI enthusiasts and AI researchers are invited to join the Helmholtz AI conference 2022 on 2-3 June 2022 in Dresden, Germany. This two-day event can either be attended in person or virtually.

Boris Bernhardt wins award

date: Apr 12 2022

Boris Bernhardt wins the 2022 New Investigator Award from the Canadian Association for Neuroscience. Well deserved!

Boris awarded a Neuro Commercialization Ignite Grant

date: Apr 10 2022

Boris Bernhardt is among the winners of the Ignite Grants Competition III in the HBHL Neuro Commercialization Grants program. His project proposal on 'BrainScores: a tool for multimodal, quantitative, and collaborative MRI analysis' was awarded with $50,000.

New article at eNeuro by Katrin Amunts

date: Apr 8 2022

New article at eNeuro by Katrin Amunts and colleagues from the Human Brain Project about a new culture of collaboration and an era of digitalization that transformed neuroscience research over the last decade. The BigBrain has been part of that journey.

Featured: A multi-scale model of neurotransmitter receptor alterations in Alzheimer’s disease progression

date: April 7 2022

A project presented by Ahmed Khan (lab of Yasser Iturria-Medina)

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HIBALL Year Two

date: Apr 01 2022

Celebrating two years of the HIBALL partnership.

Martha Crago awarded Cross of Merit

date: Mar 22 2022

Martha Crago was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for her dedication to fostering cutting edge Canadian-German science & research relations. Martha played a key role in establishing HIBALL. Congratulations!

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6th BigBrain Workshop: From microstructure to functional connectomics

date: Mar 01 2022

An in-person event taking place on October 25-27, 2022 in Zadar, Croatia

Registration is open

What People Say About the BigBrain

Why create the BigBrain

A message from Dr. Zilles

the major advantage of the BigBrain for our work is that the image data of the human brain are registered as a 3D volume at very high spatial resolution. Since the human brain is folded, any part of the cortical ribbon may be subjected to the geometrical effects of this folding, i.e. the cortex is obliquely or even tangentially sectioned at various sites in a 2D representation, e.g. in images of single microtome sections. This effect hampers the measurement of any cortical structure which is bound to the 3D columnar architecture of the cortex. In contrast, the BigBrain allows analyses in 3D, and thus has opened the door to many studies which would not be possible in 2D representations.

Martha Crago

Vice-Principal (Research + Innovation) McGill University

With HIBALL the partnership between two world-leading research institutions in computational neuroscience will provide an important platform for the scientists to conduct innovative, interdisciplinary, and complementary research in a rich and collaborative setting.

Yoshua Bengio

Mila Scientific Director, Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute

HIBALL assembles a team with world-leading expertise in neuroimaging, artificial intelligence, neuroscience and neuroinformatics, which complements well the team at Mila. The active participation of several PIs with ties to Mila is very exciting, and we anticipate this lab will further expand the collaboration between neuroscience and AI experts in the Montreal ecosystem, leading to cutting-edge discoveries in both fields.

Viktor Jirsa

Directeur de Recherche, CNRS

HIBALL can build on a remarkable expertise and international reputation and will lead to high impact contributions in Human Brain Atlasing, Neuroinformatics, and Machine Learning.

Creating the next generation of highly detailed human brain models by building on the BigBrain - the first openly accessible, microscopic resolution 3D model of the human brain.