News About the BigBrain

HIBALL Winter School 2023
date:Mar 29 2023
Recordings are now available for the HIBALL Winter School 2023
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Primate cerebellar scaling in connection to the cerebrum: a 34-species phylogenetic comparative analysis
date: Mar 2023
The cerebellum has long been viewed as a functionally homogenous structure, only involved in the fine control of the motor system. However, over the last decades it has become increasingly clear that the cerebellum contributes to wide-ranging higher-order associative function, such as abstract reasoning, theory of mind, and affect regulation, as well.
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BigBrain Workshop 2023 - Save the date!
date: Oct 5-6, 2023
You are cordially invited to attend the 7th BigBrain Workshop, taking place in the beautiful city of Reykjavik, Iceland. This workshop is an opportunity for the neuroscientific community to come together and present their research, discuss future prospects, and explore how to better leverage high-performance computing and artificial intelligence to create multimodal, multiresolution tools for the high-resolution BigBrain and related datasets.
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6th BigBrain Workshop: From microstructure to functional connectomics
date: Nov 22 2022
Recordings for the BigBrain Workshop 2022 are now online.
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date: 17 Nov 2022
We have a new HIBALL PhD! Christian Schiffer successfully defended his doctoral thesis on 'Deep neural networks for large-scale cytoarchitectonic mapping of the human brain' today and is now Dr. Schiffer 🥳
Congratulations!
Congratulations!

Montreal AI & Neuroscience
date: Dec 12-13 2022
Register now for MAIN 2022 (hybrid): Educational 9-10 Dec / Meeting 12-13 Dec. Abstract submission deadline Nov 28.
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Visit of German Chancellor and Canadian Prime Minister at MILA
date: Aug 22 2022
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visit MILA and met Yoshua Bengio, Katrin Amunts, Alan Evans. They led a discussion on drug discovery and brain mapping and brought forth unique research collaborations between German and Canadian research centres. This image shows a 3D-printed model of the BigBrain, which is now being displayed in the German embassy in Ottawa.
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