News About the BigBrain

Katrin Amunt's receives honorary doctorate from the University of Maastricht
date: Jan 31, 2025
“Charting the human brain” Katrin Amunts receives honorary doctorate for groundbreaking research
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Featured Paper: Integrating brainstem and cortical functional architectures
date: Jan 31, 2025
In this study (“Integrating brainstem and cortical functional architectures”), we sought out to understand the functional interplay between the cortex and brainstem in awake humans.
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Visiting Scholar: Andrija Štajduhar
date: Jan 16 2025
Andrija Štajduhar visited the lab of Alan Evans in Montreal for two months to collaborate on ‘Advancing neuron-centric analysis of human cortical cytoarchitecture’
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Featured Paper: Self-supervised representation learning for nerve fiber distribution patterns in 3D-PLI
date: Nov 26, 2024
Quantifiable and interpretable descriptors of nerve fiber architecture at microscopic resolution provide an important foundation for a deeper understanding of human brain architecture.
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Alan Evans named Fellow of the Royal Society
date: Oct 08, 2024
Alan Evans, PhD, was among the 85 new Fellows of the Royal Society, the United Kingdom’s national academy of sciences, announced May 14, 2024. Candidates were nominated for their substantial contribution to the improvement of natural knowledge.
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BigBrain Workshop 2024
date: Mar 20, 2024
The 8th BigBrain Workshop took place in the beautiful city of Padua, Italy. The conference was on 10-11 September, preceded by a training day on 9 September. Click below to see the full conference videos.
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2024 OHBM Annual Meeting
date: July 09, 2024
The HIBALL Team presented the BigBrain data and tools at the annual OHBM meeting in Seoul, South Korea on June 23-27, 2024. It was fun to meet the community and discuss multimodal, high-resolution neuroscientific data and tools.
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The Julich-Brain Atlas at EBRAINS
date: May 14, 2024
The Julich-Brain Atlas at EBRAINS
Introduction, Concepts and Hands-on Sessions
17 - 20 June 2024
Online
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17 - 20 June 2024
Online

Capturing patterns of cortical hierarchy
date: Apr 21, 2024
Yezhou Wang is visiting Sofie Valk's lab in Leipzig for a three-month mitacs research stay to work on 'Capturing patterns of cortical hierarchy and dual stream architecture based on precise 7T MRI'
Cognitive Neurogenetics Lab