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8th BigBrain Workshop

Challenges of Multimodal Data Integration

On September 9-11, 2024, we held our 8th annual BigBrain Workshop in Padua, Italy.

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Featured

BigBrain Project Educational Lecture (HBHL Training Day)

Michael Hawrylycz

The BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network: Comprehensive multimodal atlases of the human brain

HIBALL Lecture in Brain Analytics and Learning

Maurizio Corbetta

Architecture and function of spontaneous brain activity in health and pathology

Sievers Lecture in Computational Neuroscience

Michel Thiebaut de Schotten

The emergent properties of the connected brain

LOC Session: The Padova Neuroscience Centre

Alessandro Salvalaggio

Brain connectivity and glioma: a new approach

LOC Session: The Padova Neuroscience Centre

Lorenzo Pini

The Clinical Connectome: From Neurodegenerative to Focal Brain Diseases

LOC Session: The Padova Neuroscience Centre

Alessandra Bertoldo

PET connectomics: Exploring brain network complexity from a molecular imaging perspective

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8th BigBrain Workshop



Keynote Talks



BigBrain Project Educational Lecture (HBHL Training Day)

The BRAIN Initiative Cell Atlas Network: Comprehensive multimodal atlases of the human brain

Michael Hawrylycz
Modeling, Analysis, and Theory Group, Allen Institute for Brain Science - Seattle, CA
More information: https://events.hifis.net/event/1416/page/303-bigbrain-project-educational-lecture

HIBALL Lecture in Brain Analytics and Learning

Architecture and function of spontaneous brain activity in health and pathology

Maurizio Corbetta
Department of Neuroscience, University of Padova, Italy
More information: https://events.hifis.net/event/1416/page/302-hiball-lecture-in-brain-analytics-and-learning

Sievers Lecture in Computational Neuroscience

The emergent properties of the connected brain

Michel Thiebaut de Schotten
Neurofunctional Imaging Group, University of Bordeaux & Brain Connectivity and Behaviour Laboratory (BCBLab), Sorbonne Universités, Paris - Bordeaux, France
More information: https://events.hifis.net/event/1416/page/304-sievers-lecture-in-computational-neuroscience



Invited Lectures

Dimensional perspectives on multiscale cortical organization

Boris Bernhardt
MICA Lab, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University
Abstract: https://events.hifis.net/event/1416/contributions/11811/



LOC Session: The Padova Neuroscience Centre

Brain connectivity and glioma: a new approach

Alessandro Salvalaggio
Department of Neuroscience, University of Padova, Italy
Abstract: https://events.hifis.net/event/1416/page/300-local-session-the-padova-neuroscience-center



Training Day

Indirect network disconnection methods (HBHL Training Day)

Hands-on session by Alessandro Salvalaggio & Lorenzo Pini
Department of Neuroscience, University of Padova
Abstract: https://events.hifis.net/event/1416/page/312-indirect-network-disconnection-methods

Integrating AI approaches for brain modelling (HBHL Training Day)

Jane Roskams, moderator
Panel Discussion
Panel: Rachel Hostetler, Amy Howard, Michele Allegra, Christian Schiffer



HIBALL

Introduction

Katrin Amunts, Alan Evans



Panel Discussion: The benefit of making multimodal data interoperable

BigBrain as part of the Multimodal Atlas at EBRAINS

Katrin Amunts
Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1) Forschungszentrum Jülich, Cécile and Oskar Vogt Institute for Brain Research, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany

The McGill multimodal data ecosystem

Alan C. Evans
Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University

Moderated discussion

Moderator: Katrin Amunts
Panel: Michael Hawrylycz, Jean-François Mangin, Amy Howard, Timo Dickscheid, Alan Evans



Contributed Talks

Session 1: Multimodal data acquisition and processing (co-Chairs: Jordan DeKraker, Timo Dickscheid)



Label-free biomolecular tissue analysis in the living brain via vibrational fiber photometry at arbitrary depth

Filippo Pisano
Department of Physics and Astronomy & Padova Neuroscience Center, University of Padova
Abstract: https://events.hifis.net/event/1416/contributions/11287/

The Extremely Brilliant Brain: The Isotropic Micrometric Human Brain Dataset

Matthieu Chourrout
University College London, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Abstract: https://events.hifis.net/event/1416/contributions/11284/



Session 2: Segmentation and AI (co-Chairs: Claire Walsh, Jussi Tohka)



Step by Step: Towards a gapless 1 micron BigBrain with Diffusion Models

Jan-Oliver Kropp
INM-1 Forschungszentrum Jülich, Helmholtz AI, Jülich, Germany
Abstract: https://events.hifis.net/event/1416/contributions/11426/

Analyzing Regional Organization of the Human Hippocampus in 3D-PLI Using Contrastive Learning and Geometric Unfolding

Alexander Oberstrass
Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
Abstract: https://events.hifis.net/event/1416/contributions/11282/

Towards Universal Instance Segmentation Models in Biomedical Imaging

Eric Upschulte
Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
Abstract: https://events.hifis.net/event/1416/contributions/11283/



Session 3: Mapping and Atlases (co-Chairs: Elizabeth Rounis, Thomas Funck)



Asymmetry of hippocampal subfield volumes in a heterogenous cohort of focal drug-resistant epilepsies

Mastaneh Torkamani-Azar
A.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland
Abstract: https://events.hifis.net/event/1416/contributions/11264/

Mapping superficial white matter architecture on BigBrain

Youngeun Hwang
Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University
Abstract: https://events.hifis.net/event/1416/contributions/11274/



Session 4: Modelling and Connectivity (co-Chairs: Lorenzo Pini, Boris Bernhardt)



cuBNM: GPU-Accelerated Biophysical Network Modeling

Amin Saberi
Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-7), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany Otto Hahn Research Group for Cognitive Neurogenetics, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
Abstract: https://events.hifis.net/event/1416/contributions/11277/

8th BigBrain Workshop - Challenges of Multimodal Data Integration