The BigBrain Community

The BigBrain Project has a thriving community of users and developers. We hold biennial conferences to meet (old and new) members, share and probe new ideas, and provide updates about the various activities around the data. Visit our website -- see who we are, learn what we do -- share your BigBrain data-related stories and work (publications, results, derived data, tools) - join our community to start a conversation, or to keep one going.

Community Resources

How to participate in the BigBrain Community

Join our Forum

Join our Discourse forum to discuss, collaborate, and find support for the BigBrain and applications related to this dataset.

Teaching

Upcoming teaching events and materials.

Events

Upcoming community workshops and events. See our news section.

Gallery

Community contributed images of the BigBrain dataset

Markus Axer, "The monkey’s fiber architecture revealed by Polarized Light” which shows the courses and orientations of nerve fibers in the cerebellum of a teenage vervet monkey brain. Winning image of the Helmholtz Imaging Best Scientific Image Contest 2021. By Markus Axer and his team.

Konrad Wagstyl et al, BigBrain Cortical layer segmentation, 2019

Amunts, Schiffer, Dickscheid et al., Ultrahigh resolution 3D maps of cytoarchitectonic areas in the Big Brain model (click to load NeHuBa)

Lindsay Lewis, Brainnetome atlas registered to the BigBrain surface (from FreeSurfer / fsaverage space), 2016, Poster

Lindsay Lewis, MMP-1.0 / Glasser atlas registered to the BigBrain surface (from the Human Connectome Project / fs_LR space), 2016, Poster

Sherri Lee Jones, BigBrain Hypothalamus Manual Segmentation using Atelier3D, 2019

Mona Omidyeganeh, Validation of the Smoothing Method, 2019,Google Slides

Videos

Community contributed videos of the BigBrain dataset

Speaker: Timo Dickscheid, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany, The multilevel human brain atlas in EBRAINS

3D Polarized Light Imaging - Towards a 3D fiber atlas of the brain

BigBrain Features available in the HBP Atlas viewer

K. Wagstyl et al., Full pixel-wise segmentation of BigBrain cortical layer, 2020 Paper

J. DeKraker et al., Hippocampal subfield revealed through unfolding and unsupervised clustering of laminar and morphological features in 3D Big Brain (HD), 2019

BigBrain Workshop 2017: Keynote Lecture by Prof Karl Zilles
"Pr Karl Zilles (Forschungszentrum Jülich, INM-1) : Cortical layers : A perspective from receptors and fibers"

BigBrain Workshop 2016

BigBrain HBM 2016