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BigBrain News and Events

A listing of official and related news & events.

Upcoming Events

HIBALL Winter School
date: March 11-12, 2024
We are happy to announce the next HIBALL Winter School which will take place on March 11-12, 2024 as a hybrid meeting, with physical meetings in both Jülich and Montreal connected via an interactive live stream.
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BigBrain Events

HIBALL Winter School
date: March 11-12, 2024
We are happy to announce the next HIBALL Winter School which will take place on March 11-12, 2024 as a hybrid meeting, with physical meetings in both Jülich and Montreal connected via an interactive live stream.
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7th BigBrain Workshop 2023 - Videos
date: Jan 04, 2024
The videos from all three days of the 7th BigBrain Workshop are now available.
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BigBrain project excites at OHBM2023
date: Nov 24, 2023
OHBM 2023 BigBrain Booth: A booth showcasing the present and future of brain research
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HIBALL Winter School 2023
date:Mar 29 2023
Recordings are now available for the HIBALL Winter School 2023
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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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5th BigBrain Workshop
date: Oct 04 2021
Online
Recordings are now available for the BigBrain Workshop 2021. Please visit our YouTube channel.
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HIBALL Winter School
date: Mar 02 2021
Video recordings of the event are now available.
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4th BigBrain Workshop and Launch of HIBALL
date: Sept 21 2020
On June 26th we officially launched HIBALL with the virtual 4th BigBrain Workshop. Out distinguished guests spoke about current work as well as the future of the BigBrain. The recordings are now available for viewing.
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BigBrain Workshop 2019 Duesseldorf: AI methods and HPC based processing.
date: Aug 20 2019
After two successful BigBrain workshops held 2015 in Jülich and 2017 in Montreal, we are pleased to announce the 3rd workshop on the BigBrain and its applications, to be held in Düsseldorf and Jülich on August 20 - 21, 2019. The workshop will last 2 days, with informal reception on Tuesday evening.
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BigBrain Workshop 2017 Montreal: From open data to novel applications.
date: Nov 03 2017
We are pleased to announce an international workshop on BigBrain and its applications, to be held at the Montreal Neurological Institute on November 3rd, 2017. The day will start with a plenary session, with a keynote lecture by Pr. Karl Zilles (Germany).
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Keynote Lecture by Prof Karl Zilles on Youtube
BigBrain Workshop 2015 Juelich: BigBrain and its applications.
date: Mar 31 2015
We are pleased to announce a workshop on BigBrain and its applications, to be held in Jülich on March 31st, - April, 1st, 2015. The workshop will last 1.5 days, with informal reception on Tuesday evening and a full-day session on Wednesday, April 1st.
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BigBrain News Archive

EBRAINS research infrastructure secures €38 million in funding for new phase of digital neuroscience
date: Jan 9, 2024
The European Commission has accepted the EBRAINS 2.0 proposal submitted in response to the INFRASERV call, granting €38 million for the further development of services of the EBRAINS research infrastructure.
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Katrin Amunts receives Justine and Yves Sergent International Award
date: Dec 11, 2023
Katrin Amunts has been honoured with the 2023 Justine and Yves Sergent International Award, which is granted to outstanding female researchers for contributions in the field of cognitive neuroscience and brain imaging who have achieved a high international reputation
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Confluence of Art and Neuroscience
date: Nov 24, 2023
BigBrain-Inspired Art by OHBM 2023 Prize Winner Celesti Kozub
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BigBrain featured on Ici Radio Canada
date: Sept 17, 2023
The BigBrain was featured in a video segent on Ici Radio Canada.
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Justine Hansen awarded the Karl Zilles Award
date: July 22, 2023
Congratulations Justine!
Justine Hansen was awarded the Karl Zilles Award in Integrative Neuroscience, recognising her work in integrating modern neuroanatomical approaches with multi-modal in-vivo neuroimaging at OHBM 2023. Congratulations!
Understanding our brain
date: June 5 2023
Understanding our brain
Interview with Katrin Amunts and Alan Evans
10 May 2023
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HIBALL Year Three
date: Mar 31 2022
Celebrating three years of the HIBALL partnership.
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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.
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German Minister of Education and Research visit HIBALL
date: June 17 2022
A German delegation visited The Neuro recently to learn more about international initiatives including HIBALL. It was led by Bettina Stark-Watzinger, Minister of Education and Research for Germany.
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HIBALL Year Two
date: May 5 2022
Celebrating two years of the HIBALL partnership.
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Boris Bernhardt wins award
date: Apr 12 2022
Boris Bernhardt wins the 2022 New Investigator Award from the Canadian Association for Neuroscience. Well deserved!
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Boris awarded a Neuro Commercialization Ignite Grant
date: Apr 6 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.
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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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Katrin awarded Cross of Merit
date: Mar 16 2022
We are very proud! Katrin Amunts was presented with the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany for her outstanding commitment to the field of neuroscience. Congratulations!
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Yashar Zeighami appointed Assistant Professor
date: Feb 9 2022
Yashar Zeighami was appointed Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Psychiatry at the Douglas Research Centre. His research focuses on understanding the underlying mechanisms involved in healthy brain aging and how different genetic and environmental factors will result in the deviation from a healthy trajectory toward neurodegenerative disorders.
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Katrin Amunts receives Hector Science Award
date: Feb 7 2022
The prestigious prize of 150,000 Euro honours professors from German universities and research institutions for outstanding research achievements, dedication to the education and support of young scientists and contributions to advancing their disciplines and institutions.
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Timo appointed W2 Professor at HHU
date: Jan 25 2022
Timo Dickscheid was appointed W2 Professor at Computer Science Department, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany.
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Brain research challenges supercomputing
date: Jan 19 2022
New article in Science by Katrin Amunts and Thomas Lippert on how Brain research challenges supercomputing
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Markus Axer wins HIP scientific image contest
date: Jan 12 2022
Markus Axer is the winner of the Helmholtz Imaging Best Scientific Image Contest 2021 with the image “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.
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Mapping the brain
date: Oct 13 2021
Scientists at Forschungszentrum Jülich are working on three-dimensional maps of the human brain. This is their contribution to the large-scale European Human Brain Project (HBP).
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Alan Evans awarded 2021 RSC McLaughlin Medal
date: Sept 17 2021
Congratulations! Alan Evans is the 2021 RSC McLaughlin Medal awardee for excellence and achievement in medical science for his significant contributions to the field of neuroimaging.
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DL facilitates high-throughput cytoarchitectonic mapping in large series of histological brain sections
date: July 07 2021
New paper out: Convolutional Neural Networks for cytoarchitectonic brain mapping at large scale
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Interview with Katrin Amunts: Dem Gehirn auf der Spur
date: May 13 2021
German interview with Katrin Amunts.
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Interview with Katrin Amunts at France24's Tech24
date: Apr 01 2021
Julich-Brain, the world's first 3D atlas of the human brain
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HIBALL Year One
date: Apr 01 2021
Celebrating one year of the HIBALL partnership.
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German Interview with Katrin Amunts
date: Apr 01 2021
VOM MOLEKÜL ZUM GEDANKEN
WIE SIEHT DIE HIRNFORSCHUNG DER ZUKUNFT AUS?
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Top 10 women in life sciences today.
date: Mar 08 2021
Katrin Amunts listed as one of the Top 10 women in life sciences today.
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Canada's Excellence in Neuroscience Research Video.
date: Jan 11 2021
Interview with Alan Evans about the impact of Neuroscience and Neuroinformatics on Canada’s future economy and on the development of brain-inspired AI through neuroscience research at TheFutureEconomy.ca
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Deep learning networks reflect cytoarchitectonic features used in brain mapping.
date: Dec 16 2020
New article in nature scientific reports. Kai Kiwitz, Christian Schiffer, Hannah Spitzer, Timo Dickscheid & Katrin Amunts.
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HIBALL becomes HBP Partnering Project
date: Aug 20 2020
HIBALL will in a multitude of ways contribute to the HBP objective to create and operate EBRAINS as a European scientific research infrastructure for brain research, cognitive neuroscience, and other brain-inspired sciences, as well as to gather, organise and disseminate data describing the brain and its diseases.
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Predictive cost functions in the neocortex
date: July 06 2020
Neural computation is the product of two optimization procedures: natural selection and learning in the individual's lifetime. But, identifying what the neocortex has been optimized for, given its repeated circuit motifs and complex relationship to behaviour, is very challenging.
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HIBALL Inauguration Video
date: July 01 2020
Watch the inauguration of the HIBALL project
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New video at ebrains
date: June 19 2020
Exploring multimodal neuroscience data using the EBRAINS Knowledge Graph & Multilevel Brain Atlases
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Alan Evans speaks of the BigBrain on CTV
date: June 17 2020
Alan Evans speaks about the potential neurological impact of Covid-19 as well as the benefits the BigBrain project brings to the future of neuroscience.
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Memorial for Dr Karl Zilles
date: May 27 2020
With great sadness we say goodbye to Karl Zilles who passed away on 26 April 2020. We lose a brilliant scientist, friend, and key partner of the BigBrain Project.
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Alan Evans awarded Killam Prize
date: May 26 2020
"I am deeply honoured to receive this award. It is indeed very humbling and motivating to be considered for a prize that has been awarded to so many great Canadian scientists in the past."
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HIBALL
date: Jan 20 2020
HIBALL, the new German-Canadian Lab, will build on the BigBrain Project’s AI-based 3D reconstruction of brain sections
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4th BigBrain Workshop: Launch of HIBALL
date: June 26 2020
This pre-OHBM event is dedicated to the formal inauguration of HIBALL. The workshop will be comprised of invited talks covering recent work on the BigBrain data. A poster session will facilitate in-depth discussion and opportunity for young researchers to present their work.
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Alan Evans speaks of the BigBrain on CTV
date: June 17 2020
Alan Evans speaks about the potential neurological impact of Covid-19 as well as the benefits the BigBrain project brings to the future of neuroscience.
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Thomas Funck presents: Towards an ultra-high resolution 3D neurotransmitter receptor atlas
date: June 3 2020
Thomas Funck presented a talk at the Feindel Virtual Brain and Mind Seminar entitled Towards an ultra-high resolution 3D neurotransmitter receptor atlas.
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Memorial for Dr Karl Zilles
date: May 27 2020
With great sadness we say goodbye to Karl Zilles who passed away on 26 April 2020. We lose a brilliant scientist, friend, and key partner of the BigBrain Project.
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Related News & Events

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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Helmholtz AI conference 2022
date: June 2 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.
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Gradients of Brain Organisation
date: June 18 2022
A pre-OHBM workshop, to discuss methods and applications to study large-scale spatial transitions — or gradients — of brain organisation.
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MAIN 2021
date: Nov 29-30th
Montreal AI & Neuroscience (MAIN) 2021 Conference, Nov 29-30th
Participation is free but registration is mandatory (register here)
Contributions are welcome (Submit an Abstract)
Educational sessions: Nov 25-26th
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ESFRI announces EBRAINS as part of its Research Infrastructures to be included in its Roadmap 2021.
date: July 07 2021
€4.1 billion investment in excellent science contributing to address European challenges
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New user-friendly features in the EBRAINS Interactive Atlas Viewer
date: Mar 23 2021
The latest version of the EBRAINS Interactive Atlas Viewer brings a range of new features and updated versions of parcellation maps. The user interface has been significantly streamlined in response to user feedback.
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EBRAINS-powered study shortlisted for Science Breakthrough of the year
date: Mar 23 2021
Each year, editors and writers choose a top research achievement as Science’s Breakthrough of the Year. This year, that honor goes to the multiple COVID-19 vaccines that have succeeded in large human trials. Nine advances from all areas of research were chosen as the runners up. Among them are surprising similarities between brains of mammals and birds, discovered with the innovative microscopy method 3D-PLI, which is powered by EBRAINS services.
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UNIQUE Event: SENAI
date: Feb 10 2021
Join us on Wednesday, February 10th, 2021 for a virtual symposium on philosophical and scientific approaches to Explanation in Neuroscience and Artificial Intelligence
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Brainhack Micro2Macro 2021
date: Jan 26-29 2021
The Brainhack Micro2Macro 2021 is an official online satellite event of the International Global BrainHack 2020. The goal of this free online hackathon is to bring together researchers with disparate backgrounds to collaborate on open science projects in neuroimaging, with a focus on the link between brain macrostructure and microstructure.
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MAIN 2020
date: Dec 01 2020
MAIN2020 - Montreal AI and Neuroscience conference, December 1~3, 2020 -- Online -- Free
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Virtual HBHL Research Day 2020
date: Aug 17 2020
HBHL's annual Research Day is designed to showcase the research of trainees (graduate students and postdoctoral fellows) who are working in areas related to HBHL's goals and priorities.
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Canada Research Chairs Program announces new and renewed chairs for McGill Profs
date: JULY 9 2020
Thirty-four Canada Research Chairs awarded to McGill researchers, in Tier 1 and Tier 2
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Medical Imaging with Deep Learning: Montreal
date: July 06-08 2020
The MIDL conference aims to be a forum for deep learning researchers, clinicians and health-care companies to apply deep learning based automatic image analysis in disease screening, diagnosis, prognosis, treatment selection and treatment monitoring.
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Alan Evans awarded Killam Prize
date: May 26 2020
"I am deeply honoured to receive this award. It is indeed very humbling and motivating to be considered for a prize that has been awarded to so many great Canadian scientists in the past."
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OHBM 2020
date: June 26-30 2020
The Organization for Human Brain Mapping Annual Meeting is the place to learn about the latest international research across modalities in human brain mapping.
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Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence
date: May 12-15 2020
This conference will bring together hundreds of leaders in research, industry, and government, as well as Canada's most accomplished students. Past events: CAIAC 2019
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MAIN conference
date: Nov 14-17 2019
The Montreal Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience event is now in its third edition and has gained in popularity. Past events: MAIN 2018 IntArt 2017
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Montreal AI Symposium
date: Sept 6 2019
The Montreal AI Symposium aims at gathering experts and professionals interested in fundamental advances and applications of artificial intelligence, with an emphasis on machine learning, deep learning and related approaches.
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