<div dir="ltr"><div class="m_512575906144157690gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="m_512575906144157690m_-2682373606546548461m_3098670894946952228gmail-m_-4675057414873021248gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><h1 align="center" style="margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;font-size:24px;line-height:36px;color:rgb(48,48,48);font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif">Fruit Fly Brain Hackathon 2017</h1><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><h2 align="center" style="font-size:18px;color:rgb(48,48,48);font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;line-height:36px;margin:0px;padding:0px"><a href="http://www.bionet.ee.columbia.edu/hackathons/ffbh/2017" target="_blank">FFBH 2017</a></h2><h3 align="center" style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(48,48,48);font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;line-height:18px;margin:0px;padding:0px">March 12, 2017</h3><h3 align="center" style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(48,48,48);font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;line-height:18px;margin:0px;padding:0px">Columbia University, New York, NY 10027</h3><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><p style="line-height:18px;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px"><font color="#303030" face="tahoma, geneva, sans-serif">We are pleased to announce the 2nd Fruit Fly Brain Hackathon (FFBO 2017). This hackathon will feature the Fruit Fly Brain Observatory (FFBO) and its key components NeuroNLP and NeuroGFX. The former allows for exploring fruit fly brain data using plain English queries, and the latter facilitates the modeling and execution of such brain circuits. Brief tutorials will be given on the usage of the FFBO as well as developing new tools/features in FFBO. The hackathon is aimed at three main groups of participants: neurobiologists, modelers and software engineers. The goal of the hackathon is to bring together these three groups of participants to create new ideas to develop, use and improve the FFBO platform towards developing executable model of the fruit fly brain.</font></p><p style="line-height:18px;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px"><font color="#303030" face="tahoma, geneva, sans-serif">The Fruit Fly Brain Hackathon is organized in conjunction with the Columbia Workshop on Brain Circuit, Memory and Computation on March 13-14, 2017. Participants of the hackathon are welcome to attend the workshop.</font></p><p style="line-height:18px;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px"><font color="#303030" face="tahoma, geneva, sans-serif">Registration is free but all participants have to <a href="https://ffbo17.eventbrite.com/" target="_blank">register</a> (</font><font color="#1155cc" face="tahoma, geneva, sans-serif"><u><a href="https://ffbo17.eventbrite.com/" target="_blank">https://ffbo17.ev<wbr>entbrite.com/</a></u></font><font color="#303030" face="tahoma, geneva, sans-serif">).</font><br></p><p style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(48,48,48);font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;line-height:18px;margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px">Organizers:<br><span style="font-size:small">Paul Richmond, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield <br></span><span style="font-size:small">Adam Tomkins, Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield <br></span><span style="font-size:small">Nikul Ukani, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University <br></span><span style="font-size:small">Yiyin Zhou, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University </span></p></div><div style="font-size:12.8px;margin:0px;padding:0px"><p style="margin:0px 0px 18px;padding:0px"><font color="#303030" face="Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px">More information can be found on the hackathon website:</span></font><br><font color="#303030" face="Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px"><a href="http://www.bionet.ee.columbia.edu/hackathons/ffbh/2017" target="_blank">http://www.bionet.ee.columbia.<wbr>edu/hackathons/ffbh/2017</a></span></font></p><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px">------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>------------------</div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Best Regards,<br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="color:rgb(48,48,48);font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">Yiyin Zhou,</span><br></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="color:rgb(48,48,48);font-family:tahoma,geneva,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px">on behalf of the organizers</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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