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Dear Colleagues, <br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Join the INCF network at the </span><a href="https://neuroinformatics.incf.org/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">INCF Assembly on </span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Neuroinformatics</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> on Sep 23-25 at the University of Texas at Austin!</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">This year's theme is <b>"</b></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><b>Brain Meets AI: Pioneering the Future of Neuroinformatics</b>"</span> and we are now accepting late breaking abstracts - submit your work via <a href="https://neuroinformatics.incf.org/abstract-submission" target="_blank">this link</a> until Aug 23.<br></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><a href="https://neuroinformatics.incf.org/register" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Registration</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> is open, with discounts for INCF members (you can sign up during the registration process)! </span></font> <font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The
INCF Assembly is a unique venue where neuroscience standards
developers, infrastructure providers, and software developers have the
opportunity to interact with the research community to share the latest
advancements in neuroinformatics. </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Our keynote speakers this year are </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Elisabeth Bik</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (Microbiome Digest), </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Timo Dickscheid</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (Jülich Research Center), </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Hanchuan Peng</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (SEU-ALLEN Joint Center), </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Danilo Bzdok</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute), and </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Viktor Jirsa</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (Institut de Neurosciences des Systemès) who will cover the latest developments in the topics of FAIR neuroscience, </span></font>facilitating
standardization and sharing of neurophysiology data, applications of AI
to neuroscience research, closing the discovery loop and digital twins,
and research integrity in neuroscience.<br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">We
are also happy to host the panel discussion "BRAIN Initiative
Informatics Perspectives: Funding and Building a Sustainable Data
Ecosystem" with representatives from the NIH.<br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The meeting is followed by 3 training courses: </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Driving collaboration in neurophysiology with NWB and DANDI</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Introduction to reproducible neuroimaging data processing and analysis with <a href="http://brainlife.io" target="_blank">brainlife.io</a></span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, and </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">DataJoint pipelines for your neuroscience experiments</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> on Sep 26-27.</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><br></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">We
at INCF hope to see you at Assembly 2024 and would very much appreciate
it if you could forward the information above to your relevant networks
in AI, computer and data science, and </span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">neuroscience</span></font><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">.</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span></font></p></div>
<div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>-----------------------------</div>Helena Ledmyr, PhD<i style="font-size:12.8px"><br></i></div><div><i style="font-size:12.8px">Director<br></i></div><div dir="ltr"><i style="font-size:12.8px">Development and Communications</i></div><div dir="ltr"><i style="font-size:12.8px"><br></i></div><div dir="ltr"><a href="https://neuroinformatics.incf.org/" target="_blank"><img width="420" height="127" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4zEVrcBYqp74Df7dwyFfwEWOUhfAWuix2JyT-FCADD5F7IOrZnky-Nsx056XUZBlUhmQQuqw91R-ovE"></a><br><div style="font-size:12.8px" dir="ltr"><font size="1">International Neuroinformatics Coordinating Facility Secretariat <br>Karolinska Institutet. Nobels väg 15A, SE-171 77 Stockholm. Sweden<br>Email: <a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" href="mailto:helena.ledmyr@incf.org" target="_blank">helena.ledmyr@incf.org</a><br>Phone: +46 8 524 870 35</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px" dir="ltr"><font size="1"><a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" href="http://incf.org/" target="_blank">incf.org</a></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>