[Neuro-2008-committee] status update (look particulalry at B)

[Erik De Schutter]

OK for workshop B.  Looks great.

Erik
> STATUS at 25 Oct 2007
>
> Rob has added B, and is ready to go.
> It looks very nice to me.
> I propose that Rob go ahead if there are no objections / comments
> by midnight CET 25 Oct
>
> ** Rob also needs a supporter / deputy from the Organizing
> Commitee.
> Could some please volunteer?
>
> ==r
>
>
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>
> Keynote speakers: Â status: Â 50% acceptance
> Accepted: Kennedy, Ellisman and van Essen
> No reply: Kawato, Cerf, and Sejnowski.  INVITATIONS RESENT
>
>
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> Workshop A: Â  status: OK
> (Anders / Erik)
> "Future hardware  challenges to scientific computing"
>
> The goal of this workshop is summarized as:
> The recent move of the computer industry towards multi-core  
> technology will cause parallel programming to spread through all  
> levels of society. Although many neuroscientific computing  
> applications are already parallel they are often not optimized for  
> multicore configurations. We will consider these challenges both from  
> a computer science, scientific computing, and a neuroinformatics  
> perspective. In addition we will consider some of the opportunities  
> massive parallelism offer in how we model neuronal networks.
>
> Invited workshop speakers get to speak for 20 min + 5 min  
> discussion.  We will have 3 invited speakers, one of whom will be a  
> computer scientists who will cover multicore computing from a  
> computer science perspective.  In addition two contributions will be  
> selected from submitted abstracts for 10 min + 5 min discussion each. Â 
> The session will end with a 15 min panel discussion and you are  
> invited to be part of this panel.
>
> Gewaltig and Wittum have accepted.
> Erik and Anders wait with third invitation 'till they have heard
> candidates
> speak in december
>
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>
> Workshop B  status:  AWAITING APPROVAL
> (Robert W. Williams, and one other interest member )
> Neurogenomics meets bioinformatics meets neuroinformatics
>
>
> SYNOPSIS/PURPOSE: Massive data sets on the
> expression of genes and proteins in the central
> nervous systems are rapidly altering the
> neuroscience research landscape and are
> fundamentally changing how investigators develop
> and test hypotheses.
>
> This workshop will highlight  powerful and open
> genomic resources that are part of a new wave of
> information dissemination. Example include the
> Allen Brain Atlas, GeneNetwork, and
> Genes2Cognition. The workshop leaders will
> illustrate how neurogenomic resources are having
> an impact on our basic understanding of brain
> structure and function. They will also illustrate
> how these resources are having an impact on
> translational research. Exploiting neurogenomic
> resources usually requires judicious combination
> with large data sets on DNA, RNA, and protein
> sequence and variation. One of the major goals of
> neuroinformatics is to successfully blend these
> highly diverse bioinformatic resources with the
> rapidly growing neuroscience literature. It
> should soon be possible to efficiently and
> correctly answer specific questions about brain
> function and disease using sophisticated
> neuroinformatic web portals such as that being
> built by the INCF and BIRN. This entail the
> assembly of distributed computer systems that are
> coupled by well established conventions for data
> annotation, calculation, and information exchange.
>
> WORKSHOP SPEAKERS
> 1. Seth Grant (Sanger) or Guus Smit on proteomic of the synaptosome
> 2. Gerd Kemperman (Dresden) or Rusty Gage,  (or
> Floyd Bloom, ** but is also being considered for Workshop C) on large gene
> expression data set
> 3. Ed Lein (ABA) or Johan Auwerx (Illkirch) on
> the ABA and Nuclear Receptor Brain database
>
> Invited workshop speakers would speak for 20 min with 5 min for Q&A.
>
> The three lead speakers will be encouraged to
> focus their presentations on genomics and the
> HIPPPOCAMPUS. The hippocampus will serve as a
> common target of analysis using three very
> different neurogenomic methods. This will
> provide some thematic coherence to the workshop.
>
> In addition two to three contributions will be
> selected from submitted abstracts for 5 min + 2 min discussion each.
>
> The session will end with a 15 min panel
> discussion on prospects and challenges with a
> focus on how neuroinformatic and web services
> will facilitate faster and better neuroscience
> research.
>
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>
> Workshop C Â status: NO DESCRIPTION PARAGRAPH / NO PROGRESS REPORT
> (Sten)
> Political / Policy Workshop
> Speakers: Kathy Olsen, David Sainsbury, Floyd Bloom
>
>
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>
> Workshop D status:  INVITATIONS SENT
>
> Extraction of structural and functional information from brain images
> (Ulla Ruotsalainen, David Willshaw)
>
> The focus of the workshop will be on imaging at different levels and the
> integration of imaging information: particularly, data integration from
> multi-modal imaging sources; multi-level data integration between
> microscopic
> and macroscopic levels; integration and extraction of data from large
> data-bases;
> and extraction of structural and functional information from brain images
>
> Invited speakers proposal:Â Â Â Â Â Â 
> prof. Alan Evans McGill University Montreal (multimodal image data,
> data-bases)
> prof. Stephen Smith Oxford University (fMRI and MRI analysis tools (FSL),
> young person but published a lot already)
> in addition I would like to have here somebody from the microscopy imaging
> groups like MacKenzie-Graham (LONI) or Atlas groups like Amunts (Juelich)
> RJD proposed also Winfred Denk (serial blockface Electron microscopy)
>
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>
> Workshop E. status INVITATIONS SENT
> (Andrzej Wrobel, David Willshaw)
> Challenges and benefits of multichannel electrophysiology
>
> Advances in techniques for electrophysiological recording as well as in
> analytical tools are enabling fascinating conceptual and engineering
> developments in present-day electrophysiological studies of the brain.
> This workshop will gather together  the scientists contributing to new
> experimental, theoretical and engineering approaches to this branch of
> systems neuroscience.
>
> (Suggested speakers – two options - to be invited for delivering
> lectures in each subject proposed by the C-tee in Stockholm)
>
> 1. Extraction of information from large electrophysiological data sets
> Gyorgi Buzsaki (MD,PhD; buzsaki at andromeda.rutgers.edu)
> Ehud Ahissar (Prof. Dr.; ehud.ahissar at weizmann.ac.il)
>
> 2. Computational theory of information processing by neuronal systems
> (coding)
> Michael Shadlen (MD, PhD; shadlen at u.washington.edu)
> Alex Pouget (Prof., alex at bcs.rochester.edu)
>
> 3. Human machine interface:
> Miguel Nicolelis (MD, PhD; nicoleli at neuro.duke.edu)
> Niels Birbaumer (Prof. Dr phil; niels.birbaumer at uni-tuebingen.de)
>
>
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> Demo Track  status:NO DESCRIPTION PARAGRAPH / NO PROGRESS REPORT
> (Shiro)
>
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