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

[David Willshaw]

Rodney - I am interested in this workshop and have run one a UK one on a
similar topic. If Rob would like me to lend a hand, I would be happy (I
am involved in two others but not taking the lead in either).

Best wishes

David
On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 12:08 +0200, Rodney Douglas wrote:
> 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:  status:  50% acceptance 
> Accepted: Kennedy, Ellisman and van Essen
> No reply: Kawato, Cerf, and Sejnowski.  INVITATIONS RESENT
> 
> 
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> Workshop A:   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.  
> 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  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:      
> 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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