Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics Speaker Series
Our monthly series is designed to highlight research topics, share knowledge and spark conversation among leading scientists and research institutions worldwide in the field of neuroinformatics, computational neuroscience and psychiatry.
Coming up next
March 2021 talk
Presenter: Dr. Petra Ritter heads the Brain Simulation Section at the Dept. of Neurology, Charité and Berlin Institute of Health. Topic: The Virtual Brain Cloud Date: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 at 11-12 p.m.
Webex link
Event ID: 178 400 3161
Event Password: KCNISS0330
Call in (Toronto): +1-647-484-1598
Access ID: 178 400 3161
Presenter: Dr. Joel Zylberberg is Associate Fellow of Learning in Machines and Brains at CIFAR, Faculty Affiliate at the Vector Institute for AI, and Canada Research Chair in Computational Neuroscience at York University. Topic: Learning from unexpected events in the neocortical microcircuit Date: Monday, April 26, 2021 at 11-12 p.m.
Webex link
Event ID: 178 369 0117
Event Password: KCNISS0426
Call in (Toronto): +1-647-484-1598
Access ID: 178 369 0117
March 2021 talk
Presenter: Dr. Petra Ritter heads the Brain Simulation Section at the Dept. of Neurology, Charité and Berlin Institute of Health. Topic: The Virtual Brain Cloud Date: Tuesday, March 30, 2021 at 11-12 p.m.
Webex link
Event ID: 178 400 3161
Event Password: KCNISS0330
Call in (Toronto): +1-647-484-1598
Access ID: 178 400 3161
February 2021 talk
Presenter: Dr. Joana Cabral is a Biomedical Engineer with a PhD in Computational Neuroscience. She is currently a researcher at the Life and Health Sciences Research Institute in Portugal. Topic: Dynamic Behaviour of Brain Network States
January 2021 talk
Presenter: Dr. Lori Chibnik is a biostatistician and Assistant Professor with an appointment in the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital and the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Topic: Tackling disparities in genetics research: Building the research and researchers together Watch the video
December 2020 talk
Presenter: Dr. Frances Skinner, Senior Scientist, Krembil Brain Institute Division of Clinical and Computational Neuroscience, Krembil Research Institute, University Health Network. Professor, University of Toronto. Topic: A modeling story of two brain cells Watch the video
November 2020 talk
Presenter: Dr. Stephanie R. Jones, Associate Professor, Department of Neuroscience, Brown University. Topic: Biophysically Principled Neural Modeling of EEG to Guide Interpretation and Design of Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation. Watch the video
October 2020 talk
Presenter: Dr. Philip De Jager, Weil-Granat Professor of Neurology, Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Columbia Precision Medicine Initiative, Columbia University Irving Medical Center Topic: Cell population structure of the aging brain: Towards a high-resolution perspective of human neurodegeneration Watch the video
September 2020 talk
Presenter: Dr. John Murray, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University Topic: Large-scale gradients across human cortex: computational modeling, neuroimaging and transcriptomics Watch the video
August 2020 talk
Presenter: Dr. Justin Baker, Scientific Director, McLean Institute for Technology in Psychiatry, and Director, Laboratory for Functional Neuroimaging and Bioinformatics, McLean Hospital, and Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School Topic: Sensing Psychosis: Toward Computational Phenotypes in Severe Mental Illness Watch the video
July 2020 talk
Presenter: Dr. Gaute Einevoll, Professor of Physics at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences and the University of Oslo Topic: Towards multipurpose biophysics-based mathematical models of cortical circuits Watch the video
Inaugural talk - June 2020
Presenter: Dr. Sean Hill, Director, Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics Topic: A multiscale perspective on brain health: from genes to behaviour and populations Watch the video
Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics First Anniversary Event
On June 29, 2020, we celebrated our one-year anniversary with a day of special, virtual presentations to share achievements from our first year and our future directions.
Keynote presentation, by Dr. Etienne Sibille, Deputy Director and Senior Scientist, Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, CAMH
The following presentations are by our centre’s scientists, teams and collaborators.