Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics
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.
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.
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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.
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Event ID: 178 369 0117
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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. 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
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
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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
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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.
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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
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Presenter: Dr. John Murray, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University
Topic: Large-scale gradients across human cortex: computational modeling, neuroimaging and transcriptomics
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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
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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
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Presenter: Dr. Sean Hill, Director, Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics
Topic: A multiscale perspective on brain health: from genes to behaviour and populations
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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.
Neuroinformatics Platform, by David Rotenberg, Jay Hennessy and Adeel Ansari
BrainHealth Databank, by Dr. Joanna Yu
Computational Genomics, by Dr. Shreejoy Tripathy, Dr. Sonny Chen, Anukrati Nigam and Dr. Michael Wainberg
Brain Circuit Modeling, by Dr. Etay Hay, Dr. Alexandre Guet-McCreight, Kant Yao, Frank Mazza and Maggie Wishart
Whole Brain Modeling, by Dr. John Griffiths and Shreyas Harita
Cognitive Network Modeling, by Dr. Andreea Diaconescu, Daniel Hauke, Dr. Povilas -Karvelis and Hannah Bernstein
Integrative Neuroanatomy, by Dr. Leon French, Ethan Kim and Dr. Sejal Patel
Whole Person Modeling, by Dr. Daniel Felsky, Dr. Giuseppe Tosto and Micaela Consens
KCNI Education, by Dr. Erin Dickie, Dr. Sanjeev Sockalingam and Dr. Pierre Bellec
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