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Message from the Director
Welcome to the first INCF newsletter of 2017! We are delighted to welcome Canada as a new Governing Node of INCF this year and look forward to many highly productive collaborations with all our Canadian colleagues! Canada becomes the 18th Node in the current INCF Network spanning 4 continents.
The first round of INCF’s seed funding concluded recently, with many high quality applications from around the world. Congratulations to those who were successful! Details of projects awarded funding are on our website. We encourage submissions to the new call open until mid-March.
Preparations are underway for the series of events to be hosted by the Norwegian Node in Oslo in May-June. Everyone is invited to the 16th INCF Nodes workshop being held on May 29-30. The INCF Council for Training, Science & Infrastructure will meet May 31 - June 1, followed by meetings of the INCF Governing Board and Infrastructure Committee on June 1. We look forward to welcoming you to Olso this spring!
We are also very much looking forward to the 10th annual INCF Neuroinformatics Congress being hosted by the Malaysian Node in Kuala Lumpur on August 20-21. Abstract submission is open! Don’t forget to send your proposals for Special Interest Group meetings that you would like to host there: contact Mathew Abrams (mathew@incf.org).
Another busy year of INCF events ahead! On behalf of the INCF Governing Board and Secretariat, I wish you all a very productive, collaborative and happy 2017!
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Canada becomes a Governing Node
We’re happy to announce that Canada has joined INCF this month, through the efforts of long-time community member Prof. Alan Evans, McGill U, who comments on Canada’s membership here:
"Neuroscience has changed beyond all recognition in the last 20 years, integrating new ideas from the information revolution with technological advances in neurobiology. Canada is delighted to join its international partners within INCF in addressing the challenges of integrating complex data across different spatial scales and global data-sharing. The future of neuroscience is computational and multinational. Canada intends to be a leader in this transformation of brain research and INCF provides an ideal forum for building a global brain network."
The INCF community and the Secretariat are delighted to welcome our new Canadian Node to the INCF Network, and we’re looking forward to many fruitful collaborations!
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Alan Evans at the INCF Neuroinformatics congress, 2016
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Minister for Higher Education & Research visits the INCF Secretariat
The Swedish minister for Higher Education and Research, Helene Hellmark Knutsson, visited the INCF Secretariat on February 15 for presentations about INCF's current collaborative projects regarding infrastructure, standards, and datasharing for neuroscience, and a presentation of the Swedish Node by Node Head Prof Jeanette Hellgren Kotaleski. INCF's efforts in training were also highlighted, with a presentation of community encyclopedia KnowledgeSpace.
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Call for seed funding
Submission is now open for the INCF's second round of seed funding. Applications for support for projects, workshops and travels are invited until March 16.
Funding will either drive forward delivery of a product that addresses a neuroscience use case or enable a project to develop to the stage of attracting larger-scale external funding. Suitably aligned projects are those that will deliver tools, data, research, education, training or community development.
Find out more about our seed funding scheme here.
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Training and Education Committee meeting
The INCF Training and Education Committee (TEC), joined by representatives from its strategic partners from BD2K, FENS, IBRO, iNeuro, and OHBM, held its inaugural meeting in Stockholm, 2-3 February 2017 to devise a strategy for INCF’s training and education activities. The major discussion points were on TrainingSpace, INCF’s role in certification, potential partnerships with Software Carpentry/Data Carpentry, and potential course offerings (either independently or in collaboration with partners).
TEC members:
Jean-Baptiste Polinec (Chair), Stephanie de La Rochefoucauld (Deputy Chair), Gaute Einevoll, William Grisham, Ariel Rokem, Aloise Saria, Ausra Saudargiene, John Van Horn, Thomas Wachtler, Menno Witter, and Daniel Wojcik
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INCF Nodes Workshop in Oslo, May 29-30
The INCF Nodes Workshop, held each spring in collaboration with one of the INCF Nodes, is the main event bringing the wider community and representatives from each Node together.
This year the workshop will be held at the University of Oslo in collaboration with the Norwegian Node. Session themes include Tools for teaching & training neuroinformatics and Brain atlasing workflows and analytics.
The workshop is open to all interested participants with an interest in neuroscience tools, data management and collaboration. Representatives from INCF's Nodes and governing bodies will also be present.
Learn more and register here
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Georg Sverdrups hus, Oslo University
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INCF Special Interest Groups
INCF is looking to broaden community engagement through the creation of Special Interest Groups (SIGs) which will be suggested and led by the community.
INCF will give support with group communications, coordination between groups, and assistance with logistics and outreach. All community members are welcome to be SIG members, regardless of their location in the world.
With SIGs, we aim to expand our core community, to be more responsive to new projects and changes in the domain, and to help community products have stronger impact in the neuroscience field. We look forward to offering our services and resources to neuroscientists worldwide.
Any questions can be directed to Mathew Abrams
mathew@incf.org
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Brain Function CoE meeting attendees
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Australia Node meeting report
INCF has been well represented at Australian neuroscience conferences during the summer. First was the Australian Cognitive Neuroscience Society Meeting, where a number of the Australian INCF Node members contributed to a symposium entitled, ‘Neuroethics: where neuroscience meets society’ – click full details.
Next was the annual meeting of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function (Brain Function CoE), led by Prof. Gary Egan. Here, brain researchers from various disciplines and career stages converged to discuss their research on brain function.
Finally, INCF and the Brain Function CoE co-supported a symposium, ‘Connecting the dots: understanding brain function’ at Australia’s biggest neuroscience conference, the Australian Neuroscience Society’s annual meeting. Symposium speakers included Prof. Gary Egan and Dr Allan Jones, CEO of the Allen Institute for Brain Science – click for full details.
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INCF awarded seed funding applications, 2016
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Projects:
Connectivity-based brain parcellation kit, Leonard Cerliani
International Brain Laboratory, Michael Hausser
Linking descriptions of experiment metadata in NIDM-Experiment with BIDS supported workflow, David B. Keator
Enabling cellular-resolution connectomic anlaysis of the primate cortex, Piotr Majka
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Workshops:
Implementation of a Neuroimaging DOI system across major leading public neuroimaging data archives, Daniel Marcus
A first implementation of NIDM-Workflows, JB Poline
Standardized workflow of human EKG in NIX and odML, Hiroaki Wagatsuma
Travel:
Roselyne Chauvin
Caroline Froehlich
Rafael Neto Henriques
Robin Ince
Camille Maumet
Annalisa Pascarella
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You can read more about our funded grants here
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Courses and Conferences
CNS 2017
The Cognitive Neurosciense Society annual meeting
March 25-28
San Fransisco, USA
Registration deadline: March 3
cogneurosociety.org
Connectomics Workshop
Advanced course in connectomics
April 22-29
Siena, Italy
nsas.it/courses-workshops/advanced-courses/connectomics
ESANN 2017
April 26-28
Bruges, Belgium
elen.ucl.ac.be/esann
ENCODS 2017
European Neuroscience Conference by Doctoral Students
May 4-6
Alicante, Spain
Registration deadline: April 1
fens.org/Training/ENCODS/ENCODS2017
IJCNN 2017
The international joint conference on Neural Networks
May 14-19
Alaska, USA
Early bird registration deadline: March 20
ijcnn.org
The 3rd workshop on cognitive neuroscience of auditory and cross-modal perception
May 29-31
Košice, Slovakia
Abstract submission deadline: May 1st
Registration is free but required
pcl.upjs.sk/workshop2017
International Conferenc on Mathematical Neuroscience 2017
May 30 - June 2
Colorado, USA
Early bird registration: March 31
math.uh.edu/~zpkilpat/icmns2017/registration
2nd Nordic Neuroscience
June 7-9
Stockholm, Sweden
Abstract submission: April 1st
nordicneuroscience.org/2017
RLDM 2017
June 11-14
Michigan, USA
Early registration deadline: April 28
rldm.org/rldm2017
Workshop on Brain Dynamics on Multiple Scales - Paradigms, their relations, and integrated approaches
June 19-23
Dresden, Germany
Application deadline: February 28
pks.mpg.de/msbdy17
Interdisciplinary Training in Computational Neuroscience
Free two-week NIH funded Summer Short Course
June 19-30
Missouri, USA
Application deadline: March 1
Open to U.S citizens and permanent residents only
engineering.missouri.edu/neuro/outreach/nih-neuroscience-course
ISNN 2017
14th International symposium on Neural Networks
June 21-23, Hokkaido, Japan
June 24-26, Muroran, Japan
conference.cs.cityu.edu.hk/isnn
Interacting with neural circuits
July 2-22
Lisbon, Portugal
Registration deadline: March 20
sites.google.com/site/interactingneuralcircuits
SNL 2017
First international workshop on Symbolic-Neural learning
July 7-8
Nagoya, Japan
Paper submission deadline: March 15
Early bird registration: June 9
ttic.edu/SNL2017
CCNSS 2017
Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience
Summer School
July 9-27
Shanghai, China
Application deadline: March 15
ccnss.org
CNS 2017
26th annual computational neuroscience meeting
July 15-20
Antwerp, Belgium
Abstract submission deadline: March 5
Early bird registration: May 8
cnsorg.org/cns-2017
CAJAL Course in Computational Neuroscience
August 6-26
Lisbon, Portugal
Registration deadline: March 20
fens.org/Training/CAJAL-programme/CAJAL-Courses-2017/CCCN2017
BMM Summer School 2017
Brain, minds and machines
August 13 - September 3
Massachusetts, USA
Application deadline: March 14
cbmm.mit.edu/summer-school/2017
EBBS 2017
European brain and behaviour society meeting
September 8-11
Bilbao, Spain
Abstract submission deadline: April 20
Early bird registration: July 31
ebbs-meeting.com
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