The Virtual Brain

We introduce here VirtualBrainCloud – a EU project – that integrates existing software tools and platforms to provide access to high quality clinical multi-disciplinary data to integrate them via computational brain models and to make them useful in clinical practice.

Central to this project is The Virtual Brain (TVB) simulation platform. It allows connectome-based modeling of human and mouse whole-brain dynamics, and enables the “integration” of brain dynamics at different levels: from cellular to whole-brain. This computational modeling system is tailored to the individual, and bridges multiple scales to identify key mechanisms that predict disease progression and serves as Precision Decision Support System.

The workshop will provide insight in the interdisciplinary work and related challenges that range from computational and clinical neuroscience to infrastructure and legal and ethical matters.

Speakers

• Hannelore Aerts, Ghent University, Belgium
• Anastasia Brovkin, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Germany
• Julie Courtiol, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
• Nikolaus Forgo, University of Vienna, Austria
• Sumit Madan, Fraunhofer SCAI, Germany
• Randy McIntosh, University of Toronto, Canada
• Alexander Peyser, Simulation Lab Neuroscience & Multiscale Simulation and Architectures at Supercomputing Center Jülich, Germany
• Oleksandr Popovyh, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
• Petra Ritter, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
• Gianluca Susi, UPM-UCM Center for Biomedical Technology, Technical University of Madrid, Spain & University of Rome "Tor Vergata"
• Bertrand Thirion, Inria, Paris, France
• Riccardo Zucca, SPEC, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain

Program

The workshop consists of two half-day sessions:

Morning session, July 16

• 08:50 - 09:00

  Welcoming words

  Petra Ritter & Julie Courtiol

• 09:00 - 09:35

  The Virtual Brain Simulation Platform and Virtual Brain Cloud

  Petra Ritter

• 09:35 - 10:10

  Modeling brain dynamics in brain tumor patients

  Hannelore Aerts

• 10:10 - 10:45

  Ethical and legal aspects of personalized brain simulation and data sharing

  Nikolaus Forgo

• 10:45 - 11:00

  Break

• 11:00 - 11:35

  Terminologies, ontologies and data curation

  Sumit Madan

• 11:35 - 12:10

  Cloud and HPC solutions

  Alexander Peyser

• 12.10 - 12.45

  Enriching big data analytics by computational modeling
  

  Oleksandr Popovyh

Afternoon session, July 17

• 14:00 - 14:35

  BrainX3: a tool for Multi-Modal Data Integration, Analysis, Visualization and Interaction

  Riccardo Zucca

• 14:35 - 15:10

  Machine learning tools for large-scale data

  Bertrand Thirion

• 15:10 - 15:45

  Linking spiking neural networks to TVB

  Gianluca Susi

• 15:45 - 16:00

  Break

• 16.00 - 16.35
  

Interfacing the virtual brain with a digital atlas

Anastasia Brovkin

• 16:35 - 17:10

  The Virtual Epileptic Patient

  Julie Courtiol

• 17:10 - 17:45

  The Neurodegenerative Virtual Brain

  Randy McIntosh

• 17:45 - 18:00

  Final discussion & closing remarks

Location

The workshop will be held as a part of the wider CNS*2019 meeting in Barcelona, Spain. The meeting takes place at the Historical Building of the Universitat de Barcelona (UB), which is located downtown Barcelona.

Registration

Registration to the Workshops is required for attending the 2 days. Please see the CNS*2019 website for registration to the Virtual Brain Cloud workshop.

Note that attendees registered for the main meeting only can attend the workshop sessions being held on July 16th.