Welcome to Neuroinformatics 2008
1st INCF Congress of Neuroinformatics: Databasing and Modeling the Brain
Stockholm, September 7 - 9, 2008
Welcome to the official site of Neuroinformatics 2008, the 1st INCF Congress of Neuroinformatics, scheduled for September 7 - 9, 2008. Neuroinformatics 2008 will focus on dissemination of recent progress and community building in this emerging field. The congress is organized as a single track event, with keynote speakers, workshops, poster sessions, and live demos of neuroinformatics applications.
Keynote Speakers
Mark Ellisman
Title: Brain Research in the Digital Age
Affiliation: University of California San Diego, USA
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David Van Essen
Title: A neuroinformatics perspective on cerebral cortical structure and function
Affiliation: Washington University, St. Louis , USA
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Mitsuo Kawato
Title: Towards Manipulative Neuroscience based on Brain-Network-Interface
ATR Computational Neuroscience Labs, Kyoto, Japan
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Mary Kennedy
Title: Synaptic Nanomachines
Affiliation. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
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Henry Markram
Title: The Blue Brain Project
Affiliation: Brain Mind Institute, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Idan Segev
Title: Towards an Objective Analysis of the Firing Variability of Cortical Neurons
Affiliation: Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
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Congress Workshops
Future hardware challenges to scientific computing
Chair: Erik De Schutter- Gabriel Wittum, Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg, Germany
- Marc-Oliver Gewaltig, Honda Research Institute Europe, Offenbach, Germany
- John Shalf, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Neurogenomics meets bioinformatics meets neuroinformatics
Chair: Robert Williams- Ed Lein, Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, USA
- Seth Grant, Sanger (Cambridge University), UK
- Kristen Harris, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Extraction of structural and functional information from brain images
Chair: Ulla Ruotsalainen- Katrin Amunts,
Research Center Jülich, Germany
- Alan Evans, McGill University Montreal, Canada
- Thomas Mrsic-Flögel, University College London, UK
Challenges and benefits of multichannel electrophysiology
Chair: Andrzej Wrobel- György Buzsáki, Rutgers University, Newark, USA
- Miguel Nicolelis, Duke University, Durham, USA
- Xiaoqin Wang, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, USA
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Supported by EU Special Support Action INCF 
and the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research 
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