INCF Japan-Node Special Symposium

WHEN?

September 1 (Congress day 3)
13:30-18:20

PROGRAM

13:30-13:35
Opening Greeting by Shun-ichi Amari                          

13:35-15:00

INCF Global Initiatives

Chairs: Sten Grillner & Jan G. Bjaalie
Sten Grillner: What INCF can do for Neuroscience     (25 min)                                                  
Erik De Schutter: New model description standards to facilitate multi-scale modeling     (15 min)
Robert W. Williams: Translating, mining, and merging digital brain atlases: the INCF Waxholm Space     (15 min)
Maryann Martone: Ontologies of Neural Structures     (15 min)
Colin Ingram: Practical metadata standards: Making data sharing and endurance feasible     (15 min)

15:00-15:20
Coffee Break                                             

15:20-17:10

New Projects and Impacts from Asian-Pacific circle

Chair: Shiro Usui        
David Van Essen: An informatics perspective on cerebral cortical connectivity, function and development     (30 min)
Gary Egan: Neuroinformatics approaches for mapping striatal structures and cortico-striatal connections in the human brain     (20 min)
Soon-Young Lee: Perspetives on neuroinformatics as an important tool for an engineering goal - artificial cognitive system     (20 min)
Taishin Nomura: Integrated bioscience with Dynamic Brain Platform     (20 min)
Ryutaro Himeno: Japan’s next-generation supercomputer R&D project and grand challenges in life science     (20 min)     

17:15-18:15

Panel Discussion

Chair: Sten Grillner

Panelists: David Van Essen, Jan G. Bjaalie, Upinder Bhalla, Chung-Chuan Lo, Gary Egan, Soon-Young Lee, Kenji Doya