INCF Japan-Node Special Symposium
“How Neuroinformatics can revolutionize Neuroscience”
WHEN?
September 1 (Congress day 3)
13:30-18:15
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: Global Exploratory Analysis of Massive Neuroimaging Collections using Microsoft Live Labs Pivot and Silverlight (15 min)
Maryann Martone: The INCF Program on Ontologies for 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 and function (30
min)
Gary Egan: Neuroinformatics
approaches for mapping striatal structures and cortico-striatal connections in the human
brain (20 min)
Soo-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, Soo-Young Lee, Kenji Doya
