Annual Spring Meeting of Human Brain Project Research
Lister Hill Center Auditorium, NIH
June 3–4, 1999
Thursday, June 3, 1999
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 8:00 | Welcome |
Invited Presentations on Interoperability; Chair: Stephen H. Koslow, NIMH
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 8:15 | Interoperability 101 Al Barr, California Institute of Technology |
| 8:45 | Neuro Inter Pares: Steps Towards Interoperability Peter Baumann, Active Knowledge GmbH, Germany FORWISS (Bavarian Research Center for Knowledge-Based Systems), Germany |
| 9:15 | BrainInfo: A Web Neuroscience Resource Based on NeuroNames, a Template Brain Atlas, Edgewarp and Geographic Information Systems Software Douglas M. Bowden, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Regional Primate Research Center, University of Washington, Seattle |
| 9:45 | Break |
Project Progress Reports; Chair: John Mazziotta, UCLA
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 10:15 | A Java CORBA-based Framework for Neurologic Data Management Stephen Wong, Kent Soo Hoo, UCSF |
| 10:30 | Structural Information Framework for Brain Mapping Jim Brinkley, George Ojemann, Ken Maravilla, David Corina, University of Washington, Seattle |
| 10:45 | Interoperability and Data Exchange: The BRAID Project Edward Herskovits, Johns Hopkins University |
| 11:00 | Sharing of Anatomic and Morphological Information David Kennedy, MGH |
| 11:15 | The Stanford Human Brain Project: Software Development, Tools for Image Analysis, and Pediatric Neuroimaging Allan Reiss, Jonathon Links, Smadar Shiffman, Leu Beach, Nick Judge, Yi-Ren Ng |
| 11:30 | Toward a Computational Infrastructure for Multi-Modality Imaging John S. George, Biophysics Group, Los Alamos National Lab |
| 11:45 | Advanced Methods for fMRI Signal Acquisition and Analysis Jonathan D. Cohen and Douglas C. Noll, Princeton University |
Invited Presentation; Chair: Stephen H. Koslow, NIMH
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 12:00 | Internet 2, Prospects for the HBP Terence W. Rogers, Abilene Project | Alan Weis, Internet 2 |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
Project Progress Reports (Continued); Chair: Russell Jacobs, CalTech
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 1:30 | A Probabilistic Reference System for the Human Brain Adding Functional Landmarks to the System John Mazziotta, UCLA School of Medicine |
| 2:00 | Surface-based Analyses of Cerebral Cortex: Reconstructions, Coordinate Systems, Warping, and Databases David Van Essen, Heather Drury, Michael Miller, Washington University |
| 2:15 | Quasi-conformal Mapping of the Human Cerebellum Monica K. Hurdal, University of Minnesota; Quantitative Evaluation of Sofware Tools Stephen C. Strother, University of Minnesota |
| 2:45 | Break |
Working Group Sessions (William H. Natcher Conference Center)
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 3:30 | In Room A Software Component Testing and Comparison Specifications David Laidlaw and Edward Herskovits |
| 3:30 | In Room C1 and C2 Enabling Technologies for Interoperability, With Emphasis On Web-based Technologies Lael C. Gatewood and Stephen Wong |
| 3:30 | In Room G1 and G2 Interoperability — Building Collaborations Within the HBP Arthur Toga and Kristen Harris |
| 6:00 | Adjourn |
| 7:30 | No Host Dinner |
Friday, June 4, 1999
Invited Presentations on Interoperability (Lister Hill Center Auditorium); Chair: Michael Hirsch, NIMH
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 8:00 | Advanced Technology for Integrating Data Collections: Application to the Human Brain Project Reagan W. Moore, Associate Director, Data Intensive Computing, San Diego Supercomputer Center |
| 8:30 | Introduction to CORBA Stephen Wong, UCSF |
| 9:00 | Managing Heterogeneous Scientific Data Using the EAV/CR Physical Representation Prakash Nadkarni, Luis Marenco, Michael Hines, Emmanouil Skoufos,Perry Miller, and Gordon Shepherd |
| 9:30 | Break |
Project Progress Reports; Chair: David Van Essen, Washington, University
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 10:00 | The SENSELAB Project: Recent Enhancements Prakash Nadkarni, Luis Marenco, Michael Hines, Emmanouil Skoufos, Perry Miller, and Gordon Shepherd |
| 10:15 | Digital Mouse Brain Atlas in 3-D at 10 um Voxel Resolution R. L. Richard Sidman, Bela Kosaras, Bijoy Misra, and Stephen Senft, Division of Neurogenetics, New England Regional Primate Research Center, Harvard Medical School |
| 10:30 | Connecting Databases to Models: Real Lessons in Software — Interoperability within the Human Brain Project Jim Bower, California Institute of Technology |
| 10:45 | Synapse Web Kristen Harris and John Fiala, Harvard University, Children's Hospital |
| 11:00 | Three Dimensional Reconstruction from Transmission ElectronMicrographs via Multiple-View Stereo Ramani Duraiswami, David Harwood, Motilal Agrawal, and Larry S. Davis, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland, College Park | Paul W. Luther, Department of Physiology, University of Maryland, Baltimore |
| 11:15 | Development of a 3D Cell-Centered Neural Database Maryann Martone, Gwen Jacobs, Center for Computational Biology, University of Montana, Bozeman | Mark Ellisman, National Center for Microscopy and Imaging Research, San Diego |
| 11:30 | Analysis and Visualization Tools for Neuroscience Databases Patrick Kelly and Harvey Karten, UCSD |
| 11:45 | Goal-Directed Magnetic Resonance Brain Micro-Imaging Russell Jacobs, Scott Fraser, Jerry Solomon, John Allman, Al Barr, David Laidlaw, and Tom Meade, Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
Project Progress Reports (Continued); Chair: James Bower, CalTech
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 1:30 | Overview of the USC Brain Project Michael Baudry, USC NeuroCore Schema for a Database of Cerebellar Correlates of Classical Conditioning Jeffrey Grethe, Emory University School of Medicine Progress on the Brain Models on the Web (BMW) Jacob Spoelstra, USC NeuARt System and the NeuroScholar Schema for Summary Databases Exemplifed by a Database of NeuroanatomicalConnections Gully A.P.C. Burns, USC |
| 2:00 | NEOSIM: Plug and Play Neuronal Modeling Nigel Goddard, Carnegie Mellon University | Erik De Schutter, Born-Bunge Foundation, Antwerp Belgium |
| 2:15 | Interoperability Extensions for Neurophysiology Data Exchange Michael Abato, Robert DeBellis, Steven M. Erde, Kevin H. Knuth, Thomas White, and Daniel Gardner, Department of Physiology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, New York |
| 2:30 | Break |
Working Group Reports and Discussion; Chair: Emmeline Edwards, NSF
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 3:00 | Software Component Testing and Comparison Specifications David Laidlaw and Edward Herskovits |
| 3:30 | Enabling Technologies for Interoperability, With Emphasis On Web-based Technologies Lael C. Gatewood and Stephen Wong |
| 4:00 | Interoperability — Building Collaborations Within the HBP Arthur Toga and Kristen Harris |
| 4:30 | Wrap-Up/Adjourn |
