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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