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The Human Brain Project Annual 2004 Conference

A Decade of Neuroscience Informatics: Looking Ahead

William H. Natcher Conference Center, NIH
April 26–27, 2004

Monday, April 26, 2004

Time Event
7:00 a.m. Registration and Light Refreshments
8:15 a.m. Stephen H. Koslow — Welcome
Session 1; Chair: Alan I. Leshner
Time Event
8:30 a.m. Elias A. Zerhouni
8:45 a.m. Large-Scale Neuroscience
Thomas R. Insel
9:00 a.m. Information Based Medicine: A New Era in Patient Care
Caroline Kovac
9:30 a.m. Progress and Challenges in Informatics: A Continuing Explosion of Data
Kathie Olsen
10:00 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. International Consortium for Brain Mapping — Part 1: From Theory to Clinical Utility
John C. Mazziotta
11:00 a.m. The Promises and the Challenges of Systems Biology Research DOE's Genomics: GTL Program
Aristides A. Patrinos
11:30 a.m. Cognitive Neuroscience, Brain Databases and Neuroinformatics: The Next Ten Years
Michael S. Gazzaniga
12:00 p.m. Cyber-Drive: Opportunities for Progress Created by Community-Based Digital Research and Education Resources
Mary Clutter
12:15 p.m. Working Lunch — Posters/Electronic Demonstrations
Session 2; Chair: Floyd Bloom
Time Event
1:30 p.m. The Role of Neuroimaging in Drug Abuse and Addiction
Nora D. Volkow
1:45 p.m. The Brain is Wider than the Sky: NIH Neuroinformatics Side by Side with NASA Database Systems*
France A. Cordova
2:15 p.m. Sharing Neuroscience Informatics Data: Responsibilities and Challenges
Thomas R. Cech
2:45 p.m. Break
3:15 p.m. Digital Brain Atlases: Theory and Results
Arthur W. Toga
3:45 p.m. Neurogenomics: at the Intersection of Neurobiology and Genome Sciences
Mark S. Boguski
4:15 p.m. Visualizing the Representation of the Olfactory World in the Brain
Richard Axel
4:45 p.m. Developing Technologies for Quantitative Neuropathology of Mouse Models for Human Brain Diseases: New Paths for Integrative Databases and to Drug Development
Floyd E. Bloom
5:15 p.m. Posters/Electronic Demonstrations and Reception
7:30 p.m. Adjourn

Tuesday, April 27, 2004

Session 3; Chair: Yuan Liu
Time Event
7:00 a.m. Registration and Light Refreshments
8:30 a.m. Serial Electron Microscopy: From Heroic to Routine
Kristen Harris
9:00 a.m. Advanced Imaging Approaches and Cyberinfrastructure Applied to Multi-Scale Challenges in Brain Research
Mark Ellisman
9:30 a.m. Analysis and Synthesis of Neuronal Morphology
Giorgio Ascoli
10:00 a.m. Neuroinformatics for Neurophysiology: Enabling Global Sharing and Reanalysis of Data
Daniel Gardner
10:30 a.m. Break
Session 4; Chair: Michael D. Hirsch
Time Event
11:00 a.m. The NeuroSys: Creation of Data Management Systems for Data Annotation and Sharing
Gwen Jacobs
11:30 a.m. High Resolution Histological Brain Atlases and Associated Databases
Edward Jones
12:00 p.m. The Complex Genetics of Brain Structural and Functional Variation
Robert Williams
12:30 p.m. The SenseLab Approach to Achieving HBP Goals
Gordon Shepherd
1:00 p.m. Working Lunch — Posters/Electronic Demonstrations
Session 5; Chair: Molly V. Wagster
Time Event
2:00 p.m. Neuroscience, Neuroimages, and Neuroinformatics, or Ten Years in Koslow's Korner
David Rottenberg
2:30 p.m. Standardized Protocols for the Web-Based Communication of Polysomnographic Data
Michael Chase
2:45 p.m. Wavelets and Statistical Analysis of Pharmacological Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data
Edward Bullmore
3:00 p.m. Designing Neurons: From Art to Engineering
Robert Lee
3:15 p.m. Full Resolution Analysis Methods for Electron Microscope
U.J. McMahan
3:30 p.m. Break
Session 6; Chair: Stephen H. Koslow
Time Event
4:00 p.m. Inference on Statistic Images: The Interplay Between Nonparametric Permutation and Parametric Random Field Theory
Thomas Nichols
4:15 p.m. Mining of Brain Image Data
Vasileios Megalooikonomou
4:30 p.m. Cortical Cartography in the 21st Century: Surfing Surfaces and Valuing Volumes
David Van Essen
5:00 p.m. Brain Morphometry in the Era of Neuroinformatics: Past Lessons, Future Prospects
David Kennedy
6:00 p.m. Adjourn