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SUMMARY:Atlanta Science Festival Exploration Expo
DESCRIPTION:For the 2026 Brain Awareness Week cycle\, the Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS) and the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience (CBN) will present “The Science of Emotion: Understanding How the Brain Feels” at the Atlanta Science Festival Exploration Expo. This interactive exhibit invites visitors of all ages to discover how emotion\, physiology\, and brain activity are deeply connected. \nParticipants will rotate through hands-on stations\, including measuring physiological arousal with galvanic skin response sensors\, viewing real-time brainwave activity with portable EEG\, exploring fear responses through a safe “Spider in a Box” demonstration\, and decoding facial expressions inspired by classic emotion research. Together\, these activities make invisible brain processes visible and personally meaningful. \nGrant support will fund equipment\, materials\, and educational resources to create an immersive\, multisensory experience. The event will also train undergraduate and graduate volunteers to communicate neuroscience with empathy\, clarity\, and cultural awareness.
URL:https://trendscenter.org/event/atlanta-science-festival-exploration-expo/
LOCATION:Piedmont Park\, 400 Park Drive\, Atlanta\, 30306\, Georgia
CATEGORIES:Networking & Outreach
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SUMMARY:GSU's University Research Center Brain Health Synergy Symposium
DESCRIPTION: \nJoin three university research centers across Georgia State University: Center for Behavioral Neuroscience (CBN)\, Center for Neuroinflammation & Cardiometabolic Diseases (CNCD)\, & the Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging & Data Science (TReNDS) to discover and discuss our joint efforts in brain health research. \nDiscover what resources are available to students and researchers alike. This symposium is for everyone: a chance to learn how to use the powerful resources already available across our university research centers. \n\nRSVP here \nPoster presentation sign up\nFull Conference Program\nEvent Schedule Overview\n9:00–9:15 AM — Welcome and Opening Remarks\nOpening session introducing the symposium’s goals and highlighting GSU’s commitment to collaborative neuroscience.\n9:15–10:00 AM — Center Overviews and Scientific Highlights\nPresentations from GSU’s neuroscience research centers\, focusing on major achievements and collaborative directions in behavior\, inflammation\, and imaging.\n10:00–10:45 AM — Faculty Flash Talks: Translational & Interdisciplinary Neuroscience\nShort talks highlighting innovative projects bridging brain science\, technology\, and health applications.\n10:45–11:15 AM — Coffee Break & Networking\nRefreshments and informal networking to encourage cross-center connections.\n11:15–11:40 AM — Showcasing Synergy: A Joint Grant Highlight\nA joint presentation demonstrating how multi-center collaboration drives high-impact neuroscience research.\n11:40 AM–12:15 PM — Trainee Talks: Emerging Neuroscience Leaders\nGraduate students and postdocs share brief\, high-impact talks on cutting-edge research across diverse brain health domains.\n\n \n12:15–1:15 PM — Lunch provided\n1:15–2:15 PM — Collaboration Catalysts Panel\nLeaders from GSU\, Georgia Tech\, Emory\, and the Georgia Research Alliance discuss joint training\, funding opportunities\, and shared resources in neuroscience. \n\n2:30–3:30 PM — Poster Session & Demonstrations\nInteractive posters and live demonstrations of neuroimaging tools\, data visualization\, and experimental techniques. \n\n3:30–4:15 PM — Networking & Research Matching Tables\nThemed networking sessions (behavior\, inflammation\, imaging/data science\, translation) designed to connect collaborators and spark new projects.\n4:15–4:30 PM — Closing Remarks & Awards\nAnnouncement of poster winners\, recognition of sponsors and speakers\, and presentation of next-step initiatives for continued collaboration.\n\n 
URL:https://trendscenter.org/event/gsus-university-research-center-brain-health-synergy-symposium/
LOCATION:100 Auburn Centennial Hall\, 100 Auburn Ave\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30303\, United States
CATEGORIES:Networking & Outreach,Scientific Meetings and Lectures
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SUMMARY:Alzheimer's Music Fest
DESCRIPTION:RESCHEDULED: this event has been rescheduled for February 4th\, 2021.\n\n \n\nTReNDS is a proud sponsor and will be an attendee of the 2021 Alzheimer’s Music Fest.\n\n \n\nHelp make a difference\, and have fun doing it! After hosting the Alzheimer’s Music Fest for the past 8 years in the Atlanta area and beyond\, founder/singer/songwriter\, Vince Albert Zangaro\, and Dementia Spotlight Foundation are thrilled to bring this important cause and fundraiser back to Georgia.\n\nFeaturing a few of the most iconic bands to come out of Georgia—Cracker\, Arrested Development\, and Drivin n Cryin.  Join us for a day of amazing music\, food/drink\, laughs and loads of fun. Visit our vendor displays and learn more about Dementia/Alzheimer’s Disease and its impact on our nation and community.\n\nMore than 6 million Americans & 15 million caregivers are living with Dementia today. Without a cure in our near future\, we must take action for change and focus on providing care. Caring for persons and families living with dementia is overwhelming and costly. Through our past music festivals\, Dementia Spotlight Foundation has gifted over 7\,000 hours of free respite care to families living with dementia.\n\nHelp us do more! With your purchase of just one general admission festival ticket\, we will be able to gift 2 hours of respite relief for a family. A purchase of one VIP ticket provides 4 hours of respite relief OR supports 8 individuals with ongoing support group sessions. A simple way to help and have fun at the same time! To learn more about us and how to support persons and families living with Dementia\, go to www.dementiaspotlightfoundation.org.\n\nMusical Talent on two great stages: \n\nOn Main Stage:\n\nZangaro (6:00-6:30)\n\nGurufish (6:45-7:30)\n\nCracker (8:00-9:15)\n\nArrested Development (9:45-11:00)\n\nDrivin N’ Cryin (11:30-12:45am)\n\nOn Cotton Club Stage:\n\nDynaGroove\n\nMorgan Rowe\n\nFolk Chops\n\nRalph Proddenbery & Donna Hopkins\n\nPls Pls\n\nAge Policy – All Ages\n\n \n\nGuests will be admitted on a first come\, first served basis. Admission will not be permitted after the venue reaches capacity.\n\nGuests are prohibited from bringing weapons into the venue. Weapons include\, but are not limited to\, the following: firearms\, explosives\, stun guns\, handcuffs\, brass knuckles\, sticks\, clubs\, batons\, martial arts instruments\, pepper spray\, tear gas\, and knives. ANYONE IN POSSESSION OF A PROHIBITED ITEM WILL BE ASKED TO LEAVE AND/OR DENIED ADMISSION.\n\nCOVID-19: Tabernacle is adhering to the latest local and CDC guidelines to ensure artist\, guest\, and staff safety. Face coverings are mandatory and MUST be worn at all times\, except while eating and drinking. Additional safety protocols include temperature checks of guests and staff\, hand sanitizer throughout the venue\, venue staff equipped with PPE\, reduced capacity and social distancing\, continuous cleaning and sanitization throughout the event\, and cashless transactions whenever possible. We are following the latest guidance from local health officials to ensure your safety during the show. What you can expect from us:\n\n 	 Hand sanitizer available throughout our venue\n 	 Our team will be geared up with masks and gloves\n 	 Reduced capacity and implemented social distancing\n 	 Continuously cleaning & sanitizing our venue throughout the show
URL:https://trendscenter.org/event/alzheimers-music-fest/
LOCATION:buckhead theater\, 3110 Roswell Rd NE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30305
CATEGORIES:Networking & Outreach
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SUMMARY:Neuroscience Ask Me Anything
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual neuroscience AMA\, part of the Dana Foundation’s Brain Awareness Week. Our panel of neuro and data science experts will answer our precollected questions\, and have an open Q&A.\n\nThursday\, March 18th\, 4-5pm EST.\n\nLink to join this event: https://bit.ly/3qfEeIO
URL:https://trendscenter.org/event/neuroscience-ask-me-anything/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Networking & Outreach
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SUMMARY:Brain Space Initiative Talk Series: Shella Keilholz
DESCRIPTION:Join us\, Friday\, November 6th\, 2020\, at 11 AM EDT for an exciting virtual talk by Dr. Shella Keilholz entitled: “Disentangling the intrinsic functional architecture of the brain” as part of the activities of the Brain Space Initiative\, co-sponsored by the Center for Translational Research in Neuroimaging and Data Science (TReNDS) and the Data Science Initiative\, IEEE Signal Processing Society.\n\n \n\n \n\nDisentangling the intrinsic functional architecture of the brain \n\nThe brain has all of the hallmarks of a complex system\, with meaningful activity occurring at a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. When measured with resting state fMRI\, all of this activity is compressed into a single measurement of the resulting hemodynamic response for each voxel at each time point. However\, by leveraging the spatial\, temporal and spectral properties of different types of activity\, we may be able to identify signatures in the rs-fMRI signal. In this talk\, I will describe some of the types of activity that we expect to contribute to the rs-fMRI signal and features that might allow us to selectively extract them for use in research or the clinic.\n\n \n\nBiosketch: Dr. Shella D. Keilholz received her B.S. degree in physics from the University of Missouri Rolla (now Missouri University of Science and Technology) and her Ph.D. degree in engineering physics at the University in Virginia.  Her thesis focused on quantitative measurements of perfusion with arterial spin labeling MRI. After graduation\, she went to Dr. Alan Koretsky’s lab at the NIH as a Postdoctoral Researcher to learn functional neuroimaging. She is currently a Professor in the joint Emory/Georgia Tech Biomedical Engineering Department\, Atlanta\, GA\, USA and Program Director for the 9.4 T MRI.  Her research seeks to elucidate the neurophysiological processes that underlie the BOLD signal and develop analytical techniques that leverage spatial and temporal information to separate contributions from different sources.\n\n \n\nRecommended Articles:\n\n·         Zhang X\, Pan WJ\, Keilholz SD. The relationship between BOLD and neural activity arises from temporally sparse events. Neuroimage. 2020 Feb 15;207:116390. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116390. Epub 2019 Nov 27. PMID: 31785420; PMCID: PMC7252681.\n\n·         Kashyap A\, Keilholz S. Dynamic properties of simulated brain network models and empirical resting-state data. Netw Neurosci. 2019 Feb 1;3(2):405-426. doi: 10.1162/netn_a_00070. PMID: 30793089; PMCID: PMC6370489.\n\n·         Abbas A\, Belloy M\, Kashyap A\, Billings J\, Nezafati M\, Schumacher EH\, Keilholz S. Quasi-periodic patterns contribute to functional connectivity in the brain. Neuroimage. 2019 May 1;191:193-204. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.01.076. Epub 2019 Feb 10. PMID: 30753928; PMCID: PMC6440826.\n\n·         Yousefi B\, Shin J\, Schumacher EH\, Keilholz SD. Quasi-periodic patterns of intrinsic brain activity in individuals and their relationship to global signal. Neuroimage. 2018 Feb 15;167:297-308. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2017.11.043. Epub 2017 Nov 22. PMID: 29175200; PMCID: PMC5845807.\n\n·         Thompson GJ\, Pan WJ\, Keilholz SD. Different dynamic resting state fMRI patterns are linked to different frequencies of neural activity. J Neurophysiol. 2015 Jul;114(1):114-24. doi: 10.1152/jn.00235.2015. Epub 2015 Jun 3. Erratum in: J Neurophysiol. 2015 Dec;114(6):3400. PMID: 26041826; PMCID: PMC4507971.\n\n \n\n \n\nMeeting information:\n\nFriday\, Oct 23\, 2020\, 11:00 am | 1 hour 30 minutes | (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)\n\nMeeting number: 120 048 3374\n\nPassword: MMaTSCqm684\n\nhttps://gsumeetings.webex.com/gsumeetings/onstage/g.php?MTID=eedda8efada50d1636d07691bf0980d40\n\n \n\nJoin by video system\n\nDial 1200483374@gsumeetings.webex.com\n\nYou can also dial 173.243.2.68 and enter your meeting number.\n\n \n\nJoin by phone\n\n+1-415-655-0002 US Toll\n\nAccess code: 120 048 3374\n\n \n\nWe hope to see you there!
URL:https://trendscenter.org/event/brain-space-initiative-talk-series-shella-keilholz/
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CATEGORIES:Networking & Outreach,Scientific Meetings and Lectures
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SUMMARY:Brain Space Intitiative: Dr. Dante R. Chialvo
DESCRIPTION:Join us\, Friday\, October 23rd\, 2020\, at 11 AM EDT for an exciting virtual talk by Dr. Dante Chialvo entitled: “Everything you wish to know about critical brain dynamics but are afraid to ask.” \nEverything you wish to know about critical brain dynamics but are afraid to ask \nWe discuss recent attempts to understand complex brain dynamics at large scale using approaches from statistical physics. The motivation to adopt this approach is rooted in a more general question: “Why life is complex and –most importantly– what is the origin of the over abundance of complexity in nature?” This  fundamental problem “is screaming to be answered but seldom is even being asked”\, paraphrasing the late Per Bak. \nIn this lecture we will justify the approach by reviewing our attempts across several scales to understand the origins of complex biological problems from the perspective of critical phenomena. We will then offer an overview of the experimental and numerical results pertaining to complex aspects of large scale brain dynamics. \nBiosketch: Dr. Dante R. Chialvo received his diploma in 1982 from the National University of Rosario\, in Argentina. In 1985 was appointed Professor of the Department of Physiology of the University of Rosario. From 1987 to 1992 was Associate Professor in the State University of New York (Syracuse\, NY) in the Department of Pharmacology and latter in the Computational Neuroscience Program. Between 1992 and 1995 was associated with the Santa Fe Institute for the Sciences of Complexity\, in Santa Fe\, New México. Until 2010\, he was Full Professor at Northwestern University (Chicago)\, and UCLA\, when he returned to Argentina as Principal Investigator of Conicet (Argentina). \nCurrently he is Full Professor and head of the Center for Complex Systems and Brain Sciences (Cemsc3) at the UNSAM (Universidad Nacional de San Martin) in Buenos Aires\, Argentina. \nThroughout these years\, he has been Visiting Professor at numerous universities including Wuerzburg University (Germany)\, University of Copenhagen (Denmark)\, The Rockefeller University (U.S.A.)\, University of the Balearic Islands\, University of Barcelona\, University Complutense of Madrid\, (Spain)\,  Naples (Italy) and University of Rosario\, University of Cordoba (Argentina)\, Universidad Mayor de San Andres\, La Paz\, (Bolivia) \, Jagellonian Univ. (Krakow) among others. \nDr. Chialvo has published more than 100 scientific papers\, all dedicated to understand natural phenomena from the point of view of Nonlinear Dynamics of Complex Systems. His work covers a wide range of topics\, including the mathematical modeling of cardiac arrhythmias\, the study of molecular motors as stochastic ratchets\, neural coding\, and self-organization and collective phenomena in ants swarms\, brain and communities\, among others. In 2005 he was the recipient of a Fulbright US Scholar Award (2005)\, in 2006 the Distinguished Visiting Professor of the University Complutense\, (Psychology Department)\, Madrid\, Spain\, Visiting Professor Award of the  Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli\, Aversa Italy and elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2007. \nRecommended Articles: \n·         Organization\, Development and Function of Complex Brain Networks. Sporns O\, Chialvo DR\, Kaiser M & Hilgetag CC.  Trends in Cognitive Sciences\, 8 (9): 418– 425 (2004). (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2004.07.008)\n\n·         Scale-free brain functional networks. Eguiluz V\, Chialvo DR\, Cecchi G\, Baliki M\, Apkarian AV.   Phys. Rev. Letters 92\, 018102 (2005). (https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.018102)\n\n·         Emergent complex neural dynamics\,  Chialvo DR. Nature  Physics 6\, 744–750 (2010). (https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1803)\n\n·         What kind of noise is brain noise: anomalous scaling behavior of the resting brain activity fluctuations.  D Fraiman\, DR Chialvo Frontiers in physiology 3\, 307 (2012). (https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2012.00307)\n\n·         Criticality in large-scale brain fMRI dynamics unveiled by a novel point process analysis. E Tagliazucchi\, P Balenzuela\, D. Fraiman \,  DR Chialvo. Frontiers in physiology 3\, 15 (2012). (https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2012.00015)\n\n·         Brain organization into resting state networks emerges at criticality on a model of the human connectome. A Haimovici\, E Tagliazucchi\, P Balenzuela\, DR Chialvo. Physical review letters 110 (17)\, 178101 (2013). (https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.178101).\n \n·         Life at the edge: Complexity and criticality in biological function. DR Chialvo\, Acta Physica Polonica B\, 49(12) 1955 (2018). (https://www.actaphys.uj.edu.pl/fulltext?series=Reg&vol=49&page=1955)\n \nMeeting information: \nFriday\, Oct 23\, 2020 11:00 am | 1 hour 30 minutes | (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) \nMeeting number: 120 617 8490 \nPassword: frMbxggK248 \nhttps://gsumeetings.webex.com/gsumeetings/onstage/g.php?MTID=e42511284c3604306f15a15a1552eebf5 \n \nJoin by video system \nDial 1206178490@gsumeetings.webex.com \nYou can also dial 173.243.2.68 and enter your meeting number. \n \nJoin by phone \n+1-415-655-0002 US Toll \nAccess code: 120 617 8490 \n \nWe hope to see you there!
URL:https://trendscenter.org/event/brain-space-intitiative-dr-dante-r-chialvo/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Networking & Outreach,Scientific Meetings and Lectures
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SUMMARY:Brain Space Initiative Talk Series
DESCRIPTION:Join us\, Friday\, October 9th\, 2020\, at 11 AM EDT for an exciting virtual talk by Dr. Peter Bandettini entitled: “New Maps of Activation\, Connectivity\, and Hierarchy using Ultra High Resolution fMRI”\n \n \n\nNew Maps of Activation\, Connectivity\, and Hierarchy using Ultra High Resolution fMRI \nLayer fMRI\, requiring high field\, advanced pulse sequences\, and sophisticated processing methods\, has emerged in the last decade. The rate of layer fMRI papers published has grown sharply as the delineation of mesoscopic scale functional organization has shown success in providing insight into human brain processing. Layer fMRI promises to move beyond being able to simply identify where and when activation is taking place as inferences made from the activation depth in the cortex will provide detailed directional feedforward and feedback related activity. This new knowledge promises to bridge invasive measures and those typically carried out on humans. In this talk\, I will describe the challenges in achieving laminar functional specificity as well as possible approaches to data analysis for both activation studies and resting state connectivity. I will highlight our work demonstrating task-related laminar modulation of primary sensory and motor systems as well as layer-specific activation in dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex with a working memory task. Lastly\, I will present recent work demonstrating cortical hierarchy in visual cortex using resting state connectivity laminar profiles. \n \nBiosketch: Dr. Bandettini received his undergraduate degree in Physics from Marquette University in 1989\, and his Ph.D. in Biophysics in 1994 at the Medical College of Wisconsin where he led the effort to carry out one of the first successful experiments in functional MRI. He completed his post doc at the Massachusetts General Hospital NMR Center in 1996. After spending three years as an Assistant Professor at the Medical College of Wisconsin he was recruited in 1999 to become Director of the Functional MRI Facility at and Chief of the Section on Functional Imaging Methods the National Institutes of Health. Recently\, he has become the founding Director of the Center for Multimodal Neuroimaging at the National Institute of Mental Health and has started a Machine Learning group and a Data Sharing group. He also recently completed a 6 year tenure as Editor In Chief of the Journal\, NeuroImage. He is the recipient of the 2001 OHBM Wiley Young Investigator Award\, and in 2020 was awarded the ISMRM Gold Medal. His research focus over the past 29 years has been on advancing functional MRI in all ways\, including novel fMRI methods in acquisition\, processing\, and paradigm design. He current research focus is high resolution layer fMRI\, dynamic connectivity\, understanding and mitigating physiologic noise in fMRI time series\, and deriving individual specific information using fMRI. He has published over 175 papers and has presented over 390 invited lectures. \n \nRecommended Articles: \n·         Layer-dependent functional connectivity methods\, Huber et al\, Progress in Neurobiology (in press) (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pneurobio.2020.101835) \n·         Higher and deeper: Bringing layer fMRI to association cortex\, Finn et al\, PsyArXiv (preprint) (https://psyarxiv.com/3xbzw/) \n·         Sub-millimeter fMRI reveals multiple topographical digit representations that form action maps in human motor cortex\, Huber et al. NeuroImage\, 2020. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116463) \n·         Layer-dependent activity in human prefrontal cortex during working memory. (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-019-0487-z) \n·         High-resolution CBV-fMRI allows mapping of laminar activity and connectivity of cortical input and output in human M1.  Neuron 96\, 1253-1263\, 2017 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2017.11.005) \n \n \nMeeting information: \nFriday\, Oct 9\, 2020 11:00 am | 1 hour 30 minutes | (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada) \nMeeting number: 120 090 0968 \nPassword: xMs8MA9Jkg2 \nhttps://gsumeetings.webex.com/gsumeetings/j.php?MTID=m00ad5c603998dc3d576c6d21c099d96d \n \nJoin by video system \nDial 1200900968@gsumeetings.webex.com \nYou can also dial 173.243.2.68 and enter your meeting number. \n \nJoin by phone \n+1-415-655-0002 US Toll \nAccess code: 120 090 0968 \n \nWe hope to see you there! \n\n\n 
URL:https://trendscenter.org/event/bsi-peter-bandettini/
LOCATION:30306
CATEGORIES:Networking & Outreach,Scientific Meetings and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200925T110000
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SUMMARY:BSI Talk series: Simon Eickhoff\, PhD
DESCRIPTION: \n\n\n\nPlease join us\, September 25th\, 2020\, at 11 AM EDT for an exciting virtual talk by Dr. Simon Eickhoff entitled: “Leveraging biological knowledge: From Brain Mapping to predictive models”\n\n \n\nTitle: Leveraging biological knowledge: From Brain Mapping to predictive models\n\n \n\nAbstract: The long predominant paradigm in neuroimaging has been to compare (mean) local volume or activity between groups\, or to correlate these to behavioral phenotypes. Such approach\, however\, is intrinsically limited in terms of possible insight into inter-individual differences and application in clinical practice. Recently\, the increasing availability of large cohort data and tools for multivariate statistical learning\, allowing the prediction of individual cognitive or clinical phenotypes in new subjects\, have started a revolution in imaging neuroscience. The transformation of systems neuroscience into a big data discipline poses a lot of new challenges\, yet the most critical aspects is the still sub-optimal relationship between the extremely wide feature-space from neuroimaging and the comparably low number of subjects. This\, however\, is only true when approaching neuroimaging machine-learning in a naïve fashion\, i.e.\, when ignoring the large body of existing work on human brain mapping. The regional segregation of the brain into distinct modules as well as the large-scale\, distributed networks provide the fundamental organizational principles of the human brain and hence the basis for cognitive information processing. Importantly\, both can now be mapped in a highly robust fashion by integrating information on hundreds or even thousands of individual subjects to provide a priori information. This talk will outline the fundamental principles of topographic organization in the human brain and the robust mapping of functional networks. I will then illustrate\, how this knowledge on human brain organization can be leveraged for inference on socio-affective or cognitive traits in previously unseen individual subjects or psychopathology in mental disorders. Providing a bidirectional translation\, such application will in turn provide information on the respective brain regions and networks.\n\n \n\nBio: Dr. Simon Eickhoff is a full professor and chair of the Institute for Systems Neuroscience at the Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf and the director of the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-7\, Brain and Behavior) at the Forschungszentrum Jülich. He is furthermore a visiting professor at the Chinese Academy of Science Institute of Automation. Workig at the interface between neuroanatomy\, data-science and brain medicine\, the he aims to obtain a more detailed characterization of the organization of the human brain and its inter-individual variability in order to better understand its changes in advanced age as well as neurological and psychiatric disorders. This goal is pursued by the development and application of novel analysis tools and approaches for large-scale\, multi-modal analysis of brain structure\, function and connectivity as well as by machine-learning for single subject prediction of cognitive and socio-affective traits and ultimately precision medicine.\n\n \n\nRecommended Articles:\n\n·         Neuroimaging-based prediction of mental traits: Road to utopia or Orwell? (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3000497)\n\n·         Neurobiological Divergence of the Positive and Negative Schizophrenia Subtypes Identified on a New Factor Structure of Psychopathology Using Non-negative Factorization: An International Machine Learning Study (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsych.2019.08.031)\n\n·         Imaging-based parcellations of the human brain (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41583-018-0071-7)\n\n·         Ten simple rules for neuroimaging meta-analysis (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2017.11.012)\n\n·         Predicting personality from network-based resting-state functional connectivity (https://doi.org/10.1007/s00429-018-1651-z)\n\n \n\n \n\nMeeting information:\n\nFriday\, Sep 25\, 2020 11:00 am | 1 hour 30 minutes | (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)\nMeeting number: 120 354 1853\nPassword: aNhAMQp9m32\nhttps://gsumeetings.webex.com/gsumeetings/j.php?MTID=mf424c7fb1d4348b60f76bd9f62c80dbe\n\nJoin by video system\nDial 1203541853@gsumeetings.webex.com\nYou can also dial 173.243.2.68 and enter your meeting number.\n\nJoin by phone\n+1-415-655-0002 US Toll\nAccess code: 120 354 1853
URL:https://trendscenter.org/event/bsi-talk-series-simon-eickhoff-phd/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Networking & Outreach,Scientific Meetings and Lectures
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brain Space Initiative":MAILTO:brain.space.initiative@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Brain Space Initiative Talk Series: Jessica Turner
DESCRIPTION:Updates from Enigma: Worldwide Collaborative Methods\n\nJessica Turner\, PhD\n\nAssociate Professor\, Neuroscience\, Psychology\, TReNDS Center & Georgia State University\n\nThe Enhancing Neuroimaging Genetics through Meta-Analysis (ENIGMA) consortium is a worldwide\, largely volunteer research collaboration that recently celebrated its 10th year. In that time\, it has become a model of large-scale\, imaging data re-use for meta- and mega-analysis\, leading to numerous results in genetic effects on brain structure\, clinical effects on brain structure and function\, and methods for analysis of heterogenous structural and functional data. Clinical research domains range from schizophrenia to bipolar disorder to Parkinson’s disease\, sleep disorders\, HIV and addiction\, while methodological developments span gray matter volumes\, subcortical shape\, sulcal and gyral depth\, white matter tract based statistics\, and resting state analyses\, with recommendations for applying an ENIGMA approach to task-based fMRI are in development. These efforts highlight both the value of combining data analyses\, along with the challenges of combining data from studies collected for different reasons in different environments. I will review some of the current efforts underway across the more than 50 working groups within ENIGMA\, along with the implications for these kinds of large-scale analyses in the future.\nMeeting information \n\nFriday\, Sep 11\, 2020 11:00 am | 1 hour 30 minutes | (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)\nMeeting number: 120 595 8263\nPassword: 3RBpaUPnP23\nhttps://gsumeetings.webex.com/gsumeetings/j.php?MTID=m145207ff2dbbd01fb0fcd737950f10f2\n\nJoin by video system\nDial 1205958263@gsumeetings.webex.com\nYou can also dial 173.243.2.68 and enter your meeting number.\n\nJoin by phone\n+1-415-655-0002 US Toll\nAccess code: 120 595 8263
URL:https://trendscenter.org/event/brain-space-initiative-talk-series-jessica-turner/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Networking & Outreach,Scientific Meetings and Lectures
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brain Space Initiative":MAILTO:brain.space.initiative@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200908T093000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200908T093000
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SUMMARY:BSI Cognitive Neuroscience Discussion
DESCRIPTION:We invite you to please join us next Tuesday 9/8 at 9:30 am\, EDT for an introduction and kick-off discussion for the Brain Space Initiative Cognitive Neuroscience working group. Come find out how to get involved\, help set the discussion topics\, and ask any questions you have about this new initiative. \n  \nThe discussion will be held over WebEx at the following link: https://gsumeetings.webex.com/meet/jmalins \nThe meeting will be recorded for those who can’t attend. \n  \nWe look forward to meeting you! 
URL:https://trendscenter.org/event/bsi-cognitive-neuroscience-discussion/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Networking & Outreach,Scientific Meetings and Lectures
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brain Space Initiative":MAILTO:brain.space.initiative@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200814T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200814T120000
DTSTAMP:20200813T173456Z
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SUMMARY:BSI Talk Series: Vince Calhoun
DESCRIPTION:Title: Brain Space Initiative: A Social and Technical Resource\n\n \nDescription\nDr. Vince Calhoun\, the leader of the Brain Space Initiative\, will talk about what is the goal of the BSI and as well as the motivation for some of the existing study group topics by showing some of the ongoing work at TReNDS in his talk entitled: Brain Space Initiative\, a social and technical resource.\n\nAbout Dr. Calhoun\nDr. Calhoun’s work has inspired many young researchers and scientists in the field. He received the 2020 IEEE EMBS Society Technical Achievement Award For his contributions to data-driven processing of multimodal brain imaging and genetic data. He is also the past Chair of the Organization of Human Brain Mapping. Dr. Calhoun has published over 800 journal papers and has over 58000 citations. He has focused his career on the development of data-driven algorithms to map dynamic brain function (including the introduction of group ICA\, joint ICA\, and whole brain dynamic connectivity (chronnectome) approaches to the field) as well as brain structure\, connectivity\, and genomics and to study how these networks vary in the healthy and disordered brain. He has also developed and released multiple widely used software toolboxes implementing these algorithms which have been downloaded by over 20\,000 unique individuals and have developed multiple centralized and decentralized neuroinformatics tools to enable data capture\, management\, archiving\, analysis\, and data sharing\, housing over 40\,000 datasets across over 800 studies. He is highly collaborative and the TReNDS center he recently founded is focused on leveraging advanced analytic and data science approaches to enable brain imaging biomarkers to be developed and utilized.\n\n\nMeeting information\nFriday\, Aug 14\, 2020 11:00 am | 1 hour 15 minutes | (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)\nMeeting number: 120 212 5286\nPassword: z4kC3GmgdY9\nhttps://gsumeetings.webex.com/gsumeetings/j.php?MTID=m446b7ce4ad6212eedc0da25599ac87a8\n 
URL:https://trendscenter.org/event/bsi-talk-series-vince-calhoun/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Networking & Outreach,Scientific Meetings and Lectures
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brain Space Initiative":MAILTO:brain.space.initiative@gmail.com
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200422
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200630
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SUMMARY:TReNDS Neuroimaging Competition
DESCRIPTION:In this competition\, you will predict multiple assessments plus age from multimodal brain MRI features. You will be working from existing results from other data scientists\, doing the important work of validating the utility of multimodal features in a normative population of unaffected subjects. Due to the complexity of the brain and differences between scanners\, generalized approaches will be essential to effectively propel multimodal neuroimaging research forward.\nThe dataset consists of unbiased multimodal neuroimaging features from nearly 12K unaffected subjects and their associated age and assessment values (using 50/50 train/test split to minimize the test set prediction error). The competition will be hosted with Kaggle in a joint collaborative effort by OHBM\, the IEEE SPS Data Science Initiative\, and the IEEE Challenges and Data Collections Program.\nInterested teams and participants will be considered for presenting/publishing their methods in a peer reviewed venue at the discretion of the competition evaluation committee. Special attention will be given to submissions achieving good prediction on the data subset coming from a second scanner\, with the goal of encouraging methods unbiased by site/scanner effects.\nWe hope to stir interest and bring together non-imagers and imagers alike towards this common goal\, pushing the envelope to assess the limits of current predictive technologies and gauge the clinical usefulness of neuroimaging features for personalized treatment.\nJoin the Competition: https://www.kaggle.com/c/trends-assessment-prediction/\nUse our hashtag to post your updates on social media: #TReNDSComp2020\n\n\nStart Date: April 22nd\, 2020\n\nStart date: April 21st\, 2020\n\nEnd date (preliminary private leaderboard revealed): June 29th\, 2020\n\nCode and leaderboard result verification (winners announced): July 26th\, 2020\n\nPrizes\n\n1st Place – $12\,000\n\n2nd Place – $8\,000\n\n3rd Place – $5\,000\nSponsored by \n         \n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://trendscenter.org/event/trends-neuroimaging-competition/
LOCATION:30306
CATEGORIES:Networking & Outreach,Scientific Meetings and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191004T083000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191004T120000
DTSTAMP:20190924T135730Z
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SUMMARY:TReNDS Grand Opening
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the a “predictive neuroscience” themed Grand Opening as we celebrate the newly founded TReNDS center and the opportunities it will bring the neuroimaging and scientific community-at-large. There will be mingling\, an address by our visionary director and founder\, Vince Calhoun\, and data-blitz talks.\n\nView event flyer\n\n 
URL:https://trendscenter.org/event/trends-grand-opening/
LOCATION:TReNDS Center\, 55 Park Place\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30303\, United States
CATEGORIES:Grand Opening,Networking & Outreach,Scientific Meetings and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190913T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190913T150000
DTSTAMP:20190822T143208Z
CREATED:20190704T040614Z
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SUMMARY:Neuroimaging group orientation
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a quick intro to TReNDS and the neuroimaging research community in Atlanta.
URL:https://trendscenter.org/event/neuroimaging-group-orientation/
LOCATION:TReNDS Center\, 55 Park Place\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30303\, United States
CATEGORIES:Networking & Outreach,Scientific Meetings and Lectures
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