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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200911T110000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200911T123000
DTSTAMP:20260506T120435
CREATED:20200908T214744Z
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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
DTSTAMP:20260506T120435
CREATED:20200901T212845Z
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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:20260506T120435
CREATED: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:20200623
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200704
DTSTAMP:20260506T120435
CREATED:20200612T212236Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200612T212236Z
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SUMMARY:Organization for Human Brain Mapping **VIRTUAL** Annual Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The 2020 Annual Meeting will take place June 23 – July 3\, but now will be offered through an innovative and interactive virtual experience. The Program Committee is already working on the transformation of this meeting\, and all the details on participating will be announced soon! Please contact the OHBM Executive Office at info@humanbrainmapping.org if you have any questions.\n\nThe OHBM Annual Meeting is the place to learn about the latest international research across modalities in human brain mapping. It is an opportunity for you to have one-on-one discussions with experts in the field and connect with your peers from all over the world. At the educational sessions\, junior and senior scientists of various backgrounds teach about the most current and ground-breaking developments in the field\, including machine learning techniques\, high resolution imaging and most recently also open science methods. The meeting is held every June at stunning locations alternating between North America\, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region.\n\n 
URL:https://trendscenter.org/event/organization-for-human-brain-mapping-virtual-annual-meeting/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Scientific Meetings and Lectures
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ORGANIZER;CN="Organization for Human Brain Mapping":MAILTO:info@humanbrainmapping.org
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200616
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200619
DTSTAMP:20260506T120435
CREATED:20200612T212535Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200612T212535Z
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SUMMARY:OHBM 2020 Brain Hack
DESCRIPTION:At the OHBM Brainhack members of the community gather to work collaboratively on common projects.\nThe event also features a TrainTrack in which tutorials on open science practices are provided.\nBrainhacks differ from typical academic conference in that attendees can actively take part in the program and co-learn from each other. Thus\, they will be actively trying to create something rather than passively attend. Although many brainhack projects might involve coding\, it is not a “requirement and many projects can be done without coding skills.
URL:https://trendscenter.org/event/ohbm-2020-brain-hack/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Scientific Meetings and Lectures
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ORGANIZER;CN="Organization for Human Brain Mapping":MAILTO:info@humanbrainmapping.org
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200422
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200630
DTSTAMP:20260506T120435
CREATED:20200422T012502Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200423T014418Z
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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/
CATEGORIES:Networking & Outreach,Scientific Meetings and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200313T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200313T150000
DTSTAMP:20260506T120435
CREATED:20200304T182734Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200304T182734Z
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SUMMARY:Neuroimaging Series: Eva Dyer
DESCRIPTION:“Comparing high-dimensional neural recordings across time\, space\, and behavior”\n\nWith advances in experimental methods in neuroscience\, datasets are becoming increasingly high dimensional\, both with measurements from larger brain volumes and over longer periods. However\, with more data\, more neurons\, and more points in time\, come more problems. In this talk\, I will highlight several strategies for distilling complex and high-dimensional neural datasets into more interpretable and simplified low-dimensional formats. Once data are embedded in a low-dimensional space\, I will show how their shape and geometry can then be leveraged to align the low-dimensional structures present\, even across different datasets that may live in different domains (e.g.\, neural activity and movement). Alignment thus provides a way to bring many neural datasets together to both understand common computational primitives across brains and learn signatures of disease.\n\nEva Dyer is an Assistant Professor in the Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University. Dr. Dyer works at the intersection of neuroscience and machine learning\, developing computational approaches to interpret complex neuroscience datasets\, and designing new machine intelligence architectures inspired by the organization of biological brains. Dr. Dyer completed all of her degrees in Electrical & Computer Engineering\, obtaining a Ph.D. and M.S. from Rice University\, and a B.S. from the University of Miami. She is the recipient of an NSF CISE Research Initiation Initiative Award\, a Sloan Fellowship in Neuroscience\, and is a current Allen Institute for Brain Science Next Generation Leader.
URL:https://trendscenter.org/event/neuroimaging-series-eva-dyer/
LOCATION:TReNDS Center\, 55 Park Place\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30303\, United States
CATEGORIES:Scientific Meetings and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20200228T150000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20200228T160000
DTSTAMP:20260506T120435
CREATED:20200210T172109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200217T173321Z
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SUMMARY:Neuroimaging Series: Mukesh Dhamala
DESCRIPTION:TReNDS Center Neuroimaging Series\n\nBrain network activity function and dysfunction\n\nMukesh Dhamala\, PhD | Associate Professor of Physics & Astronomy at Georgia State University\n\nUnderstanding neurocognitive computations both during brain function and dysfunction requires not just identifying the brain regions involved but also determining how brain activity flows among them. In this lecture\, I will discuss Granger causality methods for resolving network activity flow and describe our findings of network activity in perceptual decision-making processes and epileptic seizures.\n\nWebex information:\n\nFriday\, Feb 28\, 2020 3:00 pm | 1 hour | (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)\n\nMeeting number: 739 244 827\n\nPassword: nKRMRySZ754\n\nhttps://gsumeetings.webex.com/gsumeetings/j.php?MTID=mb52a9a7a14b884d3c9d9666585188d3f\n\nJoin by video system\n\nDial 739244827@gsumeetings.webex.com\n\nYou can also dial 173.243.2.68 and enter your meeting number.\n\nJoin by phone\n\n+1-415-655-0002 US Toll\n\n+1-415-655-0002 US Toll\n\nAccess code: 739 244 827\n\nView event flyer
URL:https://trendscenter.org/event/neuroimaging-series-mukesh-dhamala/
CATEGORIES:Scientific Meetings and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191213T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191213T150000
DTSTAMP:20260506T120435
CREATED:20191008T150924Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191209T193054Z
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SUMMARY:Neuroimaging Series: Jeff Malins
DESCRIPTION:Jeff Malins\, Assistant Professor\, Psychology\, GSU\n\nNeural activation variability as an index of plasticity and learning\n\nAn emerging field of cognitive neuroscience contends that quantifying intra-individual variation in brain activity across trials can give important insights into brain dynamics. In this talk\, I will present several studies employing task-fMRI to evaluate the relationship between trial-by-trial neural activation variability and reading development in children. After discussing some recent results\, I will focus on methodological considerations and future directions for this line of work.\n\nMeeting Information\n\nFriday\, Dec 13\, 2019 2:00 pm | 1 hour | (UTC-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)\n\nMeeting number: 733 556 061\n\nPassword: AsdBBTk2\n\nMeeting link: https://gsumeetings.webex.com/gsumeetings/j.php?MTID=m1edd81f96bff236f81b7cd2506087d12\n\n \n\nMore ways to join\n\nJoin by video system\n\nDial 733556061@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\n+1-415-655-0002 US Toll\n\nAccess code: 733 556 061
URL:https://trendscenter.org/event/neuroimaging-series-jeff-malins/
LOCATION:TReNDS Center\, 55 Park Place\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30303\, United States
CATEGORIES:Scientific Meetings and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191206T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191206T130000
DTSTAMP:20260506T120435
CREATED:20191024T024757Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191024T024808Z
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SUMMARY:Tammie Bezinger: Brains & Behavior distinguished lecture series
DESCRIPTION:As part of the B&B distinguished lecture series\, Tammie Bezinger\, PhD will give a talk entitled “Integrating structural and molecular imaging in dementia imaging”.
URL:https://trendscenter.org/event/tammie-bezinger-brains-behavior-distinguished-lecture-series/
LOCATION:Petit Science Center\, 145 Piedmont Ave SE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30303\, United States
CATEGORIES:Scientific Meetings and Lectures
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brains & Behavior":MAILTO:eweaver1@gsu.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191122T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191122T150000
DTSTAMP:20260506T120435
CREATED:20191008T150755Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191121T155335Z
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SUMMARY:Neuroimaging Series: Ying Guo
DESCRIPTION:Ying Guo\, Director\, Emory Center for Biomedical Imaging Statistics (CBIS)\, Emory\n\nStatistical methods for helping improve reliability of brain network analysis\n\nNetwork-oriented analyses have become increasingly important in neuroimaging studies to advance understanding of neural circuitry among healthy brains and also to investigate disease-related network differences. These analyses often encounter challenges including low signal-to-noise ratio in neuroimaging data\, high between-subject heterogeneity in brain networks and network variations across conditions. In this talk\, we present new statistical methods to help improve the reliability in brain network analysis. The proposed methods tackle the aforementioned challenges by joint network learning using brain images obtained on the same subjects under different conditions\, by multimodality integrative network modeling that incorporates anatomical structure in constructing brain functional networks\, and by developing novel statistical tests to more accurately detect network differences between subpopulations.\n\nWebex information: https://gsumeetings.webex.com/gsumeetings/j.php?MTID=m85f5f0d535c2d0e514253f3aa4ec626b\n\nMeeting code: 739 520 259
URL:https://trendscenter.org/event/neuroimaging-series-ying-guo/
LOCATION:TReNDS Center\, 55 Park Place\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30303\, United States
CATEGORIES:Scientific Meetings and Lectures
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191116
DTSTAMP:20260506T120435
CREATED:20191008T144846Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191008T144916Z
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SUMMARY:BrainHack ATL
DESCRIPTION:Brainhack ATL is a neuroscience hackathon focused on bringing together students\, researchers\, non-academic industry professionals\, and neuroscientists from a variety of fields and expertise to explore the multiple applications of neuroimaging tools from a cross-disciplinary perspective. BrainHack ATL is part of a larger initiative with this same goal that holds simultaneous events all over the world (Brainhack Global 2019). 
URL:https://trendscenter.org/event/brainhack-atl/
LOCATION:TReNDS Center\, 55 Park Place\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30303\, United States
CATEGORIES:Educational Courses,Scientific Meetings and Lectures
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191108T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191108T150000
DTSTAMP:20260506T120435
CREATED:20191008T150624Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191101T210435Z
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SUMMARY:Neuroimaging Series: Chethan Pandarinath
DESCRIPTION:Chethan Pandarinath\, Assistant Professor\, Biomedical Engineering\, Georgia Institute of Technology\n\nTitle:\nUncovering single-trial neural population dynamics with deep learning\n\nAbstract:\nNeuroscience is experiencing a revolution in which simultaneous recording of thousands of neurons is revealing population dynamics that are not apparent from single-neuron responses. This structure is typically extracted from data averaged across many trials\, but deeper understanding requires studying phenomena detected in single trials\, which is challenging due to incomplete sampling of the neural population\, trial-to-trial variability\, and fluctuations in action potential timing. We introduce latent factor analysis via dynamical systems (LFADS)\, a deep learning method to infer latent dynamics from single-trial neural spiking data. When applied to a variety of macaque and human motor cortical datasets\, LFADS accurately predicts observed behavioral variables\, extracts precise firing rate estimates of neural dynamics on single trials\, infers perturbations to those dynamics that correlate with behavioral choices\, and combines data from non-overlapping record- ing sessions spanning months to improve inference of underlying dynamics.\n\nPaper:\nInferring single-trial neural population dynamics using sequential auto-encoders. Nature Methods\, 2018.\ndoi: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-018-0109-9\nfree access: https://rdcu.be/6Wji \n\n\nWebex information:\nhttps://gsumeetings.webex.com/gsumeetings/j.php?MTID=m35821f4ba101205ba886945814d45cde\n\n 
URL:https://trendscenter.org/event/chethan-pandarinath/
LOCATION:TReNDS Center\, 55 Park Place\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30303\, United States
CATEGORIES:Scientific Meetings and Lectures
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191108T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191108T130000
DTSTAMP:20260506T120435
CREATED:20191024T022011Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191024T022132Z
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SUMMARY:Leah Krubitzer: B&B distinguished lecture series
DESCRIPTION:As part of the brains and behavior distinguished lecture series\, Leah Krubitzer\, PhD\, joins us from UC Davis to give a talk entitled “Combinatorial Creatures:  Cortical plasticity within and across lifetimes”.
URL:https://trendscenter.org/event/bb-distinguished-lecture-series/
LOCATION:Petit Science Center\, 145 Piedmont Ave SE\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30303\, United States
CATEGORIES:Scientific Meetings and Lectures
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ORGANIZER;CN="Brains & Behavior":MAILTO:eweaver1@gsu.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191018T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191018T150000
DTSTAMP:20260506T120435
CREATED:20191008T150344Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20191014T145442Z
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SUMMARY:Sergey Plis: AI and the brain
DESCRIPTION:TReNDS Neuroimaging Series\nOur very own Sergey Plis will be speaking about AI and the brain.\n\nInformation-rich multimodal and multisubject brain imaging datasets facilitate understanding brain function and dysfunction but they are extremely complex. Automatic knowledge discovery from these data could distill their complexity to self-evident information. This talk covers our use and development of deep learning for this task: knowledge discovery in neuroimaging. I will explain why deeper models work better on our data\, show how we can use them to discover information about populations of subjects\, demonstrate how these models pay attention to structure and function\, what they learn about brain dynamics\, how they can beat state of the art neuroimaging tools at their game and more.
URL:https://trendscenter.org/event/sergey-plis-ai-and-the-brain/
LOCATION:TReNDS Center\, 55 Park Place\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30303\, United States
CATEGORIES:Scientific Meetings and Lectures
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20191004T083000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20191004T120000
DTSTAMP:20260506T120435
CREATED:20190704T041910Z
LAST-MODIFIED: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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190913T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190913T150000
DTSTAMP:20260506T120435
CREATED:20190704T040614Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190822T143208Z
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190909T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190909T130000
DTSTAMP:20260506T120435
CREATED:20190909T153050Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190909T154634Z
UID:3913-1568030400-1568034000@trendscenter.org
SUMMARY:Reading Club
DESCRIPTION:This Week’s topic: Intro to GANs
URL:https://trendscenter.org/event/reading-club/
LOCATION:TReNDS Center\, 55 Park Place\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30303\, United States
CATEGORIES:Reading Club
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://trendscenter.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/reading.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190830T140000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190830T150000
DTSTAMP:20260506T120435
CREATED:20190830T135435Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190830T135435Z
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SUMMARY:TReNDy Talks: Sergey Plis
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a talk given by our very own Sergey Plis.
URL:https://trendscenter.org/event/trendy-talks-sergey-plis/
LOCATION:TReNDS Center\, 55 Park Place\, Atlanta\, GA\, 30303\, United States
CATEGORIES:Scientific Meetings and Lectures
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