[BBC] MacBrain symposium: first announcement

[E.Marchiori at cs.ru.nl]

Dear All,

Could you please distribute the announcement below to potentially  
interested researchers and practitioners?
Thanks in advance.

Best regards,
Elena Marchiori


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*** MacBrain Symposium ***
macbrain2012.cs.ru.nl
6 September 2012; Nijmegen, The Netherlands

A one day international symposium on the integrative analysis of brain  
diseases: brain banks, machine learning, clinical and pathological  
studies.

Speakers

* Jean-Paul Vonsattel – Director of the New York Brain Bank at  
Columbia University, USA
* Daniel Lightfoot – Director of the Autism Tissue Program, USA
* Sophia Ananiadou – Director of the National Centre for Text Mining, UK
* Yves Moreau – Program director of POC Bioinformatics Department of  
Bio-Engineering sciences, KU Leuven, Belgium
* Amanda Kiliaan – Department of Anatomy/Cognitive Neurosciences,  
Radboud University, NL
* John C. van Swieten – Erasmus MC, NL
* Inge Huitinga – Netherlands Brain Bank, NL
* Elena Marchiori – Radboud University, NL

Overview

The goal of this symposium is to provide researchers and practitioners  
an overview of the cutting edge research on core aspects of  
integrative research of brain diseases, combining data management,  
machine learning and clinical and pathological studies.

The lectures from worldwide domain experts will describe  
state-of-the-art research and discuss innovative directions aiming at  
optimizing knowledge discovery processes, from data collection in  
brain banks through machine learning to integrative clinical and  
pathological studies. For instance, by analyzing the clinical, genetic  
and neuropathological data that are present in the database of a brain  
bank, subtypes of neurodegenerative disorders, pathological mechanisms  
and drug responsiveness might be identified. This might lead to better  
tools for clinical diagnostics and provide starting-points for drug  
development.

The symposium will provide a multi-disciplinary forum for discussing  
issues and
achievements in research on brain diseases. It will stimulate and  
strengthen synergy and collaboration among researchers from different  
disciplines, such as brain bankers, data managers, IT specialists,  
pathologists and clinicians, in order to improve the efficiency and  
effectiveness the integrative study of brain diseases.

Registration

Registration is on a first-come first-serve basis, so register as soon  
as possible at
http://macbrain2012.cs.ru.nl/registration. The registration fee for  
the MacBrain 2012
symposium is €50. It includes coffee/drinks and lunch.