Dear Colleague, Please find below the final program of the invited lectures of the one-day symposium on the integrative analysis of brain diseases to be held at the Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands (see http://macbrain2012.cs.ru.nl/program). A pdf version of the program with abstracts of talks can be downloaded at http://macbrain2012.cs.ru.nl/files/program-with-abstracts.pdf Registration at http://macbrain2012.cs.ru.nl/registration Could you please distribute this information to your colleagues? Thanks in advance. Kind regards, Elena Marchiori --------------- Program Thursday 6 September 2012 Opening: Elena Marchiori and Inge Huitinga 9:00 – 9:30 Registration, coffee and opening Session 1: Brain Banks Chair: James Ironside 9:30 – 10:20 Jean-Paul Vonsattel – Director of the New York Brain Bank at Columbia University The NYBB at Columbia University and donor data 10:20 – 11:10 Maree Webster – Director SMRI Brain Collection and Research Laboratory The Stanley Medical Research Institute (SMRI) Brain Collection and Database 11:10 – 11:30 Coffee break Session 2: Data Mining and Machine Learning Chair: Pedro Larranaga 11:30 – 12:20 Sophia Ananiadou – Director of the National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM) Extracting Events of Biological Relevance from Text 12:20 – 13:10 Yves Moreau – KU Leuven ESAT-SCD & SymBioSys Center for Computational Systems Biology Candidate Gene Prioritization by Genomic Data Fusion 13:10 – 14:00 Lunch break Session 3: Clinical and Pathological Studies Chair: Peter Lucas 14:00 – 14:50 Amanda Kiliaan – Department of Anatomy/Cognitive Neurosciences, Radboud University Nijmegen On Diet and the Brain: from mice to men 14:50 – 15:40 Harro Seelaar – Erasmus MC Genetic background of frontotemporal dementia and its relation with the neuropathology 15:40 – 16:00 Coffee break 16:00 – 16:40 Tineke van Veen – Dept. of Psychiatry, Leiden University Medical Centre, The Netherlands Cross-linking pathological and clinical observations in depression and anxiety: building a genetic bridge 16:40 – 17:10 Inge Huitinga and Elena Marchiori – Netherlands Brain Bank & Radboud University Machine Learning in Action: Mining the Netherlands Brain Bank 17:10 – 18:00 Closure and Drinks