[BBC] MacBrain symposium: first announcement
E.Marchiori at cs.ru.nl
E.Marchiori at cs.ru.nl
Wed Jul 4 10:00:14 CEST 2012
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.
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