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INCF Japan-Node News No.8 Dec. 2009 (NIJC at RIKEN-BSI)

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This is the 8th issue of J-Node News published by INCF Japan Node to give
you the neuroinformatics related news update.

Index:
1) Report on SfN Neuroscience2009

2) 1st workshop on Neuroinformatics
in Genetic Animal Models for Brain Diseases has finished

3) New issue of INCF Newsletter: Issue 4, 2009

4) Meta-Data Oversight Committee Meeting

5) Workshop on the Mechanism of Brain and Mind

6) 3rd INCF Congress of Neuroinformatics: Neuroinformatics 2010 in KOBE

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1) Report on SfN Neuroscience2009

SfN Neuroscience2009 was held from October 17 to 21 in Chicago.

* Participants: more than 30,500 people

* INCF Japan-Node demonstration (October 19, 2009):
<9:30-12:30>
INCF Japan Node (J-Node) and neuroinformatics platforms:
Integrative Brain Research Platform,
Cerebellar Development Transcriptome Database PF
(Usui S, Takao K, Furuichi T and Kamiji NL)
<13:30-16:30>
INCF Japan Node (J-Node) and neuroinformatics platforms:
Dynamic Brain Platform, Related Abstract Search Tool
(Usui S, Wagatsuma H, Asai Y, Inagaki K and Kamiji N)

* Related Abstract Search Tool(RAST) for SfN Neuroscience2009:
http://ras.ni.brain.riken.jp/SfN2009


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2) 1st workshop on Neuroinformatics
in Genetic Animal Models for Brain Diseases has finished

* Date : December 13-14, 2009
* Venue: Stockholm, Sweden

This workshop is introduced on the following INCF Newsletter Issue 4.

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3) New issue of INCF Newsletter (Issue 4, 2009)

INCF Newsletter Issue 4 features:
- information on a new Erasmus Mundus Ph.D. program "EuroSPIN" in
Neuroinformatics
- information on the INCF activities at the SfN Neuroscience 2009
meeting in Chicago, October 17-21

INCF Newsletters are:
http://www.incf.org/about/news/newsletters/


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4) Meta-Data Oversight Committee Meeting

* Date : January 12-13, 2010
* Venue: INCF Secretariat, Karolinska Institutet
* URL : http://www.incf.org/about/programs/metadata/


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5) Workshop on the Mechanism of Brain and Mind

* Date : January 12-14, 2010
* Venue: Rusutsu Resort Hotel, Hokkaido, Japan
* Theme: Consciousness and Unconsciousness
* URL : http://brainmind.umin.jp/eng-index.html


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6) 3rd INCF Congress of Neuroinformatics: Neuroinformatics 2010 in KOBE

The Congress will be a single-track event comprising keynote lectures,
thematic workshops with speakers and panel discussions, and poster and
demo sessions.

* Date: August 30, 31, September 1, 2010
* Venue: Kobe Convention Center, Kobe, Japan

* Program: http://neuroinformatics2010.org/program

*** Keynote lectures
Ryohei Kanzaki (University of Tokyo)
"Brain mechanisms for the generation of adaptive behavior"

Lee Hood (Institute for Systems Biology)
"A systems approach to neurodegenerative disease, emerging
technologies and proactive medicine"

Maryann Martone (University of California, San Diego)
"The possibility and probability of a global neuroscience
information framework"

Colin Ingram (University of Newcastle)
"Working in the clouds: creating an e-science collaborative
environment for neurophysiology"

Upinder Bhalla (National Centre for Biological Sciences)
"Multiscale models of the synapse: a self-modifying memory
machine"

*** Workshops: Lectures & Panel discussions [tentative]
Workshop 1
"How to describe a model: description language solutions and
challenges"
Chair: Erik De Schutter (OIST)
Speakers: Nicolas Le Novere (European Bioinformatics Institute)
Chung-Chuan Lo (National Tsing Hua University)
Sean Hill (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne)

Workshop 2
"Neuroinformatics of BMI: decoding and control of neural codes"
Chair: Kenji Doya (OIST)
Speakers: Ed Boyden (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Yukiyasu Kamitani (ATR）
Eilon Vaadia (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Workshop 3
"Synaptoprojectomes: Assembling, using and sharing dense cellular
micromaps of brains"
Chair: Mark Ellisman (University of California, San Diego)
Speakers: Robert Marc (University of Utah)
Marcel Oberlaender (Max Planck Florida Institute)

Workshop 4
"Molecular mechanisms of neural signaling"
Chair: Svein Dahl, (The University of Tromso)
Speakers: Philip Biggin (University of Oxford)
Rama Ranganathan (University of Texas Southwestern)


*** Japan-Node Special Symposium
Japan-Node Special Symposium organized by INCF Japan-Node will be
held on the last half-day of the Congress. The symposium title will
be "INCF and Japanese Perspectives on Neuroinformatics for
Asian-Pacific future collaborations"

Invited Lectures (several other speakers will be invited)
David van Essen (Washington University)
"An informatics perspective on cerebral cortical structure,
function and development"

INCF Perspective and Panel Discussion [tentative]
Introduction of INCF and INCF Portal
(Sten Grillner & Jan G. Bjaalie)
INCF programs:
- Multi Scale Modelling (Erik De Shutter)
- Digital Brain Atlasing (Robert W. Williams)
- Ontologies of Neural Structures (Maryann Martone/Mark Ellisman)
- Minimal Metadata Standards (Colin Ingram)


*** Poster/Demonstration
We will have Poster and Demo sessions throughout the Congress.
We expect each INCF national node presents their scheme and
projects on scientific interests, for example: platforms under
the Japan-node(http://www.neuroinf.jp/). We also have a plan to
invite Asian-Pacific countries such as India, China, Korea,
Australia and others to know present situation and discuss
future collaborations. Other Projects in Japan including large
scale brain modeling, which is a part of the Next Generation
super computer project (to be built in Kobe, next to the venue)
and some other Japanese Brain Science project such as BMI project
are also planned.


Neuro2010 (http://www.neuro2010.org/neuro2010-eng) will also be held
in succession to the Congress, the Congress and Neuro2010 will have
a co-hosting Symposium on Neuroinformatics and will provide a discount
registration scheme for the people who will attend both conferences
(Please see the details for each web site).


The year after next Congress Neuroinformatics 2011 will be held in USA.


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