Welcome to Neuroinformatics 2008
1st INCF Congress of Neuroinformatics: Databasing and Modeling the Brain
Stockholm, September 7 - 9, 2008
Welcome to the official site of Neuroinformatics 2008, the 1st INCF Congress of Neuroinformatics. It took place September 7 - 9, 2008, and attracted 267 participants!
The congress organizers wish to express their deepest gratitude to all speakers and participants for making this congress the great success that it was! We hope to see you next year at Neuroinformatics 2009.
Keynote Speakers
Mark Ellisman
Title: Brain Research in the Digital Age
Affiliation: University of California San Diego, USA
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David Van Essen
Title: A neuroinformatics perspective on cerebral cortical structure and function
Affiliation: Washington University, St. Louis , USA
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Mitsuo Kawato
Title: Towards Manipulative Neuroscience based on Brain-Network-Interface
ATR Computational Neuroscience Labs, Kyoto, Japan
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Mary Kennedy
Title: Synaptic Nanomachines
Affiliation. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
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Henry Markram
Title: The Blue Brain Project
Affiliation: Brain Mind Institute, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Idan Segev
Title: Towards an Objective Analysis of the Firing Variability of Cortical Neurons
Affiliation: Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
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Congress Workshops
Future hardware challenges to scientific computing
Chair: Erik De Schutter- Gabriel Wittum, Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg, Germany
- Marc-Oliver Gewaltig, Honda Research Institute Europe, Offenbach, Germany
- John Shalf, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Neurogenomics meets bioinformatics meets neuroinformatics
Chair: Robert Williams- Ed Lein, Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, USA
- Seth Grant, Sanger (Cambridge University), UK
- Kristen Harris, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Extraction of structural and functional information from brain images
Chair: Ulla Ruotsalainen- Katrin Amunts,
Research Center Jülich, Germany
- Alan Evans, McGill University Montreal, Canada
- Thomas Mrsic-Flögel, University College London, UK
Challenges and benefits of multichannel electrophysiology
Chair: Andrzej Wrobel- György Buzsáki, Rutgers University, Newark, USA
- Miguel Nicolelis, Duke University, Durham, USA
- Xiaoqin Wang, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, USA
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Supported by EU Special Support Action INCF 
and the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research 
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