<div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The </span><a href="http://www.humanbrainmapping.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3606" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2014 Neuroimaging Hackathon</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><a href="https://www.humanbrainmapping.org/i4a/ams/conference/conference.cfm?conferenceID=98" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">registration is open</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">! This unique 3-day event (June 5-7) will be held prior to annual meeting of the </span><a href="http://www.humanbrainmapping.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageID=3565" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM)</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> at the legendary </span><a href="http://c-base.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">c-base</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">, a decked-out collaborative art and technology space at the heart of the Berlin hacker community. In keeping with the spirit of prior neuroimaging hackathons such as </span><a href="http://ohbm-seattle.github.io/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">OHBM 2013</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> and </span><a href="http://www.brainhack.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Brainhack 2012 and 2013</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">, participants will have the opportunity to propose collaborative projects and engage in a number of open challenges. </span></font></p>
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:13px"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">For updated information on the developing Hackathon content, and to contribute your own ideas, check out </span><a href="http://www.brainhack.org/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">www.brainhack.org</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">. Current projects include the </span><a href="https://www.synapse.org/#!Synapse:syn2290704" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sage Alzheimer’s Disease Challenge</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">, cloud computing tutorials with </span><a href="https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/B00AW0MBLO" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">NITRC-CE</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> and Amazon Web Services, workshops on data-sharing and meta-analysis, and many others initiated by scientists from the brain imaging community (see </span><a href="http://brainhack.org/categories/hackathon2014/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://brainhack.org/categories/hackathon2014/</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">).  </span></font></p>
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:13px"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Participants engaged in the Alzheimer’s Disease Challenge will have the unique opportunity to set an initial benchmark for a multi-phase effort to identify early accurate predictive biomarkers that can inform the scientific, industrial and regulatory communities about the disease. </font></span></p>
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:13px"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Join this vibrant community and help build open neuroscience initiatives in one of the most unique tech venues in Berlin. To keep the collaborations flowing, meals and refreshments are all included in the registration costs and will be provided on-site, as well as $100+ in Amazon Web Service credits for your computational needs. Participation is limited, so we encourage you to </span><a href="https://www.humanbrainmapping.org/i4a/ams/conference/conference.cfm?conferenceID=98" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">register now</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">. </span></font></p>
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:13px"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">The spirit of the Hackathon will also be continuing into the OHBM meeting in Hamburg from June 8-12, where a collaboration space will be available in the conference venue. This space will be open to all OHBM attendees to discuss, present, and continue working on hackathon projects.</font></span></p>
<font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:13px"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">OHBM Hackathon website: <a href="https://www.humanbrainmapping.org/hackathon" target="_blank">https://www.humanbrainmapping.org/hackathon</a></font></span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Registration: </span><a href="https://www.humanbrainmapping.org/i4a/ams/conference/conference.cfm?conferenceID=98" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://www.humanbrainmapping.org/i4a/ams/conference/conference.cfm?conferenceID=98</span></a></font></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:1;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Projects: <a href="http://www.brainhack.org/" target="_blank">http://www.brainhack.org/</a></font></span></p>
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