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<p><b>Announcing a Keystone Symposium on "Connectomics"</b><br>
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<p>Scientific Organizers: Olaf Sporns, Danielle Bassett and Jeremy
Freeman<br>
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March 5—8, 2017<br>
Eldorado Hotel & Spa, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA</p>
<p>Program: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.keystonesymposia.org/17X2">http://www.keystonesymposia.org/17X2</a> <br>
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<p>The emerging field of connectomics comprises extensive efforts to
map patterns of brain connectivity, to represent these patterns
with the tools of network science, and to explore the relation of
brain connectivity and dynamics to behavior and cognition.
Importantly, these efforts span multiple scales of brain
organization, from synaptic connectivity among individual neurons,
to comprehensive maps of circuits, neuronal populations, and
projections among brain regions. An integrative multi-scale
framework for mapping, analyzing, and modeling connectome data
sets is lacking. The proposed Keystone Symposium aims to narrow
this important gap, by pursuing the following specific aims: (i)
the symposium will foster scientific exchange among otherwise
siloed researchers studying connectomes in different organisms at
different scales with different measurement techniques; (ii) the
symposium will promote approaches that apply across scales, for
example by leveraging the tools of network science; (iii) the
symposium will emphasize the need to move beyond descriptive
accounts of connectomes, to model-based prediction and control;
(iv) the symposium will provide a unique opportunity for pre- and
postdoctoral trainees to engage with connectomics leaders and
present their work. Anticipated outcomes include: (i) a
multi-scale framework for description, prediction, and control of
connectomes; (ii) innovative computational methods for statistical
analysis and modeling of connectome data sets; (iii) new
collaborations among participating researchers and trainees. The
Symposium will have transformative impact by creating new
relationships among investigators and by seeding a new integrative
research agenda centered on the structure and dynamics of brain
connectivity.<br>
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Olaf Sporns -- @spornslab
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Programs in Neuroscience and Cognitive Science
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405</pre>
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