Connectionists: International Workshop 'Connectomes' - In memoriam Rolf Kötter. November 1st, 2012, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

[Christian F. Beckmann]

Dear all,

The Donders Institute of Brain, Cognition and Behaviour is pleased to announce an international workshop 'Connectomes', a workshop in memoriam of Rolf Kötter (1961-2010), Professor and Chair of the Section Neurophysiology & Neuroinformatics at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen. Rolf has been a pioneer in the field of connectomics and his work continues to have an impact across a variety of research areas.

This workshop will feature scientific talks, discussing the current state of the art in Connectomics: connectivity databasing, graph-theoretic analysis of brain networks, neuromodelling in the clinical context, resting-state functional connectivity and integrated modelling architecture and connectivity.

The workshop will be followed by the Donders Lecture by David van Essen (Washington University in St. Louis) titled "Mapping structure, function and connectivity in primate cerebral cortex"


PROGRAM

09.00-09.15 

Stan Gielen (Radboud University Nijmegen)

Opening

 09.15-10.15	
Rembrandt Bakker (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Research Center Jülich)

“The CoCoMac macaque structural connectivity database 2nd edition: Open access made easy”

10.30-11.30	
Mikail Rubinov (University of Cambridge)

“Weighted characterization of complex functional brain networks”

12.30-13.30	
Klaas Enno Stephan (University of Zürich)

"Translational neuromodeling"

13.30-14.30

Claus Hilgetag (Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf)

"Linking connections and architecture of the cerebral cortex"

14.45-15.45	
Stephen M. Smith (University of Oxford)

"Dynamic network modelling from accelerated resting-state FMRI data"

16.00-17.15	
DONDERS LECTURE

David van Essen (Washington University in St. Louis)

"Mapping structure, function and connectivity in primate cerebral cortex"

17.15-18.30	
Drinks



Places are limited, please register at http://www.ru.nl/donders/connectomes

Registration for the workshop is free, Voluntary donations to the Rolf Kötter fund are welcome, please see the registration website for details.


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Christian F. Beckmann, DPhil 
Professor for Neuroimaging Analysis | MIRA Institute for Biomedical Technology and Technical Medicine | University of Twente | The Netherlands   
Principal Investigator: Statistical Imaging Neuroscience | Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging | Radboud University Nijmegen  | The Netherlands
Senior Research Fellow | Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB) | University of Oxford | UK     
Hon. Senior Lecturer in MRI Methodology | Computational, Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience Lab (C3NL) | Imperial College London | UK

Mail: P.O. Box 9101 | NL-6500 HB Nijmegen | The Netherlands 
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Tel/Fax: +31 24 36 10880 / 10989 | e-mail: c.beckmann at donders.ru.nl