Name: 9th BigBrain Workshop - HIBALL Closing Symposium
Start: 2025-10-27T08:25:00+01:00
End: 2025-10-29T20:00:00+01:00
Location: No location set

9th BigBrain Workshop - HIBALL Closing Symposium

from Monday 27 October 2025 (08:25) to Wednesday 29 October 2025 (20:00)

Monday 27 October 2025

08:30 Coffee and Registration
Coffee and Registration
08:30 - 09:00

09:00 BigBrain Workshop Trainee Day - Welcome notes
BigBrain Workshop Trainee Day - Welcome notes
09:00 - 09:15
09:15 BigBrain Project Educational Lecture
BigBrain Project Educational Lecture
09:15 - 10:15
Contributions

09:15 Integrating Brain Imaging and AI: Applications in Neurological Disorders - Juan Helen Zhou (Centre for Sleep and Cognition & Centre for Translational Magnetic Resonance Research, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS))
10:15 Coffee and Discussion Break
Coffee and Discussion Break
10:15 - 10:40

10:40 Spotlight on Hands-On Sessions
Spotlight on Hands-On Sessions
10:40 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Working with the EBRAINS Knowledge Graph - Lyuba Zehl (EBRAINS)

11:00 Working with quantitative cortical cell densities using siibra - Sebastian Bludau (Forschungszentrum Jülich - INM1) Timo Dickscheid (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

11:00 Mapping cortical microstructure from in vivo MRI using FreeSurfer - Oula Puonti (Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance)
12:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:30 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 15:00
Contributions

13:30 Introduction to DataLad - Adina Svenja Wagner (Institute of Neurosciences and Medicine, Brain and Behaviour (INM-7), Forschungszentrum Jülich) Michael Hanke (Institute of Neurosciences and Medicine, Brain and Behaviour (INM-7), Forschungszentrum Jülich)

13:30 BigBrain data processing with CBRAIN - Bryan Caron (NeuroHub, McGill University)
15:00 Coffee and Discussion Break
Coffee and Discussion Break
15:00 - 15:30
15:30 Special Session NeuroAI
Special Session NeuroAI
15:30 - 16:30
Contributions

15:30 Reconstruction and Matching of Drosophila Neuronal Morphologies - Dagmar Kainmüller (MDC Berlin)
16:30 Panel Discussion
Panel Discussion
16:30 - 17:30
17:30
17:30 - 19:00
Contributions

17:30 Divergent Cortical and Subcortical Organization of the Human Reward Network - Yana Schwarze (University of Lübeck)

17:30 Mapping Subcortical U-fibers and Long-Range Fibers in Superficial White Matter - Youngeun Hwang (McGill University)

17:30 The hippocampal formation in the BigBrain: The deep-learning supported high-resolution mapping and 3D reconstruction - Olga Kedo (1Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany)

17:30 Quantifying Cortico-subcortical Co-Maturation in the PFC: A Proposal for a Novel Developmental Metric - JiHoon Kim (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany; Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-7: Brain and Behaviour))

17:30 State dependent shifts in large scale functional topographies - Yezhou Wang (McGill university)

17:30 3D reconstruction of BigBrain2: Expertise and new tools for the next generation of BigBrains - Hartmut Mohlberg

17:30 THE MULTISCALE ARCHITECTURE OF THE SALIENCE NETWORK SUPPORTS A BRAIN-WIDE “SWITCH” FUNCTION - Paul Bautin

17:30 Z-stack BigBrain Image Synthesis with Deep Learning for improved 3D reconstruction at 1-micron resolution - Mingli Zhang Paule-J Toussaint (McGill University)

17:30 Functional and Metabolic Network Signatures of Mitochondrial Specialization in the Human Brain - Massimiliano Facca (University of Padova, Padova Neuroscience Center (PNC))

17:30 Dense meta-analytical connectivity mapping of the cerebral cortex - Amin Saberi (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany; Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-7), Research Centre Jülich, Jülich, Germany; Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany)

17:30 Fine-grained mapping of hippocampal alterations in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder using surface-based morphometry and multiscale integration - Matthias Kirschner (University of Geneva (UNIGE) and Geneva University Hospitals (HUG))

17:30 A 3D Reconstruction of Whole-Brain Vascular immunoreactivity - Anneke Alkemade (Brain and Cognition, Psychology, University of Amsterdam) Lysanne Groenewegen (University of Amsterdam)

17:30 Bridging Cellular, Circuit, and Network Mechanisms in Consciousness and Its Disorders: A Computational Framework - Valery Bragin (Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin)

17:30 Segment Anything for Dendrites in Electron Microscopy - Zewen Zhuo (University of Eastern Finland)

17:30 Scalable Framework for Region-Specific Brain Network Models: Integrating Multimodal Data for Deep Brain Activity Simulation - Alejandro Salinas Medina (School of Computer Science - McGill University)

17:30 Going 3D with AI: Full 3D Reconstructions of Cytoarchitectonic Maps in BigBrain - Kimberley Lothmann (Forschungszentrum Juelich INM-1)

17:30 Three-Dimensional Vascular Reconstruction and Centerline Extraction from 1 µm Histological Slice Images - Mingli Zhang

17:30 Exploring Neural Dynamics in Mental Rotation Through Time-Resolved Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation - Ishita Goyal (Universitätsklinikum Würzburg)

17:30 Feature extraction from myelin-stained histological sections of the rat brain - Melina Estela Dalmau (University of Eastern Finland)

17:30 Bridging Scales: Adapting RAPSODI for High-Precision Rat Brain MRI-Histology Co-Registration - Ebawak Wodajo (A.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, Faculty of Health Science, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland)

17:30 p-HCP, Prenatal Human Connectome Patterns: multimodal imaging of human fetal brain development at the mesoscopic scale using 11.7 T ex vivo MRI - Yann Leprince (UNIACT, NeuroSpin, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France; UMR 1141 NeuroDiderot, Eq inDEV, INSERM, Université Paris Cité, Hôpital Robert-Debré, Paris, France)

17:30 Laminar Architecture Encodes Link between Pruning and Cognitive Decline: a Study of Cortical Thinning - Tamires Marcal (McGill)

17:30 Neurodevelopmental Origins of Genetic risk of Parkinson's Disease - A. Dagher (McGill University)

17:30 Genomic structural equation modeling of impulsivity and risk-taking traits reveals three latent factors distinctly associated with brain structure and development - A. Dagher (McGill University)
Tuesday 28 October 2025

08:30 Coffee and Registartion
Coffee and Registartion
08:30 - 09:00

09:00 Welcome and Introduction
Welcome and Introduction
09:00 - 09:45
09:45 Sievers Lecture in Computational Neuroscience
Sievers Lecture in Computational Neuroscience
09:45 - 10:45
Contributions

09:45 From Group Averages to Precision Neuroimaging: Brain Function and Anatomy at the Individual Level - Kâmil Uludağ
10:45 Coffee and Discussion Break
Coffee and Discussion Break
10:45 - 11:15
11:15
11:15 - 12:45
Contributions

11:15 Crossing the Styx: From In Vivo MRI to Post Mortem Histology in Human Brain Atlasing - Anneke Alkemade (Integrative Model-Based Neuroscience Research Unit, University of Amsterdam)

11:30 Closing the Gaps: A Multi-Branch Diffusion Model for a Gapless 1-µm BigBrain - Jan-Oliver Kropp (Big Data Analytics, INM-1, Forschungszentrum Jülich)

11:45 p-HCP, Prenatal Human Connectome Patterns: multimodal imaging of human fetal brain development at the mesoscopic scale using 11.7 T ex vivo MRI - Yann Leprince (UNIACT, NeuroSpin, CEA, Université Paris-Saclay, F-91191, Gif-sur-Yvette, France; UMR 1141 NeuroDiderot, Eq inDEV, INSERM, Université Paris Cité, Hôpital Robert-Debré, Paris, France)

12:00 CytoNet: A Foundation Model for the Human Cerebral Cortex - Applications in BigBrain and Beyond - Christian Schiffer (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

12:15 tiamat: Tiled Image Access and Manipulation Toolkit for Visualization and Analysis of Large Scientific Image Datasets - Alexander Oberstrass

12:30 A Transatlantic Infrastructure to Share and Process BigBrain Datasets - Bryan Caron (McGill University)
12:45 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:45 - 14:15
14:15
14:15 - 16:00
Contributions

14:15 Mapping Molecular Patterns in the Brain: Deep Learning for Spatial Omics Integration into Brain Atlases - Hannah Spitzer (Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research (ISD), University Hospital, LMU Munich)

14:45 Bridging Scales to Map the Human Claustrum: BigBrain, Julich, and 7-Tesla MRI - Navona Calarco (University of Toronto)

15:00 Intracortical microstructure profiling: a versatile method for indexing cortical lamination - Casey Paquola (Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-7), Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany)

15:15 Automated whole-brain volumetric parcellation and cortical surface extraction of BigBrain2 using nnU-Net + FreeSurfer v8.1 - Lindsay B Lewis (McGill University)

15:30 HippUnfold v2: improved robustness, detail, and minimized distortion - Jordan DeKraker (McGill University)

15:45 Decontextualizing neuroscience: Opportunities and pitfalls of brain map correlations - Jessica Royer (McGill University, Montreal, Canada; Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany)
16:00 Coffee and Discussion Break
Coffee and Discussion Break
16:00 - 16:30

16:30

16:30 - 17:30

17:30 HIBALL Summary
HIBALL Summary
17:30 - 18:00
Wednesday 29 October 2025

08:30 Coffee and Registration
Coffee and Registration
08:30 - 09:00
09:00 HIBALL Lecture in Brain Analytics and Learning
HIBALL Lecture in Brain Analytics and Learning
09:00 - 10:00
Contributions

09:00 Causal Mapping: From Connectomic Deep Brain Stimulation toward the 'Human Dysfunctome' - Andreas Horn (Institute for Network Stimulation, University Hospital Cologne & Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics, Mass General Brigham in Boston)
10:00 Coffee and Discussion Break
Coffee and Discussion Break
10:00 - 10:30

10:30 Welcome Address by Otmar Wiestler
Welcome Address by Otmar Wiestler
10:30 - 10:45
Präsident der Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren"
10:45
10:45 - 12:00
Contributions

10:45 AI-Driven Neurodiagnostics: A Scalable Framework for EEG Anomaly Detection Using a Distributed-Delay Neural Mass Model - Anisleidy Gonzalez-Mitjans (McGill Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada)

11:00 Imaging-informed brain simulations predict personalized DBS response - Jil Mona Meier (Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin)

11:15 High-resolution Postmortem Image Analysis of the Human Brain to Characterize Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias - Pulkit Khandelwal (University of Pennsylvania)

11:30 Multimodal registration of high-resolution histology and ultra-high field MRI using BigBrain2 pipeline in the rat brain - Mastaneh Torkamani-Azar (A.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland)

11:45 Characterization of Cognitive Structure Using Explainable Models and Multimodal Neuroimaging Maps - Tamires Marcal (McGill)
12:00 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
12:00 - 13:30
13:30
13:30 - 15:00
Contributions

13:30 Integrating and interpreting brain maps - Bratislav Mišić (McGill University)

14:00 Multi-modal data integration to relate electrophysiology to (neuro)biological foundations - Ulrich Stoof (University College London, UK)

14:15 Glucose Metabolism echoes Long-Range Temporal Correlations in the Human Brain - Massimiliano Facca (University of Padova, Padova Neuroscience Center (PNC))

14:30 Phenotyping whole-brain dynamics with modality-agnostic energy landscapes and cohort embeddings - Julian Kędys (Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center)

14:45 Scalable Framework for Region-Specific Brain Network Models: Integrating Multimodal Data for Deep Brain Activity Simulation - Alejandro Salinas Medina (School of Computer Science - McGill University)
15:00 Closing Session
Closing Session
15:00 - 15:15