1st INCF Workshop on Global Portal Services for Neuroscience

Stockholm, September 3-4, 2007

Goal

The goal of this meeting was to map out existing portal services for
neuroscience, identify their features and future plans, and outline
opportunities for synergistic developments. The workshop discussed
alternative formats of future global and integrated portal services.

Invited participants

Chinh Dang, Allen Institute for Brain Research, Seattle, USA
Mark H Ellisman, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, USA
Daniel Gardner, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, USA
Michael F Huerta, National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, Bethesda, USA
Colin D Ingram, University of Newcastle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
Kathie L. Olsen, National Science Foundation, Arlington, USA
Luis Marenco, Yale University, New Haven, USA
Raphael Ritz, INCF Secretariat, Stockholm, Sweden
Andrea Schenone, University of Genova, Genova, Italy
Gordon Shepherd, Yale University, New Haven, USA
Arthur W Toga, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, USA
Shiro Usui, RIKEN BSI, Wako, Japan
David C Van Essen, Washington University, St. Louis, USA
Jaap van Pelt, VU University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Robert W Williams, University of Tennessee, Memphis, USA

Reporter: Luis Marenco, Yale University, New Haven, USA

Program

September 3:    
08:30 - 09:00     Introduction and orientation (Bjaalie and Shepherd)
09:00 - 12:00     Scientific presentations and discussions
12:00 - 13:30     Lunch
13:30 - 15:30     Scientific presentations and discussions
15:30 - 18:00     Meeting of working groups
19:00 -                Dinner and further discussion
Each presentation is scheduled to allow 20 minutes, including questions.

• David van Essen | Opportunities and Challenges in navigating neuroscience resources
• Shiro Usui | Japan-node portal and the platforms
• Andrea Schenone | Some experiences in sharing data and services through e-science portals
• Luis Marenco | Experiences building the Neuroscience Database Gateway
• Daniel Gardner | The Neuroscience Information Framework: An open source solution and template for web neuroscience
• Chinh Dang | Creating a community-driven neuroscience webware
• Jaap van Pelt | Database opportunities for the Netherlands
• Colin Ingram | CARMEN: Developing an e-science portal to support collaborative research in time-series neuroscience data
• Mark Ellisman | The Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) and the Cell Centered Database (CCDB) – Building collaborative environments for integrating and sharing neuroscience knowledge
• Arthur W Toga | Multi-site imaging consortia: Lessons learned
• Robert Williams | Interoperability among mouse genomic, neurogenetic, and neuroimaging web resources
• Raphael Ritz | The INCF Neuroinformation Community Portal
• Michael Huerta | Neuroscience and informatics: Intersecting priorities at NIH
• Kathie L Olsen | NSF: Perspectives on cyberinfrastructure and neuroscience
  

September 4:    
08:30 - 12:00     Meeting and report of working groups
12:00 - 13:30     Lunch
13:30 - 15:00     Report of working groups
15:00 - 18:00     Draft report

Support

Supported by European Union Special Support Action: INCF, the Swedish
Foundation for Strategic Research, and the INCF Central Fund.

Meeting location

INCF Secretariat
Karolinska Institutet
Nobels väg 15 A
SE-171 77 Stockholm
Sweden

Travel info

Travel between the airport, the hotel, and the INCF Secretariat

Scientific organizer

Gordon Shepherd, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT