http://www.incf.org daily 1 2008-09-18T13:59:08Z http://www.incf.org/newsroom/highlights/live-webcast-of-the-2012-kavli-prize-laureates-announcements-next-may-31st-8-15-10-00am-edt On May 31^st, 8:15-10:00am EDT, follow the live webcast of the 2012 Kavli Prize laureates announcement by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in Oslo, and the World Science Festival in New York City. 

]]> No publisher Beatriz Martin Villalba 2012-05-15T08:10:00Z Highlight http://www.incf.org/newsroom/highlights/provisional-highlight Members of the Neuron Registry Task Force, part of INCF's Program on Ontologies of Neural Structures, and NIF have published a Perspective article in Frontiers of Neuroinformatics. The paper describes the Neuron Registry initiative, and calls for the research community to adopt and develop comprehensive nomenclatures and descriptions for neurons.

]]> No publisher Beatriz Martin Villalba 2012-05-09T13:40:00Z Highlight http://www.incf.org/newsroom/highlights/incf-welcomes-new-staff-members We are pleased to announce that Dr. Beatriz Martin and Dr. Mathew Abrams have joined the Secretariat Staff as of May 2nd. Beatriz will be responsible for INCF Scientific Communications and Visualizations, and Mathew, as Program officer, will be responsible for the INCF Programs on Digital Brain Atlasing and Ontologies of Neural Structures. 

]]> No publisher Ylva Lillberg 2012-05-07T14:55:00Z Highlight http://www.incf.org/newsroom/highlights/incf-satellite-symposium-at-can-2012 INCF and NeuroDevNet will jointly host a workshop on the topic of Canadian Neuroinformatics on May 24th, immediately following this year's Canadian Association for Neuroscience meeting (CAN 2012). The one-day symposium will have a rich and diverse scientific program followed by discussion of Canada’s possible future involvement in INCF. Registration is free of charge and includes lunch.

]]> No publisher Malin Sandström 2012-04-16T13:43:31Z Highlight http://www.incf.org/newsroom/highlights/new-neuroimaging-datasharing-paper The INCF Task Force on Neuroimaging Datasharing recently published a review article in Frontiers in Neuroinformatics. The paper highlights the work of the Task Force in tackling the barriers associated with sharing data in the neuroimaging domain, producing services and tools to assist this process, and the need for raising awareness and motivation in the community.

]]> No publisher Malin Sandström 2012-04-11T13:55:00Z Highlight http://www.incf.org/newsroom/highlights/copy_of_the-incf-annual-report-for-2011-is-now-available Read our latest Annual Report, published 3 April 2012, to get a comprehensive view of INCF's activities and achievements during 2011. The report also contains a highlight article on the German/Norwegian/Polish Node collaboration for more reliable spike sorting and better understanding of dynamic brain activity.

]]> No publisher Helena Ledmyr 2012-04-03T12:30:00Z Highlight http://www.incf.org/newsroom/highlights/registration-open-for-5th-neuroinformatics-congress Neuroinformatics 2012, the 5th Neuroinformatics Congress organized by INCF, is now open for registration. This year's meeting takes place in Munich on September 10-12, and is immediately followed by the Bernstein Conference on Computational Neuroscience, held September 12-14. Discounted "early bird" registration fees are available until June 1.

]]> No publisher Malin Sandström 2012-03-30T13:27:51Z Highlight http://www.incf.org/newsroom/highlights/additional-300m-to-allen-institute-for-brain-science Philanthropist Paul G. Allen has committed another $300M of funding to the Allen Institute for Brain Science. The institute plans to double its staff over the next four years, and to launch three new scientific initiatives designed to yield knowledge of fundamental principles governing brain function. All data and other resources will be curated and publicly shared, for free, before publication.

]]> No publisher Malin Sandström 2012-03-23T13:55:00Z Highlight http://www.incf.org/newsroom/highlights/incf-mentors-google-summer-of-code-2012 For the second year, INCF participates as a mentoring organization in the Google Summer of Code. This program allows students to join open source development projects over the summer, while being paid by Google. Our project proposals are related to INCF core activities, INCF Programs and National Nodes. Student applications open on March 26.

]]> No publisher Malin Sandström 2012-03-19T15:28:44Z Highlight http://www.incf.org/newsroom/highlights/12-18-march-is-brain-awareness-week Brain-related diseases cause much suffering and place a huge toll on the health care systems of the world. The Dana Foundation coordinates Brain Awareness Week (BAW) to increase public awareness of the benefits and progress of brain research. BAW currently has 2,800 partners in universities, hospitals, patient groups, government agencies, service organizations, professional associations, and schools. 

]]> No publisher Ylva Lillberg 2012-03-12T12:53:29Z Highlight http://www.incf.org/newsroom/highlights/incf-seeks-a-cloud-systems-engineer Do you feel at home in the Cloud? Are iRODS, Hadoop, distributed computing, linked data, and deep analytics familiar terms to you? Good - we are developing collaborative research data infrastructure for neuroscience and need your help. Send us your application latest March 31 to jobs@incf.org.

]]> No publisher Malin Sandström 2012-03-09T07:54:25Z Highlight http://www.incf.org/newsroom/highlights/elsevier-withdraws-research-works-act-support Leading scholarly publisher Elsevier announced on Feb 27 that they withdraw support for the Research Works Act. The statement underlines their commitment to making published research and data widely accessible, and that they "firmly believe that more cooperation and partnership between funders and publishers is the best way to expand free public access".

]]> No publisher Malin Sandström 2012-02-28T16:28:26Z Highlight http://www.incf.org/newsroom/highlights/happy-100th-turing On Alan Turing's 100th birthday this week, Nature named him one of the top scientific minds of all time. He is celebrated with a special issue containing articles on computing, Turing machines, and biological pattern generation.

]]> No publisher Malin Sandström 2012-02-24T15:17:44Z Highlight http://www.incf.org/newsroom/highlights/collaborative-connectomics Eyewire, launched out of MIT, is a game-in-the-making that lets anyone reconstruct neurons from a stack of electron microscope images of the retina. It is based on computational techniques from the lab of Sebastian Seung and the hard work of a group composed mostly of MIT undergraduate students. 

]]> No publisher Malin Sandström 2012-02-15T16:43:35Z Highlight http://www.incf.org/newsroom/highlights/copy_of_call-for-ni2012-abstracts We have just opened the abstract submission for the Neuroinformatics 2012 Congress, which will take place in Munich on September 10-12. Submit an interesting proposal for a poster or demo, before the deadline April 20, then come to Munich in September to show and discuss it!

]]> No publisher Malin Sandström 2012-02-09T12:55:00Z Highlight