Summer Academy

The Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics is excited to offer a five-day intensive project-based learning week where trainees will learn hands-on techniques for integrating multi-scale neuroscience data. This course is

Summer School

The Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics is excited to offer a two-week summer course on the integration of multi-scale neuroscience data - encompassing genetics, brain structure and function, and cognition – designed to introduce participants to the concepts and methods behind psychiatric neuroinformatics . Daily sessions will include both didactic teaching and hands-on tutorial components aimed at engaging critical thinking and developing practical skills in key selected areas. Through a series of experiments using real-world data types- encompassing genetics, brain structure and function, and cognition. In addition, participants will uncover the links between modalities of human genomics, neuronal electrophysiology, structural and functional neuroimaging, and observed behaviour that KCNI scientists are integrating through a series of virtual modules and a group-based project using real-world data types to study mental illness.

This unique course learning opportunity will prepare participants to handle and analyze multiple data types in hopes that their own research may benefit from collaborative, multi-modal approaches. Critically, participants will also learn about best practices for data management and quality control in the context of integrative analysis as well as ethical considerations. Students will explore the ethical dimensions of data collection, curation, and model building and their impact on fairness and health equity using concrete tools and best practices

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Excerpt: Encouragingly for Hill, funders are slowly getting on board with collaborative neuroscience — not just the Krembil Foundation, which backs the KCNI, but also the US National Institutes of Health, which has supported data-sharing platforms in neuroscience, and Seattle’s Allen Institute for Brain Science, founded by deceased Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, which is among the biggest producers of publicly available brain data. In support of such work, Hill is currently leading an international team to figure out common standards to describe data sets so they can be formatted and shared easily. Without such new incentives and new ways of practising science, we’ll never be able to properly study mental illness. We know, for instance, that mental disorders can morph into one another — a bout of anxiety can become a depressive episode and then a psychotic break, each phase a step on a timeline — but we cannot understand this timeline unless we build models to simulate how illnesses mutate inside the brain. “Right now,” says Hill, “it’s as if we’re studying random stills from a movie but not seeing the entire thing.”