When: June 19-23, 2023
Intended Audience: Open to learners worldwide! Undergraduate Learners, Graduate Students, Post-Graduate Research and Clinical Fellows, as well as Early-Career Scientists with interest in learning more about Clinical Research and Neuroinformatics are encoraged to join!
Course Format: Virtual Webinar Series
Cost: Free
Contact: kcni.school@camh.ca
Registration: Opening soon! in June! Pre-registration for the series is not required. Registration will remain open untill the series is complete.
The Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics is excited to publish a free, globally accessible, webinar series about working with the clinic to perform integrative multi-scale neuroscience data. The series will start with a discussion of clinical research questions in mental health, and how to work with the clinic to perform research. This series will then introduce participants to the concepts and methods behind psychiatric neuroinformatics - 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. The series will conclude with a discussion about how to return value to the clinic, emcompassing issues of ethics and fairness in Artificiall inteligence to tools of implementation science.
This unique 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.
Topics and Instructors
- A Multiscale Approach to Brain Disorders - Sean Hill, Director, CAMH KCNI
- Problems and opportunities in the diagnosis and treatment of major depression - Victor Tang and Brett Jones
- Data extraction from the electronic health record and clinical-decision making - Sara Ling, Gillian Strudwick, Ryan Chan
- Transcriptomics at the single-cell and bulk level level - Shreejoy Tripathy
- Simulating brain microcircuit activity in mental health - Etay Hay
- In-silico EEG biomarkers of cell-specific inhibition in depression and schizophrenia - Etay Hay
- Modelling Cognition using Bayesian Inference and Neurocomputational models of EEG and fMRI Data - Andreea Diaconescu & Colleen Charlton
- Transdisciplinary Mental Health Modeling with Machine Learning - Dan Felsky, Peter Zhukovsky, Samar Elsheikh, Mohamed Abdelhack
- Applied Ethics in Machine Learning and Mental Health: Evaluating model bias - Marta Maslej & Laura Sikstrom
Daniel Buchman - Why does it take so long for my research to be integrated into practice? - Danielle Shin, Iman Kassam, Gillian Strudwick
Interested in learning more in-person?
Consider applying to join us at the KCNI Academy Project Week!