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Noteworthy Updates:
The Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and the Krembil Brain Institute at the University Health Network are inviting you to a special Krembil² retreat on June 2, 2022 to bring together the two hospitals and its research scientists to establish a formal collaboration between the two institutions.
The retreat will highlight existing collaborations between our two institutions and identify new opportunities to expand collaborations and build new bridges with the aim of accelerating discoveries that bridge mental health and brain disorders.
By bridging our two Centres, we aim to establish a framework agreement and resources to facilitate and accelerate a broad array of collaborations including:
- Discover, facilitate and streamline scientific collaboration
- Support and enhance any existing collaborations
- Develop shared infrastructure for data management and analysis
- Simplify and standardize data sharing agreements for rapid collaboration
- Advance machine learning and computational methodologies
- Accelerate integrated educational programs and knowledge transfer
- Cross-supervision of trainees and co-development
- BrainHealth Databank - an inter-institutional resource for open science sharing of consented patient trajectory data
Intended Audience: Krembil researchers and research scientists under CAMH and UHN.
Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics Virtual Open House
The Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics is excited to host its Annual Open House on Friday, June 24 starting at 10am.
Come meet the KCNI team and learn about the latest developments virtually, or even better, in person!
Register for in-person or virtual here.
Summer AcademyThe 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 designed to 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.
Register: Please click the link below to apply to take part in the July 4 - 8 intensive project week session:https://edc.camhx.ca/redcap/surveys/?s=FRP9RPEE7LRRFXAH |
In the June issue of The Walrus, Dr. Sean Hill talks with writer, Simon Lewsen on Mapping mental illness, one scientist's quest to trace the human brain.
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.” |
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The KCNI Speaker Series
The Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics is pleased to launch a new Speaker Series highlighting exciting discoveries, advancements and collaborations in Neuroinformatics. The series features speakers from a wide range of backgrounds, expressing the diversity of the Krembil Centre’s scientific breadth. Each month we will hear a new perspective on the current state of multi-scale neuroscience, from gene to circuits, from brain dynamics to cognitive modeling and populations.
We welcome members of the broader community to join us monthly for these open Speaker Series. See below for a schedule of the upcoming speakers and view past speaker presentations. Missed the talk? Watch the recordings here.
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