Quebec Connectomics

[AUG 8] Registration is now open! Early bird rates effective until Sept 6th, 2024. Places are limited, don't waste time!

The organizing comitee invites you to its first meeting on Multi-scale imaging and modeling of the connectome, October 3rd-4th in Orford.

Important Dates

• Calls for abstracts (Link): August 23 September 6 (last extension)
• Registrations (including 4 meals + accommodation)
  • Preferential rate: before September 6
  • Normal rate: before September 16
• Note that the event will be limited to 100 participants 90 participants, so register quickly.
• Event: October 3 and 4, 2024

Event description

Brain connectivity imaging is a pluridisciplinary field at the intersection of biology, anatomy, neurophotonics and computer sciences, including AI and modelisation. The quest for a greater understanding of connectivity requires combining data originating from different acquisition modalities, each of which targets a different anatomical scale.

This meeting on Multiscale imaging and modeling of the connectome aims at creating bridges between experts of these different acquisition scales:

• The microscopic scale, where we observe local connexions between individual neurons; cellular properties, such gene expression, morphology and discharge patterns, are essential for understanding circuits and computations at this fondamental scale of the network.
• The macroscopic scale, where we study how different brain regions are connected, through long-range axon fascicles as well as through dynamic processes such as cognition, requiring the contribution of large neuron populationsranging from some hundreds of microns to a few centimeters.
• The macroscopic scale, at the intersection of both other scales. At this scale, both microscopic and macroscopic methods are available, as the models imaged are neither too heavy for the first approach nor too fine for the second one.

Objectives

• Encourage the sharing of knowledge between specialists of brain connectivity, emphasizing the different acquisition modalities and analysis methods for the data.
• Stress the importance of AI and big data for answering the challenges linked to connectivity imaging.
• Emphasize the need for multiscale in the domain of connectivity imaging, and create opportunities for collaborations between specialists of these different modalities.
• Train the next generation of researchers on brain connectivity through student participation during presentation and poster sessions.

Organizing Commitee