BrainHack will be held at Mozilla, 16 Boulevard Montmartre, 75009 Paris.

Brain-hack aims at promoting the interaction between scientists, developers and artists interested in the brain. Questions can evolve around the investigation of brain anatomy and function based on magnetic resonance imaging or post mortem dissection the evolution of nervous systems across species the variability of brain features across healthy participants the insurgence of brain pathologies and there is no limit to artistic reflections in any form of art.

Participants can bring their own dataset, discuss a project and recruit a team of collaborators on site. Access to free big online databases of MRI images will be also available during the three days, for new creative ideas to be tested.

This workshop integrates all levels of expertise and is also an opportunity to learn methods, develop skills and collaborate with other participants.

Join the fun!

Program:

Tuesday 9th May 2017

09:00 – 09:30 Complimentary Breakfast

09:30 – 09:45 Ignite Welcome lecture (Michel Thiebaut de Schotten)

09:45 – 10:30 Ignite Advanced Lesion Symptoms Mapping (Parashkev Nachev)

10:30 – 12:00 Project pitches including

Demian Wasserman: Toward a reliable tractogrphy in patients with brain lesions

Emmanuel Mandonnet: Finding a solution to correct mass effect in patients with large brain tumours

Chris Foulon: Automatic delineation of brain lesions? why is this not working?

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 20:00 Open Hacking

20:00 – ??? Social drink and dinner

Wednesday 10th May 2017

09:00 – 09:30 Breakfast

09:30 – 10:00 Ignite: Rehabilitation after a stroke (Marine Lunven)

10:00 – 10:30 Ignite: Neural bases of language and motor impairment (Charlotte Rosso) 

10:30 – 11:00  Ignite: SPINE demo (Antoine Blanchard) 

10:30 – 12:00 Open hacking

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch

13:00 – 22:30 Open hacking

Each of the three days will begin with an “Ignite Session” during which speakers will give talks that will address wide questions that would benefit from open, interdisciplinary collaborations.

The Open Hacking sessions where participants can work on their projects or participate in a dynamic set of talks organized by attendees. During the “hack sessions”, participants will be encouraged to work together in small groups on relevant projects. 

The workshop will culminate on the last day, when participants will have the opportunity to present a brief overview of their project. Thus far, these projects include:

'Supervised software installation' (Katja Heuer)

'BCB toolkit workshop' (Stephanie Forkel and Michel Thiebaut de Schotten)

'Toward a reliable tractogrphy in patients with brain lesions' (Demian Wassermann)

'Finding a solution to correct mass effect in patients with large brain tumours' (Emmanuel Mandonnet)

'Automatic delineation of brain lesions? Why is this not working?' (Chris Foulon)

'Using BrainBox for brain lesions: segmentation and analysis' (Roberto Toro and Katja Heuer)

'A browser-based tool for managing, searching, and viewing MRI data from patients with brain lesions' (Dan Lurie and Mark D'Esposito)

'Dataset of ~315 manually traced stroke lesions' (Lei Liew)

Participants will be supervised and receive advice on methods from a team of very capable nerds throughout the three days.

A constant flow of food and drinks (especially coffee & Club Mate…) will be provided during the conference breaks.

We kindly request an online preregistration (70€) in order to cover the expenses for the venue, the equipment and the food/drinks. However if you are a student and/or have financial difficulties do not hesitate to write us an Email explaining your situation and we will discuss the possibility of reduced fee. https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-brainhack-lesions-33655709132 

For more information and preliminary schedule visit: http://neuroanatomy.github.io/events/brainhack-lesions/

To learn more about Brainhack and previous events: http://brainhack.org/