NPNL is hosting the first ever Brainhack LA!

Oct 8, 2015

We are excited to host Brainhack Los Angeles, part of the first inaugural Brainhack Americas, along with Drs. Yonggang Shi and Gautam Prasad of the Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute. Brainhack LA will be October 23 - 24 at the University of Southern California Health Sciences Campus (Center for Health Professions, Room CHP 109), and is generously sponsored by USC’s two NIH-funded Big Data 2 Knowledge (BD2K) Centers: ENIGMA and Big Data for Discovery Science. It’s a great opportunity for students, postdocs, and faculty to learn more about neuroimaging and their local neuroimaging community in a fun, informal environment. More information about Brainhack Americas, including what are brainhacks and a tentative schedule of events, can be found below. To register for the LA Brainhack, go to http://tinyurl.com/brainhack-la-2015. Questions about Brainhack LA should be directed to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).

Brainhack (http://brainhack.org) is a unique conference that convenes researchers from across the globe and a myriad of disciplines to work together on innovative projects related to neuroscience. Brainhack Americas (http://brainhack.org/americas) will unite several regional Brainhack events throughout North, Central, and South Americas during October 23, 24 & 25, 2015. Having several simultaneous events will help build a critical mass for the regional Brainhack movement and will provide opportunities for inter-Brainhack collaboration. Local events will be connected by videoconference to expand collaborative opportunities so that smaller sites can plug into the content and energy generated at larger sites.

Sites in Ann Arbor, MI, Atlanta, GA, Berkeley, CA, Los Angeles, CA, Miami, FL, New York City, NY, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Querétaro, Mx, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Seattle, WA have signed on, and a synchronized schedule for all events is available at https://tinyurl.com/brainhack-amx-schedule.

In addition to time spent collaborating on neuroscience projects, activities at the Brainhack will include:
·  Tutorials on basic software development skills called “Brainhacking 101”
·  Keynotes from neuroscience and methods researchers including: Dubois Bowman, PhD, Alex Opitz, PhD, Adriana Di Martino, MD, and Eleftherios Garyfallidis, PhD
·  Data Blitzes during which attendees can present their research

Brainhack has partnered with GigaScience and BioMed Central to publish the “Proceedings from Brainhack Americas”. Each Brainhack attendee will have the option to submit a project report describing the work that they performed during the event, which will be peer reviewed and edited by members of the Brainhack community and will be indexed in PubMed.