HBPSC 2021: 5th HBP Student Conference on Interdisciplinary Brain Research Virtual February 1-4, 2021 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hbpsc2021 |
Abstract registration deadline | November 22, 2020 |
Submission deadline | November 22, 2020 |
5th HBP Student Conference on Interdisciplinary Brain Research
Date: 1-4 February 2021
The human brain is such a complex system that it can only be understood by combining knowledge and practices from multiple scientific fields. The 5th HBP Student Conference provides an open forum for the exchange of new ideas among early career researchers working across various sciences relevant to the Human Brain Project (HBP). Attendees will be exposed to the data-driven brain research approach of the HBP and have the opportunity to use the EBRAINS platform. The conference offers a space for extensive scientific dialogue, both intra- and interdisciplinary, among peers and faculty through a variety of discussion sessions, lectures and social events. It will take place virtually, organised and supported by the HBP Education Programme.
Call for Submissions
We invite original high-quality submissions describing innovative research in all disciplines addressed in the HBP. These contributions can emphasise theoretical or empirical works relating to a wide spectrum of fields including but not limited to: neuroscience, computer science, robotics, medicine, psychology, cognitive science or philosophy. We particularly encourage submissions with a potential to inspire collaboration in the research community by introducing new and relevant problems, concepts, and ideas, even if the work is at an early stage of development.
The conference will be a 4-day virtual conference, with online events from 1 to 4 February 2021.
Participation in the 5th HBP Student Conference is open to the entire student community and early career researchers, regardless of whether they are affiliated with the HBP or not. Participants are also welcomed without contributing to the scientific programme. We encourage all young scientists to register and aim at an equal representation of all sexes.
Registration will be free of charge and open in September 2020. Registration deadline: 14 January 2021
Would you like to present your own work? Find further information on the abstract submission below.
Extended abstract submission deadline: 20 November 2020
Abstract Submission
Would you like to be part of the scientific programme and present your research?
Please submit an abstract and you will have the opportunity to present your work during the 5th HBP Student Conference. Your presentation can include a brief oral plus a poster presentation, or a poster presentation only.
All submissions will be evaluated by the Programme Committee with regard to their relevance for the conference in terms of topics and areas of interest, their scientific merit, correctness, and the quality of presentation.Abstracts must be in a Word document format. Please note that we highly recommend to follow the IMRad format as explained in our template.
Please note that registration for the conference is mandatory.
Topics and areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Mouse brain organisation
- Brain transcriptomics and proteomics
- Brain macrostructure, vasculature, cells and synapses
- Data aggregation and analysis
- Human brain organisation
- Multi-level organisation of the brain
- Data aggregation and analysis
- Systems and cognitive neuroscience
- Perception-action
- Motivation, decision and reward
- Learning and memory
- Networks underlying brain cognition and consciousness
- Theoretical neuroscience
- Simplified neuron and neural circuit models and modelling brain signals at different scales
- Synaptic plasticity, learning and memory
- Large-scale models of human cognitive function
- Principles of brain computation
- Neuroinformatics
- Tools for brain atlases
- Tools for structural and functional data analysis
- Predictive neuroinformatics
- Brain simulation
- Data-driven reconstruction of brain models
- Molecular dynamics simulation
- Multi-scale models of the brain
- The brain multiscale connectome
- Brain Simulators (Neuron, NEST, Arbor, TVB, etc.)
- Virtual experiments on HPC
- Neuromorphic computing
- Neuromorphic computing with physical emulation and digital many-core implementation of brain models
- Software tools for neuromorphic computing
- Novel technologies for neuromorphic circuits
- Neurorobotics
- Design of brain-inspired controllers
- Robot designer, brain interfaces & body integrator
- Neurorobotic simulations of behaviors
- Artificial Intelligence
- Ethics and society
- Industrial, economic and social consequences of the HBP
- Conceptual and philosophical issues
- Researcher awareness
- Brain atlases
- Multi-scale brain data
- Brain imaging
- Brain connectivity
- Medical informatics and clinical neuroscience
- Collection and management of federated clinical data (EEG, fMRI, etc.)
- Data mining and machine learning approaches to clinical data analysis
- Biological signatures of brain diseases
- Models and simulations of brain pathologies
- Neuroprostheses
- Software tools for neuroscience research
- Data curation and integration tools
- Neural simulators: development, integration and interfaces
- High-performance computing: mathematical methods, programming models and tools
- Interactive visualisation, analysis and control
Extended abstract submission deadline: 20 November 2020
Submission Guidelines
Authorship
Please accurately include all co-authors and their affiliations. If in doubt whether a person’s contributions should or should not be considered as authorship, please refer to http://www.icmje.org/icmje-recommendations.pdf.
Abstracts
Abstracts must be in a Word document format. The abstract word and character limits are as follows:
- Title: 500 characters
- Text: 1,000 words
- Number of Figures: 2
- No Supplementary Material
Given the nature of an interdisciplinary conference, formatting of abstracts organised according to the IMRaD format [Introduction/Motivation, Methods, Results and Discussion], with several sentences addressing each of these elements, is highly recommended. Please find a template for your convenience.
References should be included at the end of the abstract. Please note that the word count includes captions but not references. It is allowed to add acknowledgements to the abstract.
Abstracts which have been submitted by 6 November 2020 may no longer be edited.
Abstracts which have been submitted after 6 November 2020 may be edited until the extended deadline of 20 November 2020.
In general, submissions of completed research are encouraged. However, submissions may also contain research in progress and, in particular, abstracts that demonstrate research plans and proposals, i.e., the idea, aims, hypotheses and possible implications of the proposed research.
Virtual Poster guidelines:
- The recommended poster size in Pixel: 1080 width x 1536 height – portrait orientation
- Poster size in cm: 38,1 width x 54,2 height – portrait orientation
- Font size: ≥16
- Adding videos, audio tracks and/or hyperlinks to posters is allowed
- All posters displaying results from HBP-funded research groups must contain the HBP logo and the European Union logo as well as EC funding acknowledgements.
- The following information should be included on the poster: Authors’ names, surnames, and affiliations.
- Posters should be clear and easy to read.
Committees
Programme Committee
- Alice Geminiani (University of Pavia)
- Alper Yegenoglu (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
- Carmen Lupascu (Italian National Research Council)
- Ingrid Reiten (University of Oslo)
- Jens Egholm Pedersen (Royal Institute of Technology)
- Petrut Bogdan (The University of Manchester)
- Sandra Diaz (Forschungszentrum Jülich)
Organizing committee
- HBP Education Programme Office (Medical University Innsbruck)
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to education@humanbrainproject.eu