Australasian Hub

12:00 Midday AEST 

(02:00 UTC)

A/Prof Marta Garrido, University of Melbourne

A/Prof. Helen Zhou, National University of Singapore

Dr. Mac Shine,  The University of Sydney

Prof. Alex Fornito, Monash University

A/Prof. Anqi Qiu, National University of Singapore

European Hub 

12:00 Midday CEDT

(10:00 UTC)

Dr. Svenja Caspers, Heinrich-Heine University

Dr. Charlotte Stagg, University of Oxford

Dr. Johan van der Meer, Amsterdam University Medical Center

Dr. Michel Thiebaut de Schotten, Institute of Psychiatry in London/ Hôpital de la Salpêtrière (ICM) Paris

Dr. Janis Reinelt, AICURA-Medical

North American Hub 

12:00 Midday EDT

(16:00 UTC)

Dr. Amy Kuceyeski, Weill Cornell Medicine

Dr. Pierre Bellec, Université de Montréal

Dr. Lucina Uddin, University of Miami

Dr. Chris Gorgolewski, Google

Dr. Danielle Bassett, University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Vanessa Gonçalves, University of Toronto

Associate Prof. Marta Garrido

University of Melbourne

Associate Professor Marta Garrido leads the Cognitive Neuroscience and Computational Psychiatry Laboratory at the Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences at the University of Melbourne and is Chief Investigator in the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Integrative Brain Function. Marta received her PhD in 2008 from University College London under the supervision of Professor Karl Friston. She then completed postdocs at University California Los Angeles and back at University College London. In 2013 she moved to the Queensland Brain Institute on a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award and later established her independent laboratory. In mid 2019 the lab moved to the University of Melbourne.

https://sites.google.com/site/garridolaboratory/home Twitter: @MartaIGarrido

Dr. Mac Shine

The University of Sydney

Dr Shine is a theoretical neuroscientist working to understand the mechanisms of cognition and attention using functional brain imaging, both in health and disease. He is currently working as a Robinson/SOAR fellow at The University of Sydney to understand the factors that drive the network-level reorganization of the human brain. Mac completed a post-doc with Russell Poldrack at Stanford University, received his PhD from Sydney University in 2013.  

https://macshine.github.io/

Twitter @jmacshine 

A.Prof. Helen Zhou

National University of Singapore

Dr. Juan (Helen) Zhou is an Associate Professor and Principal Investigator of the Multimodal Neuroimaging in Neuropsychiatric Disorders Laboratory in the Center for Sleep and Cognition, National University of Singapore (NUS), and holds joint appointment with Neuroscience and Behavioral Disorders Program at Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School, Singapore. Her research focuses on the network-based vulnerability hypothesis in disease. Her lab studies the human neural bases of cognitive functions and the associated vulnerability patterns in aging and neuropsychiatric disorders using multimodal neuroimaging methods, psychophysical techniques, and machine learning approaches.

http://neuroimaginglab.org/members.html

Twitter: @HelenJuanZhou

Dr. Anqi Qiu

National University of Singapore

Dr Anqi Qiu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at  NUS, where she is also the Deputy Head for Research & Enterprises. She obtained her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Johns Hopkins University in 2006. In 2016 Dr Qiu was awarded the Young Researcher Award of National University of Singapore. Her research interests include: Deep Learning in Neuroimaging, early life influences on brain development and in the  development of techniques for Imaging Genetics.

https://bieqa.github.io/

Twitter: @anqi_qiu

Prof. Alex Fornito

Monash University

Alex Fornito completed his Clinical Masters and PhD in 2007 in the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology at The University of Melbourne before undertaking Post-Doctoral training in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge, UK, under the auspices of a National Health and Medical Research Council Training Fellowship. He is currently a Sylvia and Charles Viertel Foundation Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Brain Mapping and Modelling Research Program at the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University. Alex's research develops new imaging techniques for mapping human brain connectivity and applies these methods to shed light on brain function in health and disease. In particular, this work focuses on understanding foundational principles of brain organization, characterizing how genes shape brain network architecture, and developing maps and models of how mental illness might arise from disordered brain connectivity. 

https://www.monash.edu/turner-institute/alex-fornito-lab

Twitter: @AFornito

Dr. Svenja Caspers

Heinrich-Heine University

Svenja Caspers is currently the director of the Institute of Anatomy I and the vice dean for teaching and study quality of medical faculty at Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf. She is the group leader of the Connectivity research group at the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine at Jülich. Her research focuses on the connectivity of the human brain and to understand where and how brain connections exist, and how physically existing fibers relate to the functional network interactions in the human brain. Her work uses a spectrum of methodological approaches from postmortem (3D polarized light imaging) to in-vivo techniques (using large epidemiological cohorts such as 1000Brains Study and the German National Cohort).

https://www.neurosciences-duesseldorf.de/principal-investigators-and-junior-researchers/svenja-caspers

Twitter: @LabCaspers

Dr. Charlotte Stagg

University of Oxford

Charlotte Stagg, PhD MRCP, is a Professor of Human Neurophysiology in the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences of University of Oxford. She is also a Wellcome Trust/Royal Society Sir Henry Dale Fellow, Fellow by Special Election at St Edmund Hall, a Senior Research Fellow at Oxford’s Department of Psychiatry, and an Honorary Research Associate at University College London. She heads the Physiological Neuroimaging group, where her primary research interest is to understand how the brain adapts to new challenges, focusing in particular in the physiological processes underlying the learning of new motor skills and in the recovery of motor function after stroke. Her lab takes a multimodal approach to answer these questions, using advanced MR approaches, MEG, non-invasive brain stimulation and pharmacological agents. Her multidisciplinary team works on a wide variety of projects, with the ultimate aim of developing novel therapies to improve function in a range of neurological disorders.

https://www.ndcn.ox.ac.uk/team/charlotte-stagg.

Twitter: @cjstagg

Dr. Johan van der Meer

Amsterdam University Medical Center

Johan van der Meer, PhD focuses on Brain-Computer Interfacing (BCI) and Brain (i.e. neurofeedback) Training. He uses different new software and hardware approaches, including real-time data streaming and simultaneous EEG-fMRI, to try and find out why a specific group of people really benefit from brain training, while others do not. He was previously affiliated with the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Brisbane, Australia. This past March, he moved to the Netherlands to conduct research at the Radiology/Nuclear Medicine department of the Amsterdam UMC.

https://sng-newy.github.io

Twitter: @jnvandermeer

Dr. Michel Thiebaut de Schotten

Institute of Psychiatry London, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière (ICM) Paris

Michel Thieabaut de Schotten, PhD, completed his doctorate in Neuroscience in 2007 on the study of the neural bases of the spatial-neglect syndrome. In October 2007,he began his position at the Institute of Psychiatry (King’s College London) as a post-doctoral researcher funded by the Marie Curie fellowship. He co-authored, with Marco Catani, The Atlas of the Human Brain Connections, as well as participated in the co-founding of the NatBrainLab. His current research aims to increase knowledge of multimodal imaging in stroke. Currently, he is head of the BCB group in between the Institute of Psychiatry in London and the Hôpital de la Salpêtrière (ICM) in Paris.

http://www.bcblab.com

Twitter: @BcBlab

Dr. Janis Reinelt

Head of Business Development, AICURA-Medical

Janis is the head of business development at AICURA medical. He is a medical doctor and completed his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences and worked as a physician in the field of psychiatry. In his PhD, Janis gained an expertise in brain imaging and investigated the effects of stress on brain plasticity. Having a firsthand experience of the massive barrier between innovative data driven research and outdated technology used in clinical practice, he decided to join AICURA in an effort to improve health care delivery by bridging this translational gap.

https://aicura-medical.com/en/about-us/company/

Dr. Amy Kuceyeski

Weill Cornell Medicine

Amy Kuceyeski, PhD is an Associate Professor of Mathematics in Radiology at Weill Cornell Medicine and leader of the Computational Connectomics (CoCo) laboratory. For the past decade, Amy has been interested in understanding how the human brain works in order to better diagnose, prognose and treat neurological disease and injury. The CoCo lab's main focus is on using quantitative methods, including machine learning, applied to multi-modal neuroimaging data to map brain-behavior relationships. The lab's overall goal is to develop individualized therapies that can boost natural recovery mechanisms and support recovery after neurological disease or injury. Amy is also the founder and co-director of the cross-campus working group Machine Learning in Medicine, which aims to bring together ML researchers in Cornell-Ithaca and clinicians and researchers at WCM to address medicine's toughest problems.

cocolaboratory.com

Twitter: @amykooz

Dr Pierre Bellec

Université de Montréal

Pierre Bellec, PhD, is the principal investigator of the laboratory for brain simulation and exploration (SIMEXP) and the director of the Functional Unit for Neuroimaging at the Montreal Geriatrics Institute (CRIUGM). His laboratory uses data mining techniques to identify markers of brain disorders across a range of diagnoses. He is a Senior FRQS fellow (chercheur boursier), as well as the co-leader (with Dr. Roger Dixon) of the biomarkers team of the Canadian Consortium on Neurodegeneration in Aging (ccna-ccnv.ca). Dr. Bellec is also the scientific director of the Courtois project on neuronal modelling (cneuromod.ca), which uses deep learning models to mimic brain activity and human behaviour across a range of different tasks. Dr. Bellec's laboratory is active in several open science initiatives, such as brainhack (brainhack.org) and the Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform (conp.ca). Finally, Dr. Bellec is currently chair of the Educational Committee of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (humanbrainmapping.org).

https://simexp.github.io/lab-website/

Twitter: @pierre_bellec

Dr. Lucina Uddin

University of Miami

After receiving a Ph.D. in cognitive neuroscience from the psychology department at UCLA in 2006, Dr. Uddin completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Child Study Center at NYU. For several years she worked as a faculty member in Psychiatry & Behavioral Science at the Stanford School of Medicine. She joined the psychology department at the University of Miami in 2014. Within a cognitive neuroscience framework, Dr. Uddin’s research combines functional connectivity analyses of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging data and structural connectivity analyses of diffusion tensor imaging data to examine the organization of large-scale brain networks supporting executive functions. Her current projects focus on understanding dynamic network interactions underlying cognitive inflexibility in neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism. Dr. Uddin’s work has been published in the Journal of Neuroscience, Cerebral Cortex, JAMA Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, PNAS, and Nature Reviews Neuroscience. She was awarded the Young Investigator award by the Organization for Human Brain Mapping in 2017.

https://bccl.psy.miami.edu

Twitter: @LucinaUddin

Dr. Chris Gorgolewski

Google

Chris is a Product Manager at Google, where he works on Analytics and Ads. Prior to his work at Google, he completed a PhD at the University of Edinburgh and was co-director of the Stanford Centre for Reproducible Neuroscience. He was a core contributor for multiple key neuroimaging initiatives that facilitate open data sharing and reproducible image processing including OpenNeuro.org, Nipype, Brain Imaging Data Structure (BIDS), and NeuroVault.org.

Twitter: @chrisgorgo

Dr. Danielle Bassett

University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Danielle S. Bassett studies the structure and function of networks, predominantly in physical and biological systems. Her interests lie in using and developing tools and theories from complex systems science, statistical mechanics, and applied mathematics to study dynamic changes in network architecture, the interaction between topological properties of networks and physical or other constraints, and the influence of network topology on signal propagation (mechanical, electrical, informational) and system function. Dr. Bassett completed her PhD in physics at the University of Cambridge. Dr. Bassett has received numerous awards and honours for her research, including the 2020 OHBM Early Career Investigator Award, and she was the youngest recipient of the 2014 MacArthur Fellowship.

danisbassett.com

Twitter: @DaniSBassett

Dr. Vanessa Gonçalves

University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Vanessa Goncalves is an Independent Scientist in the Department of Molecular Brain Sciences at CAMH, and Assistant Professor in Psychiatry at the University of Toronto. She has expertise in human genomics and analysis in large data sets. Her research interests lie in advancing research on the role of mitochondrial gene variants in the risk for, and phenomenology of, neuropsychiatric disorders.