Brainhack Boston 2023

December 11th and 13th, 2023
Hosted at MIT and virtually

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About

Brainhack Boston 2023 is organized in coordination with Brainhack Global 2023.

Brainhack Global 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 Boston 2023 is inspired by the BRAIN Initiative CONNECTS program, and particularly CONNECTS projects on multi-modal imaging of fiber tracts. Topics of potential interest include:

• Remote computation and visualization for large datasets
• Integration of imaging data across modalities and scales
• Standardization and visualization of fiber tract data

Projects

• See the open GitHub issues. Feel free to open an issue and describe a project that you are interested in working on!

• Please join our Mattermost Channel which will be used during the event.

Schedule

• All times below are EST.

Monday, December 11th, 2023

Building 46 (Brain and Cognitive Sciences) @ MIT. PILM Room 4300.

• 9:00am - 9:30am: Coffee and pastries
• 9:30am - 9:50am: Welcome/intro to CONNECTS multi-modal imaging projects - Anastasia Yendiki
• 9:50am - 10:10am: BIDS connectivity standard - Peer Herholz
• 10:10am - 10:30am: DANDI archive - Kabilar Gunalan
• 10:30am - 10:50am: Neuroglancer - Yael Balbastre
• 10:50am - 11:00am: Break
• 11:00am - 11:15am: Project pitches
• 11:15am - 4:00pm: Unstructured hacking time

Wednesday, December 13th, 2023

Building 46 (Brain and Cognitive Sciences) @ MIT. MIBR Room 4199.

• 9:00am - 9:30am: Coffee and pastries
• 9:30am - 9:50am: niivue - Chris Rorden [slides]
• 9:50am - 10:10am: TRAKO - Daniel Haehn [slides]
• 10:10am - 10:30am: brainlife - Ilaria Sani & Franco Pestilli
• 10:30am - 10:50am: freebrowse - Paul Wighton
• 10:50am - 3:30pm: Unstructured hacking time
• 3:30pm - 4:00pm: Project summaries
• 4:00pm - onwards: Social? (TBD)

Conduct

Brainhack is dedicated to providing a harassment-free conference experience for everyone.

Contact

• Email:
  • Kabilar Gunalan kabi@mit.edu
  • Anastasia Yendiki ayendiki@mgh.harvard.edu
• Mattermost Channel

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank our funders and institutions for supporting this event.

• NIH BRAIN CONNECTS - The center for Large-scale Imaging of Neural Circuits (LINC) (UM1 NS132358)
• NIH BRAIN CONNECTS - Center for Mesoscale Connectomics (UM1 NS132207)
• NIH BRAIN CONNECTS - Mapping connectivity of the human brainstem in a nuclear coordinate system (U01 NS132181)
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology