Network Neuroscience 2024

About

Ever-improving brain data acquisition techniques across species, scales, and modalities, and the embracement of open science and collaboration globally, means that the past few years have seen an acceleration in data collection and quality. Ever-increasing dataset sizes coupled with rich molecular, whole body, behavioural, and clinical information, demand novel approaches that are capable of taming and synthesizing these complex and multimodal features. Placing the brain within a context of complex systems and network science is therefore critical to progress. Network Neuroscience has emerged as a transdisciplinary field that draws from and contributes to multiple areas of science in the ultimate quest to undertsand the brain.

Network Neuroscience 2024 will, for the 10th year running, provide an opportunity for participants with diverse backgrounds to present cutting-edge research and exchange ideas across disciplinary boundaries.

Call for Contributions

We invite contributions from all areas of network neuroscience, including but not limited to:

Brain -omics networks
Structural brain networks
Functional brain networks
Network theory, modeling and analysis
Network communication and information flow
Circuit dynamics
Brain-behavior interactions
Systems neuroscience
Fundamental and clinical neuroscience applications
Brain-body network science
Classical and deep learning for brain networks
Spatio-temporal brain network models

Submissions are now closed for oral contributions, but we are accepting poster presentations on a rolling basis. Submit your abstract in the format of a one-page pdf with one figure. Posters may be presented at both the satellite and at the main conference.

Note that you must register for NetSci to attend (there is an option to select only the satellite sessions and school) and the early bird registration deadline is April 8th.

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Schedule

Network Neuroscience 2024 will be held on Tuesday 18th June in Québec City as a satellite of the International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci 2024). Find us in Room 206B.

Registration

9:00am: Opening remarks
9:15am: Using deep neural networks to model neurodegenerative diseases in silico
Nils Forkert
9:45am: Entropic measures for diverse specialization in structural connectomes
Sung Soo Moon, E. Marin, T. Stürner, D. Krzemiński, P. Schlegel, Janelia FlyEM Project Team, G. Jefferis, and S. Ahnert.
10:00am: Power-law tailed weight distributions in connectome graphs
Geza Odor, Istvan Papp, Jeffrey Kelling, Deco Gustavo, and Michael Gastner.

10:15am: Coffee Break

11:00am: Information transmission in mammalian brain networks
Enrico Amico
11:30am: Emergence of metastability in frustrated oscillatory networks: the key role of hierarchical modularity
Enrico Caprioglio and Luc Berthouze.
11:45am: Situating edge time series within the generalized linear model framework
Haily Merritt, Amanda Mejia, and Richard Betzel.

12:00pm: A simulated annealing algorithm for randomizing weighted networks
Filip Milisav, Vincent Bazinet, Richard Betzel, and Bratislav Misic.

12:30pm: Lunch Break

2:30pm: System segregation in brain networks underpins the capacity for learning across the human lifespan
Javeria Ali Hashmi

3:00pm: Subtle differences in network architecture of very preterm born children
David Vanier, Hongye Wang, Amanda Ip, Shelly Yin, Kirk Graff, Ryann Tansey, Xining Chen, Signe Bray, and Emma K. Towlson.
3:15pm: Structural and functional connectivity predicts MRgFUS thalamotomy outcome in Parkinson's disease
Alberto Cacciola, Gianpaolo Basile, Giuseppe Acri, Lilla Bonanno, Augusto Ielo, Silvia Marino, Amelia Brigandì, Chiara Sorbera, Rosa Morabito, Giuseppe Di Lorenzo, Antonio Cerasa, and Angelo Quartarone.
3:30pm: Structural and functional analysis of cognitive integration and segregation within aging human connectomes
Drew Patton and Joern Davidsen.

3:45pm: Coffee Break

4:30pm: Neuroblox Circuits: Leveraging Biomimetic Computational Primitives to Elicit Emergent Corticostriatal Learning
Lilianne R. Mujica-Parodi
5:00pm: Higher-order connectomics of human brain function reveals local topological signatures of task decoding, individual identification, and behavior
Andrea Santoro, Federico Battiston, Maxime Lucas, Giovanni Petri, and Enrico Amico.
5:15pm: Brain network controllability during development
Hongye Wang, David Vanier, Shefali Rai, Kate Godfrey, Shelly Yin, Kirk Graff, Ryann Tansey, Xining Chen, Signe Bray, and Emma K. Towlson.
5:30pm: Closing remarks

5:45pm - 6:30pm: Poster Session

Differential Patterns of Associations within Audiovisual Integration Networks in Children with ADHD. Fatemeh Bakouie, Mohammad Zamanzadeh Nasrabadi, Abbass Pourhedayat, and Fatemeh Hadaeghi.
Increasing robustness and reproducibility in network neuroscience through multiverse analysis – The Comet toolbox. Micha Burkhardt and Carsten Giessing.
Detection of local connectivity perturbations of networks on a latent hyperbolic space. Alice Longhena, Martin Guillemaud, and Mario Chavez.
Emergence of a synergistic scaffold in the brains of human infants. Thomas Varley, Olaf Sporns, Nathan Stevenson, Martha Welch, Michael Myers, Vanhatalo Sampsa, and Anton Tokariev.
Enhancing Memory Capacity in Reservoir Computing with Brain-Inspired Connectivity Patterns Through Asymmetry. Fatemeh Hadaeghi and Claus Hilgetag.
Time-varying synergy/redundancy dominance in the human cerebral cortex. Maria Pope, Thomas Varley, and Olaf Sporns.
Learning and stabilizing memories in noisy recurrent spiking neural networks. Arshia Razavi and Javier G. Orlandi.
Modelling the Complexity of Treatment Resistant Depression using Markov Random Fields. Alice Erchov, Downar Jonathan, Daniel Blumberger, and Fidel Vila-Rodriguez.
Network spreading and local biological vulnerability in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Asa Farahani and Bratislav Misic.
Functional brain network interaction changes across the ovarian cycle. Xining Chen, Joespeh Andreano, Abigail Giancola, Sophia Tchir, and Emma K. Towlson.
Combined topological and spatial constraints are required to capture the structure of neural connectomes. Anastasiya Salova and Istvan Kovacs.

Registration

Network Neuroscience is a satellite of the NetSci conference. You can register for Network Neuroscience through the NetSci website - select "Satellites and School Only" if you only wish to attend Network Neuroscience and other satellites. Please not that the early registration deadline is 8th April 2024.

Register here

Speakers

Enrico Amico

Institute of Health and Neurodevelopment

College of Health and Life Sciences, Aston University

Javeria Ali Hashmi

Canada Research Chair, Associate Professor

Department of Anesthesia, Pain management and Perioperative Medicine, Dalhousie University

Lilianne R. Mujica-Parodi

Baszucki Endowed Chair of Metabolic Neuroscience, Professor, Director - Laboratory for Computational Neurodiagnostics (LCNeuro)

Department of Biomedical Engineering, Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology, State University of New York at Stony Brook

Nils D. Forkert

Canada Research Chair, Professor

Department of Radiology, University of Calgary

Organizers

Emma Towlson

University of Calgary

Bratislav Misic

Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University

Daniele Marinazzo

Ghent University

Programme Committee: Jonas Richiardi, Fabrizio de Vico Fallani, Sophie Achard

Contact

You can contact the organizers with any enquiries and/or expressions of interest to get involved. We would love to hear from you!

Email:

emma dot towlson at ucalgary dot ca