JNS 2025 Satellite Symposium: Connecting Digital Brains Across the World
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Time & Date: 13:00-17:00 JST, Wednesday 23rd, July 2025
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Place: Conference Room 301A, Toki Messe, Niigata, Japan
At the 2025 Japan Neuroscience Society Meeting, we are organizing three symposia (1S07m, 2S05m, 2S05a) related to the ‘Digital Brain’ by inviting researchers from around the world.
On the day before the main meeting, we will hold a satellite symposium to bring together speakers from the three symposia and to discuss how to connect different data and models for scientific discoveries and applications. Each session starts with short presentations by the speakers and continues into discussions by all the participants.
Please register from here for free on-site or online participation
(JNS meeting registration is not necessary).
Registration is closed Noon JST (UTC+9) July 22nd.
Schedule (Tentative)
13:00 Introduction: Kenji Doya (OIST, Japan)
13:10 Session 1: Digital Brains: What and How (chair: Carlos Gutierrez)
- Viktor Jirsa (Institut de Neurosciences des Systemes, France)
- Virtual Brain Twins for medicine
- Shinya Ito (Allen Institute, USA)
- Deep-learning-assisted simulation of a cortical circuit: integrating anatomy, physiology, and function
14:00 Session 2: Connecting Data and Models Across the World (chair: Yukako Yamane)
- Franco Pestilli (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
- Putting big data and AI to good use in neuroscience
- Sacha van Albada (Jülich Research Centre, Germany)
- Toward more standardized brain modeling to break the complexity barrier
- Saori Tanaka (ATR, Japan)
- A Brain Data Platform for the Digital Brain: Current Status and Future Directions
14:50 break
15:10 Session 3: Use Cases and Lessons Learned (chair: Saori Tanaka)
- Jason Ritt (Brown University, USA)
- Standardized Neuroscience Data Formats and Non-Standardized Scientists
- Charissa Poon (RIKEN CBS, Japan)
- A 3D transcriptomic and connectivity atlas of the adult marmoset brain
16:00 Session 4: Opportunities, Challenges and Ways Ahead (chair: Ken Nakae)
- Michael Denker (Jülich Research Centre, Germany)
- Kanso, Kaizen, Code: Three thoughts on finding Ikigai of digital brain science infrastructure
- Takuya Isomura (RIKEN CBS, Japan)
- Reverse engineering of generative models for predicting learning
16:50 Closing
Organizers:
Kenji Doya (OIST), Carlos Gutierrez (Softbank/OIST), Takuya Isomura (RIKEN CBS),
Ken Nakae (Fukui University), Saori Tanaka (NAIST/ATR), Yukako Yamane (OIST)