JNS 2025 Symposia

• Date: 24th-25th, July 2025

• Place: Toki Messe, Niigata, Japan

At The 2025 Japan Neuroscience Society Meeting we are organizing three symposia related to the ‘Digital Brain’ by inviting leading researchers from around the world.
We are alos organizing a Satellite Symposium by the speakers of all three symposia on July 23rd.

How FAIR Data Can Advance Neuroscience? – Current Trends and Future Perspectives of Creation and Utilization of Databases in Neuroscience

7/24 Thu 8:45-10:45 Room 7 (302A), Session 1S07m
Organizers: Yukako Yamane (OIST), Saori Tanaka (ATR)

• Saori Tanaka (ATR Brain Information Communication Research Lab, Japan)
• Michael Denker (Jülich Research Center, Germany)
• Takuya Hayashi (RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Japan)
• Jason Ritt (Brown University, USA)
• Franco Pestilli (University of Texas at Austin, USA)

The Digital Brain: Frameworks for Current and Future Innovation

7/25 Fri 8:45-10:45 Room 5 (301A), Session 2S05m
Organizers: Carlos Enrique Gutierrez (OIST), Viktor Jirsa (INS)

• Viktor Jirsa (Institut de Neurosciences des Systemes, France)
• Salvador Dura-Bernal (SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, USA)
• Kenji Doya (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Japan)
• Sacha van Albada (Jülich Research Center, Germany)

Advances in Brain Modeling and AI applications

7/25 Fri 14:10-16:10 Room 5 (301A), Session 2S05a
Organizers: Ken Nakae (NINS), Kenji Doya (OIST)

• Yi Zeng (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
• Shinya Ito (Allen Institute, USA)
• Takuya Isomura (RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Japan)
• Charissa Poon (RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Japan)

Supported by (TBC):

• Brain/MINDS 2.0, AMED