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Message from the Director
Welcome to the second newsletter of 2016. We are recently back from Tokyo and filled with enthusiasm following one of the most successful Nodes Workshops in INCF history. Many thanks and congratulations to our Japan Node for hosting this event. I am pleased to announce that the Norwegian Node will host the next Nodes Workshop in spring 2017.
The INCF Network now consists of 5 Governing Nodes and 12 Associate Nodes - see https://www.incf.org/about-us/who-we-are. The new INCF is very much a Node-driven organisation with the Council for Training, Science and Infrastructure (see below) focussing on strategy for science, infrastructure and training.
In April a new INCF web portal was launched. The INCF community can now also interact via a beta version of a platform for community collaboration, within AAAS’s Trellis. We hope this will prove useful for promoting communications and development of Special Interest Groups. Later this year it will be possible to apply for seed funding to help develop projects emerging from these collaborations.
A busy summer of events is soon here. Please stop by the INCF booth this week if you are attending OHBM. On July 4th we are co-hosting a social-symposium on the theme ‘The era of sharing in neuroscience’ at FENS in Copenhagen (program), arranged with the UK Node. We also look forward to the annual Neuroinformatics Congress, and all associated events, in September in Reading, UK.
The Secretariat is here to help the INCF community. Please let us know your thoughts at any time. We wish all our Northern Hemisphere colleagues a happy and successful summer, and wish an equally happy and successful winter to our community in the Southern Hemisphere.
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New INCF portal
After a year of intense preparation, the new INCF website was unveiled on April 25. It is completely rebuilt and works across a range of platforms, from computers to mobile phones.
There are some major changes especially relevant to our core community:
- The new website has a stronger focus on collaboration, and will be paired with the more community-directed INCF CollaborationSpace, based on the AAAS Trellis platform.
- The structure is new, so many URLs are changed. Please check your links to any incf.org pages!
- Workshop reports are collected on a new page
- We removed the Event calendar and Job Board, which required a lot of manual work and presented a high threshold for new users. Instead, please send announcements of events and job openings to the neuroinformatics community list neuroinfo@incf.org.
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Join us in Reading for NI2016!
INCF is holding its 9th Neuroinformatics Congress in Reading, UK on September 3-4 September, in collaboration with the INCF UK Node. An exciting program featuring themes of neuroimaging, computational neuroscience, brain disorders and normal development, has been developed by the Program Committee chaired by Prof. Alan Evans, McGill.
Early registration rates end on June 30. Don't miss the deadline, register now! |
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Call for papers: INCF Channel series
The INCF Neuroinformatics channel on F1000Research is now inviting contributions for an article series in the lead up to Neuroinformatics 2016. A diverse array of article types are welcome, including original research findings, study protocols, dataset/database descriptions and software tools.
The deadline will be August 18th; submissions are welcome after that date but they might not be published in time for the congress. |
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Successful Nodes Workshop in Japan
This year's INCF Nodes workshop was organized together with our Japan Node (J-Node), back-to-back with their yearly Advances in neuroinformatics meeting, AINI 2016, at RIKEN, on May 28-29.
Under the main theme "Integration of multi-dimensional neuroscience", presentations and discussions were given from wide perspectives such as on theoretical neuroscience, brain imaging, data and knowledge, and possible international collaborations. Twenty five invited talks, 37 posters and 14 demonstrations were presented. There were 122 participants, from 11 countries. INCF thanks everyone for their contributions, especially Japan Node secretariat for their hard work in organizing this event.
More info, including abstracts: www.neuroinf.jp/aini2016
Meeting summary, including photos: storify.com/INCForg/incf-nodes-ws-aini-2016
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New INCF Council for Training,
Science and Infrastructure (CTSI)
As part of INCF's new phase, representatives from the INCF Nodes are forming the Council for Training, Science, and Infrastructure (CTSI). The CTSI is responsible for recommending INCF’s direction in these areas and overseeing INCF scientific and infrastructure projects. It will also be involved in the review process for INCF's upcoming seed funding. Later this year, independent expertise will also be appointed to the CTSI, ensuring broad global and domain representation. The CTSI will have a permanent sub-committee on Training and Education.
The first CTSI meeting will be held in Reading, UK on September 5-6, in conjunction with the INCF Neuroinformatics Congress.
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