Making connections- brains and other complex systems


2020-11-17 15:00: Probing and Rescuing Dysfunctional Brain Circuits in Depression (Dr Conor Liston)

2020-12-01 15:00: How humans build models of the world through temporal contingencies (Prof Danielle Bassett)

2020-12-15 15:00: Combined imaging-genomics approaches to investigate psychiatric risk (Dr Aaron Alexander-Bloch)

2021-01-12 15:00: Connectomics and Network Neuroscience: From Topology to Dynamics (Prof Olaf Sporns)

2021-03-11 15:00: Structure-function coupling in brain networks (Dr Bratislav Misic, McGill University)

2021-03-25 15:00: Transdiagnostic mapping in neurodevelopmental disorders (Dr Duncan Astle, Cambridge CBU)

2021-04-22 15:00: Statistical analysis and optimality of biological systems (Prof Gasper Tkacik)

2021-05-20 15:00: Human brain functional genomics and the mechanisms underlying genetic risk for schizophrenia (Dr Michael Gandal)

2021-06-17 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Dr Marta Zlatic)

2021-07-01 15:00: The turbulent brain: Discovering the homogeneous, isotropic functional core organisation of the brain (Prof Gustavo Deco)

2021-07-15 10:00: Quantifying Brain Dynamics and Structure Across Scales (Dr Ben Fulcher, The University of Sydney)

2021-10-07 15:00: Neuroanatomical Sex Differences in the Human Brain: Maps, Mechanisms and Meanings (Dr Armin Raznahan)

2021-10-21 13:00: Investigating the fundamental circuit pathology in schizophrenia using computational modelling of brain imaging data (Dr Rick Adams)

2021-11-04 15:00: Multiscale network neuroscience: linking cells, networks and symptoms in brain disease (Dr Linda Douw)

2021-11-25 15:00: Infusing Structure and Knowledge Into Biomedical AI Algorithms (Dr Marinka Zitnik)

2021-12-02 15:00: Hierarchical Neurodevelopment: Patterns, Plasticity, and Implications for Mood Psychopathology (Valerie Sydnor)

2022-02-03 15:00: Chromatin contact networks: towards a structure-function relationship in epigenomics (Dr Vera Pancaldi)

2022-02-17 15:00: Genomic insights about the prenatal origins of behavioral disorders (Prof Daniel Weinberger)

2022-03-17 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof Aldo Faisal)

2022-03-31 16:00: Inflammation and mental health: questions of causality (Prof Ed Bullmore)

2022-04-21 15:00: A Connectomic Hypothesis for the Hominization of the Brain (Prof Claus Hilgetag)

2022-05-05 11:00: ENIGMA at 10: What have we learned from a decade of large scale collaborative meta-analysis in neuroimaging (Prof Sarah Medland)

2022-06-16 15:00: Discovering and quantifying patterns in networks with coloured nodes (Dr Vincenzo Nicosia)

2022-06-30 15:00: Network function in human cerebral organoids as a platform for mechanistic and therapeutic advances in cognitive disorders (Dr Susanna Barrett Mierau)

2022-10-27 15:00: Network-based approaches towards studying context-specific cell signalling (Dr Evangelia Petsalaki)

2022-11-10 14:00: Analyzing artificial neural networks to understand the brain (Dr Grace Lindsay)

2022-11-24 15:00: Changing Connectomes: How Brain Network Changes are Linked to Cognition in Health and Disease  (Prof. Marcus Kaiser (University of Nottingham, UK))

2022-12-08 16:00: The brain in the social world: Integrating approaches from social psychology, neuroscience, and social network analysis (Dr. Carolyn Parkinson (UCLA))

2022-12-08 16:00: The brain in the social world: Integrating approaches from social psychology, neuroscience, and social network analysis (Dr. Carolyn Parkinson (UCLA))

2023-01-19 15:00: Neural network models as mechanistic explanations of brain information processing (Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, Columbia University)

2023-02-02 15:00: Linking cortical microstructure to in vivo measures of cortical structure in health and disease (Dr. Konrad Wagstyl, University College London)

2023-02-16 16:00: Brain dynamics and flexible behaviors (Dr. Lucina Uddin, UCLA)

2023-03-02 15:00: Relations and Predictions in Brains and Machines (Dr. Kim Stachenfeld, Deep Mind)

2023-03-16 15:00: Network approaches to psychopathology: An overview (Prof. Denny Borsboom, University of Amsterdam )

2023-04-20 15:00: From Connectome to Computation Through the Genomic Bottleneck (Prof. Tony Zador, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.)

2023-05-18 15:00: Broad Transcriptomic Dysregulation  Occurs Across the Cortex in ASD (Prof. Michael Gandal, UPenn)

2023-11-02 15:00: Exploring the human connectome (Prof. Martijn van den Heuvel, CNCR, VU Amsterdam, Netherlands)

2023-11-09 15:00: Idiosynchrony: Using naturalistic stimuli to draw out individual differences in brain and behavior ( Dr. Emily Finn, Darmouth, USA)

2023-11-16 10:00: Network effects in the neurobiology of psychiatric disorders (Prof. Alex Fornito, Monash University, Australia)

2023-12-07 15:00: Robust brain functional connectivity network estimation (Dr. Hanâ Lbath, Université Grenoble Alpes)

2025-01-23 15:00: The Genetics of Person-specific fMRI Networks (Dr Aaron Alexander-Bloch)

2025-02-06 15:00: Challenges and opportunities for biological network inference (Dr Kimberly Glass)

2025-02-20 15:00: Algorithmic Information Dynamics (Dr Hector Zenil, King's College London)

2025-03-06 15:00: Revolutionizing Connectomics using Generative, Federated and Holistic Learning (Dr Islem Rekik, Imperial College London)

2025-03-20 15:00: Reproducible Brain Charts: Accelerating Studies of Brain Development with Open Science (Dr Ted Satterthwaite, University of Pennsylvania)

2025-05-01 10:00: Multiscale Organization of Neuronal Activity Unifies Scale-Dependent Theories of Brain Function (Dr Mac Shine, University of Sydney)

2025-05-15 15:00: Comprehensive profiling of anaesthetised brain dynamics across phylogeny (Dr Andrea Luppi)

2025-06-12 15:00: Neurotransmitter receptor gradients enable flexible control of cortex-wide network dynamics during cognition (Dr Seán Froudist-Walsh)

2025-10-23 15:00: The Divided Mind (Prof. Ed Bullmore)

2025-11-06 15:00: Causal Discovery and Network Inference for Biological and Biomedical Data (Prof. Hervé Isambert, Institut Curie)

2025-11-20 15:00: Changing Connectomes: Changes during development as well as changes after brain stimulation interventions to improve cognition (Prof. Marcus Kaiser, University of Nottingham, UK)

2025-12-04 15:00: Complex Structure and Dynamics in Brain Networks (Prof. Olaf Sporns, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Indiana University, Bloomington IN 47405, USA)

2026-01-08 15:00: The Krakencoder: a multi-modal connectome fusion tool for brain-behavior mapping (Prof. Amy Kuceyeski)

2026-01-22 15:00: Title to be confirmed (Prof. Albert-László Barabási, Northeastern University, Boston)

2026-03-05 12:00: Hierarchical modular organization in the brain: segregation, integration and their balance underlying cognitive diversity  (Prof. Changsong Zhou. Department of Physics, Centre for Nonlinear Studies, Institute of Computational and Theoretical Studies, Life Science Imaging Centre, Hong Kong Baptist University.)

2026-03-19 15:00: Beyond Networks: Functional Connectivity as Eigenmode Resonance (Dr Joana Cabral, Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR-Lisboa), Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal)

2026-04-16 15:00: Intrinsic Neural Timescales - Do they shape the brain's mind?  (Prof Georg Northoff.  Mind, Brain Imaging and Neuroethics Research Unit, The Royal’s Institute of Mental Health Research, University of Ottawa, Canada)

2026-04-30 15:00: Coming soon (Prof Michelle Girvan, Department of Physics, University of Maryland)

2026-05-14 15:00: Coming soon (Prof Manlio De Domenico. Department of Physics, University of Padua)

2026-06-11 15:00: Coming soon  (Prof Claus Hilgetag. Institute of Computational Neuroscience, University Medical Center Eppendorf, Hamburg)