Abstract
The International Symposium “Advances in Systems Biology in Neurosciences” was held in February 2015 in Geneva. A hundred scientists with a variety of expertise gathered around the theme of human brain complexity and cognitive disorders. Through a series of lectures and poster sessions, the symposium showcased state-of-the-art high-throughput biotechnologies, supercomputers and neuroimaging, and illustrated the latest advances in systems approaches to tackle Neurosciences and Neurodegenerative disorders. The meeting highlighted the power of big data to understand complex pathologies and also the need for more open and integrated data.
Highlights
The International Symposium “Advances in Systems Biology in Neurosciences” was held in February 2015 in Geneva
The meeting brought together clinicians, biologists, bioinformaticians, and statisticians from different European-funded consortia such as AgedBrainSYSBIO, SynSys, the European flagship Human Brain Project (HBP), and US projects such as the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI) and the Allen Institute for Brain Science
This international assembly of scientists was gathered in the high-tech building that hosts the HBP and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) on the Campus Biotech of Geneva
Summary
The International Symposium “Advances in Systems Biology in Neurosciences” was held in February 2015 in Geneva. The first session, moderated by Dr Le Novère, from the Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK), began with a keynote presentation by Dr Sean Hill, co-Director of the Blue Brain Project [3] and co-Director of Neuroinformatics in the European Union funded Human Brain Project (HBP) at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). This large project (involving more than 250 researchers), supported by EU information technology funding, aims to provide innovative tools to the global Neuroscience community in order to model and simulate the human brain.
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