The 6th BRAINN Congress will be held in Campinas, SP, Brazil, from April 1st to 3rd, 2019, with pre-congress courses from March 29th to 31st, 2019.
The BRAINN congress aims to gather researchers and students (both at graduate and undergraduate levels) working in neuroscience, neurotechnology, and related fields. The main goal is to foster stronger communication and collaborations, in order to reach high quality research standards.
The Congress is an initiative of project BRAINN (Brazilian Institute of Neuroscience and Neurotechnology), which is a Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center (RIDC) of São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). BRAINN congregates researchers from several areas (neurology, physics, biology, electrical engineering, psychology, computer science, physical education, among others), coming mainly from University of Campinas (UNICAMP) and from Center of Information Technology Renato Archer (CTI), which is a federal center of research and development; but also from other Brazilian institutions, such as Federal University of ABC, Federal University of São Paulo, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul; as well as some foreign institutions, such as University of Montreal and University College London.
As the name implies, project BRAINN focuses on basic science research on neuroscience, coupled with the development of technologies that can assist in the diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of neurological diseases, mainly but not restricted to, epilepsy and stroke.
The 6th BRAINN Congress is open to attendants from any research groups that have an interest in exchanging information and experiences with BRAINN participants.
Pre-congress courses will be announced shortly.
Invited speakers:
Billy Nascimento – co-CEO Forebrain / Coordinator of the Master in Consumer Neuroscience at ESPM
Eduardo Rocon de Lima – Neural and Cognitive Engineering group (g-nec.com), CAR, UPM-CSIC
Luis Concha Loyola – Brain Connectivity Laboratory – Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Mark Cook – Department of Medicine – University of Melbourne
Roberto de Alencar Lotufo – Departamento de Computação e Automação – UNICAMP
Oral sessions:
As for last edition, in 2019 BRAINN Congress will have oral sessions, featuring advanced research developed by post-docs and post-graduate students.
Monday – April 1st 2019
- 09:00 – 09:30 Registration
- 09:30 – 10:00 Opening Ceremony
- 10:00 – 11:00 Invited talk – Eduardo Rocon – “The role of technology in the neurorehabilitation field“
- 11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
- 11:30 – 12:00 Oral Session I
- 12:00 – 12:30 Oral Poster Previews I – MSc and Undergraduate students
- 12:30 – 14:30 Lunch
- 14:30 – 15:30 Oral session II
- 15:30 – 16:30 Poster session I – MSc and Undergraduate students
- 16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break
- 17:00 – 18:00 Poster session I – MSc and Undergraduate students
Tuesday – April 2nd 2019
- 08:30 – 09:00 Registration
- 09:00 – 10:00 Oral session III
- 10:00 – 11:00 Invited Talk – Luis Concha – “Inferring white matter microstructure through diffusion MRI: Applications in epilepsy“
- 11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
- 11:30 – 12:00 Oral Session IV
- 12:00 – 12:30 Oral Poster Previews II – PhD students
- 12:30 – 14:30 Lunch
- 14:30 – 15:00 Invited Talk – Billy Nascimento – “Consumer Neuroscience and Business: The Case of Forebrain Company“
- 14:30 – 16:00 Round Table: Innovation and Translation to Society – Billy Nascimento, Eduardo Rocon, Mark Cook and Roberto Lotufo
- 16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
- 16:30 – 18:00 Poster Session II – PhD students
- 19:00 – 21:00 Social Event
Wednesday – April 3rd 2019
- 08:30 – 09:00 Registration
- 09:00 – 10:00 Invited Talk – Roberto Lotufo – “Deep learning applied to brain imaging“
- 10:00 – 11:00 Invited Talk – Mark Cook – “Circadian and Circaseptan Rhythms Characterise Human Epilepsy – Clinical Implications“
- 11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
- 11:30 – 12:00 Oral session V
- 12:00 – 12:30 Oral Poster Previews III – Projects (no results yet) – Undergrad, MSc, PhD students and Post-docs
- 12:30 – 14:30 Lunch
- 14:30 – 16:30 Poster session III – Projects (no results yet) – Undergrad, MSc, PhD students and Post-docs
- 16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break
- 17:00 – 17:30 Best paper awards / Closing ceremony
EDUARDO ROCON
Neural and Cognitive Engineering group (g-nec.com), CAR, UPM-CSIC
LUIS CONCHA
Brain Connectivity Laboratory - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
BILLY NASCIMENTO
co-CEO Forebrain / Coordinator of the Master in Consumer Neuroscience at ESPM
ROBERTO LOTUFO
Departamento de Computação e Automação - UNICAMP
MARK COOK
Department of Medicine - University of Melbourne
Organizing Committee
- Fernando Cendes – Medical Sciences School, UNICAMP
- Gabriela Castellano – Institute of Physics Gleb Wataghin, UNICAMP
- Li Li Min – Medical Sciences School, UNICAMP
Executive secretaries
- Andréa Ismara de Araújo Ruas
- Lilian Cristina dos Santos Costa Capelli
- Sônia Neves Romeu Silva
Scientific Committee
- Ana Carolina Coan
- Barbara Henning Silva
- Brunno Machado de Campos
- Carlos Alberto Stefano Filho
- Cláudia Vianna Maurer Morelli
- Diogo Coutinho Soriano
- Elayne Dias
- Gabriela Castellano
- Harlei Leite
- Leonardo Abdala Elias
- Leticia Rittner
- Marcio Luiz Figueredo Balthazar
- Mariana Pinheiro Bento
- Raphael Fernandes Casseb
- Rodrigo Secolin
- Sara Regina Almeida
- Sarah Negreiros de Carvalho
- Thiago Junqueira Ribeiro de Rezende
Abstracts presented at the 6th BRAINN Congress
Access here the abstracts of all the works presented at the Congress, published at the Journal of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology, volume 25, number 1, 2019.
