Educational Course Session 1

Chair: Tianzi Jiang

Transmitter Receptors and Connectivity the Human Cerebral Cortex

Speaker : Karl Zilles

A Platform for Brain Image Visualization, Analysis, and Connectome Modeling

Speaker : Hanchuan Peng

Toward Discovery Science: Insight from Functional Brain Connectivity

Speaker : Bharat Biswal

Translational Neuromodeling

Speaker : Klaas Enno Stephan

Educational Course Session 2

Chair: Dezhong Yao

Oscillations, fluctuations and bifurcations in large-scale neuronal dynamics: Theory and applications

Speaker : Michael Breakspear

Mapping the Space-time Structure of the Human Connectome

Speaker : Viktor Jirsa

Brain-State Dependencies: Measures, Mechanisms, Meanings

Speaker : Petra Ritter

Effective Connectivity in the Study of Brain Networks

Speaker : Pedro Valdes Sosa

Keynote Speech

Chair: Tianzi Jiang

Two Views of Brain Function

Speaker : Marcus Raichle

Session 1: Brain Connectivity: From Micro to Macro

Chair: Alard Roebroeck

Challenges for Visualizing the Mouse Brain-wide Neuroanatomical Connectivity at Neurite Level

Speaker : Qingming Luo

Cortical architecture, segregation and connectivity

Speaker : Katrin Amunts

From the study of Structural Brain Networks to the Discrimination of Brain Pathological States: perspectives and limitations

Speaker : Yasser Iturria-Medina

Session 2: Foundations of Brain Connectivity Methods

Chair: Michael Breakspear

Synchronization in Motifs and Complex Networks of Delay-coupled Neurons

Speaker : Claudio Mirasso

Hubs, Cores and Rich Clubs – Centrality and Influence in the Human Brain

Speaker : Olaf Sporns

On the role of noise in connectivity analysis: Comparisons of deterministic and stochastic state space models

Speaker : Jason Smith

Neuromodulatory Effects on Brain Connectivity through Dynamic Causal Modeling

Speaker : Rosalyn Moran

Keynote Speech

Chair: Li-Hai Tan

Research on Neural Circuits: New Frontiers and Challenges

Speaker : Robert Desimone

Session 3: Brainnetome Meets Genome

Chair: Alan Evans

Imaging Brain Wring during Development and in Brain Disorders

Speaker : Linda J. Richards

Trans-neuronal Spread of Alpha Herpesvirus Infection: Using PRV to Trace Neural Circuits

Speaker : Lynn W Enquist

Brain Networks are Modulated by Risk Genes of Schizophrenia

Speaker : Bing Liu

Session 4: Clinical Applications of Brain Connectivity

Chair: Dezhong Yao

The Economics of Brain Network Organization

Speaker : Ed Bullmore

On the Use of Cortical Connectivity Estimates in Clinical Applications

Speaker : Fabio Babiloni

Establishing the Key Functional Brain Networks Altered in Depression and Schizophrenia

Speaker : Keith Kendrick

Statistical Classification of Functional Brain Connectivity Patterns and Its Application to Differential Diagnosis of Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Speaker : Yong Fan