News About the BigBrain

BigBrain Project on Linkedin

date: Apr 17, 2024

The BigBrain Project is now acive on Linkedin. Please visit our profile and add us!

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BigBrain Workshop 2024

date: Mar 20, 2024

You are cordially invited to attend the 8th BigBrain Workshop, taking place in the beautiful city of Padua, Italy. The conference will be on 10-11 September, preceded by a training day on 9 September.

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HIBALL Winter School 2024 Videos

date: Mar 20, 2024

We are happy to announce that the HIBALL Winter School 2024 videos are ready for viewing.

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EBRAINS research infrastructure secures €38 million in funding for new phase of digital neuroscience

date: Jan 9, 2024

The European Commission has accepted the EBRAINS 2.0 proposal submitted in response to the INFRASERV call, granting €38 million for the further development of services of the EBRAINS research infrastructure.

7th BigBrain Workshop 2023 - Videos

date: Jan 04, 2024

The videos from all three days of the 7th BigBrain Workshop are now available.

Katrin Amunts receives Justine and Yves Sergent International Award

date: Dec 11, 2023

Katrin Amunts has been honoured with the 2023 Justine and Yves Sergent International Award, which is granted to outstanding female researchers for contributions in the field of cognitive neuroscience and brain imaging who have achieved a high international reputation

Confluence of Art and Neuroscience

date: Nov 24, 2023

BigBrain-Inspired Art by OHBM 2023 Prize Winner Celesti Kozub

BigBrain project excites at OHBM2023

date: Nov 24, 2023

OHBM 2023 BigBrain Booth: A booth showcasing the present and future of brain research

BigBrain featured on Ici Radio Canada

date: Sept 17, 2023

The BigBrain was featured in a video segent on Ici Radio Canada.

Why create the BigBrain

A message from Dr. Zilles

the major advantage of the BigBrain for our work is that the image data of the human brain are registered as a 3D volume at very high spatial resolution. Since the human brain is folded, any part of the cortical ribbon may be subjected to the geometrical effects of this folding, i.e. the cortex is obliquely or even tangentially sectioned at various sites in a 2D representation, e.g. in images of single microtome sections. This effect hampers the measurement of any cortical structure which is bound to the 3D columnar architecture of the cortex. In contrast, the BigBrain allows analyses in 3D, and thus has opened the door to many studies which would not be possible in 2D representations.

Martha Crago

Vice-Principal (Research + Innovation) McGill University

With HIBALL the partnership between two world-leading research institutions in computational neuroscience will provide an important platform for the scientists to conduct innovative, interdisciplinary, and complementary research in a rich and collaborative setting.

Yoshua Bengio

Mila Scientific Director, Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute

HIBALL assembles a team with world-leading expertise in neuroimaging, artificial intelligence, neuroscience and neuroinformatics, which complements well the team at Mila. The active participation of several PIs with ties to Mila is very exciting, and we anticipate this lab will further expand the collaboration between neuroscience and AI experts in the Montreal ecosystem, leading to cutting-edge discoveries in both fields.

Viktor Jirsa

Directeur de Recherche, CNRS

HIBALL can build on a remarkable expertise and international reputation and will lead to high impact contributions in Human Brain Atlasing, Neuroinformatics, and Machine Learning.

Creating the next generation of highly detailed human brain models by building on the BigBrain - the first openly accessible, microscopic resolution 3D model of the human brain.