Events

Upcoming Events

The MCWG organizes free monthly online seminars on brain connectivity and molecular imaging (see below).

MCOS: Molecular Connectivity Online Series

Our online serie’s aim is to include the latest research findings from recently published papers on molecular connectivity. We will offer tutorials on methods and research resources for molecular connectivity estimation and we will discuss relevant findings in the field of brain connectivity that could aid study design and methodological development in the field of molecular connectivity.

The seminar will comprise a 30 minute presentation followed by discussion (~25 minutes).

Jan’24 MCOS001: Brain connectomics: Time for a molecular imaging perspective? A. Sala, Liège, Belgium.

Feb’24 MCOS002: Basic introduction to multivariate neuroimaging analysis – for nerds and novices C. Habeck, New York, United States.

Mar’24 MCOS003: NeuroMark PET: Towards a fully automated PET ICA pipeline V. Calhoun, Atlanta, United States.

Apr’24 MCOS004: The many faces of brain connectivity S. Eickhoff, Jülich, Germany. Cancelled

May’24 MCOS005: Individual PET connectomes capture disease progression and cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease J. Pereira, Stockholm, Sweden.

Jun’24 MCOS006: Molecular connectivity & dynamic PET: comparing time series and subject series approaches T. Volpi, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.

Oct’24 MCOS007: Test-retest reproducibility of structural and proxy estimates of brain connectivity at rest I. Yakushev, Munich, Germany.

Nov’24 MCOS008: Metabolic connectivity in ageing H. Deery, Melbourne, Australia.

Jan’25 MCOS009: Epigenetic alterations in white matter with age: impacts on structural connectivity and beyond M. Catanese, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

Feb’25 MCOS010: Mapping brain function and connectivity in rodents using small animal PET/MRI K. Herfert, University Hospital of Tuebingen, Germany.

Mar’25 MCOS011: Comparing Intra- and Inter-individual Correlational Brain Connectivity from Functional and Structural Neuroimaging Data X. Di, New Jersey Institute of Technology, United States.

Apr’25 MCOS012: Molecular Connectivity in Neurotransmission M. Veronese & M. Severino, University of Padua, Italy.

May’25 MCOS013: Great expectations but a bumpy road: Caveats in neuroimaging analyses and modelling S. Eickhoff, Heinrich-Heine University, Germany.

Date: May 23rd, 2025 Time: 15:00 CET, 09:00 EDT
Please register here.

The increasing availability of large cohorts and tools for multivariate statistical learning, allowing the prediction of individual cognitive or clinical phenotypes in new subjects, started a revolution towards neuroimaging applications in precision medicine. While the field has enjoyed a lot of enthusiasm recently, the road towards translation and re-life applications may be considerably more challenging than often acknowledged. Following a short overview on the motivation and perspectives, the major part of my talk will focus on several critical yet often underappreciated challenges for such endeavors. These include on the one hand technical and biological aspects that may undermine the validity of prediction results, due to the inherent low-dimensional structure of biological variability. On the other hand, ethical, legal and societal aspects will ultimately shape practical adaptation but need stronger consideration in the development of new pipelines if these are to move beyond proof-of-concept work.

Simon Eickhoff is a full professor and chair of the Institute for Systems Neuroscience at the Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf and the director of the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-7, Brain and Behavior) at the Forschungszentrum Jülich. He is furthermore a visiting professor at the Chinese Academy of Science Institute of Automation. Working at the interface between neuroanatomy, data-science and brain medicine, he aims to obtain a more detailed characterization of the organization of the human brain and its inter-individual variability in order to better understand its changes in advanced age as well as neurological and psychiatric disorders. This goal is pursued by the development and application of novel analysis tools and approaches for large-scale, multi-modal analysis of brain structure, function and connectivity as well as by machine-learning for single subject prediction of cognitive and socio-affective traits and ultimately precision medicine.


Past Events

Please check out the following events during OHBM 2024:


SYMPOSIUM

What is brain connectivity?

9:00-13:00 CEST, May 3rd 2024

Free registration

TranslaTUM, Einsteinstraße 25, 81675 Munich, Germany and Streamed Live

The symposium is part of the event “Molecular Imaging of Brain Connectivity: towards standardized nomenclature



PET for brain connectivity: back to the future?

May 28th, 2022
Glasgow, UK and Streamed Live

All talks of this event are available virtually here: Brain and Brain PET 2022 – Satellite Symposium

All materials of this OHBM 2021 symposium are available virtually here: OHBM 2021

OHBM membership, a previous registration to an OHBM conference or registration to the upcoming OHBM conference are required to access the materials.