Brainhack (http://brainhack.org) is a unique conference that convenes researchers from across the globe and a myriad of disciplines to work together on innovative projects related to neuroscience. Brainhack Americas (http://brainhack.org/americas) will unite several regional Brainhack events throughout North, Central, and South Americas during October 23, 24 & 25, 2015. Having several simultaneous events will help build a critical mass for the regional Brainhack movement and will provide opportunities for inter-Brainhack collaboration. Local events will be connected by videoconference to expand collaborative opportunities so that smaller sites can plug into the content and energy generated at larger sites.
Sites in Ann Arbor, MI, Atlanta, GA, Berkeley, CA, Los Angeles, CA, Miami, FL, New York City, NY, Porto Alegre, Brazil, Querétaro, Mx, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Seattle, WA have signed on, and a synchronized schedule for all events is available at (https://tinyurl.com/brainhack-amx-schedule).
In addition to time spent collaborating on neuroscience projects, activities at the Brainhack will include:
- Tutorials on basic software development skills called "Brainhacking 101"
- Keynotes from neuroscience and methods researchers including: Dubois Bowman, PhD, Alex Opitz, PhD, Adriana Di Martino, MD, and Eleftherios Garyfallidis, PhD
- Data Blitzes during which attendees can present their research
Brainhack has partnered with GigaScience and BioMed Central to publish the "Proceedings from Brainhack Americas". Each
Brainhack attendee will have the option to submit a project report describing the work that they performed during the event, which will be peer reviewed and edited by members of the Brainhack community and will be indexed in PubMed.
Amazon AWS is once again supporting Brainhack through an Education Research Grant award. 100 attendees will receive $50 in AWS credits for their Brainhack projects. These credits will be allocated on a first come first serve basis.
Organizers:
Ann Arbor: Scott Peltier, Robert Welsh
Atlanta: Jaemin Shin, KiSueng Choi
Berkeley: Daniel Lurie, JB Poline
Los Angeles: Yonggang Shi, Lei Liew, Gautam Prasad
Miami: Angie Laird, Lucina Uddin
New York City: Prantik Kundu, Ting Xu, David O'Connor, Cameron Craddock
Porto Alegre: Alex Franco, Felipe Meneguzzi
Querétaro, Mexico: Fernando Barrios, Sarael Alcauter, Erick H. Pasaye, Cameron Craddock
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: Jorge Moll
Seattle: Ariel Rokem
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Cameron Craddock, PhD
Director of Imaging, Center for the Developing Brain
Child Mind Institute
childmind.org
445 Park Avenue (entrance on 56th Street)
New York, NY 10022
Director, Computational Neuroimaging Laboratory
Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research
www.rfmh.org/nki
1040 Old Orangeburg Road
Orangeburg, NY, 10962
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