May
Neuroscience lecture: "Annotating the human connectome"
Justine Hansen, Montreal Neurological Institute, Canada will give a talk on:
"Annotating the human connectome"
Abstract:
The development of advanced neuroimaging techniques has resulted in an increasingly detailed picture of the human brain. In parallel, the open science movement has given researchers from diverse disciplines access to an unprecedented number of human brain maps. Integrating multimodal, multiscale human brain maps is necessary for broadening our understanding of brain structure and function. In this talk, I will present two avenues of my work: first, I will show how biological features such as neurotransmitter receptor, cell types, and dynamics can be overlayed on the connectome, yielding annotated networks. Annotated connectomes allow us to reconceptualize architectural features of networks, and to relate the connection patterns of brain regions to their underlying biology. Second, I will demonstrate that by extending the human cortical annotated connectome to the brainstem, we find that multiple organizational features of the cortex (including neurophysiological oscillatory rhythms, patterns of cognitive functional specialization, and the unimodal-transmodal functional hierarchy) can be traced back to the brainstem. Altogether, biologically annotated connectomes offer a compelling way to study neural wiring in concert with local biological features.
Lecture host: Jacob Vogel
About the event
Location:
room E11073, Forum Medicum
Contact:
diana [dot] jerman [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se