5th BRAINN Congress
Final Program
Invited speakers:
BRAINN speakers:
This year, instead of having senior speakers from BRAINN, we will have oral sessions, featuring advanced research carried on by post-docs and post-graduate students.
Monday - April 09th 2018
08:30 - 09:30 Registration
09:30 - 10:00 Opening Ceremony
10:00 - 11:00 Plenary talk - David Comas
Insights into the human genome diversity: a population approach
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 11:50 Oral Session I
11:50 - 12:40 Oral Presentations I
12:40 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 16:30 Poster session I
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 - 18:00 Oral session II
Tuesday - April 10th 2018
08:30 - 09:00 Registration
09:00 - 10:00 Invited Talk - Leonardo Abdala Elias
Bridging the gap between computational and experimental neuroscience to
understand the neurophysiological control of movement
10:00 - 11:00 Oral session III
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 11:50 Oral Session IV
11:50 - 12:40 Oral presentations II
12:40 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 16:00 Round Table - “BRAIN(N): past, present and future”
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
16:30 - 18:00 Poster session II
18:00 - 21:00 Social event
Wednesday - April 11th 2016
08:30 - 09:00 Registration
09:00 - 10:00 Invited Talk - Roberto Lent
Long distance plasticity: on connectomes e dysconnectomes
10:00 - 11:00 Plenary talk - John Detre
Cerebral blood flow as a biomarker of brain function
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 11:50 Oral Session V
11:50 - 12:40 Oral Presentations III
12:40 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 - 16:30 Poster session III
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 - 17:30 Best papper awards / Closing ceremony
Confirmed Speakers
David Comas Martínez
Co-coordinator of Introduction to Biomedicine, Departament de Ciències Experimentals i de la Salut.
Leonardo Abdala Elias
Assistant Professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (UNICAMP, Brazil). He is the founder and current Head of the Neural Engineering Research Laboratory (NER Lab).
Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz
FAPESP Scientific Director
Electronics Engineer and Physicist, Brito Cruz is a professor at the Gleb Wataghin Physics Institute, at University of Campinas.
Fernando Cendes
CEPID BRAINN´s Principial Investigator. Full Professor of Neurology at the Department of Neurology - UNICAMP
John A. Detre
Professor of Neurology at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine where he is founding Director of the Center for Functional Neuroimaging.
Roberto Lent
Professor of Neuroscience at UFRJ, current Director of the Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas. Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and of the Technical-Scientific Council for Basic Education of CAPES and current President of the Board of Instituto Ciência Hoje, SBPC.
