Project

VirtualBrainCloud

The overarching goal of The Virtual Brain Cloud (TVB-Cloud) is personalized prevention and treatment of dementia. To achieve generalizable results that help individual patients, The Virtual Brain Cloud integrates the data of large cohorts of patients and healthy controls through multi-scale brain simulation using The Virtual Brain (or TVB) simulator. There is a need for infrastructures for sharing and processing health data at a large scale that comply with the EU general data protection regulations (or GDPR). The VirtualBrainCloud consortium closes this gap, making health data actionable. Elaborated data protection concepts minimize the risks for data subjects and allow scientists to use sensitive data for research and clinical translation.

TVB-Cloud is a project of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and infrastructure facility of EBRAINS.

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Brain Atlas Web App

Try our interactive Brain Atlas web app now!

You can flip, rotate, and click around this online 3D model to learn about the different regions of the brain and their functions.

Available in: English, Hebrew, Arabic, German, Polish, Spanish.

 

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News

FENS Regional Meeting 2023

3-5 May 2023, Algarve, Portugal

The FENS Regional Meeting 2023 (FRM 2023), organised by the Portuguese Society for Neuroscience and with the support of the FENS, will take place in person on 3-5 May 2023 in Algarve, Portugal.

Prof. Petra Ritter is participating at the Special Symposium – EBRAINS Lecture, taking place on Wednesday 3 May at 18:00, and will be giving a talk entitled: "EBRAINS Research Infrastructure: a solution driven approach for studying neurodegenerative disorders".

Full program and registration available on the official website of the FRM 2023.

5th RAILS Conference

31 March 2023, Berlin, Germany

Prof. Petra Ritter is invited to give a talk at the 5th RAILS Conference, organized by the Robotics & AI Law Society, taking place on March 31, 2023, in Berlin, Germany.

More info coming soon!

Visit the official website of the event.

European Parliament Lunch Debate highlighted in the last Alzheimer Europe magazine!

In the 41st edition of the Dementia in Europe magazine by Alzheimer Europe, you can find a full summary of the European Parliament Lunch Debate, held on 27 September 2022  in Brussels, Belgium.
Among the national member organisations attending, Prof. Petra Ritter was invited to give a talk about the work of the VirtualBrainCloud project.

Read the article.

Read the full magazine issue.

DGKN Conference 2023

2-4 March 2023, Hamburg, Germany

Prof. Petra Ritter and Dr. Jil Meier are contributing to the Congress for Clinical Neuroscience with Advanced Training Academy 2023, taking place from March 2 to March 4, 2023 at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), in Germany.

Prof. Ritter is giving a talk about The Virtual Brain Cloud and Dr. Meier on deep brain stimulation with The Virtual Brain.

Full program and registration on the official website of the DGKN Conference 2023.

 

New Publication: Research Data Management and Data Sharing for Reproducible Research - Results of a Community Survey of the German National Research Data Infrastructure Initiative Neuroscience

eNeuro

Authors: Carsten M. Klingner, Michael Denker, Sonja Grün, Michael Hanke, Steffen Oeltze-Jafra, Frank W. Ohl, Janina Radny, Stefan Rotter, Hansjörg Scherberger, Alexandra Stein, Thomas Wachtler, Otto W. Witte, Petra Ritter

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New Publication: Scale-Free Functional Brain Networks Exhibit Increased Connectivity, Are More Integrated and Less Segregated in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease following Dopaminergic Treatment

Fractal Fact

Authors: Orestis Stylianou, Zalan Kaposzta, Akos Czoch, Leon Stefanovski, Andriy Yabluchanskiy, Frigyes Samuel Racz, Petra Ritter, Andras Eke, and Peter Mukli

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Conferences & Events

Meet the team at SfN 2022 in San Diego

The TVB-Cloud Team will be exhibiting at Neuroscience 2022 along with its partner The Virtual Brain at the Booth 3116.
The SfN 2022 annual meeting is taking from November 12 to November 16, 2022, in San Diego, USA.

Visit the official website of Neuroscience 2022 event.

Visit The Virtual Brain website for the SfN activities.

 

9th TVB-EBRAINS Integrated Workflows Workshop

| Digital Event

The 9th TVB-EBRAINS Integrated Workflows Workshop is taking place online on next October 7, 2022 from 11:30 to 15:00 (CEST).

The purpose of this Workshop Series is to discuss existing interfaces and workflows of TVB on EBRAINS that have been developed in SGA2 and those under development or being planned for SGA3.

Download the program.

Register to the workshop.

8th TVB-EBRAINS Integrated Workflows Workshop

| Digital Event

TVB-EBRAINS Integrated Workflows - 8th Virtual Workshop will be held on March 25th.

The purpose of this Workshop Series is to discuss existing interfaces and workflows of TVB in EBRAINS that have been developed in SGA2 and those under development or being planned for SGA3.

Please register for the event here.

Important Links

Latest Publications

Research data management and data sharing for reproducible research - Results of a community survey of the German National Research Data Infrastructure Initiative Neuroscience

In eNeuro
DOI: 10.1523/ENEURO.0215-22.2023

Scale-Free Functional Brain Networks Exhibit Increased Connectivity, Are More Integrated and Less Segregated in Patients with Parkinson’s Disease following Dopaminergic Treatment

In Fractal Fract
DOI: 10.3390/fractalfract6120737

 

White-matter degradation and dynamical compensation support age-related functional alterations in human brain

In Cerebral Cortex
DOI: 10.1101/2021.12.30.474565

 

Consortium

VirtualBrainCloud partners

The world-leading experts in clinical research on neurodegenerative diseases and mathematical modelling develop a computational platform for translational research that integrates clinical data from molecular biology and neurology, using nonlinear systems theory as framework. Central to this platform is a multi-scale multi-omics brain model that spans spatiotemporal scale from molecules to organs and from nanoseconds to years.

 

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