SciDataCon 2023, nestled within the framework of International Data Week 2023, and supported by esteemed institutions such as the Austrian Academy of Sciences, GIScience, and the European Umbrella Organization for Geographic Information, is taking place in person on October 23-26 in Salzburg, Austria.

Prof. Petra Ritter is invited as panel speaker in the discussion titled "Standards for a FAIR Data Future: How to Advance Standardization in Data Management?", scheduled for October 26, 2023, from 09:30 to 11:00. This session delves into the critical role of standardization in research data management (RDM), focusing on the German National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI).

For more details and registration information, please visit the official IDW 2023 website.

Join the World Health Summit 2023 taking place from October 15th to October 17th, 2023 in Berlin, Germany and digitally.

This year’s World Health Summit will focus on "Science, Innovation, and Policies" by reflecting on the most pressing topics, including a session on the "Global Testing and Experimentation Facilities for Health AI and Robotics" that we are organizing.

Registration and program on the official website of the event.

The 6th EU-Japan Workshop on Neurorobotics, supported by The Human Brain Project and its legacy EBRAINS together with RIKEN, the Japan's largest comprehensive research institution for natural science, is set to take place on September 14-15, 2023, in Tokyo, Japan.

One of the highlights of the workshop will be the talk by Prof. Petra Ritter, titled "EU Reference Center: Testing and Experimentation Facility for Health AI and Robotics", scheduled on September 14 at 15h20.

To access further details and registration information, please visit the official workshop website.

Prof. Petra Ritter is invited to give a talk at the Data & AI for Neuroscience Seminar, organized by the Helsinki Brain and Mind (HB&M) in collaboration with FCAI AI for neuroscience SIG, that takes place in person on June 5th 2023 in Helsinki, Finland.

The seminar will cover challenges and opportunities related to the access and sharing of clinical and normative neuro and brain data needed in both the academic and industrial R&D.

Visit the official website of the event.

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.

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.

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.

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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TVB-Cloud is proud to announce that the TEF-Health project: Testing and Experimentation Facility for Health AI and Robotics, coordinated by Prof. Petra Ritter, has been funded with € 60Mill by the European Commission and national funding agencies.

Read the project details on the European Commission website.

They talk about it:

Read the Charité - Latest News.

Read the BIH - Press Release.

Read the Tagesspiegel - Wissenschaft in Berlin (German only).

Read the Ärzteblatt - News (German only).

Prof. Petra Ritter is giving a talk about “Digital Twins of Human Brains “, and participating in the panel discussion, at the international RegMed Forum 2022, co-organized by BIH Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT) - Charité Berlin and Cluster Health Capital Berlin-Brandenburg.

The event takes place on December 1 2022, in Berlin, Germany.

Full program and registration.

Prof. Petra Ritter is part of the panel of Keynote speakers and renowned scientists contributing at the EOSC EBRAINS session: "EBRAINS research infrastructure: supporting the future of brain science".
The session is hold during the EOSC Symposium 2022, on November 14 in Prague, Czech Republic.

Visit the official website of the EOSC EBRAINS Session.

Visit the official website of the EOSC Symposium.

Authors: Spase Petkoski, Petra Ritter, Viktor K. Jirsa

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Authors: Hannelore Aerts, Nigel Colenbier, Hannes Almgren, Thijs Dhollander, Javier Rasero, Kenzo Clauw, Amogh Johri, Jil Meier, Jessica Palmer, Michael Schirner, Petra Ritter, and Daniele Marinazzo

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Join the World Health Summit 2022, the first World Health Summit (WHS) together with the World Health Organization (WHO), taking place from October 16th to October 18th, 2022 in Berlin, Germany and digitally.

This year’s World Health Summit will focus on “Making the Choice for Health” by reflecting on the most pressing topics, including a session on the "Global Health Data Space", in the format of a panel discussion. Prof. Petra Ritter is moderating this session taking place on October 18th, 2022 at 09:00 AM (CEST).

More info on the panel discussion.

Registration and program on the official website of the event.

Watch the replay of the panel discussion.

Join our TVB-Cloud Team for the next HBP Brain Matters Webinar, with a special episode for the world Alzheimer's month!
This webinar takes place on September 26, 2022 at 16:15 CEST, and will feature Petra Ritter, Jil Mona Meier, Michael Schirner, and Leon Stefanovski.

Program and FREE registration on the official website of the event.

Visit the Human Brain Project website.

In the last 3sat scobel science episode: "The Alzheimer's puzzle" broadcasted on September 22, the TV team followed Prof. Ritter in our lab and highlighted our work about brain simulations. Episode only available in german!

Watch Petra Ritter's intervention (min 31:40) or the full episode of the scobel science talk.

Prof. Petra Ritter is giving a talk at the EBRAINS Workshop: HBP Partnering Projects Meeting: status quo and outlook, hosted by the international summer school Donders Cognitive, Brain & Technology Summer school (DCBT 2022).
The event takes place from September 5 to September 7 2022, in Nijmegen, Netherlands.

Visit the official website of the event for more information.

We are exhibiting at the FENS Forum 2022, helds as an in-person event from July 9 to July 13, 2022 at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles in Paris, France, with our partners HBP-EBRAINS at the Booth 21, Pavillon 7, Hall 7.2.

Also, visit the poster of Patrik Bey and colleagues on processing pathologically altered brains for building personalized brain network models during the Poster Session 06 - Section: Functional Imaging of the Brain, taking place on July 12, 2022 from 02:00 PM CEST.

On July, 8, Prof. Petra Ritter is participating as speaker and panelist at the EBRAINS FENS Satellite Event.

Full program and registration at FENS Forum 2022.

Find out more about all the HBP-EBRAINS activities at FENS 2022.

Find out more about the EBRAINS FENS Satellite Event.

CORDIS recently featured the BrainModes project results in its online article: "Simulations help us understand how the brain works".

The BrainModes project: "Personalized whole brain simulations: linking connectomics and dynamics in the human brain", which received funding from the European Research Council, ended last January 2022.

Read the CORDIS 'Results in Brief' article on the official website.

CORDIS features EBRAINS Virtual Brain Cloud Facility Hub Services in its online article: "Making brain research easier with open-source software".

TVB on EBRAINS was developed under the lead of the Brain Simulation Section at the Charité.

Read the CORDIS article on the official website here.

Read the related original paper here.

Access TVB on EBRAINS here.

Watch the videos describing the services here.

Authors: Jorge Gulín-González, Maria L. Bringas-Vega, Eduardo Martínez-Montes, Petra Ritter, Ana Solodkin, Mitchell Joseph Valdes-Sosa and Pedro Antonio Valdes-Sosa

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Authors: Paul Triebkorn, Leon Stefanovski, Kiret Dhindsa, Margarita-Arimatea Diaz-Cortes, Patrik Bey, Konstantin Bülau, Roopa Kalsank Pai, Andreas Spiegler, Ana Solodkin, Viktor Jirsa, Randy McIntosh, Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, Petra Ritter

Read the article here.

Read the preprint here.

Authors: Schirner, Domide, Perdikis, Triebkorn, Stefanovski, Pai, Prodan, Valean, Palmer, Langford, Blickensdörfer, van der Vlag, Diaz-Pier, Peyser, Klijn, Pleiter, Nahm, Schmid, Woodman, Zehl, Fousek, Petkoski, Kusch, Hashemi, Marinazzo, Mangin, Flöel, Akintoye, Stahl, Cepic, Johnson, Deco, McIntosh, Hilgetag, Morgan, Schuller, Upton, McMurtrie, Dickscheid, Bjaalie, Amunts, Mersmann, Jirsa, Ritter

Read the article here.

Authors: Chettouf, Triebkorn, Daffertshofer, Ritter

Read the publication here.

Prof. Petra Ritter will be among a high-level panel of leaders in science, technology, on-the-ground action and policy at the McGill Precision Convergence Webinar Series: "Towards Sustainable Software For Research and Societal Impact at Scale".

The event takes place on Thursday, December 2, 2021 from 11 am to 1 pm EST.

Find out more by downloading this pdf here.

The BIDS extension proposal Computational Modeling (BEP034) will be presented at the EBRAINS CodeJam on November 26th. Brain Imaging Data Structure is a simple and intuitive way to organize and describe your brain imaging data. The agenda for the event is available here and you can read about the extension proposal here.

Register for the event here.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems are mined and trained with data and a bridge is being built at the European Union (EU) level to facilitate access to health data, in particular through the European Health Data Space. In this context, what do the European Union Artificial Intelligence Act proposali(AIA proposal) and the European Health Data Space Initiative (EHDS) foresee for their interplay?

Read more here.

Please join us for our workshop Brain simulation in a GDPR compliant infrastructure at the HBP Internal Day, October 13th, Human Brain Project Summit 2021.

Find out more here.

Prof. Petra Ritter will teach at the International School of Brain Cells & Circuits “Camillo Golgi” 2021 course Modeling the brain. She will give a lecture on Modeling neurodegenerative disorders.

The course will be offered from Nov 30 to Dec 4 in Erice, Sicily, Italy.

Find out more here

Meet the Spokesperson of the National Research Data Initiative in Neuroscience NFDI-Neuro. Prof. Ritter and her team at the Bernstein Conference 2021.

The digital event will take place on September 21-23. A dedicated booth will be offering information on Research Data Management in Neuroscience.

Find out more here

Meet Prof. Ritter at the HBP & The European Brain Summit 2021. She will be on the panel What to expect from technology and treatment innovation in brain health.

The summit will be held in Brussels, from the 12th to the 15th of October. The four-day event features:

· The European Brain Summit on October 12

· Two days of an open scientific conference from October 14-15

The European Brain Summit is an event for EU policymakers organized in partnership with the European Brain Council.

The objective is to deliver insights about the future of brain research in Europe and discuss how the EU can advance brain health research and lead scientific breakthroughs.

Find out more here

AAIC in Denver and Online, July 26-30 2021

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The Virtual Brain Cloud, EBRAINS and AI-MIND have formed a key strategic collaboration towards AI revolution in brain health care.

Find out more here

Prof Ritter will present the Initiative National Research Data Infrastructure Initiative (NFDI) Neuroscience at the NFDI Conference 2021 that takes place on July 8.

Find out more here

Watch this amazing visualization of what happens when large datasets are processed on HPC clusters:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsW6xN2f2jc

The visualisation depicts the reproducible processing of 41,180 brain images from UK Biobank by Virtual Brain Cloud consortium partner FZJ.

The video is part of the OHBM Brain Art Competition – you can participate and vote here.

The purpose of this workshop series is to discuss interfaces and workflows of The Virtual Brain (TVB) in the EU Flagship’s Research Infrastructure EBRAINS.

Register here

The purpose of this workshop series is to discuss interfaces and workflows of The Virtual Brain (TVB) in the EU Flagship’s Research Infrastructure EBRAINS.

Register here

The National Research Data Infrastructure (NFDI) Neuroscience is committed to organize and sustain cross-community research data management (RDM) in neuroscience.

The webinar starts at 1700 on June 1st 2021.

More info here

European Brain Research Area (EBRA) workshop videos are now online. Watch our presentation of The Virtual Brian Cloud.

Watch here

Our latest paper, "Virtual connectomic datasets in Alzheimer's Disease and aging using whole-brain network dynamics modelling" is in press at eNeuro.

Read the preprint here

Various lectures on Virtual Brain Cloud topics will be featured at the symposium, such as “Multiscale Co-Simulation of Deep Brain Stimulation" and the “The Virtual Brain Cloud” presented by Prof. Ritter.

For more information about the schedules and talks:

1. At the symposium “Multiscale brain modeling” on May 5th from 10:00 to 12:00
2. At the symposium “Advanced Electrophysiology Signatures of Neurodegenerative Diseases” on May 6th from 10:00 to 12:00

Register here

Videos of the EU Parliament workshop on data sharing organized by Virtual Brain Cloud partners Alzheimer Europe and Charite are now online.

Watch here

Sharing Data – Connecting Research – Pooling Brains: How can we uplift collaboration in neuroscience.

Organized by Bernstein Network Computational Neuroscience and NFDI-Neuro.

March 30 17-18 CET.

Find out more here

Prof. Ritter will give a lecture about The Virtual Brain at the 11th INCF Assembly – taking place online. Registration is open now.

The Virtual Brain Lecture is on April 21, Session 6: Tools and infrastructure showcase at the 2021 INCF Assembly.

New publication in De Gruyter Neuroforum.

Read it Here

Paper currently in press.

More information and links coming soon.

Paper currently in press in Frontiers Neuroinformatics.

More information and links coming soon.

Experience the Virtual Brain Cloud at the Health RI Conference 2021 on March 4th.

The conference takes place online and provides updates on Health Research Infrastructure activities.

Find out more about the conference here

The purpose of this workshop series is to discuss interfaces and workflows of The Virtual Brain (TVB) in the EU Flagship’s Research Infrastructure EBRAINS.

Register here

Our agenda comprises of speakers of the following organisations: EU Parliament, Gates Ventures Europe, Alzheimer Europe, EC DG Connect Unit H.3., EBRAINS AISBL, European Alzheimer’s Alliance and Charité University Medicine Berlin.  Agenda

Workshop summary

Brain Imaging Data Structure [BIDS] is a community effort to define standards in data / metadata. Please contribute to this proposal which extends the original specification to further integrate different kinds of data, such as imaging methods we use for brain visualisation and simulation.

All are welcome to add suggestions to this draft.

BIDS draft document

We are pleased to announce the publication Mapping the European Legal Framework on Security Requirements for Cloud Computing Infrastructures in the Healthcare Sector.

The paper was authored by Michael Cepic, Mariana Rissetto. In it we outline the different legislation governing security of cloud infrastructures in Europe and how their legislative security approaches might differ.

Read the paper here

Measures of Resting State EEG Rhythms for Clinical Trials in Alzheimer’s Disease Patients: Recommendations of an Expert Panel.

(2021) Alzheimer’s & Dementia: The Journal of the Alzheimer’s Association

Our consortium Virtual Brain Cloud - led by the Charité Berlin - serves as a Research Infrastructure Facility supporting EBRAINS – the digital research infrastructure of the EU Flagship Human Brain Project. Find out more about EBRAINS and see an overview of all EBRAINS facilities on page 21 of the below Discover EBRAINS booklet.

Download Discover EBRAINS booklet

We are pleased to announce that Petra Ritter will hold a keynote lecture on The Virtual Brain Cloud at the 5th HBP Student Conference on Interdisciplinary Brain Research in February 2021. In addition a course on the Virtual Brain Cloud will be offered - addressing the processing of personal data in the cloud.

Find out more here

We are pleased to announce the preprint of From genes to network models of Alzheimer's disease: Biological framework for multi-scale brain simulation with The Virtual Brain.

The paper was authored by Leon Stefanovski, Jil Mona Meier, Roopa Pai, Paul Triebkorn, Tristram Lett, Leon Martin, Konstantin Bülau, Martin Hofmann-Apitius, Ana Solodkin, Anthony McIntosh, Petra Ritter.

Read the preprint here

The recording of the public webinar Computational Modeling of Candidate Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration by Petra Ritter is now online.

Watch now

Visit The Virtual Brain Cloud Booth at the EOSC Projects EXPO from November 16 to 19. Members of our consortium will be available live throughout the event.

Realizing the European Open Science Cloud Towards a FAIR research data landscape for the social sciences, humanities and beyond.

Watch a video about TVB Cloud here

We are delighted that Pawel Swieboda, Director if the Human Brain Project and Founding CEO of EBRAINS will give the keynote at the Future Medicine Science Match organised by Der Tagesspiegel and Berlin Institute of Health.

Event takes place on 7.11.2020!

More details and registration here:

Find more info here:

We are happy to announce the first release of the Virtual Research Environment (VRE) 0.1.0. at the Charité & BIH. Find out more about the VRE on the BIH website.

You can watch a video demo of the VRE here. The VRE is now undergoing evaluation by the Berlin State Data Protection Commissioner. Upon approval the VRE will go into operation.

We are pleased to announce a new paper coming soon: Brain Network Simulations Indicate Effects of Neuregulin-1 Genotype on Excitation-Inhibition Balance in Cortical Dynamics.

The paper was authored by Pedro Costa Klein, Ulrich Ettinger, Michael Schirner, Petra Ritter, Dan Rujescu, Peter Falkai, Nikolaos Koutsouleris, Lana Kambeitz-Ilankovic, & Joseph Kambeitz.

The paper will soon be published by Cerebral Cortex Journal.

Watch our Falling Walls Finalist Prof. Petra Ritter presenting her science breakthrough in the Life Sciences Category here: https://bit.ly/2SN2nYZ. Register for free to join the virtual showcase of the Science Breakthroughs of the Year from 1 – 10 November 2020 here: www.falling-walls.com/2020. #WorldScienceSummit

See the Video Here

We are pleased to announce a new publication: Differences in cohort study data affect external validation of artificial intelligence models for predictive diagnostics of dementia - lessons for translation into clinical practice.

The paper was authored by Colin Birkenbihl, Mohammad Asif Emon,  Henri Vrooman, Sarah Westwood, Simon Lovestone, on behalf of the AddNeuroMed Consortium, Martin Hofmann-Apitius, Holger Fröhlich & the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative.

Read the paper here

Our platform is built in alignment with other major platforms like HBP’s e infrastructure EBRAINS.

The recordings of the TVB-EBRAINS Integrated Workflows workshop which took place in July, 2020 are now online and available openly.

Find the workshop recordings here

The Virtual Brain Node#10 took place in Berlin this year. You can now watch the recordings online.

Get an update on how to use The Virtual Brain platform.

Watch the videos here

We will present our EU project Virtual Brain Cloud at the 30th Alzheimer Europe Conference. At this virtual conference we will present “AI approaches for dementia research, diagnosis and treatment” and “Dementia research and AI: ethical, legal and societal implications”. We also will host a virtual booth where conference visitors can find out more about The Virtual Brain Cloud project.

Info & Registration

If you're interested in how a big health data project like The Virtual Brain Cloud handles data sharing & privacy, check out this webinar organised by our partner the University Vienna Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law.

Watch the webiner here.

We are pleased to inform you that Charite finalized sub-contracting Indoc (https://www.indocresearch.org/) for their support in technical coordination of TVB-Cloud.

AAT-AD/PD™ 2020 will not be postponed. For the first time, AAT-AD/PD™ 2020 will be held as an entirely virtual meeting.
More here: https://aat-adpd.kenes.com/

Dr. Petra Ritter will deliver a keynote lecture entitled "The Virtual Brain – Multi-scale principles of brain function and dysfunction" at the Cologne Neuroscience Day at Universität zu Köln on March 6th.

On the event website, you can find the full program and more details. You can sign up via the online registration form.

We are excited to announce that the The Virtual Brain and Virtual Brain Cloud will have a booth at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona in February 24-27 2020. We will be showing our work alongside the Human Brain Project and industry partners Eodyne and Indoc.

Meet the TVB team at the Human Brain Project Summit & Open Day in Athens from February 3 to 6!

We will present at the "Explore the Brain" EBRAINS booth on Open day, February 3rd and have a dedicated TVB session on February 5th. Find out about all the TVB tools and services that we made available via EBRAINS!

Dr. Petra Ritter will be holding a lecture on The Virtual Brain at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin on January 20th, 2019. The lecture will begin at 4pm in the BCCN lecture hall. Guests are welcome! Please send an email to Dr. Ritter for registration.

We are pleased to announce that we will be holding a training course for The Virtual Brain at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin on December 3rd, 2019. The course is intended for students of the Bernstein Center, however if you are not a student there but are interested in joining please contact petra.ritter@charite.de.

We hope you enjoy the program we have put together this year, for more details, please see here.

Please join us for Prof. Dr. Ritter’s talk Digital Medicine – Opportunity or Risk for Women? at the International Conference for Mentoring in Medicine on November 29 at the Berlin Museum of Medical History. The talk will be held in the historic Lecture Hall Ruin.

Please find the conference's morning program here, which is open to the public.

Join us for the HBP EBRAINS Brain Days in Heidelberg from 25 - 29 November!

Registrations are open for the HBP EBRAINS Brain Days.
The four-day programme features exciting workshops which cover an array of topics including EBRAINS, data sharing, High Performance Analytics and Computing, and coding.
Learn more on HBP EBRAINS Brain Days

The Virtual Brain Node#9 took place on August 31st in Warsaw as part of the annual INCF conference supported by the Human Brain Project. In hands-on session it was shown how to use The Virtual Brain Simulation software for personalised brain simulations!

TheVirtualBrain Atlas, a collaborative project with Human Brain Project (HBP), has been getting a lot of attention lately: Have you heard about the new interactive Brainweb Atlas? You can flip, rotate, and click around this online 3D model to learn about the different regions of the brain and their functions.
Try out - https://t.co/R3fzz1R0sH

The Brain Simulation Unit was exhibiting along side The Berlin Institute of Health(BIH), show casing our real time brain visualisations and brain simulation work with The Virtual Brain.