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.

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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Prof. Petra Ritter is giving a talk about "Multiscale digital brains for clinical applications" at the 9th Kraepelin Symposium, organized by the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Center of the University of Munich.

The event takes place on January 19-20, 2023 in Munich, Germany and online.  

Visit the official website of the event and read the full program.

Prof. Petra Ritter is giving a talk about "The Virtual Brain – Simulating Brain Stimulation" at the 12th International Symposium on nTMS in Neurosurgery and Neuromodulation, organised by Charité Berlin and TU Munich.

The event takes place on December 16 and 17 2022, in Berlin, Germany.

Registration at the nTMS Symposium.

Download the preliminary program.

EBRAINS/HBP is organizing the 13th CodeJam Workshop on 22-24 November 2022 as an online event.
We are contributing on Thursday, 24 November 2022 from 10:00 to 16:00 CET:

- Morning session: TVB-EBRAINS integrated workflows: TVB-Cloud with Unicore, CWL, control via collab and multiscale simulation
- Afternoon session: Health Data Cloud (HDC): Knowledge Graph (KG) and IAM integration

The registration for the CodeJam is FREE but requires an EBRAINS account (also FREE of charge).

Check the full program on the official website of the event.

The TVB-Cloud Team is contributing at the EBRAINS Infrastructure Training Event: "Simulate with EBRAINS", taking place as an online event, from November 7 to November 10, 2022.

The team is contributing on day 2, with a brief introduction to The Virtual Brain (TVB) and Health Data Cloud (HDC) platform, followed on day 3, by two hands-on sessions on the respective EBRAINS services.

Program and Registration at the event on the official website.

Find out more about EBRAINS Infrastructure Training Events.

Prof. Petra Ritter is the invited speaker for the 18th Fenix Infrastructure Webinar: "How to implement a secure processing pipeline for human data", held online on November 2022.

FREE registration on the official website.

Watch the replay.

Prof. Petra Ritter is giving a talk at the EBRAINS Side Event, organized during the ICRI 2022, in Brno, Czech Republic.
The event takes place at the Breakfast Session on Friday October 21 from 7:30 - 8:30 am CEST, that you can also join online.

Visit the official website of the ICRI EBRAINS Side Event for more info and registration.

Visit the official website of the ICRI 2022.

Prof. Petra Ritter is giving a presentation at the next European Parliament Lunch Debate, on 27 September, 2022 from 12:30 – 14:00 (CEST), at the Thon EU Hotel, Brussels, Belgium.
This new Lunch Debate, organized by Alzheimer Europe, focuses on the role of artificial intelligence and big data in dementia research.

Download the program of the event.

Visit the official website of Alzheimer Europe.

The Horizon Europe-funded eBRAIN-Health project hosted its kick-off meeting on July 11, 2022.
The meeting was highlighted in the last Alzheimer Europe newsletter.

Read the kick-off summary.

The NFDI-Neuroscience Team is organizing a virtual educational course: "Enabling multi-scale data integration: Turning data to knowledge", at the INCF Neuroinformatics Assembly 2022.
This course takes place on Wednesday, September 15th from 9:00 to 17:30 CEST.

Find out more about the educational course on the NFDI-Neuroscience website.

Full program and registration at Neuroinformatics 2022.

Prof. Petra Ritter is giving a presentation at the IBIO Neuroassembly, taking place online on Thursday, July 14th, 2022 at 4 pm (CEST). This seminar focuses on "Key principles that lead to cognitive performance variability in personalized Virtual Brains".

Registration at the virtual seminar at ibio.neuroassembly@ovgu.de.

Abstract and more information on the official website.

This summer, we are offering a virtual course series: "The Virtual Brain in Clinical Research".

This course takes place from June 28th, 2022 to September 13th, 2022 as on online event.

It introduces the open-source neuroinformatics platform The Virtual Brain and supporting tools such as the Charité/BIH Virtual Research Environment, workflows and build interfaces to related tools via APIs, to address medical problems.

The course is FREE but online registration is required!

Info and registration.

Read the interview given by Prof. Petra Ritter about Horizon 2020-funded Virtual Brain Cloud project: "VirtualBrainCloud project uses AI-based brain simulations to improve the classification of Alzheimer's disease", in Dementia Europe Magazine, issue 39, June 2022, by Alzheimer Europe.

Access the online version.

Prof. Petra Ritter speaks about data management of sensitive health data at the Forum “Publication of potentially sensitive data” at Philipps University Marburg.

The event takes place online on June 13, 2022 from 10 AM to 1 PM CEST.

Info and registration on the official website here.

We are pleased to announce that the comprehensive European infrastructure project: eBrain-Health: Actionable Multilevel Health Data, coordinated by Prof. Petra Ritter, has been awarded funding of € 13Mill from Horizon Europe.

The new federated cloud platform for modeling and simulating of complex neurobiological processes is done in collaboration with the EBRAINS AISBL and 18 additional European partners.

Read the BIH press release here.

Read the News article from EBRAINS here.

Further information on Horizon projects within Charité can be found here.

Our research topic on Brain Modeling of Neurodegenerative Disorders is complete!

Read the latest trends in the field - condensed in 7 articles here.

The recording of the webinar Towards Sustainable Software for Research and Society including a talk by Dr. David S. Katz and a panel discussion including Dr. Petra Ritter is now online. The webinar was part of the McGill Precision Convergence Webinar Series.

Watch the recording here.

Watch the recordings here.

We are pleased to announce two new publications in press:

Dynamic primitives of brain network interaction
Authors: M Schirner; X Kong; T Yeo; G Deco, P Ritter
Neuroimage (in press)

Read the article here.

and

Personalized connectome-based modeling in patients with semi-acute phase mild TBI: relationship to acute neuroimaging and 6-month follow-up.
Authors: T Good, M Schirner, K Shen, P Ritter, P Mukherjee, B Levine, AR McIntosh
eNeuro (in press)

Read the article here.

A summary of the highlights from the 31st Alzheimer Conference is now online.

Read it here.

Learn about the TVB-cloud GDPR compliant simulation workflows at the 12th HBP CodeJam EBRAINS - interactive usage and multi-site workflows.

If you're interested in finding out more and joining the CodeJam, you will need an EBRAINS account.

Register for the event here.

Prof. Ritter will speak about the role of Brain Simulation at the European Congress of Neurorehabilitation 2021 on December 9th.

Find out more here.

Founding on EOSC project Virtual Brain Cloud Charite now leads EBRAINS’ Health Data Cloud –- a GDPR-compliant, federated research data ecosystem that enables neuroscience research consortia across Europe and beyond to work with sensitive neuroscience data originating from human subjects, as well as defined routes for sharing of the data and results.

Enabling the integration of distributed health data sources and empowering scientists to model and simulate complex phenomena on interdisciplinary digital twins – while protecting the privacy of the data subjects and patients – will spawn a multiplicity of innovations that may spark breakthroughs towards solving grand challenges of our times such as dementia.

Read the Press Release here.

Read the English Charité blog post here.

Lesen Sie den deutschen Blogbeitrag der Charité hier.

TVB-Cloud was presented by Michael Cepic and Mariana Rissetto on Ars Aequi - a podcast led by the Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law at the University of Vienna.

Listen here.

Prof. Ritter will give a keynote at the 31st Alzheimer Europe Conference, Resilience in dementia: Moving beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.

The keynote lecture is entitled, From virtual brain simulation to personalised prevention and treatment of dementia and will take place online on the 30th of November, 2021.

Find out more here

Prof. Petra Ritter will be part of an exciting talk “Große ForscherInnen, kleine ForscherInnen: Wissenschaftsgenerationen im Gespräch mit“ hosted by Michael Müller, Mayor of Berlin and Senator for Science and Research.

The event is free and family friendly. The talk is in German, and starts August 14th at 1100.

Find out more here

On September 10 Prof Ritter will speak at the XXIV Congress of the European Society for Stereotactic and Functional Neurosurgery during the plenary session Brain Prediction.

Prof. Ritter will discuss using personalized Virtual Brain Cloud simulations to augment diagnosis, infer mechanisms, and predict intervention outcomes in neurodegenerative disease.

Find out more here

Brain Simulation Section at the Charite and BIH contributes to EBRAINS with Virtual Brain Cloud Technology.

ESFRI identifies research infrastructure measures for Europe that are important in terms of strategy and research policy.

Find out more here

Participate in the 5^th community workshop of NFDI-Neuroscience on July 13th - 14th. There will be several lectures on research data management contributed by the Charité Brain Simulation section members.

Find out more here

Prof Ritter has been appointed as spokesperson for the National Research Data Infrastructure Initiative Neuroscience (NFDI-Neuro).

At CNS*2021 we will be holding a workshop on Training resources for cross initiative data-driven modeling workflows.

Prof Petra Ritter will introduce training resources for The Virtual Brain.

July 6 at 10-13:30 EDT / 16-19:30 CEST.

Register here

Learn about TVB-integrated workflows in upcoming European Institute for Theoretical Neuroscience (EITN) workshop Computational Neuroscience in EBRAINS on June 10th.

Register here

On June 1st 2021, the Charité joins the EBRAINS AISBL as an associate member with the opportunity to co-design future iterations of EBRAINS’ cutting-edge tools and services.

Find out more

OHBM 2021 Educational Course ”An Introduction to Network Neuroscience” has just been announced here.

Find out more about the courses here.

Organised by: Andrew Zalesky & Alex Fornito

Speakers: Janin Bijsterbosh, Shella Keilholz, Rpb Smith, Bratislav Misic, Rick Betzel, Anne Sizemore Belvins, Martijn van den Heuvel, Petra Ritter

• Streamed on May 31st and June 1st:

  Part I: Alex, Janine, Shella, Rob, AndrewPart II: Bratislav, Rick, Ann, Martijn, Petra

• Interactive Session (Monday May 31):

  12 pm Los Angeles | 3 pm New York | 5am Melbourne (+1day) | 9pm Berlin

10th International IEEE EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering

more information, programm and session recordings: https://neuro.embs.org/2021/

• Lecture by Prof. Petra Ritter on May 26 at 12:30-13:10
• Hands on workshop on May 26 from 15:40 - 17

Register here

Prof. Ritter will chair BIH-Charite Translation Hub Digital Medicine's next online lecture on Health Data Platform Solutions on April 22nd 2021. The lecture will be held by representatives from our partner Indoc Research.

Register here

Learn to use The Virtual Brain: Lectures with subsequent hands on session at the McGill Summer School in Nonlinear Dynamics for the Life Sciences with Applications to Neuroscience and Psychology.

Registration is open!

Find out more here

Watch an online presentation by Dr. Ritter on The Virtual Brain Cloud as part of the CAMH Krembil Centre for Neuroinformatics Speakers Series.

March 30 at 11-12 pm EST / 17-18 CET.

Find out more here

Join us for the 2021 talk series Vom Reiz der Sinne - Wahrnehmung und Gehirn. Petra Ritter will hold the fourth talk in the series on 16.03.2021, Können wir ein virtuelles Gehirn erschaffen und am Computer simulieren?.

The talk will be held in German. The event will take place online.

Find more details here.

New publication in De Gruyter Neuroforum.

Read it Here

We are proud to be part of the newly established European Cluster for Imaging Biomarkers (ECIP) https://www.ebra.eu/ecib-cluster/ by the European Brain Research Area (EBRA).

Today, Alzheimer Europe launches a new report, “Legal capacity and decision making: The ethical implications of lack of legal capacity on the lives of people with dementia”, which looks at the intersection between legal rights and ethical considerations in relation to legal capacity and decision making.

report download

We are pleased to announce a new publication, "Multi-scale brain simulation with integrated positron emission tomography yields hidden local field potential activity that augments machine-learning classification of Alzheimer's disease".

Read it here

Alzheimer Europe has launched a new report “Data Sharing in Dementia Research”, which reviews recent changes in EU research policy and sets out recommendations to improve data sharing in dementia research. The report identifies key barriers and enablers for data sharing. The full report can be found here.

Read more here

We are proud of the collaboration that went into this paper. 43 Authors! Fantastic teamwork.

Read Publication Here

Videos of the 30th Alzheimer Europe Conference are now online. Presentations include: AI approaches for dementia research, diagnosis & treatment and Dementia research and AI: ethical, legal and social implications.

TVB-Cloud develops a solution for the “Reproducibility Crisis” for sensitive data. DataLad is an important component to this solution. To find out more, watch the newly published video “What is DataLad?”

Watch here

We are proud to share with you that The Virtual Brain Cloud has been selected for a keynote speech at the launch event of the Brain Innovation Days series.

Watch the entire digital launch event - including Petra Ritter's keynote speech, The Virtual Brain Cloud: Making personal health data actionable here.

Join us for the digital opening of the Humboldt Forum in Berlin on the 16th of December.

We are excited and proud to announce that the Brain Simulation Section has contributed interactive applications powered by The Virtual Brain to the Humboldt Labor's inaugural exhibition, After Nature.

Find out more here

Brain Connectivity Workshop goes virtual in May 2021 with the topic Consciousness and Cognition.

The program is online and registration is now open.

Register here

This course provides basic knowledge on personalized brain network modeling. Students will gain theoretical knowledge and subsequently use this knowledge to construct models, process multi-modal imaging data for creating individualized models, run simulations and use supporting neuroinformatics tool such as collaboratories, pipelines, workflows and data repositories.

Find out more here

We will present our recent work, The Virtual Brain Cloud - Towards personalized multi-scale brain simulation using neuroimaging cohorts for Alzheimer's disease research at the 15th International Conference on Alzheimer's & Parkinson's Disease AD/PD 2021.

More on AD/PD here

The DGKN (German Society for Clinical Neurophysiology and Functional Imaging) will be holding their annual conference virtually from November 10 - 14. Petra Ritter will give a presentation on Personalized Brain Simulation in the Presidential Symposium on November 13th.

Find more info here

Full program and registration via this link:

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We are pleased to announce a new paper, which has been accepted for publication: Evaluating the Alzheimer's Disease Data Landscape.

The paper was authored by Colin Birkenbihl, Yasamin Salimi, Daniel Domingo-Fernándéz, Simon Lovestone on behalf of the AddNeuroMed Consortium, Holger Fröhlich, Martin Hofmann-Apitius and the Japanese Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative, and the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

The paper will soon be published by Alzheimer's & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions.

Apply now with your project for the Future Medicine Science Pitch until October 18^th 2020! Abstract submission has been extended to October 18^th.

Call for the Future Medicine Science Pitch -  Future Medicine Science Match 2020 – Artificial Intelligence in Translational Medicine: https://dialog.tagesspiegel.de/future-medicine/

Find more info here

You can now watch the GDPR Impact in Health Research 2020 conference videos online, organized in a chronological playlist that covers all sessions.

Watch the videos here

Virtual Brain Cloud is Partnering Project of the Human Brain Project and EBRAINS.

Check our our series of explainer videos and get an overview of all integrated tools!

Watch the videos here

Virtual Brain Cloud is partnering with the Charité / BIH Virtual Research Environment – a potential production environment for our platform. We've prepared a series of videos to explain the mission of the Virtual Research Environment.

Watch the videos here

The videos of the recent GDPR Impact in Health and Research Conference held by Virtual Brain Cloud are now online.

Watch the Conference Now

Join us for a free conference on the impact of GDPR on digitization of biomedical research and clinical applications, including those using AI. VirtualBrainCloud will act as a case study, providing insight into the challenges and practical solutions of working with patient data.

Info & Registration

Learn more on our Cloud Implementation Strategy applying „Trusted Cloud” Principles
find the report here

We had a fantastic technical workshop on VirtualBrainCloud Use Cases and Infrastructure on January 15th at the Charité Brain Simulation Section in Berlin.

Great to have such excellent experts working together as a team. The Trusted Health Cloud Infrastructure is evolving! Check out some pictures on the Brain Simulation Lab website.

In March 2020 Dr. Petra Ritter, Dr Paul Triebkorn and Jan Stansinski MSc will present two lectures and a workshop on The Virtual Brain in Lethbridge & Calgary, Canada

Dr. Petra Ritter will hold a lecture on The Virtual Brain simulation platform: Inferring principles of network interactions underlying cognition at the Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neuroscience on March 17th @ 12:15pm.
More on brainsimulation.org

We'd like to bring attention to a new Research Topic in Frontiers Neuroinformatics: ‘Brain Modeling of Neurodegenerative Disorders’. We invite for your contributions!

Please contribute to the article collection:
Brain Modeling of Neurogenerative Disorders

The 26th Neurokolloquium will be held on the 15th of February at the Charité Campus Virchow Klinikum. Neurokolloquium is an annual symposium put on by the Charité Clinic and University Outpatient Department for Neurology, during which a variety of lectures and presentations are held on topics from the entire spectrum of work done in the Neurology Department. Themes include therapy, diagnosis, historical content and controversial topics from the field. As part of the day's events, Dr. Petra Ritter will present a guest lecture on The Virtual Brain, covering how brain simulations can aid in better understanding and treatment of neurological illnesses.

Lectures and presentations will be held in German. The event is free for employees and students of the Charité Neurology Department. The fee for external participants is 20€. Please find further details on the program and how to register here.

Petra Ritter and Paul Triebkorn will present The Virtual Brain at Urania Berlin on January 21st, 2020. Urania Berlin is one of the leading centers of dialog between science, the humanities and the public. We are excited to join the many leading scientists who deliver lectures and talks in their areas of research at Urania. The talk will be a part of a series called Berlin Brains 2020, during which neuroscientists working in Berlin will present their current work to the public.
Find out more details about the event here.

BrainModes 2019 will be taking place in Pokhara, Nepal from the 11th to the 13th of December and we'll be there! BrainModes is an annual meeting that brings together international experts from various disciplines and seeks to explore innovative means of understanding complex brain activity and multimodal neuroscience data sets. This year's meeting will focus on exploring "Unified Principles of Brain Connectivity and Dynamics".
more on Brainsimulation.org

Prof. Dr. Ritter will join researchers from both the Charité and King's College London in presenting her research at the 1st of two workshops focussed on interdisciplinary research in the field of epilepsy. In the workshops researchers will develop new ideas to understand and treat epilepsy better, and also to understand the basic workings of the brain.
more information here

The Human Brain Project shows their work at the German Parliament Bundestag. The Virtual Brain is a central part of the exhibition.

Meet Dr. Petra Ritter during the opening event on Nov 27th . Dr. Ritter will also lead a guided tour through the exhibition on Nov 28.
Access to the exhibition is only possible after prior registration via the website.
This exhibition is in partnership with The Human Brain Project, and includes many beautiful exhibits about the brain. You don't want to miss it.
More information about the program here.

Published on the 13th of November this year, Dr. Petra Ritter gives a short and very informative interview about the Brain Simulation Unit at Charité, including topics of brain health, healthy ageing, and learning.

You can read some choice quotes, or listen to the 6 minute interview

here: RBB, for the next 7 days only. It's a limited time, so make sure you hear it before it's gone.

Virtual Brain Cloud became Partnering Project of the EU Flagship Human Brain Project.

Press relaese

Like in the past two years, the Brain Simulation Section is joining to present educational and fun experiments and lectures, showcasing how practical brain simulation can improve our lives.