Dear MNN members,

Dr. Randy McIntosh is invited to give a talk on January 8^th at 11am. We will host a trainee lunch at 12pm-ish. I believe that the detailed information will be circulated later.

Dr. McIntosh is a Professor, BC Leadership Chair in Neuroscience and Technology Transfer Across the Lifespan, and Director of Institute for Neuroscience and Neurotechnology at SFU (
https://www.armcintosh.com/home).

He founded The Virtual Brain (TVB: https://www.thevirtualbrain.org/tvb/zwei) which is a brain simulation platform that bridges multi-scale, multi-modal data.

According to the website, “TVB simulates and generates the time courses of various forms of neural activity including Local Field Potentials (LFP) and firing rate, as well as brain imaging data such as EEG (electroencephalography), MEG (magnetoencephalography) and BOLD (blood oxygen level dependent contrast) activations as observed in fMRI.”

My plan is to import this TVB to UofM, so that it can be used as a bridge between human brain imagers (like myself) and other neuroscientists to forge a cutting-edge method-based collaboration.

Please let me know if you are interested in meeting him in person.

He will leave for the airport at 3:30pm on January 8th.

If anyone is interested, please let me know with your available time on January 8^th (Monday) from 9am to 3:30pm (except for 11am-1:15pm).

Best,

Ji Hyun

Ji Hyun Ko, PhD

Associate Professor

Department of Human Anatomy and Cell Science

Max Rady College of Medicine, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences

University of Manitoba

Principal Investigator

PrairieNeuro Research Centre

Kleysen Institute for Advanced Medicine

Winnipeg Health Science Centre

Mailing Address:

SR452 - 710 William Avenue

Winnipeg, MB  R3E 0Z3

Canada

Tel: +1-204-318-2566

Email: ji.ko@umanitoba.ca

Website: https://www.kolabneuro.com/