Retirement symposium for Barry Horwitz set for September 8

August 18, 2017

Barry Horwitz

On Friday, September 8, 2017, the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) will hold a symposium on Neural Modeling and Functional Brain Imaging on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) campus in Bethesda, Maryland. The symposium will celebrate the career of Barry Horwitz, Ph.D., chief of the NIDCD’s Section on Brain Imaging and Modeling, who will retire at the end of this year. The seminar is open to the public.

What: Neural Modeling and Functional Brain Imaging symposium in celebration of the career of Barry Horwitz, Ph.D.
When: Friday, September 8, 2017, from 9:15 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Where: Dale and Betty Bumpers Vaccine Research Center, building 40, rooms 1201/1203, National Institutes of Health campus, Bethesda, Maryland

For questions or reasonable accommodation requests, contact Elyssa Monzack, Ph.D., chief of staff, NIDCD Department of Intramural Research, or Fatima Husain, Ph.D., associate professor, Department of Speech and Hearing Science, University of Illinois.

Agenda

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Time	Presentation
9:15 a.m.	Welcome and introduction Andrew Griffith, M.D., Ph.D., scientific director, NIDCD
9:30-10:30 a.m.	Session 1: Brain networks and neuroimaging Olaf Sporns, Ph.D., distinguished professor, provost professor, Robert H. Shaffer chair, Indiana University Networks of the Brain: Connectivity and Connectomics in Human Neuroimaging Rainer Goebel, Ph.D., professor, cognitive neuroscience, Maastricht University, The Netherlands Imaging human cortical columns and layers at ultra-high magnetic fields: Implications for neural network modeling
10:30-11:00 a.m.	Break
11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.	Session 2: Computational modeling James Haxby, Ph.D., professor, psychological and brain sciences, Dartmouth College Building a computational model of shared representational and connectivity spaces in the human brain Marcel Just, Ph.D., D.O., Hebb professor of psychology and director, Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging, Carnegie Mellon University Modeling the semantic content of a complex thought based on its fMRI signature Antonio Ulloa, Ph.D., Brain Imaging & Modeling Section, NIDCD Large-scale neural modeling: from cortical columns to macroscopic brain dynamics
12:30-2:00 p.m.	Break
2:00-3:00 p.m.	Session 3: Brain networks—speech and hearing Kristina Simonyan, M.D., Ph.D., director of laryngology, voice and speech research, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School Large-scale brain networks for speech control Fatima Husain, Ph.D., associate professor, department of speech and hearing science, University of Illinois Patterns and connectivity in networks: understanding real and illusory sounds
3:00-3:30 p.m	Break
3:30-4:30 p.m	Session 4: Brain dynamics Cheryl Grady, Ph.D., senior scientist, Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Health Sciences, University of Toronto Dynamic Brain Activity and Its Relation to Cognitive Performance Randy McIntosh, Ph.D., director, Rotman Research Institute, Baycrest Health Sciences, University of Toronto Balance of Local and Global Brain Dynamics in Healthy and Dysfunctional Brain Networks
4:30 p.m.	Concluding remarks Barry Horwitz, Ph.D., chief, Section on Brain Imaging and Modeling, NIDCD

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