INCF National Nodes

Belgium is a member of the INCF from 2007. The University of Antwerp has received funding to form a node in Neuroinformatics from the Flemish government since 2003 and forms at present the National Node of Belgium. It is coordinated by Prof. E. De Schutter.

National contact

Michele Giugliano
Dept. of Biomedical Sciences
University of Antwerp
Campus Drie Eiken (CDE) - D.T.121
Universiteitsplein 1
B-2610 Wilrijk
Belgium
e-mail: michele@tnb.ua.ac.be
Tel: +32 3 820 26 16
Fax: +32 3 820 26 69

The INCF National Node of Belgium.

The Czech National Node of Neuroinformatics (CNNN) has been operative since 2003 and now serves as an INCF National Node.

The Chair and Coordinator of the node is Professor Mirko Novak. The node has partners from 8 universities and academic research institutions and 3 industrial corporations. The main activity is oriented to neuroinformatics databases and knowledge mining. A new interest area is the use of neuroinformatics approaches for improving the reliability of interaction between driver and vehicle.

Host institution

Department of Control Engineering and Telematics, located at the Czech Technical University

Event

Transport Science and Technology Congress (TRANSTEC)
Prague, September 13-15, 2007

Coordinator, INCF National Node of the Czech Republic
Head, Czech delegation to the INCF Governing Board

Professor Mirko Novak
Czech Technical University
Department of Control Engineering and Telematics
Konviktská 20
110 00 Prague 1
Czech Republic
e-mail: mirko@fd.cvut.cz
Tel: +42 0602242870
Fax: +42 0224359545

The INCF National Node of Finland is located at the Department of Signal Processing, Tampere University of Technology (TUT) and it was established in March 2007. The Chair of the Finnish INCF coordination is Prof. Ulla Ruotsalainen and the executive coordinator Dr. Marja-Leena Linne (both at the Department of Signal Processing, TUT). The coordination is done in collaboration with a national steering group containing nine members. The Finnish node is funded by the Academy of Finland. The funding includes support for personnel, national meetings, courses and course material, and networking. Some pilot projects in neuroinformatics are also supported.

INCF National Node of Finland

Coordinator, INCF National Node of Finland

Marja-Leena Linne
Senior researcher, Ph.D., Adj.Prof.
Tampere University of Technology
Department of Signal Processing
P.O. Box 553
FI-33101 Tampere
Finland
e-mail: marja-leena.linne@tut.fi
Tel: +358-50-3450649

National contact
Head, French delegation to the INCF Governing Board

Professor Bernard Bioulac Directeur scientifique adjoint au département Vivant
CNRS
France
e-mail: bernard.bioulac@umr5543.u-bordeaux2.fr
Tel: +33 6 77 78 70 30
Fax: +33 5 56 90 14 21

Focusing on the development and free distribution of tools for handling and analyzing neurophysiological data, the German Neuroinformatics Node (G-Node) aims at addressing these aspects as part of the INCF. G-Node also serves as an international forum for Computational Neuroscientists that are interested in sharing experimental data and tools for data analysis and modeling. G-Node is funded through the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and hosted by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
The Chair and coordinator of node operations is Professor Andreas Herz.

Bernstein Centers for Computational Neuroscience, neuroinformatics research centres funded by the National Network for Computational Neuroscience, Federal Ministry of Education and Science (BMBF)

INCF National Node of Germany

Coordinator, INCF National Node of Germany

Dr. Andreas Herz
Biozentrum
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Großhaderner Straße 2
82152 Martinsried-Planegg
Germany
herz@bio.lmu.de

 

Scientific Director, INCF National Node of Germany

Dr. Thomas Wachtler
Biozentrum
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Großhaderner Straße 2
82152 Martinsried-Planegg
Germany
wachtler@bio.lmu.de
Tel. +49 89 2180 74810

Head, German delegation to the INCF Governing Board

Dr. Christiane Buchholz
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung
Referat 614, Molekulare Lebenswissenschaften
D - 11 055 Berlin
Germany
e-mail: christiane.buchholz@bmbf.bund.de
Tel: +49 3018 57-5110
Fax: + 49 3018 57-85110

The INCF National Node of Italy is located at the Department of Communication, Computer and System Sciences at the University of Genoa, Italy

Platforms operated by the Node:
• Alzheimer's disease content platform for patients, researchers, physicians
• Early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease using the SPM (Statistical Parametric Mapping) method and a Grid approach. The platform is being validated

Platforms currently being developed:
• Neuro Imaging platform for multimodal data and image fusion for the brain
• Neuroinformatics repository of data and services for merging bioinformatics data (genomics) with medical imaging data in a workflow-enabled environment

Italian Neuroinformatics Portal

National contact
Head, Italian delegation to the INCF Governing Board

Dr. Luciano Milanesi
CNR – ITB (Institute of Biomedical Technologies)
Via Fratelli Cervi, 93
20090 Segrate
Italy
e-mail: luciano.milanesi@itb.cnr.it
Tel: +39 02 2642 2604
Fax: +39 02 2642 2770

The INCF National Node of Japan (J-Node) is located at the Neuroinformatics Japan Center (NIJC), Riken Brain Science Institute (BSI). The node was inaugurated in February 2006. The node steering group has a national representation. The Director of the J-Node is Prof. Shiro Usui.

The distributed node platform committees are continuing their development under a portal umbrella.

Platforms operated by NIJC

Visiome platform

Neuron-Glia platform

Brain-Machine Interface platform

Invertebrate Brain platform

Cerebellar Development Transcriptome Database

Integrative Brain Research platform

Cerebellar platform

Neuro-Imaging platform

Neuroinformatics Base-platform:XooNIps

Platforms currently being developed by NIJC

Dynamic Brain Platform: Dynamical models of the brain
Simulation platform: Simulation of models of the brain

J-Node  portal to the platforms of the Japan Node

NIJC  the host of the J-Node portal

RIKEN Brain Science Institute, the host of the J-Node central unit

Director, INCF National Node of Japan

Professor Shiro Usui
Director of NIJC (Neuroinformatics Japan Center)
Head of Laboratory for Neuroinformatics
RIKEN, Brain Science Institute
2-1 Hirosawa
Wako, Saitama 351-0198
Japan
Email : usuishiro@riken.jp
Tel : +81-48-467-7491
Fax : +81-48-467-7498

Head, Japanese delegation to the INCF Governing Board

Professor Shun-ichi Amari
Senior Advisor of the Brain Science Institute
RIKEN, Brain Science Institute
2 - 1 Hirosawa
Wako, Saitama 351-0198
Japan
Email: amari@brain.riken.jp
Tel : +81-48-467-7141
Fax : +81-48-467-9687

The INCF National Node of the Netherlands is located at the Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research (CNCR), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The Coordinator is Dr. Jaap van Pelt at the Department of Experimental Neurophysiology, CNCR. The National Node Steering Committee is chaired by Prof. Wytse Wadman (University of Amsterdam) and has a national representation. The National Node is supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).

The INCF National Node of the Netherlands

Event

Den Haag, December 7, 2007

Coordinator, INCF National Node of the Netherlands
Head, delegation of the Netherlands to the INCF Governing Board

Dr. Jaap van Pelt
VU University Amsterdam
Center for Neurogenomics and Cognitive Research (CNCR)
Department of Integrative Neurophysiology
De Boelelaan 1087, 1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands
e-mail: jaap.van.pelt@falw.vu.nl
Tel: +31 20 5987043
Fax: +31 20 5987112
 

The INCF National Node of Norway is located at the Center for Molecular Biology and Neuroscience (CMBN), University of Oslo. The Chair of the node is Professor Johan F. Storm. Node leader and Executive Coordinator of node operations is Professor Gaute Einevoll. Dr. Einevoll is a Professor at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences and Adjunct Professor at CMBN, University of Oslo. Dr. Storm is a Professor at CMBN and at Department of Physiology, IMB, University of Oslo.

The Norwegian node is funded by The Research Council of Norway. The funding includes support for personnel, national meetings and networking, and selected neuroinformatics projects.

INCF National Node of Norway

Center for Molecular Biology and Neuroscience, a Norwegian Center of Excellence appointed by The Research Council of Norway

Executive Coordinator, INCF National Node of Norway

Professor Gaute Einevoll
Physics, Department of Mathematical Sciences and Technology
Norwegian University of Life Sciences
P.O.Box 5003
N-1432 Aas
Norway
e-mail: gaute.einevoll@umb.no
Tel: +47 64965433
Fax: +47 64965401
Mobile: +47 95124536

Chair, INCF National Node of Norway

Professor Johan F. Storm,
Centre for Molecular Biology and Neuroscience, and Department of Physiology, IMB
University of Oslo
P.O.Box 1104 Blindern
N0317 Oslo
Norway
e-mail: jstorm@medisin.uio.no
Tel: +47 22851246
Fax: +47 22851249

Head, Norwegian delegation to the INCF Governing Board

Professor Svein Dahl
University of Tromsø
Department of Medical Biology
N-9037 Tromsø
Norway
e-mail: sgd@fagmed.uit.no
Tel: +47 776 44704
Fax: +47 776 45300

Poland has been a member of the INCF since August 2007. The Polish participation in the INCF is administered through The Nencki Institute, on behalf of a Polish neuroinformatics network.
 

Polish Neuroinformatics Portal Pilot

Coordinator, INCF National Node of Poland

Daniel K. Wojcik, PhD, DSc
Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology
3 Pasteur St.
02-093 Warsaw
Poland
tel: +48 22 5892 424
e-mail: d.wojcik@nencki.gov.pl

The INCF National Node of Sweden is located at The Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm and was established in August 2006. The Chair and Coordinator is Professor Anders Lansner at the Department of Computational Biology, KTH. The node functions as a network of research groups, covering primarily large scale computing and software tools for modeling and simulations, and databases for brain imaging.

The members of the network:

Professor Anders Lansner
Professor Per Roland
Project leader Gert Svensson
Associate Professor Örjan Ekeberg
Professor Sten Grillner
Professor Jeanette Hellgren Kotaleski
Professor C. Balkenius

Host Institution

Coordinator, INCF National Node of Sweden

Professor Jeanette Hellgren Kotaleski
Royal Institute of Technology
CSC/CB
Albanova University Center
S - 106 91 Stockholm
Sweden
e-mail: jeanette@csc.kth.se
Tel: +46 8 790 69 03
Fax: +46 8 553 78214

Head, Swedish delegation to the INCF Governing Board

Professor Sten Grillner
Karolinska Institutet
Dept. Neuroscience
Retzius väg 8
S - 171 77 Stockholm
Sweden
e-mail: sten.grillner@ki.se
Tel: +46 8 524 86900
Fax: +46 8 34 95 44

Switzerland will form a National Node. Location and organization of the node will soon be announced.

National contact, INCF National Node of Switzerland

Dr. Carmen I. Adusumalli
Office of the Vice-President for Research
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
ETH-Center
CH-8092 Zurich
e-mail: Adusumalli@sl.ethz.ch
Tel: +41 1 632 0433
Fax: +41 1 632 1184
 

Head, Swiss delegation to the INCF Governing Board

Professor Rodney Douglas
Institute of Neuroinformatics
University/ETH Zurich
Winterthurerstrasse 190
Zurich 8057
Switzerland
e-mail: rjd@ini.phys.ethz.ch
Tel : +41 1 635 3052
Fax : +41 1 635 3053

The United Kingdom joined the INCF from August 1, 2007. The node is coordinated by Prof. D. Willshaw. It is hosted by the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.

Activities focus on establishing the state-of-the-art, fostering the development of the neuroinformatics community, exploring potential areas of growth, together with publicising neuroinformatics both nationally and internationally.

 
The UK Neuroinformatics Network

Events

Tools, Methods, and Data Formats Workshop
York, May 15-16, 2008

National contact, INCF National Node of the UK

Professor David Willshaw
Professor of Computational Neurobiology
Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation
School of Informatics
University of Edinburgh
5 Forrest Hill
Edinburgh EH1 2QL
Scotland, UK
e-mail: willshaw@inf.ed.ac.uk
Tel: +44 131 650 4404/5
Fax: +44 131 650 4406

Head, UK delegation to the INCF Governing Board

Dr. Katherine Giles
Program Manager
Neurosciences & Mental Health Board
Medical Research Council
20 Park Crescent
London
W1B 1AL, UK
e-mail: KATHERINE.GILES@HEADOFFICE.MRC.AC.UK
Tel: +44 207 670 5223
Fax: +44 207 636 6289
http://www.mrc.ac.uk/

The Neuroinformatics Committee of The Society for Neuroscience functions as a contact point for the INCF in the United States. The Committee Chair is Professor Maryann Martone.

 

The Neuroinformatics Committee of The Society for Neuroscience

Head, US delegation to the INCF Governing Board

U. S. National Science Foundation
4201 Wilson Blvd. Room 1145
Arlington VA 22230
Tel: +1.703.292.8970
Fax: +1.703.292.9060
http://www.nsf.gov/oci/