1st INCF Workshop on Mouse and Rat Brain Digital Atlasing Systems

Stockholm, February 13-14, 2007

Goal

The goal of this meeting was to survey current activities and plans related to development of mouse and rat brain digital atlasing systems. The workshop discussed needs for and types of coordinated action that will ensure rapid progress, compatibility, and dissemination with use of novel technological approaches. A workshop report summarizes the state-of-the-art in the field and provide recommendations for actions.

Invited participants

Jan G. Bjaalie, INCF Secretariat, Stockholm, Sweden
Jyl Boline, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Gregor Eichele, Max Planck Institute, Göttingen, Germany
Francoise Gofflot, Institut Clinique de la Souris (ICS), Strasbourg, France 
Teiichi Furuichi, RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako, Japan
Michael Hawrylycz, Allen Institute for Brain Science, Seattle, USA
Andreas Hess, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
G. Allan Johnson, Duke University, Durham, USA
Jonathan Nissanov, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA
George Paxinos, University of New South Wales, Randwick, Australia
Charles Watson, Curtin University of Technology, Bentley, Australia
Robert W. Williams, University of Tennessee, Memphis, USA
Ilya Zaslavsky, University of California, San Diego, USA

Reporter: Jyl Boline, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Program

February 13:

12.00 – 13.00   Lunch and Introduction (Bjaalie and Williams)
13.00 – 18.00   Scientific presentations and discussions
20.00 –            Dinner

• Jan G Bjaalie | Database and spatial navigation systems for microscopic image data
• Charles Watson | An ontologically based nomenclature for the mammalian nervous system
• Ilya Zaslavsky | Integration of mouse brain atlas information across semantic, structural and application barriers
• G Allan Johnson | Magnetic resonance histology of the mouse brain
• Andreas Hess | Structural functional relationships in preclinical imaging: a domain for  brain atlases?
• Jonathan Nissanov | Spatial normalization of the mouse brain
• Jyl Boline | Collaborative tool building for sharing and visualizing multimodal, multi-scale data
• George Paxinos | Chemoarchitecture and rhombomeres as tools in constructing brain atlases
• Francoise Gofflot | Systematic expression mapping of nuclear receptors in the adult mouse brain
• Teiichi Furuichi | Spatio-temporal gene expression in the postnatal mouse brain

February 14:

09.00 – 12.00   Scientific presentations and discussions
12.00 – 13.00   Lunch
13.00 – 17.00   Draft report

• Gregor Eichele | An outline of strategies for the production of transcriptome-scale 3D gene expression map of the rat brain
• Michael Hawrylycz | Mapping and quantitation of high throughput in situ hybridization data
• Robert W Williams | Variation in gene expression and morphometry in mouse CNS: signal and noise

Each presentation is scheduled to allow 20 minutes, including questions. The sessions will primarily be devoted to dicussions and preparation of a draft report from the workshop.

Support

Supported by the INCF Central Fund and the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research.

Meeting location

INCF Secretariat
Karolinska Institutet
Nobels väg 15 A
SE-171 77 Stockholm
Sweden

Travel info

Travel between the airport, the hotel, and the INCF Secretariat

Scientific organizer

Robert W. Williams, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee