EBRAINS-Italy Brain Simulation Training Workshop – Brasov (Romania)
The school will introduce the students to the EBRAINS-Italy Research Infrastructure workflows for Computational Neuroscience, with the primary aim to extend access to this field and related tools to the average user from a variety of scientific communities. After the course, students will have a deeper understanding of the techniques and the scientific issues underlying the implementation of multiscale computational models or neurons and networks; students will also be able to use the Platform and access supercomputer systems to configure and run simulations and visualize/analyze the results.
The event is organized by the Institute of Biophysics of the National Research Council (CNR-IBF, Palermo, Italy) in collaboration with the Transylvania University (UT, Brasov Romania), the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy (CDUMP, Bucharest, Romania) and the National Neuroscience Society of Romania (SNN) as a joint meeting with the SNN2025 Conference (https://conf.snn.ro/snn2025/).
Workshop Chair: Michele Migliore, CNR-IBF;
Organizers: Michele Migliore (CNR-IBF), Carmen Alina Lupascu (CNR-IBF), Alessia Bonafede (CNR-IBF), Tudor Constantin Badea (UT), Ana-Maria Zagrean (CDUMP)
Venue: ICDT, Research and Development Institute, Building L2, Transylvania University of Brașov (https://icdt.unitbv.ro/en/)
Date: 27 – 29 May 2025
Event type: In-person
Event official language: English
Program
Day 1, May 27th
09:00 – 09:30 Welcome and Introduction to the School (Local Organizers & M. Migliore)
09:30 – 10:30 First steps into the Platform (Luca Leonardo Bologna, CNR-IBF)
☕ Coffee break
10:45 – 11:30 Electrophysiological features extraction (Rosanna Migliore, CNR-IBF)
11:30 – 12:30 Scientific drive: Single cell modeling under physiological and pathological conditions – how it is done (Michele Migliore, CNR-IBF)
🍲 Lunch break
14:30 – 15:30 The Hippocampus Hub and HHNB platforms for model building (Luca Leonardo Bologna, CNR-IBF)
15:30 – 17:30 Hands-on session I: Build your own detailed cell model; tutors: Luca Leonardo Bologna, Rosanna Migliore, Carmen Alina Lupascu, CNR-IBF
Day 2, May 28th
09:00 – 10:30 Scientific drive: cognitive functions emerging from full-scale network models of the hippocampus (Michele Migliore, CNR-IBF)
☕ Coffee break
10:45 – 11:45 Configure, run and visualize a full-scale model simulation (Sergio Solinas, Univ. of Sassari, Maqsood Ali, CNR-IBF)
11:45 – 12:30 Implementing simplified models (Addolorata Marasco, University of Naples, Caterina Tribuzi, Nova Analysis)
🍲 Lunch break
14:30 – 17:00 Hands-on session II: Analyze your own hippocampal network simulations using COBRAWAP (tutors: Pier Stanislao Paolucci, INFN)
Day 3, May 29th
09:00 – 10:30 Modeling the whole brain: The Virtual Brain environment (Romina Baila and Teodora Misan, Codemart)
☕ Coffee break
10:45 – 11:45 Principles and Operation of Virtual Brain Twins (Damien Depannemaecker, INS – Aix-Marseille Université)
11:45 – 12:30 Transnational access to the EBRAINS-Italy Platform and Facilities (Francesca Spataro, CNR-IBF)
🍲 Lunch break
14:30 – 16:00 Hands-on session III: Exploiting TVB (Romina Baila and Teodora Misan, Codemart)
16:00 – 17:00 Q&A, final discussion and conclusions
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