How
e-Science Can Help to Solve Pressing Societal Challenges: Fostering a
Global Effort to Develop a Worldwide e-Infrastructure for Computational
Neuroscientists to Fight Alzheimer's Disease.
Geneva, ITU, United Nations, 20 February, 2012
The aim of the workshop is to define collaboration agreements
among stakeholders, aiming to kick start the structuring of the
"skeleton" of a global virtual laboratory for high throughput
image analysis by (i) developing full interoperability among the
currently operational three core nodes of neuGRID, LONI, and
CBRAIN; and (ii) deploying local nodes internationally.
PPROGRAMME
February 20th
WELCOME AND OPENING
10.00
Hamadoun Touré, ITU, United Nations
The United Nations’ International Telecommunication Union, Connecting
the World
SESSION 1. International
and Continental Institutions in the Field of Ageing and Dementia Chair: Hamadoun Touré, ITU
10.15
Mario Mauro, European Parliament
Chris Smith, House of Representatives, US Congress
The EU and US Political Strategy to Meet the Challenge of Ageing and
Dementia
10.35
Konstantinos Glinos, DG-INFSO, European
Commission
e-Infrastructures and Innovative Approaches for Research and Care of
Ageing and Dementia
11.55
Tarun Dua, World Health Organization, United
Nations
Ageing and Dementia as Global Health Challenges
SESSION 2.
e-Infrastructures to Foster Drug Discovery for Alzheimer’s and
Neurodegenerative Diseases Chairs: Malcolm Johnson, Telecom Standardization Bureau, ITU, and
Konstantinos Glinos, DG-INFSO, European Commission
12.15
Malcolm Johnson and Konstantinos Glinos
Opening Remarks
12.25
Giovanni B Frisoni, IRCCS Fatebenefratelli,
Brescia, Italy
The Challenge of Drug Discovery for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative
Diseases
12.45
David Manset, MAAT, France
A Global Virtual Imaging Laboratory for the Development of Disease
Markers
13.10-14.30 LUNCH
SESSION 3. Resource
Mobilization in the International Scenario Chairs: Brahima Sanou, Telecom Development Bureau, ITU and
Konstantinos Glinos, EC
14.30
Brahima Sanou, ITU and Konstantinos Glinos, EC
Opening Remarks
14.40
Roundtable on International Scientific Cooperation
in Computational Neurosciences
• The Neuroscientific and ICT Milieu INDIA: Vijayalakshmi
Ravindranath, Centre for Neurosciences, Bangalore
CANADA: Alan Evans, McGill University, Montreal
US: Arthur Toga, LONI, University of California at Los Angeles
• Funding Opportunities and Strategy INDIA: Governmental
Speaker TBC
CANADA: Yves Joanette, Canadian Institutes of Health Research
US: Maria Carrillo, Alzheimer’s Association, Chicago
• National And Global Synergies FRANCE:
Jean-Francois Mangin, Fondation Plan Alzheimer and CATI, France
EU: Richard Frackowiak, The Human Brain Project, EU
GLOBAL: Najeeb Al-Shorbaji, WHO
16.30
END OF MEETING AND COFFEE
February 21st
10.00
FOLLOW-UP MEETING. Joint Conclusions and
Roadmap Chair: Konstantinos Glinos, DG-INFSO, European Commission
PARTICIPANTS - on
invitation only
Representatives from funding agencies, neuroscientists, and ICT
scientists from countries interested to join forces and deploy GLOBIOS
nodes.
