The BigBrain Workshop: From open data to novel applications | Research and Innovation - McGill University

"Initiated more than 10 years ago by a collaboration between the McGill Centre for Integrative Neuroscience in Montreal, Canada and the Jülich Research Centre in Germany, the BigBrain atlas is the highest-resolution 3D digital map of the human brain produced to date. The atlas was painstakingly reconstructed from 7404 separate sections of a human brain. Recognizing the potential to revolutionize neuroanatomy teaching, neurosurgical training and cytoarchitectural study, the 1 TByte dataset was made available as free open source data in 2013 (Amunts et al, 2013) and downloaded over 25,000 times. A BigBrain workshop, held at McGill University on November 3, 2017, brought together over 110 researchers and trainees from McGill University, Concordia University, Université de Montreal, and beyond. This Workshop featured 17 podium presentations from international and national renowned experts and 7 poster presentations and visualization tools demonstrations. Pr. Karl Zilles (Germany) delivered a keynote lecture on cortical layers."