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LIMBS Seminars |
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LIMBS Seminars |
May 26th 2.15pm "auletta di rappresentanza 1 piano"
Speaker: Raphael Ritz
Title: Enabling data and method sharing in the neurosciences - towards a distributed neuroinformatics portal.
Abstract:
Following the open source philosophy, more and more neuroscientists are
willing to share their primary data as well as custom software with the
scientific community. To facilitate this interaction, we are establishing a
portal that links publicly available resources (like experimental data,
numerical tools, computer models) and contains extensive annotation. Building on
open source software tools, we implemented a web-based content management system
including a reviewing process to enable the community to contribute to the
population of the underlying metadata database. We also developed a
neuroscientific classification system.
This project is integral part of the international efforts coordinated by the European Union and the OECD to foster the developing field of neuroinformatics.
CV:
In 1995 Raphael Ritz received a PhD in theoretical physics from the Technical
University of Munich, Germany, for the development and study of the
dynamical properties of the 'Spike Response Model' (supervised by Leo van Hemmen).
He then moved to the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego,
California, where he worked as a Research Associate in the Computational
Neurobiology Laboratory headed by Terry Sejnowski on issues of neuronal coding
and the biophysics of nerve cell communication. In 1997 he took a fellowship at
the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin before moving in 1998 to the
Institute for Theoretical Biology of the Humboldt-University Berlin where he has
been ever since.
In 2001 he was appointed a German representative to the OECD Global Science Forum working group on Neuroinformatics and in parallel he designed and implemented a pilot study for the planned OECD Neuroinformatics internet portal available at http://www.neuroinf.de.