Together with the Allen Institute for Brain Science, the Janelia Farm Research Campus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), and the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study at George Mason University, several institutes at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) are co-sponsoring a scientific conference that will be held in conjunction with — but is independent of — the final round of the DIADEM Challenge. The co-sponsoring institutes are the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).
The conference will take place August 29 - September 1, 2010 at HHMI’s Janelia Farm Research Campus. Participants should expect to check-in on Sunday from 3:00 - 6:00 pm, followed by a reception, dinner and plenary session later that evening. The agenda will include a mixture of talks, posters, and demonstrations of novel automated reconstruction algorithms using unique data sets. The conference will end by the early afternoon on Wednesday, September 1.
The co-sponsorship of the conference by these NIH institutes does not represent an endorsement of the DIADEM Challenge, specific software products that may emerge from the competition or the activities of the Allen Institute, HHMI, or the Krasnow Institute.