15th January 2020 Program
| Time | Day 1 |
|---|---|
| 9:00am | On-site Registration |
| 9:30am | Introductory movie of the SYNAPSE project |
| 9:35am | Welcome by the Chair of the Organizing Committee |
| 9:40am | Guest of Honor speech Chairman, Biomedical Research Council, A*STAR, Singapore – Barry HALLIWELL |
| 9:50am | SYNAPSE in a nutshell (Yeukuang HWU) |
| 10:00am | Honorary speech Reflections on the SYNAPSE Project (Kurt WÜTHRICH, Nobel laureate, ETH Zürich) |
| 10:30am | MOUs signing ceremony — led by Adriano AGUZZI, Giorgio MARGARITONDO, Barry HALLIWELL, Kurt WÜTHRICH, Ada YONATH, Tsuhan CHEN, Yap Seng CHONG, Yeukuang HWU and Chian-Ming LOW: (1) High Performance Computing (HPC): This MOU formalizes the commitment of member nations to develop the HPC network required to process, store, mobilize and access brain imaging data generated by SYNAPSE. This officially initiates the development of interna- tional HPC within SYNAPSE. (2) Coordinated imaging: synchrotron facilities in participating research institutions and govern- ment agencies will pledge to support the SYNAPSE initiative to map an entire human brain. This MOU formalizes the commitment of member facilities to allocate the required synchrotron resources to the realization of the initiative. |
| 10:45am | Tea break and group photo taking |
| 11:00am | Honorary speech Next generation antibiotics (Ada YONATH, Nobel laureate, Weizmann Institute) |
| 11:30am | Honorary speech Adriano AGUZZI (Chairman of the SYNAPSE International Advisory Board) |
| 12:00pm | Break for lunch (Della & Seng Gee Guild Hall, Level 1, Kent Ridge Guild House) |
| 1:45pm | Synchrotrons and Brain Imaging (Giorgio MARGARITONDO, EPFL) |
| 2:10pm | Visualizing Memory: The Next Generation Connectomics (Ann-Shyn CHIANG, NTHU) |
| 2:35pm | Non-Human Primate Brains and Neuroscience (Chian-Ming LOW, NUS) |
| 3:00pm | Whole-body/organ Imaging with Single-cell Resolution by CUBIC (Hiroki R. UEDA, RIKEN) |
| 3:25pm | Bio-sensing and Bio-imaging in SSRF (Jun HU, SINAP) |
| 3:50pm | Tea break |
| 4:10pm | The Singapore HPC landscape (Tin Wee TAN, NSCC) |
| 4:35pm | Computation of the behavior repertoire from synapse network (Iksoo CHANG, DGIST) |
| 5:00pm | Convergence of AI/BD and HPC - Data compression and DL4Fugaku (Kento SATO, RIKEN) |
| 5:25pm | Closing by SYNAPSE IAB Chair (Adriano AGUZZI, U of Zürich) |
| 7:30pm | Dinner Banquet/Social (by invitation only) |