http://www.nitrc.org/export/rss20_community_news.php NITRC Community Latest News en-us Copyright 2000-2026 NITRC OSI admin@www.nitrc.org Sun, 13 Sep 2026 5:46:47 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss NITRC RSS generator http://www.nitrc.org/images/bflogo-88.png http://www.nitrc.org/ 124 32 http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10258 If you are in Boston in October, please note the following:
ReproNim is pleased to announce an upcoming workshop:

Neuroimaging, Reproducibility and LLMs: Early promises and future questions

Date: October 16th 9:30am - 1:00pm EDT (In person only)
Location: MIT - Singleton Auditorium, Building 46 (3rd floor, 3002), 43 Vassar St, Cambridge, MA 02139
Registration: Required but free and open to all! Register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/neuroimaging-reproducibility-and-llms-early-promises-and-future-question-tickets-1999618019324?aff=oddtdtcreator&keep_tld=true

The objective of this in-person workshop is to introduce the technology and train neuroscience / neuroimaging researchers on the potential of Large Language Models in brain imaging research. To achieve this, we will show and discuss key directions for which LLMs have - and will have - a fundamental impact, review and contrast research project examples, introduce latest techniques, and discuss potential limitations and risks associated with this transformative technology.

Speakers will include: JB Poline (McGill), David Kennedy (UMassMed), Brent McPherson (McGill), Michelle Wang (McGill), Yaroslav Halchenko (Dartmouth), Johanna Bayer (McGill), and Satra Ghosh (MIT). dnkennedy@www.nitrc.org (David Kennedy) Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:40:33 GMT http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10258 http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10258 http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10257 Last call for registration to the CONN 2026 functional connectivity workshop. This workshop will take place ONLINE over five consecutive weeks with 3-½ hour classes on Mondays and Thursdays from 12pm to 3:30pm UTC , starting on Thursday September 10th and ending on Monday October 12th 2026 (see https://conn-toolbox.org/workshops for course schedule, content, and registration details).

The CONN toolbox workshop offers intensive hands-on and highly interactive courses covering all aspects of functional connectivity analyses in CONN, and both beginners and advanced users are welcome. Classes take place over Zoom. Zoom meetings of each class are recorded and made available to students to view at any time during the course. and up to one month after the course ends There are also practice homework assignments, and faculty is available during office-hour segments for additional student questions or support.

For additional information and registration see https://conn-toolbox.org/workshops
Thank you for your support!
Alfonso Nieto-Castanon
alfnie@www.nitrc.org (Alfonso Nieto-Castanon) Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:47:29 GMT http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10257 http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10257 http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10256 We are pleased to announce the release of NITRC v2.1.76. NITRC now supports large files in the File Release System, streamlining the release of modern software and datasets. Several other bugs and feature requests were also addressed.

Release notes can be found at https://www.nitrc.org/plugins/mwiki/index.php?title=nitrc:NITRC_Release_Notes#NITRC-R_Release_v2.1.76-2_-_8.2F27.2F2026 moderator@www.nitrc.org (NITRC Moderator) Fri, 28 Aug 2026 18:35:26 GMT http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10256 http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10256 http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10255 We are pleased to announce the initial release of the UNC Early Life Whole-Brain Functional Parcellation (UNC_ELF). UNC-ELF provides age-independent and age-dependent functional parcellations of the cerebral cortex, cerebellum, and subcortex from birth to six years of age within a unified whole-brain framework. The release includes multi-resolution and age-specific parcellation maps, templates, and label/color tables. danhu0055@www.nitrc.org (Dan Hu) Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:10:18 GMT http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10255 http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10255 http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10254 Has been on GitHub since 2025 time, NITRC link now updated. bphilip@www.nitrc.org (Benjamin Philip) Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:50:48 GMT http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10254 http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10254 http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10247 Join NITRC at OHBM 2026 June 15-18.

Learn more about how NITRC can help you in your research, find new resources and data, share your own work, let us know what we can do for you, or just stop by to catch up!

You'll find us in Exhibitor booth #30 as well as presenting a Poster 3295 in Hall 1 on Wednesday, June 17 from 12:45-1:45 and Thursday, June 18 from 1:45-2:45 pm. ninap@www.nitrc.org (Nina Preuss) Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:49:44 GMT http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10247 http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10247 http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10249 We are pleased to announce the release of NITRC v2.1.75. This release addresses a number of usability issues and bugs.

Full release notes can be found at https://www.nitrc.org/plugins/mwiki/index.php?title=nitrc:NITRC_Release_Notes#NITRC-R_Release_v2.1.75-6_-_5.2F26.2F2026
moderator@www.nitrc.org (NITRC Moderator) Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:47:31 GMT http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10249 http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10249 http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10248 Our ReproNim webinar is coming up - Friday, June 5 at 2pm ET. Our guest speaker this month is Hugh Garavan!

Speaker: Hugh Garavan (University of Vermont)

Presentation Title: Capturing individual differences in ABCD: Insights into task fMRI and cannabis use

Webinar Registration - https://umassmed.zoom.us/meeting/register/mhxcAm_7R_msH3__kO0Lgg


Announcement
Hugh Garavan (University of Vermont, Larner Medical School; Professor in Psychiatry, Psychology) is our guest peaker this month. Hugh is a cognitive neuroscientist with very extensive experience using structural and functional neuroimaging to study cognitive control and reward processes, particularly in adolescent development, including addiction and mental health issues. He has notable leadership roles and contributions to a spectrum of longitudinal high impact neuroimaging studies and with large data sets of brain and behavioral development, including Site PI and Associate Directory roles for the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) and Healthy Brain Child Development (HBCD) studies, as well as co-founder of the ENIGMA-Addiction working group and a co-investigator on the IMAGEN project.



Bio: Professor Garavan received his PhD in Cognitive Psychology and Behavioral Neuroscience from Bowling Green State University in Ohio, completed postdoctoral fellowships at Cornell University and the Medical College of Wisconsin, and was an Associate Professor in Psychology at Trinity College Dublin prior to his move to Vermont in 2011. His research uses structural and functional neuroimaging to study cognitive control and reward processes with a particular focus on adolescent development, addiction and related mental health issues. He is a co-investigator on the IMAGEN project, a longitudinal neuroimaging-genetic study of over 2,000 teens in Europe. He is a site PI and Associate Director of both the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study, a longitudinal neuroimaging-genetic study of over 11,000 children in the USA and the Healthy Brain Child Development study, a longitudinal study of over 5,000 pregnant people and their children from birth to age 10. He is PI on a T32 focused on complex systems methodologies for large neuroimaging datasets, is co-PI on two R25 grants that provide training on the ABCD and HBCD datasets to junior investigators, and is co-founder of the ENIGMA-Addiction working group which is a global neuroimaging data pooling endeavor.

dnkennedy@www.nitrc.org (David Kennedy) Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:59:44 GMT http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10248 http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10248 http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10243 Applications are now open for the Vertical Interoperability Innovation Lab—a virtual workshop bringing together ~30 participants from across the biomedical data ecosystem to explore early-stage ideas for closing interoperability gaps across the research data lifecycle.

Open to individuals working across the health research data ecosystem, the Lab will focus on interdisciplinary exchange and developing actionable project ideas. The program includes a 90-minute orientation on June 12, followed by five workshop sessions held between June 22–July 7.

Learn moe and apply at: https://apply.knowinnovation.com/vertical-interoperability/ dnkennedy@www.nitrc.org (David Kennedy) Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:27:48 GMT http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10243 http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10243 http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10238 Modern neuroscience is increasingly data-driven. Researchers work with complex datasets that require programming skills for efficient, scalable, and reproducible analysis. At the upcoming FAIR Brain Data Science Boot Camp which will take place at Karolinska Institutet 11 – 13 May 2026 nitrcadmin@www.nitrc.org (NITRC ADMIN) Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:55:06 GMT http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10238 http://www.nitrc.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=10238