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The 2023 OHBM Kids Live Review was the largest event since its first edition in 2021. What initially began as an opportunity for kids to review a manuscript specifically written for kids (e.g. 8–14 years old) in front of a live audience ultimately reached the broader goal of encouraging kids to pursue science while engaging in scientific outreach with a non-standard audience for researchers. In this one-hour event, a member of OHBM gives a short scientific research presentation in their native language, followed by a live Q&A session, in which children can freely ask questions about the presentation, fundamentals of neuroscience, or scientific careers. Last year’s event reached more than 1000 children around the world across 16 live sessions in 11 languages (English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Traditional and Simplified Mandarin, Portuguese, and Spanish). This year (2024), we officially renamed this series of events as the “Brain Mappers of Tomorrow” (BMT).

Dr. Kangjoo Lee, the lead of the 2023 initiative and the 2024 chair of the OHBM Diversity and Inclusivity Committee (DIC), interviewed three local event organizers of hugely successful events. The interview aims to help future organizers of the event, to understand what worked and what could be improved, and what the advantages are of presenting their work in this format. First, we interviewed Flavie Detcheverry, who organized the in-person event during the OHBM Annual Meeting 2023 in Montréal, Canada. Due to the city's bilingual status, the event was held in both French and English. For this event, we collaborated with the journal Frontiers for Young Minds (FYM), whose target audience is kids and adolescents: Several young reviewers provided critical feedback for the presenters who submitted their manuscript for publication at this journal. We also interviewed Dr. Isotta Rigoni, who held two live events in schools in Italy, the organizer's homeland. Finally, Dr. Victor Hugo Souza organized a live event for more than 500 kids in Brazil, with multiple schools engaging remotely with the organizers, with a presentation about the brain and the movements followed by Q&A. ​

​Each year, OHBM honors eminent brain mappers with a Fellow of OHBM distinction. These individuals have “demonstrated academic and intellectual leadership in the disciplines represented by the Society over an extended period of time” and have the right to include FOHBM among their credentials. In 2023, three outstanding individuals were appointed as OHBM Fellows, including Dr. Xi-Nian Zuo.
 
(We have also interviewed the other 2023 Fellows of OHBM: Dr. Aina Puce and, previously, Dr. Karen Berman, along with other award winners as part of the 2023 Award Series).
 
Dr. Xi-Nian Zuo is a Professor at Beijing Normal University and Director of the Developmental Population Neuroscience Research Center, where he conducts population-level and lifespan neuroimaging research. He leads or contributes to several large-scale neuroscience efforts, including the Consortium for Reliability and Reproducibility (CoRR), Chinese Color Nest Project (CCNP), Brain Consortium for Reproducibility, Replicability and Reliability (3R-BRAIN), Chinese Imaging Genetics study (CHIMGEN), Chinese Human Connectome Project (CHCP), and Depression Imaging Research Consortium (DIRECT).
 
Dr. Zuo trained as an applied mathematician before jumping into the field of human brain mapping. Understanding the profound importance of quantifying reliability in measuring our brains’ function, his background provided a perfect basis to examine human spontaneous brain activity (SBA), a major topic of his research. His journey with OHBM started at the 14th Annual Meeting (Melbourne, 2008). At the time, he was just about to finish his first postdoctoral fellowship at Beijing Normal University and Chinese Academy of Sciences under the supervision of Professor Yu-Feng Zang and Professor Tianzi Jiang. He credits that meeting with providing an excellent platform for junior researchers to communicate their career development aspirations, and making possible his next postdoctoral position at New York University (NYU), where he trained in the field of pediatric neuroscience with Michael Milham and Francisco Xavier Castellanos.
 
In this interview, Dr. Zuo reflects on his career and OHBM, and provides a vision for the future.

At the 2023 annual OHBM meeting, Prof. Janaina Mourao-Miranda received the Education in Neuroimaging Award for her significant contribution to education and training in the field of neuroimaging. Prof. Mourao-Miranda leads the Machine Learning Neuroimaging Lab at the Centre for Medical Imaging Computing (CMIC) in the Computer Science Department at the University College London (UCL). Prof. Mourao-Miranda received her bachelor’s in Electronic Engineering at Federal university of Para (Brazil). She then pursued a MSc in Computer Science and a Ph.D in Neuroscience at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Next, she completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Neural Computation at Siemens, Munich, Germany followed by one at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London. After her second postdoctoral experience she was awarded two prestigious Wellcome Trust fellowships (Research Career Development and Senior Research) which enabled her to establish a research group at UCL.

Her group applies pattern recognition and machine learning to neuroimaging data with the goal of uncovering the relationship between brain and behaviour. One of the goals of her research program is to develop novel machine learning models to investigate the complex relationships between neuroimaging data and multidimensional descriptions of mental health disorder in hopes of improving understanding, diagnosis, and prognosis for these conditions. 
We had the pleasure of asking Prof. Mourao-Miranda a few questions about her work, research trajectory, and any advice she has for junior trainees. Read on to learn more! You can also check out our previous interview with Prof. Mourao-Miranda showcasing her OHBM 2022 Keynote lecture here. ​

Each year, the Organization for Human Brain Mapping recognizes members of the field of human brain imaging for their outstanding contributions to the field. We would like to congratulate this year’s awardees, who were recognized at the 2023 OHBM Annual Meeting. 
Over the next few weeks we will be showcasing their contributions to the field through a series of blog posts.

The award recipients are listed below:​

The Annual Meeting Working Group advises OHBM on reducing the carbon footprint of the Annual Meeting. By assessing the environmental impact of the conference every year, we work toward more sustainable meeting models.

Lead reviewer: Lavinia Uscatescu

Invitation à un événement publique sur la science de l'imagerie du cerveau.

Le mardi 18 juillet, des neuroscientifiques d'universités québécoises présenteront les recherches liées au fascinant domaine de l'imagerie du cerveau. Les conférences seront données en anglais et en français, et sont gratuites pour le grand public.

Plus de détails sont fournis ci-dessous et dans les affiches ci-jointes. Vous êtes invités à y assister et à partager cette invitation avec toute personne susceptible d'être intéressée par cet événement.

Place : Grande Bibliothèque (475 Boul. de Maisonneuve E, Montréal, à la station de métro Berri-UQAM)
Date de l'événement : mardi 18 juillet 2023
Heure (conférences en français) : 18h00 (ouverture des portes à 17h30)
Heure (conférences en anglais) : 20h00 (ouverture des portes à 19h30)
Billets : gratuits, mais en nombre limité ! Enregistrez-vous rapidement en utilisant le site ci-dessous.

Billets pour les conférences en français : imagerieducerveau.eventbrite.ca
Billets pour les conférences en anglais : brainimaging.eventbrite.ca

Les conférences s'adressent au grand public et chaque session linguistique comprendra trois conférences d'environ 20 minutes, suivies d'une séance de questions-réponses.

Les conférences en français seront données par :
Dr. Sylvain Baillet ( Tempête dans la boîte crânienne ! )
Dre. Delphine Raucher-Chéné ( Apports de la neuroimagerie en psychiatrie : en quoi étudier le cerveau nous aide à mieux comprendre les problèmes de santé mentale ? )
Dre. Anne Gallagher ( Toute la lumière sur le développement du cerveau )

Les conférences en anglais seront données par :
Dr. Alan Evans ( A hitch-hiker's guide to mapping the brain )
Dre. Emily Coffey ( Altering sleep and memory with sound )
Dr. Robert Zatorre ( The neuroscience of music and why we love it )

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