Each webinar is 50 minutes in length, followed by a 10-min Q&A with questions submitted virtually by the participants. All Webinars are freely open to the entire community. Watch this webinar for insights and updates on brain injury treatment approaches from experts at Cohen Veterans Bioscience and the Brain Trauma Foundation. Cohen Veterans Bioscience hosts a conversation with Veteran BASE Jumpers of 22 Jumps on Mental Health Action Day – May 20, 2021. Thursday, December 10, 2020 at 11am EST Wednesday, July 8, 2020, at 3 pm ET Tuesday, March 3, 2020, at 12 pm ET Thursday, December 21, 2017, at 12 pm ET Magali Haas, MD, PhD Thursday, October 12, 2017, at 12 pm ET Robert L. Grossman, PhD Monday, August 21, 2017, at 12 pm ET Daniela Brunner, PhD Wednesday, July 19, 2017, at 12 pm ET Retsina Meyer, PhD Wednesday, June 28th, 2017, at 11am ET (17.00 CET) In this webinar, Dr. Hooijmans presented a first draft of the GRADE approach for assessing the certainty in the evidence tailored to preclinical animal intervention studies in the context of (clinical) therapeutic interventions, and also discussed some methodological challenges. In this webinar, Dr. Barbara Rothbaum, who leads the Emory Veterans Program, explores post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and its treatment both in general and within the Warrior Care Network. Tuesday, March 7, 2017, at 10 am ET As part of “Rigor and Reproducibility” effort by the National Institutes of Health, OTIPI, jointly with the ECNP’s Preclinical Data Forum Network, is proud to present a special webinar. Wednesday, March 15, 2017, at 12 pm ET This webinar will discuss the pathology of TBI and highlight similarities and differences to Alzheimer’s Disease. The characterization of these changes will be from the perspectives of neuropathology, neuroimaging, and fluid biomarkers. Wednesday, February 15, 2017, at 12 pm ET Dr. Kosik will discuss the Tau Biology Project recently undertaken through Cohen Veterans Bioscience. Tau plays a crucial role in many neurodegenerative conditions, including the late sequelae of repeated head injury known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Wednesday, December 21, 2016, at 12 pm ET The lack of normative neuroimaging data is a major barrier to the clinical utilization of advanced neuroimaging sequences. Wednesday, November 16, 2016, at 12 pm ET A large fraction of published non-clinical research findings in the life sciences turns out to be non-reproducible. This wastes resources in research and undermines public trust in science, potentially putting public funding of such research in danger. The webinar will discuss the main reasons for lack of reproducibility with emphasis on inappropriate use of statistical approaches. Wednesday, October 19, 2016, at 12 pm ET The Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center was founded in 1978 and has collected more than 9000 brains over time. Together with similar brain banks, it provides a unique resource to investigators world-wide, contributing brain tissue to studies on the healthy human brain as well as to research on numerous brain disorders. Wednesday, August 17, 2016, at 12 pm ET The brain mechanisms that underlie PTSD are not yet understood. Fear condition and extinction models have been originally proposed, and broadly accepted as candidate mechanisms for PTSD development, however more recently the limitations of these models gained increasing attention. Wednesday, July 20, 2016, at 12 pm ET What are animal models and why are they used in research? This webinar will provide a general overview of animal models, the various ways that they are generated, and their invaluable contribution to scientific discovery. Elucidating disease and dysfunction requires understanding how genotypic variation relates to phenotypic outcomes. Researchers produce data that are collated to generate hypotheses and novel discoveries, which feed into the clinic, further driving basic research. It is a beautiful cycle, but not all data is created equal along the way, and this process can take years. Since many fundamental neural coding schemes, such as reinforcement learning, are conserved from animals to humans, we believe that identifying specific neural coding deficits will increase the predictive value of preclinical models. This webinar will explore how technologies that combine fluid injection and electrophysiological recording will allow for probing the effect of candidate treatments on neural activity and thereby facilitate discovery of novel cures. In this webinar, Dr. Etkin will discuss work in the lab defining the neural circuit abnormalities associated with psychiatric disorders as a whole, as well as specific abnormalities associated with particular mood and anxiety disorders, as well as subgroups within them. Dr. Etkin will then examine the mechanisms of current medications, psychotherapy, and brain stimulation treatments within the context of a circuit-based understanding of these psychiatric disorders. In this presentation, Lauren Bataille will discuss The Michael J. Fox Foundation’s efforts around novel technologies and big data to gain a better understanding of the experience of those living with PD, and the impact that this research could have for disease management and therapeutic drug development for PD and other brain diseases. In this presentation, Dr. Fernando E. Boada will discuss the conceptual paradigm for utilizing DSI in the study of PTSD along with the methodological developments that have enabled its use. In addition, Dr. Boada will present the results to date in the PTSD cohort and the conceptual considerations required for using DSI as a single-subject diagnostic tool. This webinar features Dr. Boris Hayete, Senior Director of Genomic Medicine at GNS Healthcare. Dr. Hayete will present the application of GNS Healthcare’s proprietary causal inference platform to the Orion MS dataset, discussing both the methodology and the generated findings. Dr. Stephen Wicks presents The Role of the Gut Microbiome on Multiple Sclerosis Risk and Progression. In this talk, Stephen Larson, PhD will discuss our approach to increasing the usability and rigor of models of biological phenomena through the use of more collaborative and professionally engineered model building software tools. This webinar features Dr. Lee Lancashire, a bioinformatics scientist within the computational biology group at Thomson Reuters, presenting “Pathway and Network Based Discovery of Gene Signatures.” Watch a video of the Orion Bionetworks Annual Conference 2014: Bridging the Disease Knowledge Gap through Computational Modeling and Systems BiologyThe Cohen Veterans Bioscience webinar series fosters an exchange of knowledge on the latest breakthroughs in a variety of technical fields including bioinformatics, computational modeling, biomarker research, and nanotechnologies, and will cover how these can be utilized to accelerate time-to-cure for brain disease.
Webinars by Cohen Veterans Bioscience
Transforming Concussion Care
Parachuting with Purpose: A View into the Personal Experiences of Traumatic Brain Injury Among Veterans and a New Path Toward Precision Solutions
Webinar: Advancing our understanding of neuroinflammation: Driving a systems biology approach to re-classify brain disease
Heather Lasseter, PhD, Cohen Veterans Bioscience
Jennifer A. Sumner, PhD, UCLA
Andreas Jeromin, PhD, Cohen Veterans Bioscience
Webinar: Biomarkers on the Brain: Understanding the Utility of Biomarkers for Brain Health and Disease
Heather Lasseter, PhD, Cohen Veterans Bioscience
Chantelle Ferland-Beckham, PhD, Cohen Veterans Bioscience
Webinar: The Power of Genetics in Predicting & Treating PTSD
Laramie Duncan, PhD, Stanford University
Heather Lasseter, PhD, Cohen Veterans Bioscience
Lauren Chaby, PhD, Cohen Veterans Bioscience
2017 Scientific Year in Review Webinar
CEO & President, Cohen Veterans Bioscience
An Introduction to the Brain Commons
University of Chicago & Open Commons Consortium
AI for Personalized Health
Founder and President,
Early Signal Foundation
Animal Modeling 102 – Frameworks and Case Studies for Translational Model Systems of PTSD
Business Development Manager,
Cohen Veterans BioscienceECNP Preclinical Data Forum Network Webinar – GRADE for preclinical animal studies: translating evidence from bench to bedside
Organized by ECNP Preclinical Data Forum Network and Hosted by Cohen Veterans Bioscience
The Treatment of PTSD and the Warrior Care Network
Trust but verify: developing (+)-opioids as medications to treat SUDs
Evaluating Neurodegeneration Following Traumatic Brain Injury: Some New Ideas
The Tau Biology Project
Establishing a Normative Neuroimaging Library to Support Traumatic Brain Injury Diagnosis and Management
The Reproducibility Crisis in Science and How to Address It
9000 Brains and Counting: Perspectives on Brain Tissue Banking
Contextual Processing in PTSD
Animal Modeling 101
Demystifying Ontologies and Their Utility for Biomedicine
Wednesday, June 15, 2016, at 12 pm ET
Nanotechnology and Animal Models: High-Density Neural Probes
Wednesday, May 18, 2016, at 12 pm ET
Neural Circuits as Substrates of Mental Illness and Targets for Therapeutics
Tuesday, April 19, 2016, at 12 pm ET
Towards a Better Understanding of Parkinson’s Disease: The Use of Novel Technologies & Big Data
March 23, 2016, at 12 pm ET
Diffusion Spectrum Imaging (DSI): A tool for unraveling disrupted structural connectivity in PTSD?
February 24, 2016 at 12pm ET
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Quality Data in Basic Research
January 27, 2016 at 12pm ET
Dr. Steckler will discuss the factors underlying the lack of reproducibility and will address ways to improve data reproducibility, robustness and data quality using a forward-looking approach. 
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Assessment & Treatment Planning
November 19, 2015 at 12pm ET
Julian Ford, PhD, presents “Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Assessment & Treatment Planning”, discussing approaches to PTSD screening and treatment planning.
Neural Circuit and Genomic Approaches to PTSD and Fear-Related Disorders
December 10, 2015 at 12pm ET
Kerry J. Ressler, MD, PhD, presents “Neural Circuit and Genomic Approaches to PTSD and Fear-Related Disorders”, discussing advancements in approaches for researching and treating fear-related disorders.
The life course burden of PTSD: Can genetic research help?
September 16, 2015 at 12pm ET
This webinar features Dr. Karestan Chase Koenen who will describe the public health impact of PTSD over the life course and across generations as well as who is most affected by the disorder.
Wading through the literature: Using Charisma to explore body fluid based biomarkers in Multiple Sclerosis
May 21, 2015 at 12pm ET
This webinar features by Rick Blevins, PhD, Co-founder and CIO at Virtual-Rx, and Allison Provost, PhD, Scientific Program Manager at Orion Bionetworks.
Gaining Insights in Multiple Sclerosis by Causal Network Analysis
April 30, 2015 at 12pm ET
ClarifyRA: Getting to Holistic Disease Management for RA Patients
March 11, 2015 at 12pm ET
This webinar features Dr. Renée Deehan Kenney, Senior Vice President of Research & Development at Selventa.
Mechanism-based CNS Disease Modeling: Applications in Neurology and Psychiatry Drug Research & Development
February 26, 2015 at 12pm ET
This webinar features Dr. Hugo Geerts, Chief Scientific Officer of In Silico Biosciences, who will discuss “Mechanism-based CNS Disease Modeling: Applications in Neurology and Psychiatry Drug Research & Development.”
Statistics for the Rest of Us
January 29, 2015 at 12pm ET
Dr. Lori Chibnik, who holds a joint appointment as Assistant Professor of both Neurology at Harvard Medical School and Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health, will present a webinar titled “Statistics for the Rest of Us.”
Towards a Mechanism-Based Taxonomy of Alzheimer’s Disease: Modeling and Mining Strategies for the Identification of Complex Pathophysiology Underlying Neurodegenerative Diseases
November 21, 2014 at 12pm ET
This webinar features Dr. Martin Hofmann-Apitius, Alpha Tom Kodamullil, and Shweta Bagewadi from the Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing (SCAI) in Sankt Augustin, Germany.
Brain-CODE: A Neuroinformatics Platform for Brain Discovery
October 23, 2014 at 12pm
This webinar features Dr. Francis Jeanson, Program Lead, Informatics & Analytics at the Ontario Brain Institute (OBI), who will present the topic “Brain-CODE: A Neuroinformatics Platform for Brain Discovery.”
Seeking best practices in classifier construction and testing
September 30, 2014 at 12pm
This webinar features Dr. Clark D. Jeffries, a Bioinformatics Scientist and Adjunct Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, presenting the topic “Seeking Best Practices in Classifier Construction and Testing.”
The Role of the Gut Microbiome on Multiple Sclerosis Risk and Progression
May 6, 2014
ALS Patients Being PRO-ACTive: Can ALS Big Data Bring the Next ALS Breakthrough
August 7, 2014
Neta Zach, PhD, MPA, is the Chief Scientific Officer at Prize4Life Israel and managed all of its programmatic portfolio including the PRO-ACT database, an award winning, largest of its kind database of ALS patient data from past clinical trials, the ALS prediction prize, the ALSgene of ALS genetic information and the ALS forum of ALS news and other programs.
Collaborative bottom-up modeling in computational biomedicine
July 23, 2014
Pathway and Network Based Discovery of Gene Signatures
June 27, 2014
Orion Bionetworks Annual Conference 2014
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