AI, fish and brains: tales of neuroscience

To this day, Alzheimer’s disease remains a challenging disease to prevent and treat. The mechanisms involved in the pathology take place both inside of cells and outside of them. How can we see extracellular vesicles (compartments 100x smaller than a cell, with a role in cellular communication) and understand their role in the development of Alzheimer’s disease? This talk will highlight a model organism, the zebrafish, with a unique advantage to achieve this study: it is see-through!

How well can we guess what someone is thinking about? Predict who will sort a deck of cards faster by looking at people’s brains?

In this talk, we will see how brain images can tell us if you were reading, tapping a song with your fingers, or maybe, just spacing out. These brain images are so complex that we need to develop new artificial intelligence methods to understand them.

So come share a pint, and take a stroll. We will go from how we take pictures of our brain; to figuring out what is where on this complex organ's surface; and understand ourselves better in disease and health.