Invited talks
2026
FESN workshop, Bordeaux, 20-24 July 2026
OHBM-DGKN symposium, Augsburg, February 25-27th 2026
2025
Neuralnet, Bordeaux, 26-28 November 2025
International Society for Tractography (IST), Tractography & Anatomy Conference, Bordeaux, October 13-17, 2025
Emergent Properties of the Connected Brain workshop, Bordeaux, October 05-10, 2025
German Aphasia Society (Gesellschaft für Aphasieforschung und -behandlung, GAB) conference, October 02-04, 2025
Visceral Mind, Bangor University, Wales, September 2025
European Academy of Neurology (EAN), Helsinki, June 29th - July 2nd 2025
The impact of White Matter Anatomy for Brain tumor and Epilepsy surgery, University of Zurich, Switzerland, June 16-18 2025
From Anatomy to Network Thinking: The Brain as a Dynamic System, Cognition and Connection, Tilburg, June 13th 2025
CBU Chaucer Club, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge University, June 5th 2025
International Summer School of the DGKN on Peri- and Intraoperative Mapping and Intraoperative Monitoring, Lisbon, May 11th-14th 2025
Clinical neuroanatomy of the extended language network, CIMec, Italy, April 17th, 2025
European Low Grade Glioma Network (ELGGN), Bern, April 3-5, 2025
IONM Advanced Methods II - Techniques in Neurosurgery, Heidelberg, March 31st - April 1st, 2025
European Academy of Neurology (EAN) Science School on Emerging Fields in Translational Neuroscience, Salzburg, March 21-25, 2025.
Scaling-up the numbers: from mapping single lesions to predicting individual brain disorders, EWCN, Bressanone, January 26th - 31st, 2025
2024
MasterClass - Brain Connectivity and Function, Royal Society of Neurosurgery, London, 29th November 2024
Neural Brainhack, South Africa, 23rd - 29th October 2024
International Symposium on nTMS in neurosurgery, Charite Berlin, 10-11th October 2024
Genetics and Neurobiology of Language, Banbury Center of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, July 25-August 1, 2024
The Highlights of Language in Interaction, Nijmegen, Netherlands, July 8th 2024
International Symposium on Brain Structure and Function, Okazaki, Japan, July1st-2nd
Organisation of Human Brain Mapping Conference (OHBM), Seoul, South Korea, June 23rd - 27th 2024
The impact of White Matter Anatomy for Brain tumor and Epilepsy surgery, University of Zurich, Switzerland, June 16-18th 2024
Connect Brain - course on clinical and surgical applications of structural and functional connectivity. Trento, Italy, June 13-15th 2024
AI-based prediction of long-term cognitive-behavioural symptoms in stroke using connectomics, ESOC, Basel, May 15 - 17th 2024
Elizabeth Warrington Prize lecture, BNS Spring Meeting, UCL Queen Square London, UK, April 24-25th 2024
European Low Grade Glioma Network (ELGGN), Heidelberg, Germany, April 2024
Tract-Anat retreat, Institute of Scientific Studies of Cargese (IESC), Corsica, France, March 11th - 15th 2024
DGKN24: Neurovariabillity & Disconnections - new explanatory models for neurology, Frankfurt, 6-9th March, 2024
Brainhack: Diffusion & Tractography, Padova Neuroscience Center - PNC, University of Padua, February 25-28th 2024
2023
ICP Network Meeting Utrecht, NL, November 30st -December 1st 2023
Academy of Aphasia, Reading, UK, October 21-26th 2023
Open Science Workshop, Neurocampus Bordeaux, October 16th-20th 2023
European Academy of Neurology Autumn School, Loutraki, Greece, October 12-16, 2023
Organisation of Human Brain Mapping Conference (OHBM), Montreal July 22nd - 26th 2023
Salzburg Mind Brain Annual Meeting (SAMBA), July 13th-14th 2023
AI Neuro summer school 2023: Neuroimaging, Neuro-oncology & Neuroscience, Lipari, Sicily, Italy, 25th-30th June 2023
The impact of White Matter Anatomy for Brain tumor and Epilepsy surgery, University of Zurich, Switzerland, June 5th-7th 2023
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR MAPPING THE BRAIN (George Samanduras), LONDON, UK, April 17-19, 2023
The Future of Brain Research, Human Brain Project Summit, Marseille, France (Katrin Amunts), March 29, 2023
Symposium, Understanding changes in connectivity after stroke, Freiburg, Germany (Cornelius Weiller), 3-4 February 2023
Brain networks and cognition, CIC Lecture, Cerebral Imaging Center, Douglas Mental Health University Institute, Canada, January 25th, 2023
It's all in the connections, NeuroNijmegen, Netherlands, 23rd January 2023
Neurobiological underpinnings of language variability, Language in Interaction, Nijmegen (Peter Hargoot), Netherlands, 18th January 2023
Tractography Methods, Institute of Neurology, University College London (George Samandouras), 10th January 2023
2022
BCN / TUM Virtual Grand Rounds, Charite Neurochirurgie + TU München Neurochirurgie (Sandro Krieg), 14th December 2022
Keynote lecture, Utrecht Brain Conference (Chantal Tax), 6th December 2022
Mapping brain connections: from anatomy to the clinic. Brain Mapping Seminar (David Shattuck), UCLA online, November 2022
Japanese meeting for Human Brain Imaging, Virtual Talk Series. JHBI Talk Series, Japan (Hiromasa Takemura), August 2022 online.
Variability in language networks. SOA: Science of Aphasia, September 2022, Bordeaux, FR.
Hands-on on Microneurosurgery and White Matter Anatomy relevant for Brain Tumors: the Zurich School, Zurich, June 2022.
Brain connections and cognition, Donders/NIN meeting 2022, Amsterdam, 13th June 2022,
Diffusion MRI. Neuro 222: Brain Imaging and Brain Stimulation (David Shattuck), UCLA online, April 2022
6th Annual World Course on Brain Mapping (George Samanduras), London, online, 1st April 2022
Neurovariability and the language connectome. Key Issues and Ways Forward II, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, March 2022.
Neurovariability and disconnections in stroke. Neuroimaging Seminars at University of Manchester (Nils Muhlert), February 2022
2021
Brain mapping methods – from post mortem to digital dissections, Cognitive Neuroscience Guest lectures 2021 at WITS University (Sahba Besharati), South Africa, Online 4th November 2021
How Broca and Wernicke got it wrong - the neurobiology of language, Bordeaux Neurocampus day, 30th September 2021, Talance
The new anatomy of language - the language connectome, European Researchers' night 2021, Online 24th September
The changing landscape of clinical-anatomical tractography, Brain Research using Advanced Imaging in Neurology (BRAIN) lab (Simon Keller), online August 2021
The language connectome, Towards Precision Neurology, 7th Congress of the European Academy of Neurology (EAN), online, June 2021
Individual variability and brain evolution, Organisation of Human Brain Mapping Conference (OHBM), online (Sarah Genon), June 2021
Inter-individual variability in cognitive and clinical neuroscience: signal or noise?, Donders Institute, Nijmegen, online, May 2021
Interindiviual variability and tractography, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Cologne (Lana Kambeitz-Ilankovic), online April 2021
2020
Wissenschaftlicher Austausch in der Pandemie, Forschungscafe at the Bayrische Forschungsallianz, (Dr. Florence Gauzy), online 2020
Brainhack Diversity. Inter-individual variability in cognitive and clinical neuroscience: signal or noise?, Brainhack Padua 2020, online (Antonio Vallesi), 2020
Individual variability and brain evolution, Organisation of Human Brain Mapping Conference (OHBM), online (Sarah Genon), 2020
Variability of structural connections within and between species, Organisation of Human Brain Mapping Conference (OHBM), online (symposium organiser), 2020
Connectional anatomy of language and aphasia, World Federation of Neurology Research Group on Aphasia, Dementia & Cognitive Disorders, Nara, Japan (Lisa Cipolotti), cancelled due to COVID-19, 2020
Variability of structural connections within and between species, Neurothursday at the Higher School of Economic Moscow (Olga Dragoy), 2020.
Until 2019
White matter tractography in neurosurgery, Neuro-Kopf Zentrum Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Munich, Germany (Sebastian Ille/Sandro Krieg), 2019
Individual variability and brain evolution, Organisation of Human Brain Mapping Conference (OHBM), Rome, Italy (Michel Thiebaut de Schotten), 2019
White matter tractography – the do’s and don’ts, The impact of White Matter Anatomy for Brain tumor and Epilepsy surgery, University of Zurich, Switzerland (Niklaus Krayenbühl), 2019
Connectional anatomy of the language network – clinical implication, The impact of White Matter Anatomy for Brain tumor and Epilepsy surgery, University of Zurich, Switzerland (Niklaus Krayenbühl), 2019
Applied tractography for the in vivo study of white matter connections: Clinical use and limitations, European Low Grade Glioma Network (ELGGN), King’s College London, UK (Francesco Vergani), 2019
Tractography workshop for neurosurgical applications, European Low Grade Glioma Network (ELGGN), King’s College London, UK (Francesco Vergani), 2019
Public Outreach: the story behind the picture, IOPPN Research Festival, London, UK (Thalia Eley), 2019
The brain in health and disease – how we are wired for change, Pint of Science Festival, London, UK (Rachel Jackson), 2018
Neuronal networks in language and aphasia, Academy of Aphasia, Montreal, Canada (Leonardo Bonilha), 2018
Anatomical evidence for an indirect pathway for repetition, ICM Institute for Brain and Spinal Cord, Paris (Michel Thiebaut de Schotten), 2018
Language network & tractography, 10th International Symposium on Navigated Brain Stimulation in Neurosurgery and Neuromodulation, Charite Berlin, Germany (Thomas Picht), 2018
Impact of anatomy on brain recovery, The impact of White Matter Anatomy for Brain tumor and Epilepsy surgery, University of Zurich, Switzerland (Niklaus Kryenbühl), 2018
White matter tractography – what we can and cannot do, The impact of White Matter Anatomy for Brain tumor and Epilepsy surgery, University of Zurich, Switzerland (Niklaus Kryenbühl), 2018
20th Neuroanatomy and Tractography workshop, King’s College London, London, UK. (Marco Catani), 2017
White matter imaging in stroke populations, Organisation of Human Brain Mapping Conference (OHBM), Vancouver (Amy Broadmann), 2017
Neuroanatomy & Tractography workshop, 6th World Course in Advanced Brain Tumour Surgery, University College London, UK (George Samanduras), 2017
Advances in Diffusion Tractography Applied to Neurosurgical Patients, Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Neurocirugía conference, Barcelona, Spain, 2017
First white matter tracts dissection course, Royal College of Surgeons of England, London, UK (Ugur Türe), 2017
19th Neuroanatomy and Tractography workshop, King’s College London, London, UK. (Marco Catani), 2017
It all comes down to clinical neuroanatomy, Brainhack London, King’s College London, UK. (Daniel Marguiles), 2017
Principles of diffusion imaging and tractography, 8th Istanbul Microneurosurgery Course, Istanbul, Turkey (Ugur Türe), 2017
Impact of anatomy on brain recovery, 8th Istanbul Microneurosurgery Course, Istanbul, Turkey (Ugur Türe), 2017
Connectional anatomy and the impact on language recovery, Mount Sinai Institute, New York, US (Paula Croxson), 2017
Impact of anatomy on brain recovery, Brainhack Paris: Global edition, (Michel Thiebaut de Schotten), 2016
The connectivity of language, Royal Society of Medicine, London, UK (Richard Gullan/ Francesco Vergani), 2016
Workshop: tractography-based dissections of language networks, Academy of Aphasia, Bangor, Wales, UK (Nina Dronkers), 2016
Fibre tracts relevant for auditory and language processing, Organisation of Human Brain Mapping Conference (OHBM), Geneva, Switzerland (Karl Zilles), 2016
Brain Connectivity and Imaging in Neurooncology, King's Neurosurgery Club at the Royal Society of Medicine, London, UK 2016
Neuroanatomy of semantic and phonemic verbal fluency, International Neuropsychological Society (INS), London, UK, 2016
Neuroanatomy and Tractography workshop, King’s College London, London, UK (Marco Catani), 2016
Connectional anatomy of language and its impact on language recovery, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia (Olga Dragoy), 2015
Tractography in the clinic: stroke-induced aphasia, Northwestern University, Chicago, US (Marsel M Mesulam/ Emily Rogalski/Cynthia Thompson), 2015
Towards a new connectional anatomy of language, University of Illinois, Chicago, US (Melissa Lamar), 2015
Neuroanatomy and Tractography workshop, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden (Marco Catani), 2015
Human lesion neuropsychology will inevitably be replaced by neuroimaging as research tool for understanding cognition. Oxford-style John Marshall Debate at the British Neuropsychological Society, University College London, London, UK (Katerina Fotopoulou), 2015
Tractography in the clinic, ICM Institute for Brain and Spinal Cord, Paris, France (Michel Thiebaut de Schotten), 2015
Diskonnektion neuronaler Verbindungen als Ursache klinischer Symptome nach Schlaganfall, Technische Universität München (TUM), Munich, Germany, 2014
Neuroanatomy and Tractography workshop, King’s College London, London, UK (Marco Catani), 2014
Pathways to language, Rewired. The Brain, Art & Innovation, Bloomsbury Theatre, London, UK, 2014
Anatomical predictors of language recovery: a tractography study, VA Martinez, San Francisco, US (Nina Dronkers), 2013
Neuroanatomy and Tractography workshop, King’s College London, London, UK (Marco Catani), 2013
Identification of anatomical predictors of language recovery after stroke, ICM Institute for Brain and Spinal Cord, Paris, France (Michel Thiebaut de Schotten), 2013
Post stroke aphasia recovery predicated by lateralization of the arcuate fasciculus, International Stroke Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii, 2012
Neuroanatomy and Tractography workshop, King’s College London, London, UK (Marco Catani), 2012
Tractography in clinical and healthy populations, Max Planck Institute (MPI), Leipzig, Germany (Angela Friederici), 2012
Lateralisation of the arcuate predicts recovery at 6 months, American Academy of Neurology, New Orleans, US, 2011
Lateralisation of the arcuate predicts recovery at 6 months, Academy of Aphasia, Montreal, Canada, 2011
Neuroanatomy and Tractography workshop, King’s College London, London, UK (Marco Catani), 2011
Lateralisation of the arcuate predicts recovery at 6 months, International school of clinical neuroanatomy, Sicily (Marco Catani), 2011
Lateralisation of the arcuate predicts recovery at 6 months, South London Stroke Research Group, London, UK (Lalit Kalra), 2010
Neuroanatomy and Tractography workshop, King’s College London, London, UK (Marco Catani), 2010
A uniquely human direct pathway connects frontal and occipital lobes, British Chapter ISMRM, London, UK (Po-Wah So), 2010
The projection pathways in the brain shown with tractography, European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology, Bressanone, Italy, 2010
Clinical applications of tractography, European Workshop on Cognitive Neuropsychology, Bressanone, Italy, 2010
