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Principal Investigator, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), University of Geneva, Switzerland

Host: Bratislav Misic

Abstract: In the 17th century, physician Marcello Malpighi observed the existence of distinctive patterns of ridges and sweat glands on fingertips. This was a major breakthrough, and originated a long and continuing quest for ways to uniquely identify individuals based on fingerprints, a technique massively used until today. It is only in the past few years that technologies and methodologies have achieved high-quality measures of an individual鈥檚 brain to the extent that personality traits and behavior can be characterized. The concept of 鈥渇ingerprints of the brain鈥� is very novel and has been boosted thanks to a seminal publication by Finn et al. in 2015. They were among the firsts to show that an individual鈥檚 functional brain connectivity profile is both unique and reliable, similarly to a fingerprint, and that it is possible to identify an individual among a large group of subjects solely on the basis of her or his connectivity profile. Yet, the discovery of brain fingerprints opened up a plethora of new questions. In particular, what exactly is the information encoded in brain connectivity patterns that ultimately leads to correctly differentiating someone鈥檚 connectome from anybody else鈥檚? In other words, what makes our brains unique?
In this talk I am going to partially address these open questions while keeping a personal viewpoint on the subject. I will outline the main findings, discuss potential issues, and propose future directions in the quest for identifiability of human brain networks.

叠颈辞:听Dr. Enrico Amico is a physicist who graduated from the University Federico II of Naples, Italy. After earning his Master's in 2012, he decided to follow his passion for the scientific study of consciousness. He enrolled in a joint PhD program between the Coma Science Group of Prof. Steven Laureys at University of Li猫ge, and the Marinazzo Lab at the University of Ghent. During his four years there as a PhD student he mainly focused on implementing new methods for brain connectivity assessment across levels of consciousness. In 2016 he joined the CONNplexity Lab (headed by Prof. Joaqu铆n Go帽i) at Purdue University as a Postdoctoral researcher, where he made contributions on proposing new network science models for functional and structural brain connectomics. He is currently an SNSF Ambizione Fellow at EPFL and University of Geneva, where he is Principal Investigator on different research lines in brain networks and brain connectomics.

Supported by the generosity of the Killam Trusts, the MNI's Killam Seminar Series invites outstanding guest speakers whose research is of interest to the scientific community at the MNI and 黑料不打烊 University.