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The Team
Flavie Lavoie-Cardinal is a Canada Research Chair in Intelligent Nanoscopy of Cellular Plasticity and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Faculty of Medicine at Université Laval.
"I love this project combining neuroscience, machine learning, and astrophysics because it gives us the opportunity to think outside the box!"
Renée Hložek is a Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Toronto, and an Azrieli Global Scholar within the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
"By combining the human eye for pattern recognition with the energy for scientific discovery, I think Zooniverse participants can help us unlock the best segmentations of these neurons. I love this project because it allows one to look into the brain and to understand how it functions"
Audrey Durand is a Canada CIFAR AI Chair at Mila and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Université Laval.
“All these applications open new challenges for machine learning researchers!”
Christian Gagné is a Full Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Université Laval. His research interests lie in the development of methods for machine learning and stochastic optimization.
"No data, no machine learning."
Renaud Bernatchez is an MSc student in Machine learning at Université Laval. He built the Synaptic Protein Zoo and will use your annotations to train machine learning models to automate the analysis of our images.
"Machine learning is an amazing tool to help us understand life!"
Theresa Wiesner is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Bio-Photonics at Université Laval. She acquired a large portion of the images you are annotating.
"It is so fascinating to see the different shapes and appearances of synaptic proteins! I wonder why they are not the same?"
Jean-Michel Bellavance is an MSc student in Neuroscience at Université Laval. He is currently acquiring more images of synaptic proteins in models of neurodegenerative diseases.
"I like to think that consciousness is really only us feeling the result of our neurons sending messages to each other in different parts of the brain."
Frédéric Beaupré is an MSc student in Machine Learning at Université Laval. He will use your annotations to identify early signs of neurodegenerative disease in synaptic proteins.
"Deep learning models are perhaps most fascinating not in how efficiently they learn features in the data we provide them, but rather in how they can teach us novel science about the data itself."
