What a tremendous honour and testimony of the outstanding environment and opportunities that I was able to access in Canada and particularly at McGill and the Montreal Neurological Institute. I am grateful for having been able to work with enthusiastic trainees over the past 15 years, and I am not forgetting the foundational steps of my scientific career in my first home country, at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and La Salpêtrière University-Hospital. Now let’s go back to work!

As OHBM 2025 concludes in Brisbane, outgoing Chair Sylvain Baillet reflects on three decades of the Organization’s evolution—from his first poster session as a graduate student in Paris in 1995 to the vibrant, collaborative community it is today.

We are proud to share a major achievement from the MEG Unit at The Neuro. In response to soaring helium costs and global shortages, we installed a custom helium recovery system that significantly reduces waste and environmental impact. This new bespoke system cuts helium purchases by 90% and CO2 emissions by over 12 tons in the first year. This milestone, supported by contributions from the Brain Canada Foundation, McGill units, and dedicated researchers, ensures sustainable, reliable operations for groundbreaking neuroscience research.

Sylvain has been elected Chair of the Organization, which purpose is to advance the understanding of the anatomical and functional organization of the human brain, and to promote the medical and societal applications of brain imaging methods.

OHBM is the largest scholarly Society of the field, with several international Chapters, Special Interest Groups and an annual meeting gathering 3,000 attendees.

As Associate Dean (Research) of the Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences, Sylvain gave a short interview about current AI & health research efforts at McGill University to the Temerty Centre for AI Research & Education in Medicine.

Sylvain was interviewed by the magazine Science about a new study published in PLoS Biology reporting the decoding of music from the electrophysiological activity of the brain of participants.

We participate in a major international adversarial collaboration to identify the neural bases of consciousness. The New York Times reports today on our first published study and the state of affairs.

Our engagement towards the betterment of neuroscience research via open-science practices.

Sylvain was interviewed by Quanta and WIRED magazines for their piece on the "dark matter" of neural dynamics.

A new, improved version of the COVID-19 Montreal live data dashboard by lab graduate Dr. Jeremy Moreau.