From keith.worsley at mcgill.ca  Thu Feb  1 17:02:00 2007
From: keith.worsley at mcgill.ca (keith.worsley@mcgill.ca)
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:02:00 -0500
Subject: [BIC-announce] Fwd: Job at FIL for computer scientist
Message-ID: <20070201170200.0frqjv1cf4g84c08@webmail.mcgill.ca>



----- Forwarded message from wpenny at fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk -----
    Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 13:46:08 +0000
    From: Will Penny <wpenny at fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk>
Reply-To: Will Penny <wpenny at fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: Job at FIL for computer scientist
      To: Amos Storkey <amos at storkey.org>, Gary Green 
<g.green at psych.york.ac.uk>, Gareth Barnes <barnesgr at aston.ac.uk>, Krish 
Singh <singhkd at cardiff.ac.uk>, Rik Henson <rhenson at fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk>, 
steve <steve at fmrib.ox.ac.uk>, "Thomas E. Nichols" <nichols at umich.edu>, 
Keith Worsley <keith.worsley at mcgill.ca>, John Aston 
<jaston at stat.sinica.edu.tw>, Stephen Roberts <sjrob at robots.ox.ac.uk>

Dear all,

Can you do me a favour and distribute the following advert:

http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/Vacancies/compsci.html

to anyone you think may be interested.

Thanks very much,

Will.

---------------------------------------------------

Computer Scientist - Methods Group
(PI: Dr Will Penny)

The Functional Imaging Laboratory (FIL) Wellcome Trust Centre for 
Neuroimaging, invites applications for the post of Computer Scientist 
in the Methods Group. The Laboratory pursues brain research by means of 
functional and structural imaging and data analysis using SPM Software. 
We seek a computer scientist to maintain and develop our data analysis 
software (SPM). The Department is equipped with a 1.5 T whole body 
scanner (Siemens Sonata), a 3 T head scanner (Siemens Allegra), a 3 T 
whole body scanner (Siemens Tim Trio), an MEG system (CTF/VSM), and two 
EEG systems, one being MRI compatible.

The appointee will work alongside members of the Methods Group, 
reporting to the Head of Methods. Applicants should have good 
programming skills in Matlab and C/C++, and be capable of finding 
elegant and general solutions to problems for maintaining and 
developing the SPM software. Previous experience of SPM software and/or 
working in an imaging laboratory would be a definite advantage, and 
knowledge of XML and web documentation tools would be useful.

Salary on the UCL Grade 7 scale in the range ?28,396 to ?34,337 pa 
inclusive, superannuable. The post, which is available immediately, is 
funded for three years in the first instance.

Further details should first be obtained from 
http://www.ion.ucl.ac.uk/docs/fp-0701052.doc or from Miss E Bertram 
(tel: 020 7676 2191; email:personnel at ion.ucl.ac.uk ) , Assistant 
Secretary (Personnel), Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London 
WC1N 3BG.

Closing date for applications is 5 February 2007

-- 
William D. Penny
Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience
University College London
12 Queen Square
London WC1N 3BG

Tel: 020 7833 7475
FAX: 020 7813 1420
Email: wpenny at fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk
URL: http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/~wpenny/




----- End forwarded message -----



From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca  Fri Feb  2 09:55:08 2007
From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.)
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 09:55:08 -0500
Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Killam Lecture - Tuesday,
	February 6th @ 4:00 pm - Speaker: Dr. Jon Laman - Brain
	Inflammation and the Periphery: Antigen Drainage,
	Bacteria and Dealing with Lipid
Message-ID: <A8586EDE09E4534890D099DFEFE589EF038AC404@EXCHANGE2VS1.campus.mcgill.ca>

PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE.  THANK YOU.  JENNIFER 
 
________________________________

Subject: Killam Lecture - Tuesday, February 6th @ 4:00 pm - Speaker: Dr.
Jon Laman


KILLAM LECTURE

 

 

Speaker:       Jon Laman, Ph.D.
                    Department of Immunology
                    University Medical Center
                    Rotterdam, The Netherlands

 
Title:            Brain Inflammation and the Periphery:  Antigen
Drainage, Bacteria and Dealing with Lipid

 
Place:           de Grandpre Communications Centre

 
Date:            Tuesday, February 6, 2007

 
Time:            4:00 pm

                       
________________________________

 
Jon Lamon is an MD, PhD who is currently a professor in the Department
of Immunology at the University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The
Netherlands.  He is internationally recognized for his studies of how
the central nervous system micro-environment contributes to regulating
immune responses within the CNS.  His studies include the role of
toll-like receptor mediated control of glial cells and how tissue
breakdown products interact with antigen presenting cells within the
CNS.  He has further demonstrated the importance of transport of
antigens released within the CNS back to regional lymph nodes and how
this process contributes to recurrence of immune responses directed at
the CNS.  His studies involve both basic experimental models and direct
application to human disease materials, particularly those involving
cases of multiple sclerosis.

 
Jack Antel

 

 


From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca  Fri Feb  2 09:56:58 2007
From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.)
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 09:56:58 -0500
Subject: [BIC-announce] NO BIC SEMINAR MONDAY  FEBRUARY 5, 2007
Message-ID: <A8586EDE09E4534890D099DFEFE589EF038AC405@EXCHANGE2VS1.campus.mcgill.ca>

    ***PLEASE NOTE***
 BIC SEMINAR SERIES 
 
PLEASE NOTE: THERE WILL BE NO BIC SEMINAR  ON  MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2007.

      
Date:   -
Time:   -  
 Place:   -  
 
Speaker:    -   
 Title:        -   
 
 
 Jennifer 
 
FUTURE BIC SEMINARS 

 

Go to  http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/seminars/2006.html

 

 

<mailto:catherine.limperopoulos at mcgill.ca> 

 

Jennifer Chew
McConnell Brain Imaging Centre
MNI - WB317
3801 University Street
Montreal, Qc  H3A 2B4
Telephone:  514-398-8554
Fax:  514-398-2975
 
 
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From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca  Mon Feb  5 09:30:04 2007
From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.)
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 09:30:04 -0500
Subject: [BIC-announce] NO BIC SEMINAR TODAY,  MONDAY  FEBRUARY 5, 2007
Message-ID: <A8586EDE09E4534890D099DFEFE589EF038AC40C@EXCHANGE2VS1.campus.mcgill.ca>

________________________________

* **NO BIC SEMINAR TODAY*** 

    
 BIC SEMINAR SERIES 
 
PLEASE NOTE: THERE WILL BE NO BIC SEMINAR  ON  MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2007.

      
Date:   -
Time:   -  
 Place:   -  
 
Speaker:    -   
 Title:        -   
 
 
 Jennifer 
 
FUTURE BIC SEMINARS 

 

Go to  http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/seminars/2006.html

 

 

<mailto:catherine.limperopoulos at mcgill.ca> 

 

Jennifer Chew
McConnell Brain Imaging Centre
MNI - WB317
3801 University Street
Montreal, Qc  H3A 2B4
Telephone:  514-398-8554
Fax:  514-398-2975
 
 
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From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca  Mon Feb  5 16:42:39 2007
From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.)
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 16:42:39 -0500
Subject: [BIC-announce] NEXT BIC SEMINAR, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12,
	2007 Statistical analysis of functional imaging data
Message-ID: <A8586EDE09E4534890D099DFEFE589EF038AC41B@EXCHANGE2VS1.campus.mcgill.ca>

 BIC SEMINAR SERIES 
 
NEXT BIC SEMINAR  
      
Date:    Monday, February 12, 2007
Time:    1:00 P.M.   
 Place:    de Grandpre Communications Centre
 
Speaker:     Jonathan Taylor, Universite de Montreal
Title:           Statistical analysis of functional imaging data    
 
 Jennifer 
 
FUTURE BIC SEMINARS 

 

Go to  http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/seminars/2006.html

 

 

<mailto:catherine.limperopoulos at mcgill.ca> 

 

Jennifer Chew
McConnell Brain Imaging Centre
MNI - WB317
3801 University Street
Montreal, Qc  H3A 2B4
Telephone:  514-398-8554
Fax:  514-398-2975
 
 
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From belinda.preziosi at mcgill.ca  Tue Feb  6 11:05:30 2007
From: belinda.preziosi at mcgill.ca (Belinda Preziosi, Ms.)
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 11:05:30 -0500
Subject: [BIC-announce] PROTOCOLS FOR SUBMISSION
Message-ID: <A8586EDE09E4534890D099DFEFE589EF02C09A4C@EXCHANGE2VS1.campus.mcgill.ca>

To:            B.I.C. Personnel
 
From:       Belinda Preziosi
 
Date:        February 6th, 2007
 
Subject:   PROTOCOLS FOR SUBMISSION  
 
Hello,
 
Please note that if you have any new or re-submission protocols for
review by the PET Working Committee, Fourteen (14) copies of the
protocol along with both the English and French consent forms (one copy,
only, of the French Consent Form) must be submitted by Monday, February
19th, 2007 in Webster 220.
 
For the most recent version of the Protocols and English and French
Consent Forms, please see:
http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/admin/protocols.
 
Regards
 
Jean Paul Soucy
 
 
 
Belinda Preziosi
Administrative Coordinator
McConnell Brain Imaging Center
Montreal Neurological Institute
Room WB220
3801 University
Montreal, QC  H3A 2B4
Tel:  (514) 398-1585
Fax:  (514) 398-8948
Email:  belinda.preziosi at mcgill.ca <mailto:belinda.preziosi at mcgill.ca> 
 
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From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca  Tue Feb  6 15:20:53 2007
From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.)
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 15:20:53 -0500
Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: REMINDER: Killam Lecture - Today @ 4:00 pm -
	Speaker: Dr. Jon Laman
Message-ID: <A8586EDE09E4534890D099DFEFE589EF038AC428@EXCHANGE2VS1.campus.mcgill.ca>

PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE.  THANK YOU.  JENNIFER 
 
Subject: REMINDER: Killam Lecture - Today @ 4:00 pm - Speaker: Dr. Jon
Laman


***REMINDER*** 

KILLAM LECTURE

 

 

Speaker:       Jon Laman, Ph.D.

                    Department of Immunology

                    University Medical Center

                    Rotterdam, The Netherlands

 

Title:            Brain Inflammation and the Periphery:  Antigen
Drainage, Bacteria and Dealing with Lipid

 

Place:           de Grandpre Communications Centre

 

Date:            Tuesday, February 6, 2007

 

Time:            4:00 pm

                        

 

________________________________

 

 

Jon Lamon is an MD, PhD who is currently a professor in the Department
of Immunology at the University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The
Netherlands.  He is internationally recognized for his studies of how
the central nervous system micro-environment contributes to regulating
immune responses within the CNS.  His studies include the role of
toll-like receptor mediated control of glial cells and how tissue
breakdown products interact with antigen presenting cells within the
CNS.  He has further demonstrated the importance of transport of
antigens released within the CNS back to regional lymph nodes and how
this process contributes to recurrence of immune responses directed at
the CNS.  His studies involve both basic experimental models and direct
application to human disease materials, particularly those involving
cases of multiple sclerosis.

 

 

Jack Antel

 

 
 
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From sylvain at bic.mni.mcgill.ca  Thu Feb  8 15:16:44 2007
From: sylvain at bic.mni.mcgill.ca (Sylvain MILOT)
Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 15:16:44 -0500
Subject: [BIC-announce] heads up!
Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.4.58.0702081500050.6895@yorick.bic.mni.mcgill.ca>


Hello everyone,

yorick, where /home/bic is housed, had a NFS-limbo episode today after it
crashed during the course of the night. Luckily for us, it chose to come
back to life ... after a lot of convincing on our part! :-)

We are still waiting for the replacement backplanes for grumpy - its been
over a month! As soon as we get the parts, we can move /home/bic off of
yorick - hence we should be less vulnerable to such events.

Sylvain

---
Sylvain Milot (sylvain at bic.mni.mcgill.ca)
              (bicadmin at bic.mni.mcgill.ca)
Brain Imaging Centre
Montreal Neurological Institute
3801 University Street
Webster 2B, Room 208
Montreal, Qc., Canada, H3A 2B4
Phone  : (514) 398-4965, Fax: 398-8948
Mobile : (514) 712-1768
Office : 527 Av Des Pins O., Room 204
         Montreal, Qc., H2W 1S4

From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca  Fri Feb  9 10:22:19 2007
From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.)
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 10:22:19 -0500
Subject: [BIC-announce] REMINDER - MONDAY'S  BIC SEMINAR, FEBRUARY 12,
	2007 Statistical analysis of functional imaging data
Message-ID: <A8586EDE09E4534890D099DFEFE589EF038AC44B@EXCHANGE2VS1.campus.mcgill.ca>

***REMINDER***


 
 BIC SEMINAR SERIES 
 
NEXT BIC SEMINAR  
      
Date:    Monday, February 12, 2007
Time:    1:00 P.M.   
 Place:    de Grandpre Communications Centre
 
Speaker:     Jonathan Taylor, Universite de Montreal
Title:           Statistical analysis of functional imaging data    
 
 Jennifer 
 
FUTURE BIC SEMINARS 

 

Go to  http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/seminars/2006.html

 

 

<mailto:catherine.limperopoulos at mcgill.ca> 

 

Jennifer Chew
McConnell Brain Imaging Centre
MNI - WB317
3801 University Street
Montreal, Qc  H3A 2B4
Telephone:  514-398-8554
Fax:  514-398-2975
 
 
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From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca  Mon Feb 12 09:03:53 2007
From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.)
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 09:03:53 -0500
Subject: [BIC-announce] TODAY'S BIC SEMINAR, FEBRUARY 12,
	2007 Statistical analysis of functional imaging data
Message-ID: <A8586EDE09E4534890D099DFEFE589EF038AC44E@EXCHANGE2VS1.campus.mcgill.ca>

TODAY'S BIC SEMINAR


 
 BIC SEMINAR SERIES 
 
NEXT BIC SEMINAR  
      
Date:    Monday, February 12, 2007
Time:    1:00 P.M.   
 Place:    de Grandpre Communications Centre
 
Speaker:     Jonathan Taylor, Universite de Montreal
Title:           Statistical analysis of functional imaging data    
 
 Jennifer 
 
FUTURE BIC SEMINARS 

 

Go to  http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/seminars/2006.html

 

 

<mailto:catherine.limperopoulos at mcgill.ca> 

 

Jennifer Chew
McConnell Brain Imaging Centre
MNI - WB317
3801 University Street
Montreal, Qc  H3A 2B4
Telephone:  514-398-8554
Fax:  514-398-2975
 
 
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From alain.dagher at mcgill.ca  Mon Feb 12 11:00:28 2007
From: alain.dagher at mcgill.ca (Alain Dagher)
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:00:28 -0500
Subject: [BIC-announce] Today's BIC seminar
Message-ID: <C1F5F94C.17D9%alain.dagher@mcgill.ca>

Today's seminar will be given by Jonathan Taylor. Jonathan was Keith
Worsley's Ph.D. student, and he was involved in developing many of the tools
that we use for PET and fMRI analysis. He then went to Stanford University
for a few years and has recently returned to Montreal to take up a staff
position at the Universit? de Montreal. Jonathan is very interested in
collaborating with members of the Montreal imaging community in all aspects
of the statistical analysis of brain imaging data.


---
Alain Dagher, MD
Associate Professor
Montreal Neurological Institute
McGill University

3801 University St
Montreal QC
Canada H3A 2B4
tel: (514) 398-1726
fax: (514) 398-8948
alain at bic.mni.mcgill.ca







From alain.dagher at mcgill.ca  Mon Feb 12 11:04:34 2007
From: alain.dagher at mcgill.ca (Alain Dagher)
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:04:34 -0500
Subject: [BIC-announce] BIC seminar cancelled
Message-ID: <C1F5FA42.17DF%alain.dagher@mcgill.ca>

Sorry about the last message.

I just found out that Jonathan's flight back from California was delayed and
he will not be able to give the seminar today.


---
Alain Dagher, MD
Associate Professor
Montreal Neurological Institute
McGill University

3801 University St
Montreal QC
Canada H3A 2B4
tel: (514) 398-1726
fax: (514) 398-8948
alain at bic.mni.mcgill.ca






From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca  Mon Feb 12 11:09:37 2007
From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.)
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:09:37 -0500
Subject: [BIC-announce] CANCELLED -  TODAY'S BIC SEMINAR, FEBRUARY 12,
	2007 ---CANCELLED
Message-ID: <A8586EDE09E4534890D099DFEFE589EF038AC454@EXCHANGE2VS1.campus.mcgill.ca>

*****SEMINAR CANCELLED*****
 
 
TODAY'S BIC SEMINAR  - CANCELLED  


 
 BIC SEMINAR SERIES 
 
NEXT BIC SEMINAR  
      
Date:    Monday, February 12, 2007
Time:    1:00 P.M.   
 Place:    de Grandpre Communications Centre
 
Speaker:     Jonathan Taylor, Universite de Montreal
Title:           Statistical analysis of functional imaging data    
 
 Jennifer 
 
FUTURE BIC SEMINARS 

 

Go to  http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/seminars/2006.html

 

 

<mailto:catherine.limperopoulos at mcgill.ca> 

 

Jennifer Chew
McConnell Brain Imaging Centre
MNI - WB317
3801 University Street
Montreal, Qc  H3A 2B4
Telephone:  514-398-8554
Fax:  514-398-2975
 
 
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From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca  Mon Feb 12 12:21:22 2007
From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.)
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:21:22 -0500
Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Killam Lecture - Tuesday, February 13,
	2007 @ 4:00 pm - Speaker:  Dr. Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg
Message-ID: <A8586EDE09E4534890D099DFEFE589EF038AC455@EXCHANGE2VS1.campus.mcgill.ca>

PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE.  THANK YOU.  JENNIFER 
 
KILLAM LECTURE
 
 
Speaker:       Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, MD, Ph.D., MSc
                    Unit for Systems Neuroscience in Psychiatry, Genes,
Cognition and Psychosis Program
                    National Institute of Mental Health Bethesda, MD
 
Title:            Imaging Genetics of the Human Social Brain
 
Place:           de Grandpre Communications Centre
 
Date:            Tuesday, February 13, 2007
 
Time:            4:00 pm
 
________________________________

                

Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg is Co-Director of the Neuroimaging Core
Facility, of the Genes, Cognition and Psychosis Program  at the National
Institute of Mental Health. Andreas has degrees in medicine and
mathematics, and is trained as a neurologist and psychiatrist. His main
interest is the combination of genetics and functional neuroimaging for
the understanding of the effect of genes on normal and pathological
brain function. He has published an impressive number of papers in high
impact journals in the last ten years, including seven in Nature
Neuroscience. His work is extremely creative and broad ranging and makes
use of many different and cutting edge imaging techniques. For more
information visit his homepage at:

http://neuroscience.nih.gov/Lab.asp?Org_ID=523
<http://neuroscience.nih.gov/Lab.asp?Org_ID=523> 



	
Alain Dagher, MD
Associate Professor
Montreal Neurological Institute
McGill University

3801 University St
Montreal QC
Canada H3A 2B4
tel: (514) 398-1726
fax: (514) 398-8948
alain at bic.mni.mcgill.ca






From belinda.preziosi at mcgill.ca  Tue Feb 13 09:40:51 2007
From: belinda.preziosi at mcgill.ca (Belinda Preziosi, Ms.)
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:40:51 -0500
Subject: [BIC-announce] REMINDER -  PROTOCOLS FOR SUBMISSION
Message-ID: <A8586EDE09E4534890D099DFEFE589EF02C09A5F@EXCHANGE2VS1.campus.mcgill.ca>

 
To:            B.I.C. Personnel
 
From:       Belinda Preziosi
 
Date:        February  13th , 2007
 
Subject:    REMINDER - PROTOCOLS FOR SUBMISSION  
 
Hello,
 
Please note that if you have any new or re-submission protocols for
review by the PET Working Committee, Fourteen (14) copies of the
protocol along with both the English and French consent forms (one copy,
only, of the French Consent Form) must be submitted by Monday, February
19th, 2007 in Webster 220.
 
For the most recent version of the Protocols and English and French
Consent Forms, please see:
http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/admin/protocols.
 
Regards
 
Jean Paul Soucy
 
 
 
Belinda Preziosi
Administrative Coordinator
McConnell Brain Imaging Center
Montreal Neurological Institute
Room WB220
3801 University
Montreal, QC  H3A 2B4
Tel:  (514) 398-1585
Fax:  (514) 398-8948
Email:  belinda.preziosi at mcgill.ca <mailto:belinda.preziosi at mcgill.ca> 
 
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From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca  Tue Feb 13 09:59:43 2007
From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.)
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 09:59:43 -0500
Subject: [BIC-announce] NEXT  BIC SEMINAR, FEBRUARY 19, 2007 - Body Odor,
	Kin Recognition and the Brain: Chemical Communication Among Humans
Message-ID: <A8586EDE09E4534890D099DFEFE589EF038AC460@EXCHANGE2VS1.campus.mcgill.ca>

 BIC SEMINAR SERIES 
 
NEXT BIC SEMINAR  
      
Date:    Monday, February  19,  2007
Time:    1:00 P.M.   
 Place:    de Grandpre Communications Centre
 
Speaker:      Johan Lundstrom, MNI 
Title:            Body Odor, Kin Recognition and the Brain:  Chemical
Communication Among Humans  
 
 Jennifer 
 
FUTURE BIC SEMINARS 

 

Go to  http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/seminars/2006.html

 

 

<mailto:catherine.limperopoulos at mcgill.ca> 

 

Jennifer Chew
McConnell Brain Imaging Centre
MNI - WB317
3801 University Street
Montreal, Qc  H3A 2B4
Telephone:  514-398-8554
Fax:  514-398-2975
 
 
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From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca  Thu Feb 15 14:39:38 2007
From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.)
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:39:38 -0500
Subject: [BIC-announce] MONDAY'S  BIC SEMINAR, FEBRUARY 19, 2007 - Body Odor,
	Kin Recognition and the Brain: Chemical Communication Among Humans
Message-ID: <A8586EDE09E4534890D099DFEFE589EF038AC47F@EXCHANGE2VS1.campus.mcgill.ca>

 ***REMINDER***
 
 BIC SEMINAR SERIES 
 
 MONDAY'S   BIC SEMINAR  
      
Date:    Monday, February  19,  2007
Time:    1:00 P.M.   
 Place:    de Grandpre Communications Centre
 
Speaker:      Johan Lundstrom, MNI 
Title:            Body Odor, Kin Recognition and the Brain:  Chemical
Communication Among Humans  
 
 Jennifer 
 
FUTURE BIC SEMINARS 

 

Go to  http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/seminars/2006.html

 

 

<mailto:catherine.limperopoulos at mcgill.ca> 

 

Jennifer Chew
McConnell Brain Imaging Centre
MNI - WB317
3801 University Street
Montreal, Qc  H3A 2B4
Telephone:  514-398-8554
Fax:  514-398-2975
 
 
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From alain.dagher at mcgill.ca  Mon Feb 19 10:16:57 2007
From: alain.dagher at mcgill.ca (Alain Dagher)
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:16:57 -0500
Subject: [BIC-announce] Today's BIC seminar
Message-ID: <C1FF2999.1D0B%alain.dagher@mcgill.ca>

 ***REMINDER***
 
 BIC SEMINAR SERIES
 
 MONDAY'S   BIC SEMINAR
      
Date:    Monday, February  19,  2007
Time:    1:00 P.M. 
 Place:    de Grandpre Communications Centre
 
Speaker:      Johan Lundstrom, MNI
Title:            Body Odor, Kin Recognition and the Brain:  Chemical
Communication Among Humans
 
 
 
  
  FUTURE BIC SEMINARS    Go  to

 http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/seminars/2006.html   



From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca  Tue Feb 20 09:24:34 2007
From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.)
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:24:34 -0500
Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Seminar announcement - Cognitive Control Signals
	for Neural Prosthetics
Message-ID: <A8586EDE09E4534890D099DFEFE589EF038AC485@EXCHANGE2VS1.campus.mcgill.ca>

 
FORWARDING ON BEHALF OF DR. TAL ARBEL.  PLS. SEE HER MESSAGE BELOW.
Jennifer 

"I strongly encourage everyone to come hear about the exciting new
research performed by one of our latest hires:" 

CIM SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT:


Cognitive Control Signals for Neural Prosthetics Prof. Sam Mussalam
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering McGill University

Tuesday, Feb. 27
11:00-12:00pm
CIM Seminar room - McConnell Engineering room 437

*Brief Overview*

An important question in neural prosthetics research is what parameters
can be decoded from the brain and used for prosthetic applications. Work
from other labs has focused on decoding movement trajectories from
signals recorded from the motor cortex. In this talk, I will discuss an
alternative approach that uses cognitive signals related to motor plans
as opposed to motor execution. I will show preliminary evidence that
neurons in the parietal cortex encode the amplitude and depth of an
impending reach and discuss how these signals can be used for prosthetic
control. I will also propose that neurons exist in the PPC that support
the existence of a forward model. These neurons are not only tuned in
space, but also in time and the temporal evolution of their firing rate
can predict continuous trajectories. Interestingly, neurons were also
found to encode the expected value, type or probability of reward. 
.Multi-neuron recordings encoding the direction of a reach goal were
made from the parietal cortex and used in a 'brain control' task' to
control a cursor on a computer screen in real time. We used variable
reward schedules to bias the tuning and sensorimotor processing of
neurons and optimized the monkey's performance in the brain control
trials. These results indicate that brain activity related to cognitive
variables can be a viable source of signals for the control of a neural
prosthetic.


*Brief Biography for Sam Musallam*

Sam obtained his Bachelor of Science (honours) from the University of
Toronto (UT) in Physics and Math. In 1995, he joined the department of
Biomedical Engineering at UT and the lab of David Tomlinson and
completed his Masters modeling the translational vestibulo-ocular
reflex. In 1997, he spent a year in Greece working for the European
Union building web applications. In 1998, he started his PhD in the
departments of Physiology and BME again with David Tomlinson. He studied
the signal processing performed by the vestibular nucleus (VN) during
combined linear and rotational motion. In 2001, he joined the lab of Dr.

Richard Andersen at Caltech for his post-doctoral training. He headed
the development of a neural prosthetic that can ultimately control arm
movements in paralyzed patients. The goal of this project was to extract
and decode neural signals from the parietal cortex of monkeys while they
simply thought about completing a reach movement. At McGill, he plans on
continuing the development of cognitive neural prosthetics with the aim
of restoring natural behaviour to paralyzed patients.

-- 

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Tal Arbel, Assistant Professor
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering		Tel. (514)
398-8204
Centre for Intelligent Machines				Fax. (514)
398-7348
McConnell Engineering Building, room 425	                    
McGill University
arbel at cim.mcgill.ca
3480 University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2A7
http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~arbel
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From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca  Tue Feb 20 09:58:50 2007
From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.)
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:58:50 -0500
Subject: [BIC-announce] Killam Lecture - Tuesday, February 20th,
	2007 @ 4:00 pm - Speaker:  Dr. David Chan
Message-ID: <A8586EDE09E4534890D099DFEFE589EF038AC487@EXCHANGE2VS1.campus.mcgill.ca>

PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE.  THANK YOU.  JENNIFER 
 
KILLAM LECTURE

  

Speaker:    David Chan, MD, Ph.D.

                 Division of Biology

                 California Institute of Technology

 Title:         Mitochondrial Dynamics and Neurodegeneration

Place:        de Grandpre Communications Centre

Date:         Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Time:        4:00 pm

 ________________________________

The Killam speaker this week is David Chan (MD PhD) from Caltech.
David's lab focuses on the molecular analysis of mitochondrial dynamics
and membrane fusion. Mitochondrial dynamics has emerged as a hot topic
in cell biology in recent years. It turns out that mitochondrial fusion
and fission are absolutely essential for normal mitochondrial biology,
but exactly why this is so it not entirely obvious. Mitochondrial
remodeling also appears to be essential for apoptotic signaling.
Mutations in two of the molecules involved in mitochondrial fusion, Mfn2
and OPA1 underlie two neurological diseases (CMT2A and dominant optic
atrophy). David's work runs from x-ray crystallographic analysis of the
molecules involved in mitochondrial fusion, to detailed cell biology and
animal models of neurological disease. Come and hear this engaging
speaker; I guarantee you will learn something interesting.   



From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca  Tue Feb 20 11:29:12 2007
From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.)
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 11:29:12 -0500
Subject: [BIC-announce] MONDAY'S  BIC SEMINAR, FEBRUARY 26,
	2007 - Longitudinal study of large-scale networks in the human
	brain using fMRI: Methods and applicaton to motor skill learning
Message-ID: <A8586EDE09E4534890D099DFEFE589EF038AC48C@EXCHANGE2VS1.campus.mcgill.ca>

 BIC SEMINAR SERIES 
 
 MONDAY'S   BIC SEMINAR  
      
Date:    Monday, February   26 ,  2007
Time:    1:00 P.M.   
 Place:    de Grandpre Communications Centre
 
Speaker:       Pierre Bellec, MNI 
Title:             Longitudinal study of large-scale networks in the
human brain using fMRI:  Methods and application to motor skill learning

 
 Jennifer 
 
FUTURE BIC SEMINARS 

 

Go to  http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/seminars/2006.html

 

 

<mailto:catherine.limperopoulos at mcgill.ca> 

 

Jennifer Chew
McConnell Brain Imaging Centre
MNI - WB317
3801 University Street
Montreal, Qc  H3A 2B4
Telephone:  514-398-8554
Fax:  514-398-2975
 
 
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From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca  Tue Feb 20 14:05:51 2007
From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.)
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:05:51 -0500
Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Research Assistant Position
Message-ID: <A8586EDE09E4534890D099DFEFE589EF038AC493@EXCHANGE2VS1.campus.mcgill.ca>

 For your information.  Jennifer Chew 




-----Original Message-----
From: Lori Koerbel [mailto:lkrbl+ at pitt.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 12:31 PM
To: info at hnl.bcm.tmc.edu; help at loni.ucla.edu; neurosci at bu.edu;
neuroimage at psych.ubc.ca; Jennifer Chew, Ms.; iuneuron at indiana.edu;
funfaculty at comcast.net; Neuroscience at brown.edu; psy at cmich.edu;
NeuroscienceCenter at dartmouth.edu; unpwebmaster at duke.edu;
cns at cns.nyu.edu; bcs-info at mit.edu; awilli44 at jhu.edu;
husn at hcs.harvard.edu; kmorgan at wheatonma.edu; neuro at amherst.edu;
psybio at binghamton.edu; lynne.bianchi at oberlin.edu; nbonini at sas.upenn.edu;
short at bns.pitt.edu
Subject: Research Assistant Position

Hello, about a month ago I sent an email with information for a Research
Assistant position we are currently seeking to fill. If you would please
resend it out to your current seniors and any other interested parities,
it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.


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Research Assistant
Neuroimaging and Experience-based Cognition Learning Research and
Development Center University of Pittsburgh

A full-time post-baccalaureate research assistant position is available
beginning early Summer 2007. 
The ideal candidate would have a bachelor's degree with a strong record
in Neuroscience, Psychology, Computer Science, Biology, Cognitive
Science, Philosophy, or related fields.  We're seeking applicants with
well-developed organizational and interpersonal skills; excellent
computer and quantitative knowledge, and strong self-motivation.
Previous research experience, including behavioral and neuroimaging
methods and analyses, is highly desirable. Responsibilities will include
subject recruitment, designing and facilitating experiments, data
analysis, and public presentations. Minimum two-year commitment is
required.

Applicants should email a cover letter and CV and have two letters of
recommendation sent directly by references to the address below.
Deadline for receipt of all materials is March 19th, 2007; with earlier
applications receiving priority review.

Contact Information:
Lori Koerbel
LRDC 627
3939 O'Hara Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
LKRBL at pitt.edu

For more information, visit: http://www.ebc.pitt.edu



From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca  Tue Feb 20 17:00:39 2007
From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.)
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:00:39 -0500
Subject: [BIC-announce] Postdoctoral Research Worker
Message-ID: <A8586EDE09E4534890D099DFEFE589EF038AC497@EXCHANGE2VS1.campus.mcgill.ca>


-----Original Message-----
From: Eva Bonda [mailto:evabonda at hotmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 4:05 PM
To: Jennifer Chew, Ms.
Cc: evabonda at hotmail.com
Subject: Message to be distributed to the BIC Personnel List


Dear Jennifer,

I would be grateful if you could diffuse the following message to the BIC Personnel distribution list.

With best regards and thanks, Eva Bonda

-----------
We offer the possibility of funding for a Postdoctoral Research Worker. This post, available from October 2007, is part of a research team in Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, at the Institute of Psychology, University Ren? Descartes-Paris V, Paris, France. The successful candidate will possess a PhD degree in Computer Science, or related field and have strong experience in fMRI imaging techniques and data processing methods.

A CV and interest's statement should be emailed to: evabonda at hotmail.com

------------

Eva Bonda, PhD.

Psychologie-Neurosciences Cognitives
Cabinet M?dical
199, Bd St Germain
75007 Paris

T?l:   (33) 0143218880
Mob:  (33) 0685983376
Secr:  (33) 0145490988

E-mail: evabonda at hotmail.com

_________________________________________________________________
The average US Credit Score is 675. The cost to see yours: $0 by Experian. 
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From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca  Fri Feb 23 10:45:38 2007
From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.)
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:45:38 -0500
Subject: [BIC-announce] Reminder - MONDAY'S  BIC SEMINAR, FEBRUARY 26,
	2007 - Longitudinal study of large-scale networks in the humanbrain
	using fMRI: Methods and applicaton to motor skill learning
Message-ID: <A8586EDE09E4534890D099DFEFE589EF038AC4B0@EXCHANGE2VS1.campus.mcgill.ca>

***REMINDER***
 
 BIC SEMINAR SERIES 
 
 MONDAY'S   BIC SEMINAR  
      
Date:    Monday, February   26 ,  2007
Time:    1:00 P.M.   
 Place:    de Grandpre Communications Centre
 
Speaker:       Pierre Bellec, MNI 
Title:             Longitudinal study of large-scale networks in the
human brain using fMRI:  Methods and application to motor skill learning

 
 Jennifer 
 
FUTURE BIC SEMINARS 

 

Go to  http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/seminars/2006.html

 

 

<mailto:catherine.limperopoulos at mcgill.ca> 

 

Jennifer Chew
McConnell Brain Imaging Centre
MNI - WB317
3801 University Street
Montreal, Qc  H3A 2B4
Telephone:  514-398-8554
Fax:  514-398-2975
 
 
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From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca  Mon Feb 26 09:27:25 2007
From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.)
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:27:25 -0500
Subject: [BIC-announce] TODAY -  MONDAY'S  BIC SEMINAR, FEBRUARY 26,
	2007 - Longitudinal study of large-scale networks in the humanbrain
	using fMRI: Methods and applicaton to motor skill learning
Message-ID: <A8586EDE09E4534890D099DFEFE589EF038AC4C3@EXCHANGE2VS1.campus.mcgill.ca>

 ***TODAY*** 
BIC SEMINAR SERIES 
 
MONDAY'S   BIC SEMINAR  
      
Date: Monday, February   26 ,  2007
Time:  1:00 P.M.   
Place:  de Grandpre Communications Centre
 
Speaker:   Pierre Bellec, MNI 
Title:     Longitudinal study of large-scale networks in the human brain
using fMRI:  Methods and application to motor skill learning  
 
 Jennifer 
 
FUTURE BIC SEMINARS 

 

Go to  http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/seminars/2006.html

 

 

<mailto:catherine.limperopoulos at mcgill.ca> 

 

Jennifer Chew
McConnell Brain Imaging Centre
MNI - WB317
3801 University Street
Montreal, Qc  H3A 2B4
Telephone:  514-398-8554
Fax:  514-398-2975
 
 
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From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca  Mon Feb 26 14:16:44 2007
From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.)
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 14:16:44 -0500
Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Seminar reminder - Cognitive Control Signals for
	Neural Prosthetics
Message-ID: <A8586EDE09E4534890D099DFEFE589EF038AC4C8@EXCHANGE2VS1.campus.mcgill.ca>


CIM SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT:

Cognitive Control Signals for Neural Prosthetics Prof. Sam Mussalam
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering McGill University

Tuesday, Feb. 27
11:00-12:00pm
CIM Seminar room - McConnell Engineering room 437

*Brief Overview*

An important question in neural prosthetics research is what parameters
can be decoded from the brain and used for prosthetic applications. Work
from other labs has focused on decoding movement trajectories from
signals recorded from the motor cortex. In this talk, I will discuss an
alternative approach that uses cognitive signals related to motor plans
as opposed to motor execution. I will show preliminary evidence that
neurons in the parietal cortex encode the amplitude and depth of an
impending reach and discuss how these signals can be used for prosthetic
control. I will also propose that neurons exist in the PPC that support
the existence of a forward model. These neurons are not only tuned in
space, but also in time and the temporal evolution of their firing rate
can predict continuous trajectories. Interestingly, neurons were also
found to encode the expected value, type or probability of reward. 
.Multi-neuron recordings encoding the direction of a reach goal were
made from the parietal cortex and used in a 'brain control' task' to
control a cursor on a computer screen in real time. We used variable
reward schedules to bias the tuning and sensorimotor processing of
neurons and optimized the monkey's performance in the brain control
trials. These results indicate that brain activity related to cognitive
variables can be a viable source of signals for the control of a neural
prosthetic.


*Brief Biography for Sam Musallam*
Sam obtained his Bachelor of Science (honours) from the University of
Toronto (UT) in Physics and Math. In 1995, he joined the department of
Biomedical Engineering at UT and the lab of David Tomlinson and
completed his Masters modeling the translational vestibulo-ocular
reflex. In 1997, he spent a year in Greece working for the European
Union building web applications. In 1998, he started his PhD in the
departments of Physiology and BME again with David Tomlinson. He studied
the signal processing performed by the vestibular nucleus (VN) during
combined linear and rotational motion. In 2001, he joined the lab of Dr.

Richard Andersen at Caltech for his post-doctoral training. He headed
the development of a neural prosthetic that can ultimately control arm
movements in paralyzed patients. The goal of this project was to extract
and decode neural signals from the parietal cortex of monkeys while they
simply thought about completing a reach movement. At McGill, he plans on
continuing the development of cognitive neural prosthetics with the aim
of restoring natural behaviour to paralyzed patients.

-- 

------------------------------------------------------------------------
---
Tal Arbel, Assistant Professor
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering		Tel. (514)
398-8204
Centre for Intelligent Machines				Fax. (514)
398-7348
McConnell Engineering Building, room 425	                    
McGill University
arbel at cim.mcgill.ca
3480 University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2A7
http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~arbel
========================================================================
===





From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca  Tue Feb 27 15:29:13 2007
From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.)
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 15:29:13 -0500
Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Postcard campaign
Message-ID: <A8586EDE09E4534890D099DFEFE589EF038AC4DC@EXCHANGE2VS1.campus.mcgill.ca>

  Subject: Postcard campaign


The following message is from Ken Hastings:
 
McGill's CIHR public postcard campaign will take place at several McGill
hospital sites on Wednesday February 28 and Thursday March 1.  Please
visit the table that will be set up at the Neuro's main entrance and
sign postcards that will be sent to Prime Minister Stephen Harper and
his cabinet in support of the House of Commons Standing Committee on
Finance's recommendation to increase the CIHR's budget by $350M over 3
years.  Encourage students, staff, everyone you know to do the same.
Participation is easy and is crucial for success. 
 
Please participate!
 
John A. Robson, PhD
Associate Director, Scientific Affairs
Montreal Neurological Institute
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4
Tel:  514-398-5205
Fax: 514-398-8248
 
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