From bruce.pike at mcgill.ca Tue Sep 4 22:52:32 2007 From: bruce.pike at mcgill.ca (Bruce Pike) Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 22:52:32 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] BIC Web Page manager Message-ID: <8E70AB8B-CD84-4D83-BA7D-EC2256004EEE@mcgill.ca> We are looking for someone to work part time to complete (it is 90% finished already) a new web page for the BIC and to maintain it thereafter. The ideal candidate would have knowledge of the BIC and experience in Web design and maintenance. We wish to launch the new web page by the 1st of October. Please contact me (or Louis Collins) if you are interested in this position and feel free to forward this mail to anyone you know who might be interested in this task. The time commitment and level of remuneration are open to negotiation. Regards, Bruce Pike Bruce.Pike at McGill.ca From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Wed Sep 5 10:59:39 2007 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 10:59:39 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Seminar in Cognitive Neuroscience: Wednesday, Sept. 12 @ 2 pm Message-ID: Please discard if this is a duplicate. Thank you. Jennifer Nina Kraus, Ph.D. Hugh Knowles Professor Neurobiology & Physiology, Otolaryngology, Communication Sciences and Disorders Northwestern University Evanston, IL, USA http://www.northwestern.edu/neurobiology/faculty/kraus.html Music and language shape sensory encoding of sound **Please note special time and place **Wednesday, September 12, 2007 **de Grandpre Communications Centre Directions: http://neuromedia.mcgill.ca/mnibooking/facdirections/dgccdir.htm **2:00 p.m. Host: Robert Zatorre From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Mon Sep 10 09:48:30 2007 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:48:30 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Killam Lecture - September 11, 2007 Message-ID: PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER ________________________________ From: MNISTAFF - Montreal Neurological Institute Staff [mailto:MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Enza Ferracane, Ms. Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 9:18 AM To: MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA Subject: Killam Lecture - September 11, 2007 Dear Colleagues, Our Killam speaker for Tuesday, September 11, 2007 at 4:00 p.m. in the de Grandpr? Communications Centre (MNI), is Dr. Prakash Kara from the Medical University of South Carolina, Department of Neurosciences. The title of his talk is: "Visual processing in complete cortical microcircuits revealed with two-photon calcium imaging in vivo". ABSTRACT: The mammalian brain has more than a billion cells. This staggering number makes it difficult to determine the mechanisms by which the brain accomplishes its repertoire of functions. Even within one region, like the cortical area that processes vision, cells respond to visual stimuli that have very specific orientations and directions of motion. Lagging far behind our understanding of the representation of orientation and direction of sensory stimuli is the representation of binocular vision in the brain. Aside from the difficulty in being able to monitor the activity of complete populations of neurons in local microcircuits (with single-cell resolution), a contributing factor to the lack of progress on the neural basis of binocular vision is that the dominant approach for assaying binocular properties of cortical neurons employs monocular tests of ocular dominance to infer binocular function. This almost never occurs naturally. Furthermore, it is widely assumed that binocular vision is not essential for the survival of many vertebrate (and invertebrate) species. It turns out that binocular vision in invertebrate predators (like the praying mantis) and vertebrate predators (such as cats) is essential for survival as the ability to detect small differences in inter-ocular retinal disparities is the only means to gain access to the third dimension of visual space for accurately tracking moving objects such as prey. In mammals, the first neurons along the visual pathway from eye to brain that can code for binocular disparities are found in the visual cortex. When discrete functional domains are relatively small (~100 um), single-unit recordings can provide misleading results. Consequently, the relative contribution of phase vs. position disparity tuning, the dependence of disparity on motion selectivity and the relationship between ocular dominance and disparity selectivity are all poorly understood and hotly debated. My lab has attempted to resolve these issues on binocular vision by using in vivo two-photon calcium imaging of neuronal cell bodies as a surrogate for spiking activity. I am looking forward to seeing you all there. Christopher Pack, Ph.D. Naomi Takeda Administrative Coordinator for: Drs. Barbara E. Jones, David S. Ragsdale, Christopher C. Pack and T. Stroh Montreal Neurological Institute McGill University 3801 University Street, #896 Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2B4 ( 514-398-1913 ? 514-398-5871 : naomi.takeda at mcgill.ca From belinda.preziosi at mcgill.ca Mon Sep 10 10:58:54 2007 From: belinda.preziosi at mcgill.ca (Belinda Preziosi, Ms.) Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2007 10:58:54 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: safety training courses to be held at the MNI Message-ID: Please see attached for your information. Belinda 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 ________________________________ From: MNISTAFF - Montreal Neurological Institute Staff [mailto:MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Enza Ferracane, Ms. Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 8:54 AM To: MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA Subject: safety training courses to be held at the MNI MEMO TO: MNI Laboratory Personnel and Trainees FROM: Lab Safety Committee RE: 2-Day Safety Training at the MNI in September (WHMIS, Biological Safety Cabinets, Hazardous Waste Management, Radiation Safety) Please Note: Safety training is mandatory for all new laboratory personnel and must be repeated every 3 years. Lab Safety Reps: Please distribute this memo to new staff and trainees and identify personnel in your lab requiring recertification. We have arranged for McGill Environmental Health and Safety to provide on site safety training at the MNI at the end of September. You must register through the McGill online registration system as described in the EHS memo reproduced below. Please make sure everyone in your lab is aware of this requirement and the procedures. WHMIS Training for Laboratory Personnel: At the MNI there is the option of attending this course or doing the online training supervised by your PI or lab manager. Attending the McGill course once is highly recommended and should be considered mandatory for anyone supervising the online training. MNI-specific details on emergency response, etc now will be incorporated into the course. Safe Use of Biological Safety Cabinets: This course is required for all persons using these hoods. It has been three years since this course was given at the MNI. If that is the one you took, you should register for the course to be offered here on September 28. Introduction to Biosafety: This course will soon become mandatory, so anyone working with biological specimens is encouraged to register (not at the MNI, but nearby) Hazardous Waste Management and Disposal: All laboratory safety representatives should register for this course, but it is recommended for everyone. Radiation Safety: Required for all personnel working in labs using radioactivity. SEE YOU THERE! Sincerely, Heather D. Durham, PhD Professor Montreal Neurological Institute and Dept. Neurology/Neurosurgery McGill University Montreal Neurological Institute 3801 University St Montreal QC H3A 2B4 telephone: (514)398-8509 facimile: (514)398-1509 email: heather.durham at mcgill.ca ________________________________ EHS MEMO: As the new academic year approaches, remember all laboratory personnel, including undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral students must have received all required health and safety training. McGill's Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) has prepared a comprehensive Fall 2007 Safety Training Schedule and registration is now open for all sessions (www.mcgill.ca/ehs/training/): Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) Training for Laboratory Personnel (mandatory for chemical & biohazards users) DOWNTOWN: Sept. 27 (at the MNI), Oct. 11 & Oct. 30 Radiation Safety: Principles of Laboratory Radiation Safety DOWNTOWN: Aug. 30, Sept. 24 (at the MNI) & Oct. 31 Hazardous Waste Management & Disposal Training for Lab Personnel DOWNTOWN: Aug. 29, Sept. 27 (at the MNI) & Oct. 30 Introduction to Biosafety DOWNTOWN: Aug. 29 & Oct. 30 Safe Use of Biological Safety Cabinets (mandatory for biohazardous materials users) DOWNTOWN: Sept. 28 (at the MNI) New this year is a 2-Day Safety Training Seminar that will allow new staff, faculty and students to receive all their safety training over a 2 day period (www.mcgill.ca/ehs/training/2day/). DOWNTOWN: October 30 & 31, 2007 (Strathcona & Dentistry Building) The 2-Day Safety Training Seminar includes the following training: - Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) Training for Laboratory Personnel (mandatory) - Hazardous Waste Management & Disposal Training for Laboratory Personnel - Introduction to Biosafety - Principles of Laboratory Radiation Safety REMINDER: All participants are required to register on-line for all safety training. Principal Investigators and Lab Directors are responsible for ensuring that their lab personnel and students are provided with training to carry out their work safely. Please note that all safety training is valid for 3 years, therefore those individuals with expired training are required to attend one of the up-coming sessions. 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JENNIFER _______________________________ From: MNISTAFF - Montreal Neurological Institute Staff [mailto:MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Enza Ferracane, Ms. Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 8:44 AM To: MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA Subject: Killam Lecture - TODAY -----------REMINDER------------ Dear Colleagues, Our Killam speaker for Tuesday, September 11, 2007 at 4:00 p.m. in the de Grandpr? Communications Centre (MNI), is Dr. Prakash Kara from the Medical University of South Carolina, Department of Neurosciences. The title of his talk is: "Visual processing in complete cortical microcircuits revealed with two-photon calcium imaging in vivo". ABSTRACT: The mammalian brain has more than a billion cells. This staggering number makes it difficult to determine the mechanisms by which the brain accomplishes its repertoire of functions. Even within one region, like the cortical area that processes vision, cells respond to visual stimuli that have very specific orientations and directions of motion. Lagging far behind our understanding of the representation of orientation and direction of sensory stimuli is the representation of binocular vision in the brain. Aside from the difficulty in being able to monitor the activity of complete populations of neurons in local microcircuits (with single-cell resolution), a contributing factor to the lack of progress on the neural basis of binocular vision is that the dominant approach for assaying binocular properties of cortical neurons employs monocular tests of ocular dominance to infer binocular function. This almost never occurs naturally. Furthermore, it is widely assumed that binocular vision is not essential for the survival of many vertebrate (and invertebrate) species. It turns out that binocular vision in invertebrate predators (like the praying mantis) and vertebrate predators (such as cats) is essential for survival as the ability to detect small differences in inter-ocular retinal disparities is the only means to gain access to the third dimension of visual space for accurately tracking moving objects such as prey. In mammals, the first neurons along the visual pathway from eye to brain that can code for binocular disparities are found in the visual cortex. When discrete functional domains are relatively small (~100 um), single-unit recordings can provide misleading results. Consequently, the relative contribution of phase vs. position disparity tuning, the dependence of disparity on motion selectivity and the relationship between ocular dominance and disparity selectivity are all poorly understood and hotly debated. My lab has attempted to resolve these issues on binocular vision by using in vivo two-photon calcium imaging of neuronal cell bodies as a surrogate for spiking activity. I am looking forward to seeing you all there. Christopher Pack, Ph.D. Naomi Takeda Administrative Coordinator for: Drs. Barbara E. Jones, David S. Ragsdale, Christopher C. Pack and T. Stroh Montreal Neurological Institute McGill University 3801 University Street, #896 Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2B4 ( 514-398-1913 ? 514-398-5871 : naomi.takeda at mcgill.ca From belinda.preziosi at mcgill.ca Tue Sep 11 09:46:05 2007 From: belinda.preziosi at mcgill.ca (Belinda Preziosi, Ms.) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:46:05 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] PROTOCOLS FOR SUBMISSION Message-ID: To: B.I.C. Personnel From: Belinda Preziosi Date: September 11th, 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, Fifteen (15) 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, September 24th, 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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JENNIFER Jennifer Chew McConnell Brain Imaging Centre MNI - WB317 3801 University Street Montreal, Qc H3A 2B4 Telephone: 514-398-8554 Fax: 514-398-2975 -----Original Message----- From: MNISTAFF - Montreal Neurological Institute Staff [mailto:MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Enza Ferracane, Ms. Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 10:35 AM To: MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA Subject: Seminar announcement Importance: High SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT: 10:00AM on Thursday September 20 in the deGrandpre Seminar Room "Activity-Dependent and Independent Mechanisms of Thalamocortical Axon Targeting" Prof. Nobuhiko Yamamoto Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences Osaka University Dr. Yamamoto is one of the pioneers in organotypic culturing of cortical slices, first describing the thalamocortical coculture preparation in his seminal 1989 Science paper. Since then, he has used this preparation to examine numerous mechanisms involved in thalamocortical and corticocortical axon targeting and morphogenesis. More recently he has used multielectrode arrays to correlate axonal growth with activity levels in slice cultures during development as well as in utero electroporation methods to study neuronal growth and targeting in vivo. -------------------------- From siddiqi at cim.mcgill.ca Tue Sep 11 14:47:03 2007 From: siddiqi at cim.mcgill.ca (Kaleem Siddiqi) Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:47:03 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] Fwd: [Fwd: Postdoc at York's Centre for Vision Research] References: <46E6DECA.8040107@cs.toronto.edu> Message-ID: FYI. -Kaleem http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~siddiqi Begin forwarded message: > From: Sven Dickinson > Date: September 11, 2007 2:30:34 PM EDT (CA) > To: vis-discuss at cs.toronto.edu > Subject: [Fwd: Postdoc at York's Centre for Vision Research] > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Postdoc at York's Centre for Vision Research > Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:13:52 -0400 > From: hugh r. wilson > Reply-To: hugh r. wilson > To: YORKVIS at YORKU.CA > > > > * > * > * > * > *Postdoctoral Fellowship at York Unversity's Centre for Vision > Reseach (CVR)*. This postdoctoral fellowship is funded jointly by > the Ontario Ministry of Research & Innovation and York Universitry. > Applications in human brain imaging (fMRI), primate > neurophysiology, or visual psychophysics with implications for some > aspect of vision health are particularly encouraged. Applications > related to the development of assistive devices for the visually > impaired are also welcome. Applicants must identify a member of the > Centre for Vision Research to be their mentor (see http:// > cvr.yorku.ca/members/faculty/index.html for list of CVR mentors). > Salary per annum will be $50,000 plus benefits, and duration will > be two years. The successful applicant is expected to complete his/ > her Ph.D. no later than six months after beginning the fellowship. > Applicant must spend 1% of her/his time mentoring undergraduates at > York. > > Applicants should submit a letter describing their relevant > research, experiences and interests, a curriculum vitae, pertinent > reprints, and arrange to have three letters of reference sent to > Dr. Hugh Wilson, Director, York Centre for Vision Research, York > University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3J 1P3; > phone: (416) 736-2100 x33140, fax: (416) 736-5857, E mail: > _manini at cvr.yorku.ca_ > > York University is an Affirmative Action Employer. The Affirmative > Action Program can be found on York's website at: www.yorku.ca/acadjobs/index.htm>_http://www.yorku.ca/acadjobs/ > index.htm_, or a copy can be obtained by calling the affirmative > action office at 416-736-5713. Only Canadian citizens or Permanent > Residents are eligible for this funding. > Deadline: Applications must be received by October 1, 2007. > Interviews will be conducted at the end of October. It is expected > that the successful applicant will begin postdoctoral research at > York by January 1, 2008, although later start dates may be possible > under exceptional circumstances. > > -- > > > ********** > Hugh R. Wilson > Director, York Centre for Vision Research > Fellow, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research > Director, CIHR Vision Health Research Training Grant > > York University > Computer Science & Engineering B002F > 4700 Keele Street > Toronto, Ontario > Canada M3J 1P3 > > email: hrwilson at yorku.ca > (416) 736-2100 x33140 > fax: (416) 736-5857 > > web: http://cvr.yorku.ca/webpages/wilson.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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JENNIFER Jennifer Chew McConnell Brain Imaging Centre MNI - WB317 3801 University Street Montreal, Qc H3A 2B4 Telephone: 514-398-8554 Fax: 514-398-2975 ________________________________ From: MNISTAFF - Montreal Neurological Institute Staff [mailto:MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Enza Ferracane, Ms. Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 4:16 PM To: MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA Subject: Seminar - Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2007 Importance: High ______________________________ Nina Kraus, Ph.D. Hugh Knowles Professor Neurobiology & Physiology, Otolaryngology, Communication Sciences and Disorders Northwestern University Evanston, IL, USA http://www.northwestern.edu/neurobiology/faculty/kraus.html Music and language shape sensory encoding of sound **Please note special time and place **Wednesday, September 12, 2007 **de Grandpre Communications Centre Directions: http://neuromedia.mcgill.ca/mnibooking/facdirections/dgccdir.htm **2:00 p.m. Host: Robert Zatorre From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Thu Sep 13 10:49:05 2007 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:49:05 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] BIC SEMINAR SERIES - NEXT BIC SEMINAR - Introduction to functional neuroimaging Message-ID: BIC SEMINAR SERIES NEXT BIC SEMINAR Date: Monday, September 17, 2007 Time: 1:00 P.M. Place: de Grandpre Communications Centre Speaker: Alain Dagher, MD, Montreal Neurological Institute Title: Introduction to functional neuroimaging Jennifer Jennifer Chew McConnell Brain Imaging Centre MNI - WB317 3801 University Street Montreal, Qc H3A 2B4 Telephone: 514-398-8554 Fax: 514-398-2975 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/bic-announce/attachments/20070913/997ba2c6/attachment.html From alain.dagher at mcgill.ca Fri Sep 14 10:53:38 2007 From: alain.dagher at mcgill.ca (Alain Dagher) Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:53:38 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] Upcoming BIC Seminars Message-ID: The BIC seminars are held Mondays at 1:00 pm in the De Grandpr? Room. The first 5 will form a sort of introduction to the basics of brain imaging (mostly fMRI). 17 Sept: Intro to brain imaging (me) 24 Sept: Neurovascular origin of the BOLD signal (Edith Hamel) 1 Oct: MR physics and fMRI experimental design (Bruce Pike) 15 Oct: Stereotaxic space and related issues (Louis Collins) 22 Oct: Relationship between neural activity and fMRI signals (Amir Shmuel) 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 Fri Sep 14 10:54:50 2007 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:54:50 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] REMINDER - NEXT BIC SEMINAR - MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 - Introductionto functional neuroimaging Message-ID: ***REMINDER*** BIC SEMINAR SERIES NEXT BIC SEMINAR Date: Monday, September 17, 2007 Time: 1:00 P.M. Place: de Grandpre Communications Centre Speaker: Alain Dagher, MD, Montreal Neurological Institute Title: Introduction to functional neuroimaging Jennifer Jennifer Chew McConnell Brain Imaging Centre MNI - WB317 3801 University Street Montreal, Qc H3A 2B4 Telephone: 514-398-8554 Fax: 514-398-2975 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/bic-announce/attachments/20070914/bfcfde47/attachment.html From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Fri Sep 14 15:58:04 2007 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:58:04 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Killam speaker - Tuesday September 18th, 2007- Spatial, Temporal and Pharmacological Investigations of Cerebrovascular Coupling Message-ID: PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER KILLAM LECTURE Speaker: Afonso C. Silva, PhD Head, Cerebral Microcirculation Unit National Institutes of Health Title: "Spatial, Temporal and Pharmacological Investigations of Cerebrovascular Coupling" Place: de Grandpre Communications Centre Time: 4:00 pm Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 ------------------------------------------------ Dear Colleagues, Please join me in attending the Killam seminar of Dr Afonso Silva on Tuesday September 18, 2007. His talk will surely be of interest to several of you and should improve our understanding of the basis of the signals used in brain imaging studies to map neuronal activity under both physiological and clinical studies. Looking forward to seeing you there. Edith PS: Please note small change in the Title of his presentation. "Spatial, Temporal and Pharmacological Investigations of Cerebrovascular Coupling" Afonso C. Silva, Ph.D., Head, Cerebral Microcirculation Unit, Laboratory of Functional and Molecular Imaging, NINDS, NIH. ABSTRACT: Unlike any other organ of the body, the brain is critically dependent on a continuous blood supply. Due to its high energy demands, the brain operates under a tight coupling of neuronal electrical activity to the hemodynamic regulation of energy supply and waste removal. The "cerebrovascular coupling" entails a complex, highly redundant array of signaling mechanisms aimed at maintaining homeostasis of the brain parenchyma by regulating cerebral blood flow (CBF) on a precise spatial and temporal domain. There is increased evidence that such mechanisms result from an integrated action of neurons, glia and blood vessels, which form a "neurovascular unit" acting at the cellular level to regulate local CBF. Disruption of these mechanisms causes brain dysfunction and disease. The principal aims of my lab are to understand the mechanisms of regulation of cerebral blood flow (CBF) during increased focal brain activity, and to understand how the cerebral blood flow adjustments relate, in space and in time, to the spatial and temporal changes in electrical activity. Our research uses small animal models to study the cerebral microcirculation and its relationship to brain anatomy, as well as its reactivity to functional stimulation. Our general experimental approach consists primarily of applying somatosensory stimuli to the animals while using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) techniques to image the intact brain at high spatial resolution. fMRI allows us to monitor, in four dimensions, the functional changes in brain hemodynamics occurring during increased neural activity. Electrophysiological recordings performed either simultaneously, or in parallel to the fMRI, provide monitoring of the changes in neural activity. Complementary to the use of fMRI, we use two-photon laser scanning microscopy to directly visualize individual capillaries and their associated changes in volume and flux of red-blood cells during brain activation. These measurements have the strong potential to allow a direct observation of the neurovascular unit at work, while further establishing the spatial domain of focal CBF changes. References 1. Silva AC, Kellman P, Koretsky AP, Duyn JH (2007) fMRI impulse response for BOLD and CBV contrast in rat somatosensory cortex. Magn. Reson. Med., 57(6):1110:1118 2. Stefanovic B, Schwindt W, Hoehn M, Silva AC (2007) Functional uncoupling of hemodynamic from neuronal response by inhibition of neuronal nitric oxide synthase. J. Cereb. Blood Flow Metab., 27(4):741-754 3. Stefanovic B, Bosetti F, Silva AC (2006) Modulatory role of cyclooxygenase-2 in cerebrovascular coupling. Neuroimage 32(1):23-32 4. Gsell W, Burke M, Wiedermann, Dauphin F, Bonvento G , Silva AC, B?hrle C, Hoehn M and Schwindt W (2006) Differential effects of NMDA and AMPA glutamate receptors on fMRI signals and evoked neuronal activity during forepaw stimulation of the rat. J. Neurosci., 26(33):8409-8416 5. Hutchinson EB, Stefanovic B, Koretsky AP, Silva AC (2006) Spatial flow-volume dissociation of the cerebral microcirculatory response to mild hypercapnia. Neuroimage 32(2):520-530 From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Mon Sep 17 08:50:07 2007 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:50:07 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] TODAY'S BIC SEMINAR - MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 - Introductionto functional neuroimaging Message-ID: BIC SEMINAR SERIES TODAY'S BIC SEMINAR Date: Monday, September 17, 2007 Time: 1:00 P.M. Place: de Grandpre Communications Centre Speaker: Alain Dagher, MD, Montreal Neurological Institute Title: Introduction to functional neuroimaging Jennifer Jennifer Chew McConnell Brain Imaging Centre MNI - WB317 3801 University Street Montreal, Qc H3A 2B4 Telephone: 514-398-8554 Fax: 514-398-2975 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/bic-announce/attachments/20070917/4bc494ea/attachment.html From sylvain at bic.mni.mcgill.ca Mon Sep 17 09:02:09 2007 From: sylvain at bic.mni.mcgill.ca (Sylvain MILOT) Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:02:09 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] Message from Dr. Keith Worsley ... Message-ID: Keith Worsley Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University 805 ouest, rue Sherbrooke, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2K6 tel: (514) 398-3842, fax: (514) 398-3899 e-mail: keith.worsley at mcgill.ca, web: http://www.math.mcgill.ca/keith ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Corballis" To: "Keith Worsley" Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 11:18 PM Subject: RE: Keith I have drafted out a rather clumsy ad, so if you think there might be someone interested, could you circulate it? Postdoctoral Vacancy A postdoctoral fellowship is available for a study of hemispheric lateralization in monozygotic and dizygotic twins. Applicants should have experience with structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging. The position is available in the first instance for two and a half years, at a commencing salary of $NZ62,763 per year. Starting date is preferably early in 2008, but somewhat negotiable. Enquiries or applications should be directed to Professor Michael Corballis, Research Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1042, New Zealand, or email m.corballis at auckland.ac.nz From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Mon Sep 17 12:54:44 2007 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:54:44 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Killam Lecture TOMORROW Message-ID: PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER ________________________________ From: MNISTAFF - Montreal Neurological Institute Staff [mailto:MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Enza Ferracane, Ms. Sent: Monday, September 17, 2007 12:35 PM To: MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA Subject: Killam Lecture TOMORROW *****REMINDER***** KILLAM LECTURE Speaker: Afonso C. Silva, PhD Head, Cerebral Microcirculation Unit National Institutes of Health Title: "Spatial, Temporal and Pharmacological Investigations of Cerebrovascular Coupling" Place: de Grandpre Communications Centre Time: 4:00 pm Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 ------------------------------------------------ Dear Colleagues, Please join me in attending the Killam seminar of Dr Afonso Silva on Tuesday September 18, 2007. His talk will surely be of interest to several of you and should improve our understanding of the basis of the signals used in brain imaging studies to map neuronal activity under both physiological and clinical studies. Looking forward to seeing you there. Edith PS: Please note small change in the Title of his presentation. "Spatial, Temporal and Pharmacological Investigations of Cerebrovascular Coupling" Afonso C. Silva, Ph.D., Head, Cerebral Microcirculation Unit, Laboratory of Functional and Molecular Imaging, NINDS, NIH. ABSTRACT: Unlike any other organ of the body, the brain is critically dependent on a continuous blood supply. Due to its high energy demands, the brain operates under a tight coupling of neuronal electrical activity to the hemodynamic regulation of energy supply and waste removal. The "cerebrovascular coupling" entails a complex, highly redundant array of signaling mechanisms aimed at maintaining homeostasis of the brain parenchyma by regulating cerebral blood flow (CBF) on a precise spatial and temporal domain. There is increased evidence that such mechanisms result from an integrated action of neurons, glia and blood vessels, which form a "neurovascular unit" acting at the cellular level to regulate local CBF. Disruption of these mechanisms causes brain dysfunction and disease. The principal aims of my lab are to understand the mechanisms of regulation of cerebral blood flow (CBF) during increased focal brain activity, and to understand how the cerebral blood flow adjustments relate, in space and in time, to the spatial and temporal changes in electrical activity. Our research uses small animal models to study the cerebral microcirculation and its relationship to brain anatomy, as well as its reactivity to functional stimulation. Our general experimental approach consists primarily of applying somatosensory stimuli to the animals while using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) techniques to image the intact brain at high spatial resolution. fMRI allows us to monitor, in four dimensions, the functional changes in brain hemodynamics occurring during increased neural activity. Electrophysiological recordings performed either simultaneously, or in parallel to the fMRI, provide monitoring of the changes in neural activity. Complementary to the use of fMRI, we use two-photon laser scanning microscopy to directly visualize individual capillaries and their associated changes in volume and flux of red-blood cells during brain activation. These measurements have the strong potential to allow a direct observation of the neurovascular unit at work, while further establishing the spatial domain of focal CBF changes. References 1. Silva AC, Kellman P, Koretsky AP, Duyn JH (2007) fMRI impulse response for BOLD and CBV contrast in rat somatosensory cortex. Magn. Reson. Med., 57(6):1110:1118 2. Stefanovic B, Schwindt W, Hoehn M, Silva AC (2007) Functional uncoupling of hemodynamic from neuronal response by inhibition of neuronal nitric oxide synthase. J. Cereb. Blood Flow Metab., 27(4):741-754 3. Stefanovic B, Bosetti F, Silva AC (2006) Modulatory role of cyclooxygenase-2 in cerebrovascular coupling. Neuroimage 32(1):23-32 4. Gsell W, Burke M, Wiedermann, Dauphin F, Bonvento G , Silva AC, B?hrle C, Hoehn M and Schwindt W (2006) Differential effects of NMDA and AMPA glutamate receptors on fMRI signals and evoked neuronal activity during forepaw stimulation of the rat. J. Neurosci., 26(33):8409-8416 5. Hutchinson EB, Stefanovic B, Koretsky AP, Silva AC (2006) Spatial flow-volume dissociation of the cerebral microcirculatory response to mild hypercapnia. Neuroimage 32(2):520-530 From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Mon Sep 17 13:28:17 2007 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:28:17 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] NEXT BIC SEMINAR - Monday, September 24: Neurovascular origin of the BOLD signal Message-ID: BIC SEMINAR SERIES NEXT BIC SEMINAR Date: Monday, September 24, 2007 Time: 1:00 P.M. Place: de Grandpre Communications Centre Speaker: Dr. Edith Hamel, Montreal Neurological Institute Title: Neurovascular origin of the BOLD signal Jennifer Jennifer Chew McConnell Brain Imaging Centre MNI - WB317 3801 University Street Montreal, Qc H3A 2B4 Telephone: 514-398-8554 Fax: 514-398-2975 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/bic-announce/attachments/20070917/51cfbd79/attachment.html From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Tue Sep 18 09:44:32 2007 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:44:32 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Killam Lecture TODAY - Spatial, Temporal and Pharmacological Investigations of Cerebrovascular Coupling Message-ID: PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER *****REMINDER***** KILLAM LECTURE Speaker: Afonso C. Silva, PhD Head, Cerebral Microcirculation Unit National Institutes of Health Title: "Spatial, Temporal and Pharmacological Investigations of Cerebrovascular Coupling" Place: de Grandpre Communications Centre Time: 4:00 pm Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2007 ----------------------------------------------- Dear Colleagues, Please join me in attending the Killam seminar of Dr Afonso Silva on Tuesday September 18, 2007. His talk will surely be of interest to several of you and should improve our understanding of the basis of the signals used in brain imaging studies to map neuronal activity under both physiological and clinical studies. Looking forward to seeing you there. Edith PS: Please note small change in the Title of his presentation. "Spatial, Temporal and Pharmacological Investigations of Cerebrovascular Coupling" Afonso C. Silva, Ph.D., Head, Cerebral Microcirculation Unit, Laboratory of Functional and Molecular Imaging, NINDS, NIH. ABSTRACT: Unlike any other organ of the body, the brain is critically dependent on a continuous blood supply. Due to its high energy demands, the brain operates under a tight coupling of neuronal electrical activity to the hemodynamic regulation of energy supply and waste removal. The "cerebrovascular coupling" entails a complex, highly redundant array of signaling mechanisms aimed at maintaining homeostasis of the brain parenchyma by regulating cerebral blood flow (CBF) on a precise spatial and temporal domain. There is increased evidence that such mechanisms result from an integrated action of neurons, glia and blood vessels, which form a "neurovascular unit" acting at the cellular level to regulate local CBF. Disruption of these mechanisms causes brain dysfunction and disease. The principal aims of my lab are to understand the mechanisms of regulation of cerebral blood flow (CBF) during increased focal brain activity, and to understand how the cerebral blood flow adjustments relate, in space and in time, to the spatial and temporal changes in electrical activity. Our research uses small animal models to study the cerebral microcirculation and its relationship to brain anatomy, as well as its reactivity to functional stimulation. Our general experimental approach consists primarily of applying somatosensory stimuli to the animals while using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) techniques to image the intact brain at high spatial resolution. fMRI allows us to monitor, in four dimensions, the functional changes in brain hemodynamics occurring during increased neural activity. Electrophysiological recordings performed either simultaneously, or in parallel to the fMRI, provide monitoring of the changes in neural activity. Complementary to the use of fMRI, we use two-photon laser scanning microscopy to directly visualize individual capillaries and their associated changes in volume and flux of red-blood cells during brain activation. These measurements have the strong potential to allow a direct observation of the neurovascular unit at work, while further establishing the spatial domain of focal CBF changes. References 1. Silva AC, Kellman P, Koretsky AP, Duyn JH (2007) fMRI impulse response for BOLD and CBV contrast in rat somatosensory cortex. Magn. Reson. Med., 57(6):1110:1118 2. Stefanovic B, Schwindt W, Hoehn M, Silva AC (2007) Functional uncoupling of hemodynamic from neuronal response by inhibition of neuronal nitric oxide synthase. J. Cereb. Blood Flow Metab., 27(4):741-754 3. Stefanovic B, Bosetti F, Silva AC (2006) Modulatory role of cyclooxygenase-2 in cerebrovascular coupling. Neuroimage 32(1):23-32 4. Gsell W, Burke M, Wiedermann, Dauphin F, Bonvento G , Silva AC, B?hrle C, Hoehn M and Schwindt W (2006) Differential effects of NMDA and AMPA glutamate receptors on fMRI signals and evoked neuronal activity during forepaw stimulation of the rat. J. Neurosci., 26(33):8409-8416 5. Hutchinson EB, Stefanovic B, Koretsky AP, Silva AC (2006) Spatial flow-volume dissociation of the cerebral microcirculatory response to mild hypercapnia. Neuroimage 32(2):520-530 From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Tue Sep 18 14:25:35 2007 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 14:25:35 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] NEXT BIC SEMINAR - Monday, September 24: CHANGED TITLE: Cortical neuronal networks as instigators of the neurovascular coupling responses to specific afferent pathways. Message-ID: PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE IN TITLE FOR DR. HAMEL'S SEMINAR. THANK YOU. JENNIFER BIC SEMINAR SERIES NEXT BIC SEMINAR Date: Monday, September 24, 2007 Time: 1:00 P.M. Place: de Grandpre Communications Centre Speaker: Dr. Edith Hamel, Montreal Neurological Institute Title: Cortical neuronal networks as instigators of the neurovascular coupling responses to specific afferent pathways Jennifer Jennifer Chew McConnell Brain Imaging Centre MNI - WB317 3801 University Street Montreal, Qc H3A 2B4 Telephone: 514-398-8554 Fax: 514-398-2975 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/bic-announce/attachments/20070918/38f925de/attachment.html From belinda.preziosi at mcgill.ca Wed Sep 19 10:37:30 2007 From: belinda.preziosi at mcgill.ca (Belinda Preziosi, Ms.) Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:37:30 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] REMINDER - PROTOCOLS FOR SUBMISSION Message-ID: To: B.I.C. Personnel From: Belinda Preziosi Date: September 19th, 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, Fifteen (15) 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, September 24th, 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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JENNIFER -----Original Message----- From: MNISTAFF - Montreal Neurological Institute Staff [mailto:MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Enza Ferracane, Ms. Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 11:28 AM To: MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA Subject: Seminar - Thursday, September 20, 2007 Importance: High ---------------------- SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT: 10:00AM on Thursday September 20 in the deGrandpre Seminar Room "Activity-Dependent and Independent Mechanisms of Thalamocortical Axon Targeting" Prof. Nobuhiko Yamamoto Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences Osaka University Dr. Yamamoto is one of the pioneers in organotypic culturing of cortical slices, first describing the thalamocortical coculture preparation in his seminal 1989 Science paper. Since then, he has used this preparation to examine numerous mechanisms involved in thalamocortical and corticocortical axon targeting and morphogenesis. More recently he has used multielectrode arrays to correlate axonal growth with activity levels in slice cultures during development as well as in utero electroporation methods to study neuronal growth and targeting in vivo. ***COOKIES AND COFFEE SERVED BEFORE TALK*** -------------------------- From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Wed Sep 19 12:11:36 2007 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:11:36 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Special lecture - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - Molecular Targeting and Diagnosis and Treatment of Gliomas Message-ID: PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER SPECIAL LECTURE Speaker: Dr. Ian F. Pollack Walter E. 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Place: de Grandpre Communications Centre Speaker: Dr. Edith Hamel, Montreal Neurological Institute Title: Cortical neuronal networks as instigators of the neurovascular coupling responses to specific afferent pathways Jennifer Jennifer Chew McConnell Brain Imaging Centre MNI - WB317 3801 University Street Montreal, Qc H3A 2B4 Telephone: 514-398-8554 Fax: 514-398-2975 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/bic-announce/attachments/20070921/a70a5756/attachment.html From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Mon Sep 24 09:05:41 2007 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:05:41 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] TODAY'S BIC SEMINAR - Monday, September 24: Cortical neuronal networks asinstigators of theneurovascular coupling responses tospecific afferent pathways. Message-ID: BIC SEMINAR SERIES TODAY'S BIC SEMINAR Date: Monday, September 24, 2007 Time: 1:00 P.M. Place: de Grandpre Communications Centre Speaker: Dr. Edith Hamel, Montreal Neurological Institute Title: Cortical neuronal networks as instigators of the neurovascular coupling responses to specific afferent pathways Jennifer Jennifer Chew McConnell Brain Imaging Centre MNI - WB317 3801 University Street Montreal, Qc H3A 2B4 Telephone: 514-398-8554 Fax: 514-398-2975 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/bic-announce/attachments/20070924/6d5151e5/attachment.html From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Mon Sep 24 15:13:00 2007 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:13:00 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] BIC SEMINAR SERIES - MONDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2007 - MR physics and fMRI experimental design Message-ID: BIC SEMINAR SERIES NEXT BIC SEMINAR Date: Monday, October 1 , 2007 Time: 1:00 P.M. Place: de Grandpre Communications Centre Speaker: Dr. Bruce Pike, Montreal Neurological Institute Title: MR physics and fMRI experimental design Jennifer Jennifer Chew McConnell Brain Imaging Centre MNI - WB317 3801 University Street Montreal, Qc H3A 2B4 Telephone: 514-398-8554 Fax: 514-398-2975 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/bic-announce/attachments/20070924/573bb26b/attachment.html From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Mon Sep 24 15:15:08 2007 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:15:08 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Special lecture - Wednesday, September 26, 2007 - Molecular Targeting and Diagnosis and Treatment of Gliomas Message-ID: P LEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER *****REMINDER***** SPECIAL LECTURE Speaker: Dr. Ian F. Pollack Walter E. Dandy Professor of Neurological Surgery Chief, Pediatric Neurosurgery Co-director, Neurosurgical Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Title: Molecular Targeting and Diagnosis and Treatment of Gliomas Date: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 Time: 3:30 pm Place: Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Wed Sep 26 10:09:17 2007 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:09:17 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Special lecture - TODAY- Molecular Targeting and Diagnosis and Treatment of Gliomas Message-ID: P LEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER ******REMINDER****** SPECIAL LECTURE Speaker: Dr. Ian F. Pollack Walter E. Dandy Professor of Neurological Surgery Chief, Pediatric Neurosurgery Co-director, Neurosurgical Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Title: Molecular Targeting and Diagnosis and Treatment of Gliomas Date: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 (TODAY) Time: 3:30 pm Place: Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre From zia.merchant at mcgill.ca Wed Sep 26 16:51:18 2007 From: zia.merchant at mcgill.ca (Zia Jacob-Merchant) Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 16:51:18 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] T.V. Show and Dr. Alan Evans ... Message-ID: <5FE95CF5B5572A40AFAEA5EF3114BF850523CCFE@EXCHANGE2VS2.campus.mcgill.ca> TO: ALL MEMBERS AT THE B.I.C. FROM: DR. ALAN EVANS DATE: SEPTEMBER 26, 2007 There is a T.V. Show for the Capital Campaign for McBIR on Monday, October 1, 2007 at 10:30 a.m. in the Jeanne Timmins be there or be square. Zia Merchant McConnell Brain Imaging Centre Montreal Neurological Institute 3801 University Street Webster 2B Montreal, Quebec Canada H3A 2B4 Tel.: 514-398-8925 Fight all the time for happiness. Life is used to be finite. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/bic-announce/attachments/20070926/4a183ce8/attachment.html From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Thu Sep 27 09:23:59 2007 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:23:59 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: T.V. Show and Dr. Alan Evans ... Message-ID: TO: ALL MEMBERS AT THE B.I.C. FROM: DR. ALAN EVANS DATE: SEPTEMBER 26, 2007 There is a T.V. Show for the Capital Campaign for McBIR on Monday, October 1, 2007 at 10:30 a.m. in the Jeanne Timmins be there or be square. Zia Merchant McConnell Brain Imaging Centre Montreal Neurological Institute 3801 University Street Webster 2B Montreal, Quebec Canada H3A 2B4 Tel.: 514-398-8925 Fight all the time for happiness. Life is used to be finite. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/bic-announce/attachments/20070927/499a05e6/attachment.html From pbellec at bic.mni.mcgill.ca Thu Sep 27 09:55:19 2007 From: pbellec at bic.mni.mcgill.ca (Pierre Bellec) Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 09:55:19 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] Fwd: [Fwd: appel a candidatures Postdoc ANR a Neurospin (IRMf, MEG)] In-Reply-To: <46FB8D73.708@imed.jussieu.fr> References: <46FB8D73.708@imed.jussieu.fr> Message-ID: <6fe841c70709270655j9388117j1ff874373ddebeae@mail.gmail.com> Dear colleagues, Please take notice of and forward the job offer inserted below. Many thanks in advance. Kind regards, Andreas Kleinschmidt POSTDOCTORAL POSITION - Applications are invited for a postdoc position funded by an ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) grant on the functional significance of spontaneous human brain activity that will be supervised by Andreas Kleinschmidt . The team is part of INSERM's 'Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit' (http://www.unicog.org , director : Stanislas Dehaene) at NeuroSpin (director : Denis LeBihan) in the greater Paris region. NeuroSpin is a newly opened outstanding interdisciplinary research environment that houses several research laboratories and combines expertise in cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychology, electrophysiology, high field MR imaging and imaging data analysis. The postdoc will conduct fMRI studies at 3 and 7 T and eventually MEG experiments (installation in 2008) to study the relation between ongoing and evoked activity in sensory brain systems. Applicants should have a PhD degree in Neuroscience, Psychology, or related areas. Pr! ior experience with skills in fMRI and/or MEG, imaging data analysis and programming would be advantageous. Salary will be commensurate with experience within the remuneration grid of the French public research organisations. The position is funded for maximally 3 years, starting in January 2008 or later. Applications will be considered until the position is filled. For further information and applications (including the names of two referees) please contact Andreas Kleinschmidt, email: andreas.kleinschmidt at cea.fr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/bic-announce/attachments/20070927/9c31d2bf/attachment.html From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Thu Sep 27 15:24:10 2007 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 15:24:10 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Fwd: [Fwd: appel a candidatures Postdoc ANR aNeurospin (IRMf, MEG)] Message-ID: FOR YOUR INFORMATION. IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE, PLEASE DISCARD. THANK YOU. JENNIFER ________________________________ From: bic-announce-bounces at bic.mni.mcgill.ca [mailto:bic-announce-bounces at bic.mni.mcgill.ca] On Behalf Of Pierre Bellec Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 9:55 AM To: bic-announce at bic.mni.mcgill.ca Subject: [BIC-announce] Fwd: [Fwd: appel a candidatures Postdoc ANR aNeurospin (IRMf, MEG)] Dear colleagues, Please take notice of and forward the job offer inserted below. Many thanks in advance. Kind regards, Andreas Kleinschmidt POSTDOCTORAL POSITION - Applications are invited for a postdoc position funded by an ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) grant on the functional significance of spontaneous human brain activity that will be supervised by Andreas Kleinschmidt . The team is part of INSERM's 'Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit' ( http://www.unicog.org , director : Stanislas Dehaene) at NeuroSpin (director : Denis LeBihan) in the greater Paris region. NeuroSpin is a newly opened outstanding interdisciplinary research environment that houses several research laboratories and combines expertise in cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychology, electrophysiology, high field MR imaging and imaging data analysis. The postdoc will conduct fMRI studies at 3 and 7 T and eventually MEG experiments (installation in 2008) to study the relation between ongoing and evoked activity in sensory brain systems. Applicants should have a PhD degree in Neuroscience, Psychology, or related areas. Pr! ior experience with skills in fMRI and/or MEG, imaging data analysis and programming would be advantageous. Salary will be commensurate with experience within the remuneration grid of the French public research organisations. The position is funded for maximally 3 years, starting in January 2008 or later. Applications will be considered until the position is filled. For further information and applications (including the names of two referees) please contact Andreas Kleinschmidt, email: andreas.kleinschmidt at cea.fr -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/bic-announce/attachments/20070927/3a7d61fa/attachment.html From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Thu Sep 27 16:37:18 2007 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 16:37:18 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Information needed for new BIC website Message-ID: Please DO NOT REPLY to me. Your reply must go to stinson at bic.mni.mcgill.ca. Thank you. Jennifer ________________________________ From: Eric Stinson [mailto:egstinson at gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 4:21 PM To: Jennifer Chew, Ms. Subject: Information needed for new BIC website Here it is, Jennifer. Thanks for your help! ~Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello BIC members, My name is Eric Stinson, and I am working on a new BIC website. We will be launching it on October 1st (to coincide with a new MNI website), and would like to have as much information as possible included before that happens. One of the features will be an updated "people at the BIC" section. In order to get this part of the site up to date, I need your help. Please reply to me by email (stinson at bic.mni.mcgill.ca) with the following information: FIRST NAME: LAST NAME: NAME SUFFIX (Ph.D., MD, M.Sc. M.Eng, B.Sc, etc...): FUNCTION (Research Assistant, Master's Student, PhD Student, Technician, etc...): PERSONAL WEBPAGE (if applicable): A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF YOURSELF (in English): A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF YOURSELF (in French): EMAIL ADDRESS: TELEPHONE NUMBER: FAX NUMBER: CATEGORY (you have a choice between "faculty", "student", "staff", "postdoc", "alumni" or "associate"): LAB (if you are part of multiple labs, just list all of them): PHOTO (if you would like to have a photo included in your profile, please include one in your email, or stop by WB325 and I will take one for you): You may view what you already have on the new site (if anything) at http://feeble.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/may15/research/people . If you don't want to have certain information about yourself on the site, feel free to leave it out, but we would like to have at least your name and email address. Thank you in advance for your cooperation! If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask. 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URL: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/bic-announce/attachments/20070928/3878d0a2/attachment.html From deanj at bic.mni.mcgill.ca Fri Sep 28 15:35:32 2007 From: deanj at bic.mni.mcgill.ca (Dean JOLLY) Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 15:35:32 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Information needed for new BIC website In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Eric here is the minimum info you need. I hope to update things soon Thanks Dean > > Hello BIC members, > > My name is Eric Stinson, and I am working on a new BIC website. We will > be launching it on October 1st (to coincide with a new MNI website), and > would like to have as much information as possible included before that > happens. One of the features will be an updated "people at the BIC" > section. In order to get this part of the site up to date, I need your > help. Please reply to me by email (stinson at bic.mni.mcgill.ca) with the > following information: > > > > FIRST NAME: Dean > > LAST NAME: Jolly > > NAME SUFFIX (Ph.D., MD, M.Sc. M.Eng, B.Sc, etc...): BSc > > FUNCTION Chief Technician, > etc...): > > PERSONAL WEBPAGE (if applicable): > > A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF YOURSELF (in English): > > A SHORT DESCRIPTION OF YOURSELF (in French): > > EMAIL ADDRESS: deanj at bic.mni.mcgill.ca > > TELEPHONE NUMBER:514 398 8527 > > FAX NUMBER: 514 398 8195 > > CATEGORY (you have a choice between "faculty", "student", "staff", > "postdoc", "alumni" or "associate"): Staff > > LAB (if you are part of multiple labs, just list all of them): > Cyclotron facility