From alain.dagher at mcgill.ca Mon Jan 7 09:06:19 2008 From: alain.dagher at mcgill.ca (Alain Dagher, Dr.) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 09:06:19 -0500 Subject: [BIC-announce] BIC SEMINAR , Today: PET Studies of Parkinson's disease and healthy aging References: Message-ID: <6B40EA9049B57944B3FE7516D860B1D7030084E0@EXCHANGE2VS3.campus.mcgill.ca> BIC SEMINAR SERIES Date: Monday, January 7, 2008 Time: 1:00 P.M. Place: de Grandpre Communications Centre Speaker: Dr. Paul Cumming Title: PET Studies of Parkinson's disease and healthy aging From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Mon Jan 7 09:10:31 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 09:10:31 -0500 Subject: [BIC-announce] TODAY'S BIC SEMINAR , MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 2008, PET Studies of Parkinson's disease and healthy aging Message-ID: BIC SEMINAR SERIES **** TODAY'S BIC SEMINAR **** Date: Monday, January 7, 2008 Time: 1:00 P.M. Place: de Grandpre Communications Centre Speaker: Dr. Paul Cumming Title: PET Studies of Parkinson's disease and healthy aging 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/20080107/19b242f3/attachment.html From belinda.preziosi at mcgill.ca Mon Jan 7 10:53:36 2008 From: belinda.preziosi at mcgill.ca (Belinda Preziosi, Ms.) Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 10:53:36 -0500 Subject: [BIC-announce] REMINDER - PROTOCOLS FOR SUBMISSION Message-ID: ________________________________ From: Belinda Preziosi, Ms. Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2007 10:09 AM To: BIC Mailing List (bic-announce at bic.mni.mcgill.ca) Subject: PROTOCOLS FOR SUBMISSION Importance: High To: B.I.C. Personnel From: Belinda Preziosi Date: December 20th, 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 Tuesday, January 8th, 2008 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. Happy Holidays and Best Wishes for 2008! 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 MUHC Endocrinology, Diabetes, Nutrition and Renal Diseases Research Axis Divisions of Endocrinology and Nephrology Seminar Series "The genetic basis of frontotemporal lobe dementias; tau and progranulin, a 10 Year Saga of Two Mutated Genes on chr17q21 that Produce Overlapping Clinical Syndromes" Dr. Michael Hutton Senior Director, Neuroscience Drug Discovery, Merck Research Laboratories, Boston Thursday, January 10th, 2008 at 4:30 p.m. in the JSL Browne Amphitheatre, Room M3.01, Royal Victoria Hospital For more information, please contact Dr Andrew Bateman, RVH 514 9341934 35833; andrew.bateman at muhc.mcgill.ca. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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: MNI-AAA [mailto:MNI-AAA at LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Filomena Lumia, Mrs. Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 8:45 AM To: MNI-AAA at LISTS.MCGILL.CA Subject: FW: Reminder: Thursday, 10 January 2008 - Orientation for New Postdoctoral Scholars Hello Ladies, Please circulate this email to all new Postdoctoral Fellows in your unit. Thanks Fil Ms. Fil Lumia Personnel Liaison Officer MNI 3801 University Street Room 636 Montreal, QC, H3A 2B4 (514) 398-8998 (telephone) (514) 398-8248 (fax) ________________________________ From: PostDoc-Contacts in Depts/Units/Hospitals at McGill [mailto:POSTDOC-CONTACTS at LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Martine Eggeman Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 4:24 PM To: POSTDOC-CONTACTS at LISTS.MCGILL.CA Subject: Reminder: Thursday, 10 January 2008 - Orientation for New Postdoctoral Scholars (Reminder) Orientation for NEW Postdoctoral Scholars Date: Thursday, January 10, 2008, Time: 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. Location: Ballroom, Thomson House (3650 McTavish Street) This session is intended for all Postdoctoral Scholars new to the University since September 2007, as well as anyone who wasn't able to attend the Postdoctoral University Orientation held in September 2007. http://www.mcgill.ca/firstyear/orientation/graduate/ ________________________________ From: PostDocs - Post-Doctoral Fellows at McGill [mailto:POSTDOCS at LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Martine Eggeman Sent: 21 d?cembre 2007 12:48 To: POSTDOCS at LISTS.MCGILL.CA Subject: January 2008 - Orientation for New Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars QUERIES SHOULD BE DIRECTED TO: Leslie Copeland, First-Year Coordinator First-Year Office, McGill University Brown Student Services, Suite 2100 3600 McTavish Street Montreal, QC H3A 1Y2 Phone: 514-398-6913 / 2385 Fax: 514-398-6944 MESSAGE FOR ALL NEWLY ADMITTED GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL STUDIES SCHOLARS University Orientation is an important "Don't Miss" information session for ALL students starting their studies at McGill. This is where you will receive your "Discover McGill" package containing important information and resource material that you will want to have on hand. University Orientation consists of presentations made by the Executive Director of Services for Students, the Dean of Students, the Dean of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies as well as representatives from the Post Graduate Students' Society or the Macdonald Campus Graduate Students' Society, respectively. It is strongly recommended that NEW graduate students and NEW postdoctoral scholars attend the appropriate University Orientation session listed below. For NEW Graduate Students on the Macdonald Campus Date: Thursday, January 3, 2008 Time: 5:30-6:45 p.m. Location: CC-160, Centennial Centre, Macdonald Campus This session is intended for all January 2008 admitted graduate students. For NEW Graduate Students on the Downtown Campus Date: Tuesday, January 8, 2008 Time: 5:00-6:00 p.m. Location: Ballroom, Thomson House (3650 McTavish Street) This session is intended for all January 2008 admitted graduate students. For NEW Postdoctoral Scholars Date: Thursday, January 10, 2008 Time: 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. Location: Ballroom, Thomson House (3650 McTavish Street) This session is intended for all Postdoctoral Scholars new to the University since September 2007, as well as anyone who wasn't able to attend the Postdoctoral University Orientation held in September 2007. Also for your information, please note the following: First-Year Office - First time at McGill? The First-Year Office is a service for everyone new at McGill. The First-Year Office is here to help make the transition to McGill's academic and social networks as smooth as possible by providing pertinent information and links to a range of support mechanisms across campus from one central location. The First-Year Office is in the Brown Student Services Building, Suite 2100, 3600 McTavish Street. Phone: 514-398-6913 Email: firstyear at mcgill.ca Visit our web site at: www.mcgill.ca/firstyear First-Year Resource Room - The First-Year Resource Room is equipped with phone lines and Internet connections for students still getting set-up and/or who'd like help with Minerva course registration, setting up your McGill email account or updating your personal information. Situated in the First-Year Office, the FY Resource Room operates Monday to Friday in room 2100 of the Brown Student Services Building, 3600 McTavish Street and is open from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., from January 3-15, 2008. Academic Study Skills Workshop - If you are an incoming "mature" graduate student, i.e., someone who has been away from regular full-time university studies for a while, you may want to consider attending our Academic Skills Development Workshop. This free, half-day workshop will provide techniques to improve reading efficiency, note-taking skills and writing of papers, as well as preparation for exams. It will also provide you with an opportunity to meet and network with other mature students. This workshop will take place on Saturday, January 12, 2008 from 13:00 to 17:00. Make your reservation by calling the First-Year Office at 514-398-6913. Space is limited so first come, first served. First-Year Essentials - Looking for information on banks around campus, cost of living, cell phone providers or daycares? Take a minute to browse this on-line resource for a wealth of information on a variety of topics from academic links to second hand shopping locations for clothing and books. Check out First-Year Essentials at www.firstyear.mcgill.ca/essentials -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We investigated the effect of dopamine (DA) receptor activation on glutamate N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) currents in LA projection neurons in amygdala slices. We found that DA reduces NMDAR currents in an additive manner through the activation of both D1-like and D2-like receptors. The reduction of NMDAR currents by D1-like receptor activation is mediated by a protein-protein interaction between the D1R and the NMDAR, while the regulation of NMDAR activity by D2-like receptors is elicited through a G-protein-dependent pathway controlled by D4R. Our study shows for the first time a functional interplay between D1R and D4R that mediates coincident G-protein-independent and dependent regulation of NMDARs, a cellular process potentially compromised in neuropsychiatric disorders. Dr. Marzia Martina obtained her Ph.D. in Human Physiology in 1999 at the Universit? degli Studi di Milano (Italy) working on the modulatory effects of dopamine on high voltage activated (HVA) calcium channels in sensory neurones. Between 1999 and 2001, Dr. Martina completed a postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Denis Par? at the Department of Physiology, Laval University, in Qu?bec City where she studied the physiological and networking properties of central and intercalated neurons in the amygdala. During that time, she also investigated the propagation of neocortical inputs in the perirhinal cortex. Since 2001, she has been working mainly in collaboration with Dr. Richard Bergeron at the Ottawa Health Research Institute first as the recipient of a postdoctoral fellowship from the Canadian Institute for Health Research before being appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Ottawa in July 2006. Her work focuses on the electrophysiological effects of D-amino acids on NMDA receptors, the mechanism regulating the release of D-amino acids as well as their implication in synaptic transmission and plasticity in the hippocampus. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/bic-announce/attachments/20080109/ce7f93f5/attachment.html From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Fri Jan 11 11:06:36 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:06:36 -0500 Subject: [BIC-announce] NO BIC SEMINAR ON MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 2008 Message-ID: T HERE WILL BE NO BIC SEMINAR ON MONDAY, JANYARY 14, 2008. BIC SEMINAR SERIES Date: Time: Place: Speaker: Title: 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/20080111/9997500a/attachment.html From ekaterini.klepousniotou at mail.mcgill.ca Fri Jan 11 16:03:30 2008 From: ekaterini.klepousniotou at mail.mcgill.ca (Ekaterini Klepousniotou, Ms) Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:03:30 -0500 Subject: [BIC-announce] Research Assistant Opportunity - Study of Vocal Emotion Processing Message-ID: <87016016B286AD429079D616EA89E51E3A0DC7@EXCHANGE2VS4.campus.mcgill.ca> Research Assistant Opportunity - Study of Vocal Emotion Processing A part-time research assistant is needed for a study of the vocal processing of emotions in speech (8-10 hours/week, $16/hour, flexible schedule possible). Must have experience running fMRI experiments and analyzing data using fMRIstat or comparable software. This is a temporary position for the winter 2008 semester (beginning mid/late January until the end of April 2008) but with the possibility of extension if desired. If interested, please email your CV and a short cover letter to Dr. Marc Pell (marc.pell at mcgill.ca). For more information about this research programme, visit www.mcgill.ca/pell_lab. * * * * * * * Marc D. Pell, PhD Associate Professor, William Dawson Scholar McGill University/School of Communication Sciences & Disorders 1266, ave. des Pins Ouest, Montreal (Qc) CANADA tel: (514) 398 4133; fax: (514) 398 8123; web: www.mcgill.ca/pell_lab ************************************************ Ekaterini Klepousniotou, PhD Postdoctoral Research Fellow Centre for Research on Language, Mind and Brain McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Room WB325 Montreal Neurological Institute McGill University 3801 University Street Montreal, Qc H3A 2B4 Canada Tel: (514) 398-8547 From siddiqi at cim.mcgill.ca Sun Jan 13 21:02:06 2008 From: siddiqi at cim.mcgill.ca (Kaleem Siddiqi) Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:02:06 -0500 Subject: [BIC-announce] Fwd: Post doc and senior award positions in Paris. References: <475FCCE6.7010504@ceremade.dauphine.fr> Message-ID: FYI, -Kaleem http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~siddiqi Begin forwarded message: > From: Cohen Laurent > Date: December 12, 2007 6:58:30 AM EST (CA) > To: Cohen Laurent > Subject: Post doc and senior award positions in Paris. > > These post doc and senior award research positions maybe of > interest for yourself or one of your colleagues in your lab. > Ceremade, and in particular my group on applied math and image > analysis, > is among the 10 labs included in the program described below, > where this position could take place. > best regards > > Laurent Cohen > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Laurent Cohen > Directeur de Recherche > CEREMADE, UMR CNRS 7534, Universite Paris Dauphine Place du > Marechal de Lattre de Tassigny 75775 Paris cedex 16, France > Tel. (33-1) 44 05 46 78 Fax (33-1) 44 05 45 99 > mailto:Cohen at ceremade.dauphine.fr > Home Page: http://www.ceremade.dauphine.fr/~cohen > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > >>>> >>>> With this message, I want to advertise for two of the major >>>> programs of the >>>> Mathematical Sciences of Paris Foundation. This Foundation, >>>> which federates >>>> 10 labs in the center of Paris, has been recently created to >>>> promote and fund >>>> mathematical research.(see >>>> www.sciencesmaths-paris.fr >>>> ) >>>> >>>> The postdoctoral program: >>>> The call for proposals is open to French, but also and mainly to >>>> foreign >>>> mathematicians. It consists in 15 positions in all fields of >>>> mathematical >>>> sciences, including theoretical computer sciences. Concerning major >>>> institutions, particularly from US, we are also interested in >>>> receiving >>>> applications from some postdocs who want to spend one year, >>>> probably the second >>>> one, of their three-year postdoc in one of the labs of the >>>> Foundation. >>>> Considering the intense scientific activity around the >>>> Foundation, we think >>>> such a position would be for a young researcher a great >>>> experience of real >>>> benefit at the early stage of a scientific carreer. >>>> The salary is 2500 euros, including health insurance and social >>>> coverage. >>>> >>>> The Foundation's award : >>>> It consists of a prize of 10.000 euros awarded to a young >>>> mathematician. We >>>> expect candidates with outstanding research records, at the >>>> level of assistant >>>> professor position or tenure track position (around the French >>>> habilitation). >>>> The award winner will have a research position for one year in >>>> one of the lab >>>> of the Foundation and give a topic graduate course of 20 hours >>>> during its year >>>> of residence in France. The salary is 2500 euros, including >>>> health insurance, >>>> social coverage and housing in the center of Paris. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/bic-announce/attachments/20080113/9250fd1b/attachment.html From belinda.preziosi at mcgill.ca Mon Jan 14 10:52:20 2008 From: belinda.preziosi at mcgill.ca (Belinda Preziosi, Ms.) Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 10:52:20 -0500 Subject: [BIC-announce] PROTOCOLS FOR SUBMISSION Message-ID: To: B.I.C. Personnel From: Belinda Preziosi Date: January 14th, 2008 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 Thursday, January 24th, 2008 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... URL: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/bic-announce/attachments/20080114/9f6e8c80/attachment-0001.html From vincent.gracco at mcgill.ca Tue Jan 15 21:02:43 2008 From: vincent.gracco at mcgill.ca (Vincent Gracco) Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 21:02:43 -0500 Subject: [BIC-announce] CRLMB talk this Friday Message-ID: <9F30D67F-6A05-48D0-B9B9-CCE54EC9B4A8@mcgill.ca> Dr. John Rothwell from the Institute of Neurology, University College London will be giving a CRLMB talk this Friday January 18 at 1:30 PM. Dr. Rothwell is one of the leading experts in the use of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and has pioneered its use to study cortical connectivity. His talk is in room 1034, McIntyre Medical Building and is titled "Reorganization of motor networks after stroke". Here is the abstract: Reorganisation of motor circuits in the cerebral cortex is thought to contribute to recovery following stroke. Indeed, the consequences can be observed as changes in the pattern of metabolic activity accompanying simple motor tasks in imaging studies using fMRI and PET. I will show how it is possible to use transcranial magnetic stimulation together with functional imaging methods to investigate how such changes occur, how they develop in the weeks and months after the insult, and how they relate to changing patterns of organisation that can be induced in healthy normal subjects by temporary interference with function of selected motor circuits. Recent work has also focussed on attempts to manipulate recovery and promote maximal functional benefit using transcranial stimulation as a therapeutic intervention. I will review these studies and assess the potential use of rTMS in rehabilitation. Vincent L. Gracco, Ph. D. McGill University Faculty of Medicine School of Communication Sciences & Disorders 1266 Pine Avenue West Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3G 1A8 Telephone: (514) 398-7386 Fax: (514) 398-8123 E-mail: vincent.gracco at mcgill.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/bic-announce/attachments/20080115/b58d52c4/attachment.html From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Wed Jan 16 09:14:46 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:14:46 -0500 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: REMINDER - Special Lecture Today, Wednesday, Jan. 16 - Interaction between Dopamine & NMDA receptor in the Amygdala Message-ID: PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER SPECIAL LECTURE Martina Marzia, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Psychiatry University of Ottawa Interaction between Dopamine & NMDA receptor in the Amygdala Wednesday January 16, 2008 4:00 pm W201-Killam Conference Room Abstract of the talk: The baso-lateral amygdala (BLA) plays an important role in cognitive and emotional processes. Glutamatergic and dopaminergic afferents to the lateral nucleus (LA) of the BLA regulate amygdala activity through cellular mechanisms that are not well understood. We investigated the effect of dopamine (DA) receptor activation on glutamate N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) currents in LA projection neurons in amygdala slices. We found that DA reduces NMDAR currents in an additive manner through the activation of both D1-like and D2-like receptors. The reduction of NMDAR currents by D1-like receptor activation is mediated by a protein-protein interaction between the D1R and the NMDAR, while the regulation of NMDAR activity by D2-like receptors is elicited through a G-protein-dependent pathway controlled by D4R. Our study shows for the first time a functional interplay between D1R and D4R that mediates coincident G-protein-independent and dependent regulation of NMDARs, a cellular process potentially compromised in neuropsychiatric disorders. Dr. Marzia Martina obtained her Ph.D. in Human Physiology in 1999 at the Universit? degli Studi di Milano (Italy) working on the modulatory effects of dopamine on high voltage activated (HVA) calcium channels in sensory neurones. Between 1999 and 2001, Dr. Martina completed a postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Denis Par? at the Department of Physiology, Laval University, in Qu?bec City where she studied the physiological and networking properties of central and intercalated neurons in the amygdala. During that time, she also investigated the propagation of neocortical inputs in the perirhinal cortex. Since 2001, she has been working mainly in collaboration with Dr. Richard Bergeron at the Ottawa Health Research Institute first as the recipient of a postdoctoral fellowship from the Canadian Institute for Health Research before being appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Ottawa in July 2006. Her work focuses on the electrophysiological effects of D-amino acids on NMDA receptors, the mechanism regulating the release of D-amino acids as well as their implication in synaptic transmission and plasticity in the hippocampus. From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Mon Jan 21 10:59:17 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:59:17 -0500 Subject: [BIC-announce] Opening for 5 Ph.D. Positions. Message-ID: PLEASE SEE THE ANNOUNCEMENT BELOW. JENNIFER ________________________________ From: Tal Arbel [mailto:arbel at cim.mcgill.ca] Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 10:42 AM To: Jennifer Chew, Ms. Here is the HTML version... PhD positions available Project title: Automatic Tissue and Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Identification in Medical Images The team: Prof. Tal Arbel, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Prof. Louis Collins, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering Dr. Doug Arnold, Dept. of Neurology and Neurosurgery, NeuroRx We are pleased to announce the opening of 5 PhD positions in the research groups of Prof. Tal Arbel and Prof. Louis Collins, and in collaboration with Prof. Doug Arnold and NeuroRx, starting immediately. The PhD projects will involve the development of automatic techniques to accurately identify tissues and lesions in medical images (e.g. MRI) from patients with Multiple Sclerosis (MS). These exciting, interdisciplinary projects will involve theoretical development at both the Centre for Intelligent Machines (CIM), McGill University under the supervision of Prof. Tal Arbel, and at the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI), under the supervision of Prof. Louis Collins and through collaboration with Dr. Arnold, neurologist at the MNI with an extensive expertise in MS. Validation and testing on real patient data through an industrial partner, NeuroRx, which has a database of over 15,000 image volumes of patients with MS. For more information, please see: http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/~arbel/grad_studies/PhD-MS.html -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- 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 ======================================================================== === -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/bic-announce/attachments/20080121/5bdd2419/attachment.html From belinda.preziosi at mcgill.ca Mon Jan 21 11:00:54 2008 From: belinda.preziosi at mcgill.ca (Belinda Preziosi, Ms.) Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:00:54 -0500 Subject: [BIC-announce] REMINDER - PROTOCOLS FOR SUBMISSION Message-ID: To: B.I.C. Personnel From: Belinda Preziosi Date: January 21st, 2008 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 Thursday, January 24th, 2008 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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URL: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/bic-announce/attachments/20080121/0d88d80a/attachment-0001.html From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Tue Jan 22 09:34:37 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:34:37 -0500 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Killam Lecture - Today - Movement Molecules, Molecular Pathways of Motor System Disease Message-ID: PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. JENNIFER ________________________________ From: MNISTAFF - Montreal Neurological Institute Staff [mailto:MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Enza Ferracane, Ms. Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 8:50 AM To: MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA Subject: Killam Lecture - Today *****REMINDER***** KILLAM LECTURE Speaker: Willam Dauer, MD, Departments of Neurology and Pharmacology, Columbia University Neurological Institute of New York Title: Movement Molecules, Molecular Pathways of Motor System Disease Date: January 22, 2008 Time: 4:00 pm Place: de Grandpre Communications Centre ------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleagues, The Killam speaker this week will be Dr William Dauer from Columbia University. Bill studies the molecular and cellular mechanisms of diseases that disrupt the motor system. His primary focus is on Parkinson's disease and DYT1 dystonia. For each of these projects, they focus their efforts on disease genes that cause these disorders, employing a range of molecular, cellular, and whole animal studies to dissect the normal role of disease proteins, and how pathogenic mutations lead to disease. Recent work includes understanding the functions of LRRK2 in PARK8-linked Parkinson's disease. Bill's group also discovered that the DYT1 dystonia-causing torsinA mutation produces a dramatic re-localization of torsinA from the endoplasmic reticulum to the nuclear envelope where it is likely to be a key factor in disease pathogenesis. His recent papers include: Weisstaub NV et al. Cortical 5-HT2A receptor signaling modulates anxiety-like behaviors in mice. Science. 2006 Jul 28;313(5786):536-40. Goodchild RE, Kim CE, Dauer WT. Loss of the dystonia-associated protein torsinA selectively disrupts the neuronal nuclear envelope. Neuron. 2005 Dec 22;48(6):923-32. Goodchild RE, Dauer WT. The AAA+ protein torsinA interacts with a conserved domain present in LAP1 and a novel ER protein. J Cell Biol. 2005 Mar 14;168(6):855-62. Stefanis L, Wang Q, Oo T, Lang-Rollin I, Burke RE, Dauer WT. Lack of alpha-synuclein does not alter apoptosis of neonatal catecholaminergic neurons. Eur J Neurosci. 2004 Oct;20(7):1969-72. Goodchild RE, Dauer WT. Mislocalization to the nuclear envelope: an effect of the dystonia-causing torsinA mutation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 Jan 20;101(3):847-52. Bill is a very engaging speaker. Please join us for what promises to be a very interesting seminar. Ted ------------------------- Edward A. Fon, MD, FRCP(C) Killam Scholar Montreal Neurological Institute Associate Professor McGill University Office: (514) 398-8398 Lab: (514) 398-5057 Fax: (514) 398-5214 ted.fon at mcgill.ca http://www.mni.mcgill.ca/neuro_team/neuronal_survival/edward_fon/ Enza Ferracane Montreal Neurological Institute 3801 University Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4 Director's Office, Rm 636 (514) 398-1903 From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Tue Jan 22 09:40:04 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:40:04 -0500 Subject: [BIC-announce] NEXT BIC SEMINAR ON MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 2008 - Group registration and variance-based clustering for surface analysis of cortical measurements Message-ID: BIC SEMINAR SERIES Date: Monday, January 28, 2008 Time: 1:00 P.M. Place: de Grandpre Communications Centre Speaker: Oliver Lyttelton, Montreal Neurological Institute Title: Group registration and variance-based clustering for surface analysis of cortical measurements 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/20080122/669db903/attachment.html From janine.mendola at mcgill.ca Tue Jan 22 17:09:21 2008 From: janine.mendola at mcgill.ca (Janine Mendola) Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:09:21 -0500 Subject: [BIC-announce] users for new fMRI equipment Message-ID: <13555A42-857E-44D7-9469-A18C4B5F3CC2@mcgill.ca> Dear Brain Imaging Colleagues, I am a relatively new faculty member that joined the Vision Research Group in Ophthalmology. I am proposing a couple major pieces of fMRI-related equipment in a CFI grant application. I wondered if other BIC users might be interested/benefit from this equipment and would be willing to be listed as potential users on my application. 1. Avotec System - fMRI compatible visual stimulus presentation that provides 1.) dual fiberoptic periscopes; 2.) built-in optical correction; and 3.) binocular real-time eye tracking. Beyond the eye tracking, the most obvious application is the ability to present realistic 3D stimuli, or study other aspects of binocular vision. 2. Simulated MRI Environment (Mock Magnet) with head motion tracking/ training. This is especially useful for studies of children or other ?delicate? populations. The vendor is Psychology Software Tools in Pittsburgh, USA. cheers, -Janine ---------------------------------------------------- Janine Mendola, Ph.D. Associate Professor McGill Vision Research Dept. of Ophthalmology 687 Pine Avenue West, Rm. 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Place: de Grandpre Communications Centre Speaker: Oliver Lyttelton, Montreal Neurological Institute Title: Group registration and variance-based clustering for surface analysis of cortical measurements 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/20080125/ebac8a35/attachment.html From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Fri Jan 25 16:01:18 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:01:18 -0500 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Killam Lecture - Tuesday, January 29, 2008 - Multimodality Imaging of Alzheimer's disease: The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative Message-ID: PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER Killam Lecture Speaker: Michael W. Weiner, MD Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Disease VA Medical Center San Francisco, CA Title: ________________________________ Multimodality Imaging of Alzheimer's disease: The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative Date: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 Place: W201-Killam Conference Room Time: 4:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------- Enza Ferracane Montreal Neurological Institute 3801 University Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4 Director's Office, Rm 636 (514) 398-1903 From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Mon Jan 28 09:15:49 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:15:49 -0500 Subject: [BIC-announce] TODAY'S BIC SEMINAR - MONDAY, JANUARY 28, 2008 - Group registration and variance-based clustering for surfaceanalysis of cortical measurements Message-ID: TODAY'S BIC SEMINAR BIC SEMINAR SERIES Date: Monday, January 28, 2008 Time: 1:00 P.M. Place: de Grandpre Communications Centre Speaker: Oliver Lyttelton, Montreal Neurological Institute Title: Group registration and variance-based clustering for surface analysis of cortical measurements 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/20080128/0bfcae9a/attachment.html From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Mon Jan 28 16:06:58 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:06:58 -0500 Subject: [BIC-announce] NO BIC SEMINAR - MONDAY, February 4, 2008 Message-ID: PLEASE NOTE: There will be no BIC Seminar next Monday, February 4, 2008. Thank you. Jennifer BIC SEMINAR SERIES Date: Time: Place: Speaker: Title: 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/20080128/98cbab72/attachment.html From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Tue Jan 29 09:22:10 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:22:10 -0500 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Killam Lecture - TODAY - Multimodal Imaging of Alzheimer's disease: The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative Message-ID: PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER *****REMINDER***** Killam Lecture Speaker: Michael W. Weiner, MD Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Disease VA Medical Center San Francisco, CA Title: Multimodality Imaging of Alzheimer's disease: The Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative Date: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 Place: W201-Killam Conference Room Time: 4:00 PM -------------------------------------------------------- Enza Ferracane Montreal Neurological Institute 3801 University Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4 Director's Office, Rm 636 (514) 398-1903 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/bic-announce/attachments/20080129/fb0585ab/attachment.html From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Tue Jan 29 10:49:09 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:49:09 -0500 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Neuropsychology Day - May 26 Message-ID: FOR YOUR INFORMATION. Jennifer NEUROPSYCHOLOGY DAY, MAY 26, 2008 2:00-4:00 p.m. Poster Presentations by members of the Neuropsychology/Cognitive Neuroscience Unit Foyer of the Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre 4:30 p.m. The 11th Annual Brenda Milner Lecture in Cognitive Neuroscience Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre Stanislas Dehaene, Ph.D. Professor, Coll?ge de France Chair, Experimental Cognitive Psychology Director, INSERM-CEA Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit Saclay, France Is the brain massively parallel or single-core? Frontal lobe, dual-task and the limits of human consciousness From atsuko at bic.mni.mcgill.ca Wed Jan 30 15:14:15 2008 From: atsuko at bic.mni.mcgill.ca (Atsuko Nagano) Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 15:14:15 -0500 Subject: [BIC-announce] PET cancellation Message-ID: <16761c140801301214n650607aas1e77749960713e30@mail.gmail.com> Hi all, My subject canceled for tomorrow PET slot, starting at 1pm. Please contact Stacey if you can use it. Atsuko From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Thu Jan 31 11:43:04 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:43:04 -0500 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Special Lecture on Friday February 8, 2008 at 1:00 pm - Progress and Challenges of Multimodal Imaging using MEG, EEG, MRI, & fMRI Message-ID: PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER SPECIAL LECTURE Matti S. H?m?l?inen, PhD Director, MEG Core Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA Progress and Challenges of Multimodal Imaging using MEG, EEG, MRI, & fMRI Friday February 8, 2008 1:00 pm de Grandpr? Communications Centre Abstract of lecture: Independently, electromagnetic and hemodynamic measurements of brain activity offer compromises between spatial and temporal resolution. fMRI is temporally limited by the slow time course of the hemodynamic response, but can provide a spatial sampling on a millimeter scale. EEG and MEG in turn provide a temporal resolution of milliseconds, but the localization of sources is more complicated because of the ill-posed electromagnetic inverse problem. Elucidating the spatial distribution and temporal orchestration of human brain regions is thus facilitated by combining information provided by both anatomical and functional MRI with EEG/MEG data. It was recognized very early on by the MEG researchers that the spatiotemporal distribution of the magnetic field can be used to estimate the sources of the underlying brain activity. This information can be integrated with anatomical MRI data to associate the source locations with anatomical structures. Such a combination of the two methods has been often called Magnetic Source Imaging (MSI). In addition, anatomical MRI date are now employed routinely to delineate boundaries between regions of different electrical conductivities for forward field computations, to restrict the locations and orientations of the sources, and in advanced visualization techniques involving three-dimensional renderings of the cortical mantle and other structures. The fusion of electromagnetic and hemodynamic data is still in its infancy. In the presently available modeling methods, this is usually accomplished by confining the sources to the cortical gray matter and by computing a distributed current estimate with a stronger a priori weighting at locations with significant fMRI activity. More elaborate methods which attempt to model the two data sets jointly under a common framework are also emerging. Furthermore, basic studies which aim at understanding the relationship between the hemodynamic and electromagnetic signals are ongoing and will eventually result in physiologically motivated rather than partly heuristic source estimation models. Rather surprisingly, relatively little effort has been devoted to combination of MEG with EEG, its most obvious companion. This has been due to difficulties in collecting both types of data simultaneously with truly indentical preprocessing and to challenges in combined modelling of the two data sets. Presently, many laboratories are collecting MEG and EEG data simultaneously and exploring source models which incorporate the two types of data. Both simulations and analyses of actual data sets have shown that the combination of these two methods yields more reliable estimates of the sources than using one modality alone. Furthermore, these studies indicate that the improvement is not due to the increased number of measurement channels but is attributable to the different sensitivities of MEG and EEG to the cerebral current sources. Short biography: Matti H?m?l?inen joined the neuromagnetism group, now known as the Brain Research Unit (BRU), at the Low Temperature Laboratory of Helsinki University of Technology (HUT) in 1981 and received his MSc and PhD degrees in 1983 and 1989, respectively. Throughout his scientific career his main research interest has been the source analysis of bioelectromagnetic measurements and the combination of MEG and EEG with other imaging methods, most notably MRI and fMRI. H?m?l?inen's about 80 peer-reviewed publications include several seminal results on MEG analysis methods and instrumentation and he has delivered more than 20 invited talks in international conferences. His findings include the introduction of minimum-norm approach for estimating the sources of MEG signals, introduction of the Bayesian statistical approach to MEG source estimation, and a novel and since then widely used approach to avoid numerical instability in the solution of the MEG/EEG forward problem with the boundary-element method. He was also a member of the core team developing the 122-channel and 306-channel whole-head neuromagnetometers in Helsinki. Together with his coworkers, he received the Innovation Prize of the Finnish National Fund for Research and Development in 1992 and The Finnish Engineering Prize in 1996. H?m?l?inen has also been an active collaborator in numerous neuroscientific research projects in which MEG has been applied to reveal functional organization of the human brain. The H-index of his publications is 34, which indicates a very strong influence of his work on the scientific community. Together with his colleagues, Matti H?m?l?inen published in 1993 a seminal review article on MEG in Reviews of Modern Physics, which has attracted more than 1000 citations. From the beginning of 2001 he has been working at the Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. At present he is the Director of the MEG core at the Martinos Center and Associate Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School. His current research interests include the development of anatomically-constrained source estimation methods, combination of electromagnetic source imaging with fMRI and NIRS, as well as frequency-domain and coherence analysis of MEG and EEG data. -----