[BIC-announce] [TODAY] BIC Lecture Series (Tue-June-25, 1:00 pm, de Grandpré Communications Centre; Ms. Rebecca Williams -- "Diffusion-Weighted MRI: A Non-BOLD Contrast for Functional Brain Imaging")

Tue Jun 25 10:06:02 EDT 2013

*BIC Lecture Series*

The BIC Lecture
Series<http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/Seminars/BICLectureSeries>
features
informal lectures on brain imaging presented at the McConnell Brain Imaging
Centre <http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/Main/HomePage> (*BIC*) by experts in
the field.  These lectures are open to all.

Please join us for our last BIC Lecture of the season, which will be held
in The Neuro's de Grandpré Communications
Centre<http://neuromedia.mcgill.ca/mnibooking/facdirections/dgccdir.htm>
 (3801
University Street, Montreal, QC, H3A 2B4)* *on *Tuesday, June the 25th,
starting at 1:00 pm**.*
*
*
*At that time, **Ms. Rebecca Willams
<http://www.cai.uq.edu.au/williams>will discuss the use of
**diffusion-weighted MRI as a non-BOLD contrast for functional brain
imaging.*

Cheers!
Aki

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*BIC Lecture Series: Winter-2013 Program
**BIC Lectures are typically held on Mondays at 1:00 pm in the de Grandpré
Communications Centre of The Neuro.
**For more information and links to the presentations as they become
available, please visit the BIC Lecture
website<http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/Seminars/BICLectureSeries>
.*

01) Feb-11:  *Nature versus Nurture: Contributions Towards Healthy
Cognition from Childhood to Senescence in Mice and Humans* -- Dr. Veronique
Bohbot <http://www.douglas.qc.ca/researcher/veronique-bohbot?locale=en>
02) Feb-18:  *Functional Brain Plasticity Induced by Musical Training* -- Dr.
Sibylle Herholz<http://www.uni-muenster.de/OCCMuenster/phd-students/sibylle-herholz.html>
03) Feb-25:  *Optimization of the PET Detector Blocks for a Small-Animal
PET Scanning Insert for Simultaneous PET/MRI* -- Dr. Chris
Thompson<http://www.mni.mcgill.ca/neuro_team/mbic/christopher_thompson/>

04) Mar-01:  *Lactate Links Brain Energy Metabolism to Cerebral Blood Flow*
 -- Dr. Albert Gjedde<http://www.bric.ku.dk/staff_dynamic/staff/description/?id=52543&f=2>
05) Mar-04:  *Multi-Manifold Diffeomorphic Metric Mapping for Cortical
Registration: Applications in Structural and Functional Studies of the Brain
* -- Dr.  <http://koskilab.mcgill.ca/people.html#JZ>Jidan
Zhong<http://koskilab.mcgill.ca/people.html#JZ>
06) Mar-11:  *Auditory-Motor Control of Singing* -- Dr.
<https://files.nyu.edu/jmz2039/public/>Jean
Mary Zarate <https://files.nyu.edu/jmz2039/public/>
07) Mar-18:  *The Brain on TED* -- Mr. Benjamin
Elgie<http://www.mcgill.ca/graccolab/people#BENJAMIN>
08) Mar-25:  *Glimpses Into Consciousness From the Ways We Lose It* -- Dr.
George Kostopoulos<http://physiology.med.upatras.gr/NU/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9&catid=6&Itemid=16>

---) Apr-01:  *No Lecture: Easter Monday*
09) Apr-08:  *The Brain on TED, 2* -- Mr. Benjamin
Elgie<http://www.mcgill.ca/graccolab/people#BENJAMIN>
---) Apr-15:  *No Lecture: Neuropsychology Day*
---) Apr-22:  *No Lecture: ISMRM Conference*
---) Apr-29:  *No Lecture*

 10) May-06:  *PET Imaging: Recent Research Highlights in Reconstruction
and Analysis* -- Dr. Andrew
Reader<http://www.mni.mcgill.ca/neuro_team/mbic/andrew_reader/>
11) Wed-May-08_4pm:  *Statistical Detection and Reproducibility Issues in
Brain Imaging Genetics Methods* -- Dr.
<http://scholar.google.com/citations?sortby=pubdate&hl=en&user=BU7Zdi4AAAAJ&view_op=list_works>Jean-Baptiste
Poline<http://scholar.google.com/citations?sortby=pubdate&hl=en&user=BU7Zdi4AAAAJ&view_op=list_works>
12) May-13:  *Impaired Structural Correlates of Memory in a Mouse Model of
Alzheimer’s Disease* -- Dr. Aman Badhwar
---) May-20:  *No Lecture: Victoria Day*
13) May-27:  *Brain Fuel Metabolism in Aging and Mild Alzheimer’s Disease:
Comparison of 18F-FDG with a Novel PET Ketone tracer -- 11C-Acetoacetate*
 -- Dr. Stephen
Cunnane<http://www.usherbrooke.ca/dep-medecine/recherche/professeurs-ayant-des-activites-de-recherche/endocrinologie/pr-stephen-cunnane/>

---) Jun-03: *No Lecture*
---) Jun-10: *No Lecture*
14) Jun-17: *Elucidating Consciousness with the Light of Philosophy,
Biology, and Physics -- *Ms. Jennifer Goldman
15) *Tue*-Jun-25: *Diffusion-Weighted MRI: A Non-BOLD Contrast for
Functional Brain Imaging* -- Ms. Rebecca
Williams<http://www.cai.uq.edu.au/williams>

-- 
Zografos Caramanos, M.A.

Research Assistant, Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Unit
Ph.D. Student, Integrated Program in Neuroscience

McConnell Brain Imaging Centre,
Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University
3801 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2B4
(phone) 514-299-8160;  (fax) 514-398-2975
(e-mail) zografos.caramanos at mcgill.ca<https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=zografos.caramanos@mcgill.ca>
(web)  Google-scholar<http://scholar.google.ca/citations?sortby=pubdate&hl=en&user=BcVBulQAAAAJ&view_op=list_works>
   www.zcaramanos.com
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