From christophe.grova at mcgill.ca Wed May 1 10:17:06 2013 From: christophe.grova at mcgill.ca (Christophe Grova) Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 14:17:06 +0000 Subject: [BIC-announce] Seminar in Biomedical Engineering - Wednesday May 1st - 1 pm - Room 333 In-Reply-To: <11979_1367347477_51801115_11979_294_8_9E1647EDA3EBB44AADA162CEC4C4222E019F4549@exmbx2010-9.campus.MCGILL.CA> References: <11979_1367347477_51801115_11979_294_8_9E1647EDA3EBB44AADA162CEC4C4222E019F4549@exmbx2010-9.campus.MCGILL.CA> Message-ID: <9E1647EDA3EBB44AADA162CEC4C4222E019F497A@exmbx2010-9.campus.MCGILL.CA> Dear all, Our next Biomedical Engineering Dpt seminar is today Wednesday - May 1st , at 1 pm Location: Room 333 Lyman Duff Building (Biomedical Engineering Dpt, 3775 University Street). Speaker: Dr. Ahmad Haidar Ph.D., Post-doctoral Fellow. Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montr?al (IRCM) Title: External Artificial Pancreas for Type 1 Diabetes: Modelling and Control Abstract: Type 1 diabetes is a chronic disease caused by an autoimmune destruction of pancreatic beta cells and is currently treated with life-long insulin-replacement therapy. Current treatment strategies do not achieve glycemic targets in most patients and glucose control remains problematic. An artificial pancreas is a long-awaited goal for diabetes and its development was recently triggered by advances in continuous glucose monitoring and insulin infusion pumps. In this talk, a novel bi-hormonal artificial pancreas system that delivers insulin and glucagon subcutaneously based on real-time glucose sensor readings as guided by a mathematical dosing algorithm will be presented. The algorithm is based on fuzzy-supervised model predictive controller combined with extended Kalman filtering and a set of heuristic rules. The artificial pancreas system was compared with conventional pump therapy in 15 adult patients utilizing a 15hrs randomized crossover trial. The artificial pancreas system significantly improved glucose control and reduced the risk of hypoglycemia. Clinical trials are an integral part of the development process but are time-consuming, resource demanding, and costly. Pre?clinical testing in a computer-simulation environment accelerates development and facilitates optimization of dosing algorithms. In this talk, a novel fully probabilistic method to generate stochastic virtual patients for the assessment of control algorithms will be presented. The method adopts a non-linear physiologically-motivated time-varying model of glucose regulation and uses Bayesian inference and Markov chain Monte Carlo methods to estimate individual parameters. The method performs one?to?one mapping of individual experimental data into stochastic virtual patients in a process termed ?stochastic e-cloning?. The talk will be concluded with an overview of future work in the field of artificial pancreas systems. A list of upcoming seminars can be found at : http://www.mcgill.ca/bme/news/seminars See you there Christophe Grova *************************** Christophe Grova, PhD Assistant Professor Biomedical Engineering Dpt Neurology and Neurosurgery Dpt Montreal Neurological Institute Centre de Recherches Math?matiques Biomedical Engineering Department - Room 304 McGill University 3775 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2B4 email : christophe.grova at mcgill.ca tel : (514) 398 2516 fax : (514) 398 7461 web: http://www.mni.mcgill.ca/research/gotman/members/christophe.html http://www.bmed.mcgill.ca/ *************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bruce.pike at mcgill.ca Wed May 1 19:05:28 2013 From: bruce.pike at mcgill.ca (G. Bruce Pike, Prof.) Date: Wed, 1 May 2013 23:05:28 +0000 Subject: [BIC-announce] Fwd: [IEEE SPS] DL talk by Prof. Yonina Eldar In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6DB337AD-BC34-4EDD-89B9-564BCA1F1DF7@mcgill.ca> FYI -- Bruce Pike MNI Begin forwarded message: From: "Fabrice Labeau, Prof." > Date: 1 May, 2013 4:29:04 PM EDT To: "Fabrice Labeau, Prof." > Cc: "Maru Basanez, Ms." >, "Jan Bajcsy, Prof." > Subject: RE: [IEEE SPS] DL talk by Prof. Yonina Eldar Dear colleagues, This is a reminder of the Distinguished Lecturer talk tomorrow by Prof. Yonina Eldar, as per the announcement below. If you intend to attend, please drop me an email if you have not done so yet, so we have an idea of how many attendees to expect. Thanks in advance -- Fabrice Labeau Electrical and Computer Engineering McGill University From: Fabrice Labeau, Prof. Sent: April-29-13 2:15 PM To: Fabrice Labeau, Prof. Cc: 'Yonina Eldar'; Roni Khazaka, Prof. (roni.khazaka at mcgill.ca); Seyed Kian Jalaleddini, Mr; anader.benyamin at ieee.org Subject: [IEEE SPS] DL talk by Prof. Yonina Eldar Dear colleagues, The IEEE Montreal Chapter on Signal Processing and the Center for advanced systems and technologies in communications (SYTACom) are cordially inviting all local IEEE members and all other interested engineers and students to the IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecture Defying Nyquist in Analog to Digital Conversion By Prof. Yonina Eldar Technion - Israel Institute of Technology DATE: Thursday May 2, 2013 TIME: 10:00am-11:30am PLACE: Room 603, McConnell Engineering Building, McGill University 3480 University St., Montreal QC H3A0E9 Access: http://www.mcgill.ca/maps/mcconnell-engineering-building Admission: Free. Pre-registration preferred. To ensure a seat, please register by e-mail by contacting Prof. Fabrice Labeau (fabrice.labeau at mcgill.ca) Abstract The famous Shannon-Nyquist theorem has become a landmark in the development of digital signal processing. However, in many modern applications, the signal bandwidths have increased tremendously, while the acquisition capabilities have not scaled sufficiently fast. Consequently, conversion to digital has become a serious bottleneck. In this talk a new framework for sampling wideband analog signals at rates far below that dictated by the Nyquist rate will be presented. The focus will be both on the theoretical developments, as well as on actual hardware implementations and considerations that allow realization of sub-Nyquist samplers in practice. Applications to a variety of different problems in communications, bioimaging, and signal processing will also be described. Speaker?s Bio Yonina Eldar received the B.Sc. degree in physics and the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering both from Tel-Aviv University (TAU), Tel-Aviv, Israel, in 1995 and 1996, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, in 2002. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technion?Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa. She is also a Research Affiliate with the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT and a Visiting Professor at Stanford University, Stanford. Dr. Eldar was a Horev Fellow of the Leaders in Science and Technology program at the Technion and an Alon Fellow. In 2004, she was awarded the Wolf Foundation Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research, in 2005 the Andre and Bella Meyer Lectureship, in 2007 the Henry Taub Prize for Excellence in Research, in 2008 the Hershel Rich Innovation Award, the Award for Women with Distinguished Contributions, the Muriel & David Jacknow Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the Technion Outstanding Lecture Award, in 2009 the Technion's Award for Excellence in Teaching, in 2010 the Michael Bruno Memorial Award from the Rothschild Foundation, and in 2011 the Weizmann Prize for Exact Sciences. In 2012 she was elected to the Young Israel Academy of Science and to the Israel Committee for Higher Education, and elected an IEEE Fellow. She received several best paper awards together with her research students and colleagues. 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Jennifer From: neuro [mailto:NEURO at LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Anita Kar, Ms. Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 10:15 AM To: NEURO at LISTS.MCGILL.CA Subject: [NEURO] INVITATION - May 2, 2013 You are invited to the inauguration of The Neuro's new angiosuite tomorrow, Thursday, May 2, 2013 at 10 am in the De Grandpr? Communications Centre. The angiosuite has 3D road map capabilities and provides improved safety and comfort for patients, increased flexibility therefore better access to the patient during navigation through the vessels, increased speed, higher quality images, increased accuracy and precise visualization of arteries and interventions, as well as significantly reduced radiation. Dr. Rouleau will host and Dr. Tampieri, Director of Neuroradiology, will give a presentation on the features of the new Infinix-VF-1 Biplane System. There will be tours of the angiosuite afterwards. Please join us and feel free to extend this invitation to others. Thank you and looking forward to seeing you there, Anita Vous ?tes invit?s ? l'inauguration du nouvel appareil d'angiographie du Neuro demain, jeudi 2 mai 2013 ? 10 heures au Centre de communications de Grandpr?. Dot? de propri?t?s en 3D de cheminement, l'appareil am?liore la s?curit? et le confort des patients, et sa conception flexible offre un meilleur acc?s au patient durant la navigation dans les vaisseaux, une vitesse d'examen plus rapide, une qualit? d'images sup?rieure, et une plus grande pr?cision de visualisation des art?res et des interventions. En prime, il ?met moins de rayonnement. Le docteur Rouleau animera la rencontre et la docteure Tampieri, directrice de la neuroradiologie, pr?sentera les caract?ristiques du syst?me biplanaire Infinix-VF-1. Il sera ensuite possible de visiter l'unit? d'angiographie. Nous esp?rons que vous pourrez ?tre des n?tres et que vous n'h?siterez pas ? faire part de cette invitation ? d'autres. Merci et au plaisir de vous y retrouver, Anita ___________________________________ Anita Kar, MSc Communications Associate Adjointe aux communications [cid:image004.png at 01CE426D.8B902030] T: 514 398-3376 M: 514 295-3870 anita.kar at mcgill.ca twitter.com/TheNeuro_MNI facebook.com/NeuroMontreal youtube.com/user/MontrealNeuro -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image004.png Type: image/png Size: 2446 bytes Desc: image004.png URL: From louis.collins at mcgill.ca Thu May 2 09:37:03 2013 From: louis.collins at mcgill.ca (D. Louis Collins) Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 09:37:03 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] Save the date: ITK workshop May 21 at MNI DeGrandpre Message-ID: <0C70B644-25E4-45E1-A009-8C0F437F2937@mcgill.ca> Hi all, We are fortunate to have Luis Ibanez, Matt McCormick and Xiaoxiao Liu from Kitware offer to give a hands-on workshop on ITK programming, an incredibly useful open source, image processing development software library May 21 at the MNI. Coffee, lunch and software(!) will be provided. Cost is free, but registration is required (registration details to come soon). See announcement below. Please save the date and share this email with anyone you think would be interested. More details to come soon. Best regards, -Louis D. Louis Collins, PhD McConnell Brain Imaging Center Professor Montreal Neurological Institute Neurology & Neurosurgery WB-314 Biomedical Engineering 3801 University St. louis.collins at mcgill.ca Montreal, Quebec. voice: (514)-398-4227/8554 CANADA H3A 2B4 Fax: (514)-398-2975 http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/PeopleFaculty/CollinsDLouis The Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) Summary: ITK is a widely used, free and open-source, cross-platform software toolkit that provides an extensive suite of software tools for biomedical image analysis, especially segmentation and registration. Developed using extreme programming methodologies, ITK employs leading-edge algorithms for registering and segmenting multidimensional data. ITK developers from Kitware, Inc. will deliver a free onsite workshop at McGill University. The interactive portion of this workshop will include an introduction to ITK and Simple ITK, with hands-on exercises on advanced image filtering, segmentation, and registration. An example will also be included that demonstrates interaction with the MINC toolkit developed at the Montreal Neurological Institude (MNI). A free USB thumb drive will be provided with all necessary software. When: Tuesday, May 21th, 10am-5pm. The first hour (10am ? 11am) will provide an ITK overview for those who cannot attend the whole workshop. The rest of the workshop will be a hands-on learning experience. Where: McGill University, Montreal Neurological Institute, 3801 University St., Montreal, Qc in the De Grandpre Conference Room Audience: This workshop is appropriate for scientific programmers, especially image analysts, who are interested in learning about ITK and ways to use it in their work. Cost: Free. What to bring: Bring a laptop with VirtualBox installed (www.virtualbox.org) if you plan to attend the hands-on activities. Additional information: in the 'upcoming events' section of http://www.cim.mcgill.ca/create-mia Sponsored by: The National Institutes of Health-National Library of Medicine (NIH-NLM), Kitware, Inc., and the McConnell Brain Imaging Center, Montreal Neurological Institute, the NSERC Medical Imaging CREATE, Medical Physics CREATE and RBIQ/QBIN. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Thu May 2 09:42:11 2013 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 13:42:11 +0000 Subject: [BIC-announce] =?utf-8?b?Rlc6IFPDqW1pbmFpcmUgc3DDqWNpYWwgZGUgbCdV?= =?utf-8?q?NF_/_Special_UNF_Seminar_-_Shaping_and_re-shaping_procedural_me?= =?utf-8?q?mories=3A__from_encoding_to_storage_and_back?= Message-ID: <17E9FB1F37770C46891A5AD521DC19041BB6A3A3@EXMBX2010-6.campus.MCGILL.CA> For your information. Jennifer From: Francine B?langer [mailto:francine.belanger at criugm.qc.ca] Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 5:26 PM To: 'Van Der Knaap Maria'; Jennifer Chew, Ms.; christiane.laurier at umontreal.ca Subject: S?minaire sp?cial de l'UNF / Special UNF Seminar Titre?:???????????????? Shaping and re-shaping procedural memories?: from encoding to storage and back Conf?rencier:??? Nitzan Censor, Ph.D. ?????????????????????????? Human Cortical Physiology and Stroke ?????????????????????????? Neurorehabilitation section, NINDS,NIH Date?:???????????????? Jeudi 16 mai 2013 Heure?:????????????? 12h00 Lieu?:????????????????? Amphith??tre Le Groupe Maurice ?????????????????????????? 4545, Queen-Mary, Montreal _______________________________________ Francine B?langer Coordonnatrice administrative UNF / RNQ / RBIQ?QBIN Centre de recherche, Institut universitaire de g?riatrie de Montr?al Adresse postale: 4565, chemin Queen-Mary, Montr?al (Qu?bec) H3W 1W5 Adresse civique: 4545, chemin Queen-Mary, 7e ?tage, pi?ce M7832, Montr?al (Qu?bec) H3W 1W5 T?l.:????? (514) 340-3540 # 4785 T?l?c.:? (514) 340-3530 Courriel: francine.belanger at criugm.qc.ca Web UNF:? www.unf-montreal.ca Web RBIQ: www.rbiq-qbin.qc.ca From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Thu May 2 13:34:05 2013 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 17:34:05 +0000 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Graduate Student / Postdoc Position Available In-Reply-To: <5182990D.4040102@mcgill.ca> References: <26088_1364313159_5151C447_26088_308_3_17E9FB1F37770C46891A5AD521DC19041BB5EA0B@exmbx2010-8.campus.MCGILL.CA> <51818D9E.8060602@mcgill.ca> <17E9FB1F37770C46891A5AD521DC19041BB6A4DE@EXMBX2010-6.campus.MCGILL.CA> <5182990D.4040102@mcgill.ca> Message-ID: <17E9FB1F37770C46891A5AD521DC19041BB6A531@EXMBX2010-6.campus.MCGILL.CA> FOR YOUR INFORMATION. Jennifer Position for a Graduate Student or Postdoctoral Fellow in Neuroscience of Locomotion A position for a graduate student (M.Sc. or Ph.D.) and/or post-doctoral fellow is available starting September 2013 (or sooner if possible) to work on recently funded projects focusing on the identification of brain networks for the control of locomotion in humans through a multidisciplinary approach combining motor control and brain imaging. Several techniques will be used: PET, MRI, TMS, motion analysis. For further information on our research, interested individuals are invited to consult the Human Brain Control of Locomotion website www.mcgill.ca/edu-kpe/facilities/hbcl. Highly motivated individuals with kinesiology, clinical, engineering, neuroscience, psychology or other related backgrounds are encouraged to apply. Candidates are expected to apply for external funding and must be competitive with respect to their GPA and/or research record. Skills: Good mathematical and statistical background, strong communication skills (written and oral). Experience in processing and analysis of MRI/PET images and programming experience is an asset. To apply, submit one pdf document containing: 1) Short letter of interest, 2) Full CV (including transcripts and publications), 3) Name of 2 references with contact information (must be from supervisor(s), if applicable). Send the application package to caroline.paquette at mcgill.ca by Wednesday June 5th 2013. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Poste d'?tudiant aux ?tudes sup?rieures ou au postdoctorat en neuroscience de la locomotion Un poste d'?tudiant aux ?tudes sup?rieures (ma?trise ou doctorat) et/ou de stagiaire postdoctoral est disponible ? compter de septembre 2013 (ou plus t?t si possible) pour travailler sur des projets r?cemment subventionn?s portant sur l'identification de circuit c?r?braux pour le contr?le de la marche humaine ? l'aide d'une approche multidisciplinaire combinant le contr?le moteur et l'imagerie c?r?brale. Plusieurs techniques de recherche seront utilis?es notamment, la TEP, l'IRM, la SMT et l'analyse du mouvement. Pour plus d'informations sur notre recherche, consultez notre site web www.mcgill.ca/edu-kpe/facilities/hbcl. Nous sommes ? la recherche de candidats tr?s motiv?s et ayant une formation en kin?siologie, en clinique, en ing?nierie, en neurosciences, en psychologie ou d'un domaine similaire. Les candidats devront faire des demandes de financement aupr?s d'organismes subventionnaires et doivent donc avoir un excellent dossier acad?mique et/ou un dossier de recherche comp?titif. Aptitudes : Bonne connaissances en statistiques et math?matique, tr?s bonnes aptitudes en communication orale et ?crite. De l'exp?rience dans le traitement et l'analyse d'images IRM/PET et en programmation est un atout. Pour appliquer, veuillez soumettre un document pdf incluant : 1) une courte lettre d'intention, 2) un curriculum vitae complet (incluant relev? de notes et publications), 3) le nom de 2 r?pondants avec leur coordonn?es (doit ?tre d'un ou des superviseur(s), si applicable). Envoyez votre application ? caroline.paquette at mcgill.ca d'ici mercredi le -----Original Message----- From: Caroline Paquette Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 12:49 PM To: Jennifer Chew, Ms. Subject: Re: Graduate Student / Postdoc Position Available Hi Jennifer, Absolutely, here is the Word version. Thank you! Caroline On 5/2/2013 12:47 PM, Jennifer Chew, Ms. wrote: > Hello Caroline: > > My system won't allow me to post the PDF documents you sent. Do you also have them in Word? Then I can open them and add to the e-mail in plain text. Thank you. Jennifer > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Caroline Paquette > Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 5:48 PM > To: Jennifer Chew, Ms. > Subject: Graduate Student / Postdoc Position Available > > Dear Jennifer, > I am currently seeking graduate students / postdocs to work in my lab. > Would it be possible to circulate the attached advertisement to BIC members? > Kind Regards, > Caroline > > . > From caramanos at gmail.com Thu May 2 14:11:16 2013 From: caramanos at gmail.com (Zografos 'Aki' CARAMANOS) Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 14:11:16 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] =?iso-8859-1?q?BIC_Lecture_Series=3A_Winter-2013_P?= =?iso-8859-1?q?rogram_=28Mon-May-06=2C_1=3A00_pm=2C_de_Grandpr=E9_?= =?iso-8859-1?q?Communications_Centre=3B_Dr=2E_Andrew_Reader_--_=22?= =?iso-8859-1?q?PET_Imaging=3A_Recent_Research_Highlights_in_Recons?= =?iso-8859-1?q?truction_and_Analysis=22=29?= Message-ID: *BIC Lecture Series: Winter-2013 Program* The BIC Lecture Series features informal lectures on brain imaging presented at the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre (*BIC*) by experts in the field. These lectures are open to all. Please join us for the next BIC Lecture of the season, which will be held in The Neuro's de Grandpr? Communications Centre (3801 University Street, Montreal, QC, H3A 2B4)* *on *Monday, May the 6th, starting at 1:00 pm**.* * * *At that time, Dr. Andrew Reader will be presenting us with some recent research highlights in PET-imaging reconstruction and analysis. * Please note that Dr. Reader's presentation will be preceded by a short introduction of a Neuro Photo Exhibit Awareness Project that will be presented to the public at the end of the summer called NEURO PORTRAIT. This photo exhibit was initiated by a patient, Yves Ferland, with the goal to help to increase The Neuro?s profile, particularly in the francophone community, but also in the general Quebec population. The exhibit is finally taking shape after 2 years of planning and photo shooting, and will be shown in several Downtown Montreal public venues starting this August 2013. Cheers! Aki ------------------------------------------- *BIC Lecture Series: Winter-2013 Program **BIC Lectures are typically held on Mondays at 1:00 pm in the de Grandpr? Communications Centre of The Neuro. **For more information and links to the presentations as they become available, please visit the BIC Lecture website .* 01) Feb-11: *Nature versus Nurture: Contributions Towards Healthy Cognition from Childhood to Senescence in Mice and Humans* -- Dr. Veronique Bohbot 02) Feb-18: *Functional Brain Plasticity Induced by Musical Training* -- Dr. Sibylle Herholz 03) Feb-25: *Optimization of the PET Detector Blocks for a Small-Animal PET Scanning Insert for Simultaneous PET/MRI* -- Dr. Chris Thompson 04) Mar-01: *Lactate Links Brain Energy Metabolism to Cerebral Blood Flow* -- Dr. Albert Gjedde 05) Mar-04: *Multi-Manifold Diffeomorphic Metric Mapping for Cortical Registration: Applications in Structural and Functional Studies of the Brain * -- Dr. Jidan Zhong 06) Mar-11: *Auditory-Motor Control of Singing* -- Dr. Jean Mary Zarate 07) Mar-18: *The Brain on TED* -- Mr. Benjamin Elgie 08) Mar-25: *Glimpses Into Consciousness From the Ways We Lose It* -- Dr. George Kostopoulos ---) Apr-01: *No Lecture: Easter Monday* 09) Apr-08: *The Brain on TED, 2* -- Mr. Benjamin Elgie ---) 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 11) May-13: *Title to be confirmed* -- Dr. Aman Badhwar ---) May-20: *No Lecture: Victoria Day* 12) May-27: *Title to be confirmed* -- Dr. Stephen Cunnane -- 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 (web) Google-scholar www.zcaramanos.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From louis.collins at mcgill.ca Fri May 3 13:19:50 2013 From: louis.collins at mcgill.ca (D. Louis Collins) Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 13:19:50 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] ITK workshop May 21 at MNI DeGrandpre References: <5182d6b9.090a2b0a.437f.fffff15eSMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com> Message-ID: <6CBADE1D-A0E8-4FB3-9436-E614CD81859B@mcgill.ca> Hi all, We are fortunate to have Luis Ibanez, Matt McCormick and Xiaoxiao Liu from Kitware offer to give a hands-on workshop on ITK programming, an incredibly useful open source, image processing development software library May 21 at the MNI. Coffee, lunch and software(!) will be provided. Cost is free, but registration is required and space is limited (see link and announcement below). Pour vous inscrire/To register: http://www.rbiq-qbin.qc.ca/fr/evenements Please save the date and share this email with anyone you think would be interested. Best regards, D. Louis Collins, PhD McConnell Brain Imaging Center Professor, Montreal Neurological Institute Neurology & Neurosurgery WB-314 Biomedical Engineering 3801 University St., Montreal, Quebec. H3A 2B4 louis.collins at mcgill.ca voice: (514)-398-4227/8554 CANADA Fax: (514)-398-2975 http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/PeopleFaculty/CollinsDLouis The Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK) Summary: ITK is a widely used, free and open-source, cross-platform software toolkit that provides an extensive suite of software tools for biomedical image analysis, especially segmentation and registration. Developed using extreme programming methodologies, ITK employs leading-edge algorithms for registering and segmenting multidimensional data. ITK developers from Kitware, Inc. will deliver a free onsite workshop at McGill University. The interactive portion of this workshop will include an introduction to ITK and Simple ITK, with hands-on exercises on advanced image filtering, segmentation, and registration. An example will also be included that demonstrates interaction with the MINC toolkit developed at the Montreal Neurological Institude (MNI). A free USB thumb drive will be provided with all necessary software. When: Tuesday, May 21th, 10am-5pm. The first hour (10am ? 11am) will provide an ITK overview for those who cannot attend the whole workshop. The rest of the workshop will be a hands-on learning experience. Where: McGill University, Montreal Neurological Institute, 3801 University St., Montreal, Qc in the De Grandpre Conference Room Audience: This workshop is appropriate for scientific programmers, especially image analysts, who are interested in learning about ITK and ways to use it in their work. Cost: Free. What to bring: Bring a laptop with VirtualBox installed (www.virtualbox.org) if you plan to attend the hands-on activities. Additional information: , http://www.rbiq-qbin.qc.ca/fr/evenements Sponsored by: The National Institutes of Health-National Library of Medicine (NIH-NLM), Kitware, Inc., and the McConnell Brain Imaging Center, Montreal Neurological Institute, the NSERC Medical Imaging CREATE, Medical Physics CREATE and RBIQ/QBIN. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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These lectures are open to all. > > Please join us for the next BIC Lecture of the season, which will be held > in The Neuro's de Grandpr? Communications Centre (3801 > University Street, Montreal, QC, H3A 2B4)* *on *Monday, May the 6th, > starting at 1:00 pm**.* > * > * > *At that time, Dr. Andrew Reader > will be presenting us with some recent research highlights in > PET-imaging reconstruction and analysis. * > > Please note that Dr. Reader's presentation will be preceded by a short > introduction of a Neuro Photo Exhibit Awareness Project that will be > presented to the public at the end of the summer called NEURO PORTRAIT. > This photo exhibit was initiated by a patient, Yves Ferland, with the goal > to help to increase The Neuro?s profile, particularly in the francophone > community, but also in the general Quebec population. The exhibit is > finally taking shape after 2 years of planning and photo shooting, and will > be shown in several Downtown Montreal public venues starting this August > 2013. > > Cheers! > Aki > > ------------------------------------------- > *BIC Lecture Series: Winter-2013 Program > **BIC Lectures are typically held on Mondays at 1:00 pm in the de > Grandpr? Communications Centre of The Neuro. > **For more information and links to the presentations as they become > available, please visit the BIC Lecture website > .* > > 01) Feb-11: *Nature versus Nurture: Contributions Towards Healthy > Cognition from Childhood to Senescence in Mice and Humans* -- Dr. > Veronique Bohbot > 02) Feb-18: *Functional Brain Plasticity Induced by Musical Training* -- Dr. > Sibylle Herholz > 03) Feb-25: *Optimization of the PET Detector Blocks for a Small-Animal > PET Scanning Insert for Simultaneous PET/MRI* -- Dr. Chris Thompson > > 04) Mar-01: *Lactate Links Brain Energy Metabolism to Cerebral Blood Flow > * -- Dr. Albert Gjedde > 05) Mar-04: *Multi-Manifold Diffeomorphic Metric Mapping for Cortical > Registration: Applications in Structural and Functional Studies of the Brain > * -- Dr. Jidan Zhong > 06) Mar-11: *Auditory-Motor Control of Singing* -- Dr. Jean > Mary Zarate > 07) Mar-18: *The Brain on TED* -- Mr. Benjamin Elgie > 08) Mar-25: *Glimpses Into Consciousness From the Ways We Lose It* -- Dr. > George Kostopoulos > > ---) Apr-01: *No Lecture: Easter Monday* > 09) Apr-08: *The Brain on TED, 2* -- Mr. Benjamin Elgie > ---) 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 > 11) May-13: *Title to be confirmed* -- Dr. Aman Badhwar > ---) May-20: *No Lecture: Victoria Day* > 12) May-27: *Title to be confirmed* -- Dr. Stephen Cunnane > > > > > > -- > 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 > (web) Google-scholar > www.zcaramanos.com > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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These lectures are open to all. >> >> Please join us for the next BIC Lecture of the season, which will be held >> in The Neuro's de Grandpr? Communications Centre (3801 >> University Street, Montreal, QC, H3A 2B4)* *on *Monday, May the 6th, >> starting at 1:00 pm**.* >> * >> * >> *At that time, Dr. Andrew Reader >> will be presenting us with some recent research highlights in >> PET-imaging reconstruction and analysis. * >> >> Please note that Dr. Reader's presentation will be preceded by a short >> introduction of a Neuro Photo Exhibit Awareness Project that will be >> presented to the public at the end of the summer called NEURO PORTRAIT. >> This photo exhibit was initiated by a patient, Yves Ferland, with the goal >> to help to increase The Neuro?s profile, particularly in the francophone >> community, but also in the general Quebec population. The exhibit is >> finally taking shape after 2 years of planning and photo shooting, and will >> be shown in several Downtown Montreal public venues starting this August >> 2013. >> >> Cheers! >> Aki >> >> ------------------------------------------- >> *BIC Lecture Series: Winter-2013 Program >> **BIC Lectures are typically held on Mondays at 1:00 pm in the de >> Grandpr? Communications Centre of The Neuro. >> **For more information and links to the presentations as they become >> available, please visit the BIC Lecture website >> .* >> >> 01) Feb-11: *Nature versus Nurture: Contributions Towards Healthy >> Cognition from Childhood to Senescence in Mice and Humans* -- Dr. >> Veronique Bohbot >> 02) Feb-18: *Functional Brain Plasticity Induced by Musical Training* >> -- Dr. Sibylle Herholz >> 03) Feb-25: *Optimization of the PET Detector Blocks for a Small-Animal >> PET Scanning Insert for Simultaneous PET/MRI* -- Dr. Chris Thompson >> >> 04) Mar-01: *Lactate Links Brain Energy Metabolism to Cerebral Blood >> Flow* -- Dr. Albert Gjedde >> 05) Mar-04: *Multi-Manifold Diffeomorphic Metric Mapping for Cortical >> Registration: Applications in Structural and Functional Studies of the Brain >> * -- Dr. Jidan Zhong >> 06) Mar-11: *Auditory-Motor Control of Singing* -- Dr. Jean >> Mary Zarate >> 07) Mar-18: *The Brain on TED* -- Mr. Benjamin Elgie >> 08) Mar-25: *Glimpses Into Consciousness From the Ways We Lose It* -- Dr. >> George Kostopoulos >> >> ---) Apr-01: *No Lecture: Easter Monday* >> 09) Apr-08: *The Brain on TED, 2* -- Mr. Benjamin Elgie >> ---) 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 >> 11) May-13: *Title to be confirmed* -- Dr. Aman Badhwar >> ---) May-20: *No Lecture: Victoria Day* >> 12) May-27: *Title to be confirmed* -- Dr. Stephen Cunnane >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> 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 >> (web) Google-scholar >> www.zcaramanos.com >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > BIC-announce mailing list > BIC-announce at bic.mni.mcgill.ca > http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/mailman/listinfo/bic-announce > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From christophe.grova at mcgill.ca Mon May 6 15:07:23 2013 From: christophe.grova at mcgill.ca (Christophe Grova) Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 15:07:23 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] Seminar in Biomedical Engineering - Wednesday May 8th - 1 pm - Room 333 Message-ID: <8B25EF9E1C21433A8ECB0F0B2FF5E5DE@christope2283c> Dear all, Our next Biomedical Engineering Dpt seminar is this coming wednesday Wednesday - May 8th , at 1 pm Location: Room 333 Lyman Duff Building (Biomedical Engineering Dpt, 3775 University Street). Speaker: Dr. Stephane Sockeel Ph.D., Post-doctoral Fellow under the supervision of Dr J. Doyon, Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire de G?riatrie de Montr?al. Dr Sockeel obtained his PhD at Universit? Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris 6 (France) under the supervision of Dr H. Benali and Dr. L. Garnero Title: Large-scale functional networks detection in EEG and study of dynamics of functional connectivity Abstract: The main goal of this work is to adress these two questions: Could electroencephalography (EEG) detect large-scale functional networks? What contribution could bring EEG in the study of the dynamics of connectivity? We have developed an original method specifically for EEG to detect large-scale functional networks in the brain. We first assume that BOLD signal in fMRI is correlated with the power of EEG signal and then, we applied a spatial Independent Components Analysis (sICA). The main advantages when compared to other standard methods (seed-based methods, atlas,...) are: a fully data-driven method, use of individual sICA and a group analysis, multifrequency analysis. We validated our method with a comparison with a fMRI study on healthy subjects during resting state and visual tasks. The networks detected with EEG and fMRI overlap. Then, we have studied the dynamics of connectivity inside the extracted EEG networks using three connectivity measures. The temporal precision of EEG can evaluate connection and information flow between these regions and provide access to a frequency scale similar to that of brain's rhythms. This study has provided some interesting and promising results, as for example a memory trace after a visual task in the visual network. A list of upcoming seminars can be found at : http://www.mcgill.ca/bme/news/seminars See you there Christophe Grova *************************** Christophe Grova, PhD Assistant Professor Biomedical Engineering Dpt Neurology and Neurosurgery Dpt Montreal Neurological Institute Centre de Recherches Math?matiques Biomedical Engineering Department - Room 304 McGill University 3775 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2B4 email : christophe.grova at mcgill.ca tel : (514) 398 2516 fax : (514) 398 7461 web: http://www.mni.mcgill.ca/research/gotman/members/christophe.html http://www.bmed.mcgill.ca/ *************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From louis.collins at mcgill.ca Mon May 6 16:16:31 2013 From: louis.collins at mcgill.ca (D. Louis Collins) Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 16:16:31 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] Fwd: Atelier ITK workshop : Ajouts de place et liste d'attente References: <5188076a.c34b2a0a.1660.728eSMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com> Message-ID: <834881D1-BC84-4C4D-AF13-2EA6C32A4857@mcgill.ca> Hi all, There has been a fantastic response for the ITK workshop and registration is now closed. We are almost full, and there are only a few places left. There is a a new event to be able to register for the remaining places and to form a waiting list (first come first served) in case there are any cancellations. Also, we'd like to use this new list to evaluate the interest for second workshop. So, if you are interested - follow the link below and select "Atelier ITK (Liste d'attente)" from the events list. best regards, -Louis Begin forwarded message: > > > Pour vous inscrire/To register: http://www.rbiq-qbin.qc.ca/fr/evenements > > Hi all, > > We are fortunate to have Luis Ibanez, Matt McCormick and Xiaoxiao Liu from Kitware offer to give a hands-on workshop on ITK programming, an incredibly useful open source, image processing development software library May 21 at the MNI. Coffee, lunch and software(!) will be provided. Cost is free, but registration is required (registration details to come soon). See announcement below. > > Please save the date and share this email with anyone you think would be interested. More details to come soon. > > Best regards, > > D. 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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, May 07, 2013 8:19 AM To: MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA Subject: REMINDER: Jerzy Olszewski Lecture - TODAY Jerzy Olszewski Lecture TODAY at 4pm Please note the lecture will be held in the Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre Dear Colleagues, I am very pleased to welcome Ronald Davis from Scripps Research Institute Florida as the Jerzy Olszewski Lecturer of 2013. His lecture is entitled? "Brain's Logic for Memory Formation and Forgetting". Ronald Davis is known for his life's work on memory.? Through developing an exquisite model in Drosophila and focusing upon the olfactory system, he has revealed molecular, genetic, electrophysiological and systems changes that occur in the process of learning, memory and forgetting.? By use of the Drosophila, he has been able to apply in vivo imaging techniques for synaptic release and calcium influx to visualize memory traces within specific neurons and involving specific genes, signaling molecules or receptors. Accordingly, he has distinguished neuronal and molecular substrates for short, intermediate and long term memory traces, the latter dependent upon protein synthesis.? Most recently, he has begun to investigate the importance of certain genes in human disease by generating mouse knockouts that represent potential models for understanding memory deficits in diseases such as Alzheimer's.? Dr. Davis' research and laboratory can be viewed on his website:? http://www.scripps.edu/davis/ ??????????? I strongly encourage all to attend this honorary lecture which promises to be highly informative.??????????? Barbara Jones From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Tue May 7 09:56:28 2013 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 13:56:28 +0000 Subject: [BIC-announce] =?iso-8859-1?q?FW=3A_=5BNEURO=5D_REMINDER_-_Specia?= =?iso-8859-1?q?l_Seminar_-_May_8_-_Organization_of_Resea_rch_in_Clin_ical?= =?iso-8859-1?q?_Neurology_in_Mali_=28Professor_Moussa_Traor_=E9=29?= In-Reply-To: <6590_1367847913_5187B3E9_6590_127_1_AF3068FC45A86F4695008A00EE01FECB1BBB8BA0@EXMBX2010-6.campus.MCGILL.CA> References: <16A29A2712A6DE4CBB6D2188707397F1019C0E6F@exmbx2010-9.campus.MCGILL.CA> <6590_1367847913_5187B3E9_6590_127_1_AF3068FC45A86F4695008A00EE01FECB1BBB8BA0@EXMBX2010-6.campus.MCGILL.CA> Message-ID: <17E9FB1F37770C46891A5AD521DC19041BB6A951@EXMBX2010-6.campus.MCGILL.CA> PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. Jennifer From: neuro [mailto:NEURO at LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Enza Ferracane, Ms. Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 9:45 AM To: NEURO at LISTS.MCGILL.CA Subject: [NEURO] REMINDER - Special Seminar - May 8 - Organization of Resea rch in Clin ical Neurology in Mali (Professor Moussa Traor ?) SPECIAL SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT: Wednesday, May 8 at 2:00 pm de Grandpr? Communications Centre, MNI "Organization of Research in Clinical Neurology in Mali" Professor Moussa Traor? Former Dean, Faculty of Medicine Bamako University Mali is currently developing a framework for institutional cooperation between the University of Science and Technology of Mali, which includes the Faculty of Medicine and their Research Center, with the goal of promoting training in the neurosciences. A delegation from Mali, led by Professor Abdoulaye Salim Ciss?, Director of Higher Education and Scientific Research and including Professor Traor? and Professor Idrissa Ciss?, Principal Secretary of the Faculty of Medicine, will visit The Neuro on May 6 - 8. As part of their visit, I hope that you will join us for former Dean Moussa Traor?'s seminar entitled "Organization of Research in Clinical Neurology in Mali". Regards, Guy Rouleau MD PhD FRCP OQ Director Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital [cid:image001.png at 01CE39ED.4DB5DE40] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Communications Centre (3801 University Street, Montreal, QC, H3A 2B4)* *at a special time: *Wednesday, May the 8th, starting at 4:00 pm**.* * * *At that time, Dr. Jean-Baptiste Poline will be discussing statistical detection and reproducibility issues in brain imaging genetics methods (see below for more details). * Cheers! Aki ------------------------------------------- *Statistical detection and reproducibility issues in brain imaging genetics methods** [Dr. Jean-Baptiste Poline ]* *In the first part of this talk, I will summarize some of the key aspects of the current imaging genetics data analysis field. I will address the issue of multiple testing and describe some multivariate methods that are likely to help increase the sensitivity of brain wide - genome wide analysis significance. I will use the example of brain imaging traits heritability to illustrate some of the issues, and also to describe new approaches for dealing with the data high dimensionality. **In the second part, I will address the related issue of reproducibility of imaging genetics studies. This issue of reproducibility is receiving more and more attention in the field of brain imaging, and with fMRI in particular some researchers estimate that only 20 to 50% of the published fMRI results are likely to be reproducible. The factors for this are numerous (see for instance Ioannidis et al., 2005). I will argue that Imaging Genetics studies are likely to be plagued by the very issues that are impacting fMRI reproducibility. I will then discuss the need for replication and for neuroinformatics standards and their relation to the publication framework.* * Jean-Baptiste Poline obtained an Engineering degree in 1989, and a master degree in Biomathematics in 1990 (University Paris Diderot). During his PhD, he worked on the detection of brain activation in Positron Emission Tomography images in Orsay. From 1994 to 1997, he was a post-doctoral fellow in London with R. Frakowiack and K. Friston. He returned to Orsay and then move to Neurospin in 2006 to work on fMRI data analyses and on imaging genetics. He is currently at the University of California at Berkeley Brain Imaging Center and his current interests are in biostatistics and neuroinformatics. * ------------------------------------------- *BIC Lecture Series: Winter-2013 Program **BIC Lectures are typically held on Mondays at 1:00 pm in the de Grandpr? Communications Centre of The Neuro. **For more information and links to the presentations as they become available, please visit the BIC Lecture website .* 01) Feb-11: *Nature versus Nurture: Contributions Towards Healthy Cognition from Childhood to Senescence in Mice and Humans* -- Dr. Veronique Bohbot 02) Feb-18: *Functional Brain Plasticity Induced by Musical Training* -- Dr. Sibylle Herholz 03) Feb-25: *Optimization of the PET Detector Blocks for a Small-Animal PET Scanning Insert for Simultaneous PET/MRI* -- Dr. Chris Thompson 04) Mar-01: *Lactate Links Brain Energy Metabolism to Cerebral Blood Flow* -- Dr. Albert Gjedde 05) Mar-04: *Multi-Manifold Diffeomorphic Metric Mapping for Cortical Registration: Applications in Structural and Functional Studies of the Brain * -- Dr. Jidan Zhong 06) Mar-11: *Auditory-Motor Control of Singing* -- Dr. Jean Mary Zarate 07) Mar-18: *The Brain on TED* -- Mr. Benjamin Elgie 08) Mar-25: *Glimpses Into Consciousness From the Ways We Lose It* -- Dr. George Kostopoulos ---) Apr-01: *No Lecture: Easter Monday* 09) Apr-08: *The Brain on TED, 2* -- Mr. Benjamin Elgie ---) 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 11) Wed-May-08_4pm: *Statistical Detection and Reproducibility Issues in Brain Imaging Genetics Methods* -- Dr. Jean-Baptiste Poline 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 -- 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 (web) Google-scholar www.zcaramanos.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Garnero Title: Large-scale functional networks detection in EEG and study of dynamics of functional connectivity Abstract: The main goal of this work is to adress these two questions: Could electroencephalography (EEG) detect large-scale functional networks? What contribution could bring EEG in the study of the dynamics of connectivity? We have developed an original method specifically for EEG to detect large-scale functional networks in the brain. We first assume that BOLD signal in fMRI is correlated with the power of EEG signal and then, we applied a spatial Independent Components Analysis (sICA). The main advantages when compared to other standard methods (seed-based methods, atlas,...) are: a fully data-driven method, use of individual sICA and a group analysis, multifrequency analysis. We validated our method with a comparison with a fMRI study on healthy subjects during resting state and visual tasks. The networks detected with EEG and fMRI overlap. Then, we have studied the dynamics of connectivity inside the extracted EEG networks using three connectivity measures. The temporal precision of EEG can evaluate connection and information flow between these regions and provide access to a frequency scale similar to that of brain's rhythms. This study has provided some interesting and promising results, as for example a memory trace after a visual task in the visual network. A list of upcoming seminars can be found at : http://www.mcgill.ca/bme/news/seminars See you there Christophe Grova *************************** Christophe Grova, PhD Assistant Professor Biomedical Engineering Dpt Neurology and Neurosurgery Dpt Montreal Neurological Institute Centre de Recherches Math?matiques Biomedical Engineering Department - Room 304 McGill University 3775 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2B4 email : christophe.grova at mcgill.ca tel : (514) 398 2516 fax : (514) 398 7461 web: http://www.mni.mcgill.ca/research/gotman/members/christophe.html http://www.bmed.mcgill.ca/ *************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The primary function of this position is to help design, program, and run experimental studies of human memory using a Python-based Experiment Programming Library on Mac OS X platforms, and to analyze data from these studies using MATLAB. These experiments will be carried out using fMRI and scalp EEG recordings, and the person in this position is also responsible for recording and collecting the fMRI and scalp EEG data during testing sessions. Assistance with administrative tasks, such as grant preparation and basic maintenance of the lab website will also be involved. Strong computer skills (Mac and Unix), and experience with programming is preferred. A Bachelor's degree is required. This position starts August 1, 2013 or thereabouts. Contact Sean Polyn (sean.polyn at vanderbilt.edu) for more details. More information regarding the lab is available at http://memory.psy.vanderbilt.edu For the Vanderbilt HR website to submit materials: https://vanderbilt.taleo.net/careersection/.vu_cs/jobsearch.ftl?lang=en&portal=2140492874 look for job # 1303916 ------ Russell A. Poldrack Director, Imaging Research Center Professor of Psychology and Neurobiology University of Texas at Austin 100 East 24th Street, R9975 Austin, TX 78712 Phone: 512.232.9504 Fax:512.232.4202 Email: poldrack at utexas.edu Web: http://www.poldracklab.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sylvain.baillet at mcgill.ca Wed May 8 15:18:36 2013 From: sylvain.baillet at mcgill.ca (Sylvain Baillet, Dr) Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 19:18:36 +0000 Subject: [BIC-announce] MEG Open Meeting Series resumes! Message-ID: <530B742E110D2443BB82CB2299F0493921346022@EXMBX2010-7.campus.MCGILL.CA> ** Please distribute and share -- sorry for multiple postings ** Dear All: After a very busy winter, it's time to resume our MEG-Methods Open Meeting Series! Our next meeting is Thursday, May 16 @ 10am-12pm in the de Grandpr? Communications Centre at the Neuro, 3801 University St. Jean-Marc Lina will be presenting his current MEG study performed at UdeM: 'Purposely sleeping in the MEG' Jean-Marc Lina, is Professor at Ecole de Technologie Sup?rieure and with the Centre de Recherches Math?matiques (CRM) and adjunct Professor in the Biomed. Eng. Dep., at McGill. This will be followed by an informal open discussion concerning this particular study and other general questions pertaining to MEG and high-density EEG science and methods. 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Communications Centre (3801 University Street, Montreal, QC, H3A 2B4)* *on *Monday, May the 13th, starting at 1:00 pm**.* * * *At that time, **Dr. Aman Badhwar will be describing some of her recent work looking at impaired structural correlates of memory in a mouse model of Alzheimer?s disease.* * * * * Cheers! Aki ------------------------------------------- *BIC Lecture Series: Winter-2013 Program **BIC Lectures are typically held on Mondays at 1:00 pm in the de Grandpr? Communications Centre of The Neuro. **For more information and links to the presentations as they become available, please visit the BIC Lecture website .* 01) Feb-11: *Nature versus Nurture: Contributions Towards Healthy Cognition from Childhood to Senescence in Mice and Humans* -- Dr. Veronique Bohbot 02) Feb-18: *Functional Brain Plasticity Induced by Musical Training* -- Dr. Sibylle Herholz 03) Feb-25: *Optimization of the PET Detector Blocks for a Small-Animal PET Scanning Insert for Simultaneous PET/MRI* -- Dr. Chris Thompson 04) Mar-01: *Lactate Links Brain Energy Metabolism to Cerebral Blood Flow* -- Dr. Albert Gjedde 05) Mar-04: *Multi-Manifold Diffeomorphic Metric Mapping for Cortical Registration: Applications in Structural and Functional Studies of the Brain * -- Dr. Jidan Zhong 06) Mar-11: *Auditory-Motor Control of Singing* -- Dr. Jean Mary Zarate 07) Mar-18: *The Brain on TED* -- Mr. Benjamin Elgie 08) Mar-25: *Glimpses Into Consciousness From the Ways We Lose It* -- Dr. George Kostopoulos ---) Apr-01: *No Lecture: Easter Monday* 09) Apr-08: *The Brain on TED, 2* -- Mr. Benjamin Elgie ---) 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 11) Wed-May-08_4pm: *Statistical Detection and Reproducibility Issues in Brain Imaging Genetics Methods* -- Dr. Jean-Baptiste Poline 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 -- 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 (web) Google-scholar www.zcaramanos.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Communications Centre (3801 University Street, Montreal, QC, H3A 2B4)* *on *Monday, May the 13th, starting at 1:00 pm**.* * * *At that time, **Dr. Aman Badhwar will be describing some of her recent work looking at impaired structural correlates of memory in a mouse model of Alzheimer?s disease.* * * * * Cheers! Aki ------------------------------------------- *BIC Lecture Series: Winter-2013 Program **BIC Lectures are typically held on Mondays at 1:00 pm in the de Grandpr? Communications Centre of The Neuro. **For more information and links to the presentations as they become available, please visit the BIC Lecture website .* 01) Feb-11: *Nature versus Nurture: Contributions Towards Healthy Cognition from Childhood to Senescence in Mice and Humans* -- Dr. Veronique Bohbot 02) Feb-18: *Functional Brain Plasticity Induced by Musical Training* -- Dr. Sibylle Herholz 03) Feb-25: *Optimization of the PET Detector Blocks for a Small-Animal PET Scanning Insert for Simultaneous PET/MRI* -- Dr. Chris Thompson 04) Mar-01: *Lactate Links Brain Energy Metabolism to Cerebral Blood Flow* -- Dr. Albert Gjedde 05) Mar-04: *Multi-Manifold Diffeomorphic Metric Mapping for Cortical Registration: Applications in Structural and Functional Studies of the Brain * -- Dr. Jidan Zhong 06) Mar-11: *Auditory-Motor Control of Singing* -- Dr. Jean Mary Zarate 07) Mar-18: *The Brain on TED* -- Mr. Benjamin Elgie 08) Mar-25: *Glimpses Into Consciousness From the Ways We Lose It* -- Dr. George Kostopoulos ---) Apr-01: *No Lecture: Easter Monday* 09) Apr-08: *The Brain on TED, 2* -- Mr. Benjamin Elgie ---) 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 11) Wed-May-08_4pm: *Statistical Detection and Reproducibility Issues in Brain Imaging Genetics Methods* -- Dr. Jean-Baptiste Poline 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 -- 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 (web) Google-scholar www.zcaramanos.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Human Cortical Physiology and Stroke ?????????????????????????? Neurorehabilitation section, NINDS,NIH Date?:???????????????? Jeudi 16 mai 2013 Heure?:????????????? 12h00 Lieu?:????????????????? Amphith??tre Le Groupe Maurice ?????????????????????????? 4545, Queen-Mary, Montreal _______________________________________ Francine B?langer Coordonnatrice administrative UNF / RNQ / RBIQ?QBIN Centre de recherche, Institut universitaire de g?riatrie de Montr?al Adresse postale: 4565, chemin Queen-Mary, Montr?al (Qu?bec) H3W 1W5 Adresse civique: 4545, chemin Queen-Mary, 7e ?tage, pi?ce M7832, Montr?al (Qu?bec) H3W 1W5 T?l.:????? (514) 340-3540 # 4785 T?l?c.:? (514) 340-3530 Courriel: francine.belanger at criugm.qc.ca Web UNF:? www.unf-montreal.ca Web RBIQ: www.rbiq-qbin.qc.ca From kdudek at cim.mcgill.ca Tue May 14 16:29:29 2013 From: kdudek at cim.mcgill.ca (Krys Dudek) Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 16:29:29 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] CREATE-MIA Summer School 2013 Message-ID: This message is being sent out on behalf of the CREATE-MIA Program in Medical Image Analysis in collaboration with RS-REPARTI. CREATE-MIA Summer School 2013 There are some spots available at CREATE-MIA Summer School to be held June 5-7 at McGill -- registration is free! The CREATE-MIA participants will be presenting their research, Prof. Maxime Descoteaux (SCIL, U. Sherbrooke) will give a mini-course on dMRI, and there will be a session focussed on a business-related topic. The dMRI portion of the summer school will consist of the following sessions and involve both theory and practice: - Raw data to tensors and beyond (including time for dipy practice) - Fiber tracking and applications (including time for dipy practice and visualization with the FiberNavigator) - Bring your own data Participants should bring their laptops with the necessary software pre-installed: dipy: http://nipy.sourceforge.net/dipy/ FiberNavigator: http://scilus.github.io/fibernavigator/ Detailed scheduling for the event will be posted on http://aggie.cim.mcgill.ca.:8080/create-mia/events/create-mia-summer-school-2013 as it becomes available. Attendance for the full three days would be appreciated. If event this is of interest to you, we welcome your participation. Please register by JUNE 29, 2013 by going to http://aggie.cim.mcgill.ca.:8080/create-mia/forms/create-mia-summer-school-registration-form. 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Jennifer From: Tayna Bardati [mailto:Tayna.Bardati at douglas.mcgill.ca] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2013 10:34 AM To: Jennifer Chew, Ms. Subject: Morning Symposium on Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging - May 31st Hello Jennifer, Would it be possible to distribute this info throughout the MNI BIC research community? _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The McGill Centre for Studies in Aging and the Douglas Brain Imaging Centre would like to invite you to the following: Morning Symposium on Cognitive Neuroscience of Aging "Past & Future: Remembering and Imagining in Young and Older Adults" Donna Rose Addis, PhD (University of Auckland, New Zealand) "False Memories and Aging" Nancy Dennis, PhD (Pennsylvania State University) May 31st, 2013 starting at 9:30 Douglas Hall, Douglas Mental Health University Institute, 6875 LaSalle Blvd., Montreal Coffee and pastries will be served at the symposium. Everyone is welcome to join! Thank you, _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Le Centre McGill d'?tudes sur le vieillissement et le Centre d'Imagerie C?r?brale de l'Institut Douglas vous invitent au prochain s?minaire (pr?sentations en anglais): Symposium sur la neuroscience cognitive du vieillissement "Past & Future: Remembering and Imagining in Young and Older Adults" Donna Rose Addis, PhD (University of Auckland, New Zealand) "False Memories and Aging" Nancy Dennis, PhD (Pennsylvania State University) Le 31 mai, 2013 de 9h30 ? 12h00 Salle Douglas, Institut universitaire en sant? mentale Douglas, 6875 boul. LaSalle, Montr?al Caf? et p?tisseries seront servis. Vous ?tes tous les bienvenus! SVP voir fichier joint pour plus de d?tails. Merci, Tayna Bardati Adjointe Administrative pour le Dr. Natasha Rajah et le Centre d'Imagerie C?r?brale Administrative Assistant to Dr. Natasha Rajah and the Brain Imaging Center ________________________________ Centre d'Imagerie C?r?brale de l'H?pital Douglas Douglas Hospital Brain Imaging Center 6875, boul. LaSalle Montr?al (Qu?bec) H4H 1R3 T: 514 761-6131, ext. 4777 F: 514 888-4487 tayna.bardati at douglas.mcgill.ca www.douglas.qc.ca Avis de confidentialit?: L'information contenue dans ce courriel peut ?tre confidentielle et/ou privil?gi?e. Si vous n'?tes pas le destinataire de ce message, veuillez le d?truire et en informer l'exp?diteur. Il est interdit de copier ou de modifier ce courriel sans autorisation de l'auteur. Le Douglas n'assume aucune responsabilit? du contenu des messages personnels. Notice of confidentiality: The information contained in this email may be confidential and/or privileged. 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In an attempt to transfer knowledge to the public about these disorders and to help eliminate the stigma surrounding them, the basic idea is to generate a discourse between the audience and the experts via a Q&A period. Come join us for an evening of entertainment and enlightenment! When? Thursday, May 23rd 2013 from 7-9 pm at the Crowley Arts Centre in NDG 5325 Crowley Ave, H4A 2C6. Admission is free and light food and beverages will be offered. This event is open to the public, so everyone is encouraged to come including friends and families! For more information. Check us out on Facebook! - https://www.facebook.com/events/652076261484915/ We hope to see you there! En collaboration avec les Instituts de recherche en sant? du Canada (IRSC), Cerveau en t?te Montr?al t'inviter au caf? scientifique, Un esprit d'exception: Aper?u de la schizophr?nie et de la psychose. Dr. Martin Lepage, Dr. Ashok Malla et Dr. Ridha Joober, trois experts dans le domaine, ont ?t? invit?s ? parler de sujets vari?s provenant de leurs recherches sur la schizophr?nie et la psychose. Dans une tentative de transf?rer les connaissances sur ces troubles aupr?s du public et afin d'aider ? ?liminer la stigmatisation qui les entoure, l'id?e de base est de g?n?rer un discours entre le public et les experts par le biais d'une p?riode de questions. Je t'invite personnellement car tu as contribu? directement au succ?s de nos recherches, et nous n'aurions pas pu le faire sans votre contribution.Viens te joindre ? nous pour une soir?e de divertissement et d'?claircissements! Quand? Jeudi le 23 mai 2013, 7-9 pm au Centre des arts Crowley, ? Notre-Dame-de-Gr?ce 5325 Avenue Crowley, H4A 2C6. L'entr?e est gratuite et des collations et breuvages seront offerts. Cet ?v?nement est ouvert au public, donc tous sont invit?s ? venir, y compris amie et famille! Suivez nous sur Facebook!- https://www.facebook.com/events/652076261484915/ Nous esp?rons vous y voir! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From caramanos at gmail.com Mon May 20 19:32:04 2013 From: caramanos at gmail.com (Zografos 'Aki' CARAMANOS) Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 19:32:04 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] Pathways and Connections: Dr. Guy Rouleau (Wed-May-22nd at 5:30 pm; Montreal Neurological Institute, Bell Room) Message-ID: *Pathways and Connections* *How does one become a successful neuroscientist?* This informal seminar series will try to answer this question through a series of conversations with some of the most successful neuroscientists in the world: researchers who are affiliated with McGill University ?s Integrated Program in Neuroscience or former McGill Neuroscience Alumni who are now in the non-academic world. This will be your chance to talk to them about the circuitous pathways and the important, but often serendipitous, connections that led them to where they are now. *The next session of the Pathways and Connections Discussion Series will feature **Dr. Guy Rouleau ** starting at 5:30 pm on Wednesday, May 22nd in the Bell Roomof the Montreal Neurological Institute (3801 University Street ) .* *Dr. Guy Rouleau *, the new Director of The Neuro, comes to us from the Universit? de Montr?al, where he was Director of the CHU Ste-Justine Research Centre and founder and Director of the Centre of Excellence in Neuroscience. There he held the Canada Research Chair in Genetics of the Nervous System as well as the Jeanne-et-J.-Louis-Levesque Chair in Genetics of Brain Diseases. Dr. Rouleau is also Director of the R?seau de M?decine G?n?tique Appliqu?e ? Fonds de recherche du Qu?bec - Sant?. Dr. Rouleau obtained his MD (Magna Cum Laude) in 1980 from the University of Ottawa and his PhD in Genetics at Harvard University in 1989. His post-graduate research in neuroscience was conducted at the Montreal Neurological Institute and at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Rouleau conducted his clinical training in internal medicine at the Montreal General Hospital, neurology residency at the Montreal Neurological Institute, and research fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Rouleau?s landmark achievements are his contributions to the identification of over 20 disease-causing genes and his discovery of new mutational mechanisms. Over the last 20 years, Dr. Rouleau and his team have focused on understanding the genetic basis for diseases and identifying genes causing neurological and psychiatric diseases including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, stroke, Essential Tremor, familial aneurysms, cavernous angiomas, epilepsy, spinocerebellar ataxia, spastic paraplegia, autism, Tourette syndrome, restless legs syndrome, schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. *Please note that space is limited: to **RSVP, or for more information, please contact Zografos Caramanos **.* * * -- 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 (web) Google-scholar www.zcaramanos.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Regards, --- If you have questions or requests specific to the B.I.C, please get in touch with --- Sylvain Milot (sylvain at bic.mni.mcgill.ca) (sylvain.milot at mcgill.ca) Brain Imaging Centre Montreal Neurological Institute 3801 University Street Webster 2B, Room 206 Montreal, Qc., Canada, H3A 2B4 Phone : (514) 398-4965, Fax: 398-8948 Mobile : (514) 712-1768 Office : 527 Av Des Pins O., Room 104 Montreal, Qc., H2W 1S4 From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Tue May 21 11:34:14 2013 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 15:34:14 +0000 Subject: [BIC-announce] Post-doctoral scholar - The Icahn School of Medicine, Mt. Sinai Message-ID: <17E9FB1F37770C46891A5AD521DC19041BB7294B@EXMBX2010-6.campus.MCGILL.CA> Postdoctoral Scholar (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY) The Translational and Molecular Imaging Institute (TMII) at The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai is seeking a post-doctoral scholar to develop novel MRI techniques with a focus in neuroimaging. This is an excellent opportunity to conduct innovative MR research as a member of a team of technical and clinical experts with access to state-of-the-art imaging equipment housed in the newly constructed Hess Center for Science and Medicine. The position will be in the high field neuroimaging and spectroscopy group led by Dr. Priti Balchandani, Director of the High Field MRI Program at TMII. Position responsibilities include independent research, contributions to publications and grants, and leadership roles within the new Institute. Opportunities for teaching also exist. The candidate should have a PhD in Engineering, Physics or a related field, and should have some experience and interest in RF pulse design and MRI pulse sequence programming. A significant portion of the work will be development of novel techniques for the human 7T MRI scanner at Mount Sinai. Salary will be commensurate with the cost of living in New York. Subsidized housing close to the Mount Sinai campus is available. The Translational and Molecular Imaging Institute is advancing the science of imaging, from the development of new visualization technology to improved contrast agents. The brain imaging program will utilize cutting-edge instrumentation, including multiple research-dedicated human systems (7T, 3T, 1.5T, integrated MR/PET, PET/CT, MDCTs), among other instruments. These imaging capabilities are part of a new 30,000 sq ft state-of-the-art imaging facility. TMII is directed by Dr. Zahi Fayad, a leader in multimodal cardiovascular imaging, and consists of several faculty members with research interests ranging from neuroimaging to nanomedicine. Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai attracts outstanding scientists, clinicians, and students, all of whom share a deep commitment to expanding biomedical knowledge, providing expert clinical care and serving the community. Working in close partnership with The Mount Sinai Hospital, the Icahn School of Medicine serves one of the most diverse and complex patient populations in the world. New York City offers a unique experience for young professionals, unparalleled by any other city in the nation. One of the cultural capitals of the world, the city offers a diverse selection of cuisine, entertainment and the arts, all accessible via an excellent public transportation system. Please send CV and brief statement of research interests to Dr. Priti Balchandani at priti.balchandani at mssm.edu. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Tue May 21 11:38:13 2013 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 15:38:13 +0000 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: 4th annual Albert Aguayo Lecture - June 10, 2013 In-Reply-To: <21537_1368805162_51964F2A_21537_105_6_AF3068FC45A86F4695008A00EE01FECB1BBC2309@EXMBX2010-6.campus.MCGILL.CA> References: <21537_1368805162_51964F2A_21537_105_6_AF3068FC45A86F4695008A00EE01FECB1BBC2309@EXMBX2010-6.campus.MCGILL.CA> Message-ID: <17E9FB1F37770C46891A5AD521DC19041BB7297B@EXMBX2010-6.campus.MCGILL.CA> The Neuro will host The 4th Annual Albert Aguayo Lecture on June 10, 2013 in recognition of Dr. Albert Aguayo, founder and former Director of the Centre for the Research in Neuroscience at McGill University. The lecture entitled "From Peppers to Pit Vipers: Molecular Insights into Thermosensation and Pain" will be given by David Julius, Ph.D., Morris Herzstein Chair in Molecular Biology and Medicine, Professor and Chair of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco. A reception will follow the lecture. For more information and to register: www.neuroevents.mcgill.ca /debbie.rashcovsky at mcgill.ca [---] La 4e Conf?rence annuelle Albert-Aguayo - 10 juin 2013 Le Neuro sera l'h?te de La 4e Conf?rence annuelle Albert-Aguayo le 10 juin 2013. La conf?rence honore le Dr Albert Aguayo, fondateur et ancien directeur du Centre de recherche en neurosciences de l'Universit? McGill. La conf?rence intitul?e ? Des piments aux crotalid?s : ?clairage mol?culaire sur la sensibilit? thermique et la douleur ? sera prononc?e par David Julius, Titulaire de la chaire Morris-Herzstein de biologie mol?culaire et de m?decine, Professeur et directeur du D?partement de physiologie, Universit? de Californie, San Francisco, ?.-U., prononcera la conf?rence. Une r?ception suivra la conference. Pour se renseigner et s'inscrire : www.neuroevents.mcgill.ca /debbie.rashcovsky at mcgill.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.gif Type: image/gif Size: 1154 bytes Desc: image001.gif URL: From louis.collins at mcgill.ca Tue May 21 16:19:31 2013 From: louis.collins at mcgill.ca (D. Louis Collins) Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 16:19:31 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] minc hackathon Dec 17-21 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi all, We will be hosting our second MINC/ITK Hackathon on wednesday, May 22 (tomorrow). Luis Ibanez, Matt McCormick and Xiaoxiao Liu will be here in person. This is a followup meeting to our successful hackathon last December. The physical location will be in room 123 of the new North Wing of the MNI. We'll set up a google hangout for others that can't join physically. Ideas for the hackathon: 1. The MINC-to-ITK integration is mostly done, but following things are still missing: - Writing out of floating point data to a minc file with slice normalization (right now the whole volume normalization is used) - There is no support of reading minc1 files, right now it just causes the reader to produce an Exception of unsupported file format. We could try running mincconvert binary (if available on the system) to convert minc1 file to minc2 format in temp directory - Support for reading and writing transformations files (xfm) is there, but right now only linear and grid transformations are supported (no support for thin-plate-spline). Also, minc xfm io library provides automatic support for forward and inverse transformation, this is not quite the same as the inverse in CompositeTransform in ITK - maybe we could take a look at that. - Metadata information from MINC IO stored in a format specific for MINC reader , perhaps it could be advantageous to standardize it across different IO modules. - Set of tests for MINC IO and MINC XFM IO might be revisited to account for all feasible combinations of data types and sources (i.e. DTI data, fMRI data, etc ). 2. mni_autoreg package ( the tool that provides linear and non-linear registration tool) is now being reworked as a library by Robb Brown : https://github.com/robb-brown/mni_autoreg/tree/lib-dev , perhaps it could be worthwhile to have it interface with ITK ? 3. Patch-based segmentation and denoising - Independently from PatchBasedDenoisingImageFilter class in ITK, we have been working on implementing methods from " Patch-based segmentation using expert priors: Application to hippocampus and ventricle segmentation." : http://www.hal.inserm.fr/inserm-00541534/en/ maybe we can work on putting it in Insight journal? 4- dashboard fest and/or an adopt a bug session! Please forward to anyone you think might be interested. -Louis D. Louis Collins, PhD McConnell Brain Imaging Center Professor Montreal Neurological Institute Neurology & Neurosurgery WB-314 Biomedical Engineering 3801 University St. louis.collins at mcgill.ca Montreal, Quebec. voice: (514)-398-4227/8554 CANADA H3A 2B4 Fax: (514)-398-2975 http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/PeopleFaculty/CollinsDLouis From louis.collins at mcgill.ca Wed May 22 08:51:52 2013 From: louis.collins at mcgill.ca (D. Louis Collins) Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 08:51:52 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] minc hackathon Dec 17-21 In-Reply-To: <68EE6EBE-FBFE-4BED-A2D0-D7914BD68368@gmail.com> References: <68EE6EBE-FBFE-4BED-A2D0-D7914BD68368@gmail.com> Message-ID: <00742270-6C75-466D-AB23-A9FA0FEB4A25@mcgill.ca> thanks - we'll start around 9 and go until we are tired - say 4:30-5pm EST. -L On 2013-05-22, at 7:42 AM, Nicolas wrote: > Hi Louis, > Just to let you know that you forgot to mention the starting time in your email. But you mentioned 9am yesterday. > Nicolas > > Sent from phone > > > Le 2013-05-21 ? 16:19, "D. Louis Collins" a ?crit : > >> Hi all, >> >> We will be hosting our second MINC/ITK Hackathon on wednesday, May 22 (tomorrow). Luis Ibanez, Matt McCormick and Xiaoxiao Liu will be here in person. This is a followup meeting to our successful hackathon last December. The physical location will be in room 123 of the new North Wing of the MNI. We'll set up a google hangout for others that can't join physically. >> >> Ideas for the hackathon: >> >> 1. The MINC-to-ITK integration is mostly done, but following things are still missing: >> >> - Writing out of floating point data to a minc file with slice normalization (right now the whole volume normalization is used) >> >> - There is no support of reading minc1 files, right now it just causes the reader to produce an Exception of unsupported file format. We could try running mincconvert binary (if available on the system) to convert minc1 file to minc2 format in temp directory >> >> - Support for reading and writing transformations files (xfm) is there, but right now only linear and grid transformations are supported (no support for thin-plate-spline). Also, minc xfm io library provides automatic support for forward and inverse transformation, this is not quite the same as the inverse in CompositeTransform in ITK - maybe we could take a look at that. >> >> - Metadata information from MINC IO stored in a format specific for MINC reader , perhaps it could be advantageous to standardize it across different IO modules. >> >> - Set of tests for MINC IO and MINC XFM IO might be revisited to account for all feasible combinations of data types and sources (i.e. DTI data, fMRI data, etc ). >> >> 2. mni_autoreg package ( the tool that provides linear and non-linear registration tool) is now being reworked as a library by Robb Brown : https://github.com/robb-brown/mni_autoreg/tree/lib-dev , perhaps it could be worthwhile to have it interface with ITK ? >> >> 3. Patch-based segmentation and denoising >> >> - Independently from PatchBasedDenoisingImageFilter class in ITK, we have been working on implementing methods from " Patch-based segmentation using expert priors: Application to hippocampus and ventricle segmentation." : http://www.hal.inserm.fr/inserm-00541534/en/ maybe we can work on putting it in Insight journal? >> >> 4- dashboard fest and/or an adopt a bug session! >> >> Please forward to anyone you think might be interested. >> >> -Louis >> >> >> D. Louis Collins, PhD McConnell Brain Imaging Center >> Professor Montreal Neurological Institute >> Neurology & Neurosurgery WB-314 >> Biomedical Engineering 3801 University St. >> louis.collins at mcgill.ca Montreal, Quebec. >> voice: (514)-398-4227/8554 CANADA H3A 2B4 >> Fax: (514)-398-2975 >> http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/PeopleFaculty/CollinsDLouis >> >> _______________________________________________ >> BIC-announce mailing list >> BIC-announce at bic.mni.mcgill.ca >> http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/mailman/listinfo/bic-announce From jung.e.han at mail.mcgill.ca Wed May 22 10:10:58 2013 From: jung.e.han at mail.mcgill.ca (Jung Eun Han) Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 14:10:58 +0000 Subject: [BIC-announce] CIHR & BAM 2013 Scientific Cafe on Schizophrenia In-Reply-To: <6974_1368557935_5192896F_6974_13_5_B8429E1A7ADC354E82EB210DC415DB1E10BBB9F9@EXMBX2010-3.campus.MCGILL.CA> References: <6974_1368557935_5192896F_6974_13_5_B8429E1A7ADC354E82EB210DC415DB1E10BBB9F9@EXMBX2010-3.campus.MCGILL.CA> Message-ID: Brain Awareness Montreal and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) would like to invite you to the scientific caf?, A Beautiful Mind: Insights into schizophrenia and psychosis. Exerts in the field, Dr. Martin Lepage, Dr. Ashok Malla and Dr. Ridha Joober have been invited to talk about various topics of their research in schizophrenia and psychosis. In an attempt to transfer knowledge to the public about these disorders and to help eliminate the stigma surrounding them, the basic idea is to generate a discourse between the audience and the experts via a Q&A period. Come join us for an evening of entertainment and enlightenment! When? Thursday, May 23rd 2013 from 7-9 pm at the Crowley Arts Centre in NDG 5325 Crowley Ave, H4A 2C6. Admission is free and light food and beverages will be offered. This event is open to the public, so everyone is encouraged to come including friends and families! We hope to see you there! En collaboration avec les Instituts de recherche en sant? du Canada (IRSC), Cerveau en t?te Montr?al t'inviter au caf? scientifique, Un esprit d'exception: Aper?u de la schizophr?nie et de la psychose. Dr. Martin Lepage, Dr. Ashok Malla et Dr. Ridha Joober, trois experts dans le domaine, ont ?t? invit?s ? parler de sujets vari?s provenant de leurs recherches sur la schizophr?nie et la psychose. Dans une tentative de transf?rer les connaissances sur ces troubles aupr?s du public et afin d'aider ? ?liminer la stigmatisation qui les entoure, l'id?e de base est de g?n?rer un discours entre le public et les experts par le biais d'une p?riode de questions. Je t'invite personnellement car tu as contribu? directement au succ?s de nos recherches, et nous n'aurions pas pu le faire sans votre contribution.Viens te joindre ? nous pour une soir?e de divertissement et d'?claircissements! Quand? Jeudi le 23 mai 2013, 7-9 pm au Centre des arts Crowley, ? Notre-Dame-de-Gr?ce 5325 Avenue Crowley, H4A 2C6. L'entr?e est gratuite et des collations et breuvages seront offerts. Cet ?v?nement est ouvert au public, donc tous sont invit?s ? venir, y compris amie et famille! 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Jennifer From: neuro [mailto:NEURO at LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Sandra McPherson, Dr. Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 10:05 AM To: NEURO at LISTS.MCGILL.CA Subject: [NEURO] Reminder: June 4 Neuro Convocation and Lifetime Achievement Awards You are cordially invited to: The NEURO Convocation & Lifetime Achievement Awards Ceremony Tuesday, June 4, 2013 at 2pm Followed by a wine and cheese reception Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre Lifetime Achievement Awards Jack Antel, MD The Webster Family and The R. Howard Webster Foundation Promising Young Investigator Award Christopher Pack, PhD Outstanding Team Award Integrated Program in Neuroscience RSVP by May 28: Giovanna Caraffa, 514 398-8825 or giovanna.caraffa at mcgill.ca ---------------------------- Vous ?tes cordialement invit?s ? : La Convocation NEURO et la c?r?monie des Prix d'excellence Le mardi 4 juin 2013 ? 14 h Une r?ception vins et fromages suivra Amphith??tre Jeanne-Timmins Prix d'excellence - ensemble des r?alisations Jack Antel, M.D. La famille Webster et la Fondation R. Howard Webster Prix d'excellence - jeune chercheur le plus prometteur Christopher Pack, Ph. D. Prix d'excellence - ?quipe exemplaire Programme int?gr? en neurosciences RSVP avant 28 mai: Giovanna Caraffa: 514 398-8825 ou giovanna.caraffa at mcgill.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Thu May 23 11:31:45 2013 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 15:31:45 +0000 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Lecture by DR. CHRISTOPHER C. ROWE, M.D.- REDEFINING ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE - THE ROLE OF MOLECULAR BRAIN IMAGING In-Reply-To: <4026BFB80B45429C81818EB538C6B33D@mcsa.douglas.rtss.qc.ca> References: <4026BFB80B45429C81818EB538C6B33D@mcsa.douglas.rtss.qc.ca> Message-ID: <17E9FB1F37770C46891A5AD521DC19041BB72CDF@EXMBX2010-6.campus.MCGILL.CA> FOR YOUR INFORMATION. Jennifer WHAT: REDEFINING ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE - THE ROLE OF MOLECULAR???? BRAIN IMAGING. BY: DR. CHRISTOPHER C. ROWE, M.D. WHEN: This lecture will be held on Friday, June 7, 2013 at 11:00 a.m. WHERE: Douglas Mental Health University Institute - 6875 LaSalle Boulevard, Verdun, Quebec H4H 1R2 - Pavilion Douglas Hall - Limited Seating For more information: silvana.aguzzi at mcgill.ca or tamar.tatigian at mcgill.ca or www.aging.mcgill.ca Live stream will begin at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, June 7, 2013. Link: www.vpsolution.tv/douglas/molson. DR. CHRISTOPHER C. ROWE, M.D. Professor Rowe research focuses on imaging of neurodegenerative diseases, particularly AD, for better understanding, earlier more accurate detection, and to facilitate development of early therapeutic interventions. His publications had over 1000 citations in 2012. He has published extensively on SPECT in epilepsy and beta-amyloid imaging in Alzheimer's disease. Professor Christopher C. Rowe MD is one of the leading researchers in the field of molecular neuroimaging and Alzheimer's disease. Prof. Rowe is the director of the Department of Nuclear Medicine and Centre for PET and a consultant neurologist to the Memory Disorders Clinic at the Austin Hospital, Melbourne. Professor Rowe is the imaging director for the Australian Imaging, Biomarkers and Lifestyle Study of Aging (AIBL) and has performed over 800 brain amyloid scans with C-11 and F-18 labeled PET tracers. He has produced over 60 publications in the last five years on PET imaging of neurodegenerative disorders. He is a past President of the SNM Brain Imaging Council and received the 2011 SNM Kuhl-Lassen Award for Outstanding Contribution to Brain Imaging. He is the neuroimaging leader of several large studies of aging and Alzheimer's disease (AD) including AIBL and the Cooperative Research Centre for Mental Health. From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Thu May 23 11:32:55 2013 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 15:32:55 +0000 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Lecture by Dr. Randall Bateman, M.D. - THE DIAN AND DIAN-TU TRIALS In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <17E9FB1F37770C46891A5AD521DC19041BB72CED@EXMBX2010-6.campus.MCGILL.CA> FOR YOUR INFORMATION. Jennifer WHAT: THE DIAN AND DIAN-TU TRIALS BY: DR. RANDALL BATEMAN, M.D. WHEN: This lecture will be held on Thursday, May 30, 2013 at 11:00 am WHERE: Douglas Mental Health University Institute - 6875 LaSalle Boulevard, Verdun, Quebec H4H 1R2 - Pavilion Douglas Hall - Limited Seating For more information: silvana.aguzzi at mcgill.ca or tamar.tatigian at mcgill.ca ??www.aging.mcgill.ca Live stream will begin at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, May 30, 2013 Link: www.vpsolution.tv/douglas/molson. In 2008, the NIH funded the establishment of the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN, www.dian-info.org), an international network of leading research centers to investigate dominantly inherited AD. In 2012, the DIAN-TU (Trials Unit) launched the first prevention trials for autosomal dominant AD. The DIAN-TU has developed an adaptive design to test multiple AD targets with the goal of prevention and intervention of cognitive decline in autosomal dominant AD. The DIAN Expanded Registry (www.DIANXR.org ) is an international participant and researcher registry for DIAN-TU trials. The scientific knowledge gained from secondary prevention trials is likely to inform about the cause of AD, validate biomarkers to accelerate treatment development, and determine the effects of treating AD early. ? RANDALL BATEMAN, M.D. Dr. Bateman is a world-renowned clinician-scientist leading the development of novel disease modifying treatments for Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Bateman is the Director of the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer's Network Therapeutic Trials Unit (DIAN TTU), which is a first clinical trial in autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease (ADAD). Dr. Bateman also serves as the Associate Director and Clinical Core Leader of the DIAN, an international collaboration of leading research centers dedicated to studying autosomal dominant Alzheimer's disease (ADAD). DIAN TTU aims to prevent Alzheimer's dementia. Dr. Bateman's laboratory investigates the causes, and methods for preclinical diagnosis and treatments of Alzheimer's disease utilizing a wide variety of assays and techniques. Dr. Bateman's lab determined that clearance of amyloid beta is impaired in patients with Alzheimer's disease. Dr. Bateman's honors include the AAN Foundation Corporate Roundtable Clinical Research Fellowship, an American Neurological Association Plenary Session Speaker, a World Technology Award Nominee for Health and Medicine Associate, Scientific American 50 Award recognizing the top 50 scientific achievements of 2006, the Kopolow Award, the 2007 Alzheimer's Research Forum Community Award, the Beeson Award, the St. Louis Academy of Science Innovator of the Year award, the Co-recipient of the Health Care Heroes in Innovation by the St. Louis Business Journal, the Glenn Award for Research, the 2011 Alzheimer's Association Zenith Fellows Award, the 2011 Alzheimer's Research Forum Open Innovation Award and the 2012 MetLife Promising Investigator Award From caramanos at gmail.com Thu May 23 23:08:55 2013 From: caramanos at gmail.com (Zografos 'Aki' CARAMANOS) Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 23:08:55 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] =?windows-1252?q?BIC_Lecture_Series_=28Mon-May-27?= =?windows-1252?q?=2C_1=3A00_pm=2C_de_Grandpr=E9_Communications_Cen?= =?windows-1252?q?tre=3B_Dr=2E_Stephen_Cunnane_--_=22Brain_Fuel_Met?= =?windows-1252?q?abolism_in_Aging_and_Mild_Alzheimer=92s_Disease?= =?windows-1252?q?=3A_Comparison_of_18F-FDG_with_a_Novel_PET_Ketone?= =?windows-1252?q?_tracer_--_11C-Acetoacetate=22=29?= Message-ID: *BIC Lecture Series* The BIC Lecture Series features informal lectures on brain imaging presented at the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre (*BIC*) by experts in the field. These lectures are open to all. Please join us for our next BIC Lecture, which will be held in The Neuro's de Grandpr? Communications Centre (3801 University Street, Montreal, QC, H3A 2B4)* *on *Monday, May the 27th, starting at 1:00 pm**.* * * *At that time, Dr. Stephen Cunnane will be describing some of his work looking at brain-fuel metabolism in aging and mild Alzheimer?s Disease: comparing 18F-FDG with a 11C-Acetoacetate (a novel PET ketone tracer).* Cheers! Aki ------------------------------------------- *BIC Lecture Series: Winter-2013 Program **BIC Lectures are typically held on Mondays at 1:00 pm in the de Grandpr? Communications Centre of The Neuro. **For more information and links to the presentations as they become available, please visit the BIC Lecture website .* 01) Feb-11: *Nature versus Nurture: Contributions Towards Healthy Cognition from Childhood to Senescence in Mice and Humans* -- Dr. Veronique Bohbot 02) Feb-18: *Functional Brain Plasticity Induced by Musical Training* -- Dr. Sibylle Herholz 03) Feb-25: *Optimization of the PET Detector Blocks for a Small-Animal PET Scanning Insert for Simultaneous PET/MRI* -- Dr. Chris Thompson 04) Mar-01: *Lactate Links Brain Energy Metabolism to Cerebral Blood Flow* -- Dr. Albert Gjedde 05) Mar-04: *Multi-Manifold Diffeomorphic Metric Mapping for Cortical Registration: Applications in Structural and Functional Studies of the Brain * -- Dr. Jidan Zhong 06) Mar-11: *Auditory-Motor Control of Singing* -- Dr. Jean Mary Zarate 07) Mar-18: *The Brain on TED* -- Mr. Benjamin Elgie 08) Mar-25: *Glimpses Into Consciousness From the Ways We Lose It* -- Dr. George Kostopoulos ---) Apr-01: *No Lecture: Easter Monday* 09) Apr-08: *The Brain on TED, 2* -- Mr. Benjamin Elgie ---) 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 11) Wed-May-08_4pm: *Statistical Detection and Reproducibility Issues in Brain Imaging Genetics Methods* -- Dr. Jean-Baptiste Poline 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 -- 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 (web) Google-scholar www.zcaramanos.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Communications Centre (3801 University Street, Montreal, QC, H3A 2B4)* *on *Monday, May the 27th, starting at 1:00 pm**.* * * *At that time, Dr. Stephen Cunnane will be describing some of his work looking at brain-fuel metabolism in aging and mild Alzheimer?s Disease: comparing 18F-FDG with a 11C-Acetoacetate (a novel PET ketone tracer).* Cheers! Aki ------------------------------------------- *BIC Lecture Series: Winter-2013 Program **BIC Lectures are typically held on Mondays at 1:00 pm in the de Grandpr? Communications Centre of The Neuro. **For more information and links to the presentations as they become available, please visit the BIC Lecture website .* 01) Feb-11: *Nature versus Nurture: Contributions Towards Healthy Cognition from Childhood to Senescence in Mice and Humans* -- Dr. Veronique Bohbot 02) Feb-18: *Functional Brain Plasticity Induced by Musical Training* -- Dr. Sibylle Herholz 03) Feb-25: *Optimization of the PET Detector Blocks for a Small-Animal PET Scanning Insert for Simultaneous PET/MRI* -- Dr. Chris Thompson 04) Mar-01: *Lactate Links Brain Energy Metabolism to Cerebral Blood Flow* -- Dr. Albert Gjedde 05) Mar-04: *Multi-Manifold Diffeomorphic Metric Mapping for Cortical Registration: Applications in Structural and Functional Studies of the Brain * -- Dr. Jidan Zhong 06) Mar-11: *Auditory-Motor Control of Singing* -- Dr. Jean Mary Zarate 07) Mar-18: *The Brain on TED* -- Mr. Benjamin Elgie 08) Mar-25: *Glimpses Into Consciousness From the Ways We Lose It* -- Dr. George Kostopoulos ---) Apr-01: *No Lecture: Easter Monday* 09) Apr-08: *The Brain on TED, 2* -- Mr. Benjamin Elgie ---) 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 11) Wed-May-08_4pm: *Statistical Detection and Reproducibility Issues in Brain Imaging Genetics Methods* -- Dr. Jean-Baptiste Poline 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 -- 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 (web) Google-scholar www.zcaramanos.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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As most of you know, George was a world-renowned neuromuscular clinician and researcher whose lifelong search for a cure for muscular dystrophy was driven by his endless energy and scientific curiosity. We are extrememly pleased to have Elizabeth McNally of the University of Chicago as the inaugural George Karpati Lecturer. Dr McNally is a clinician-scientist of international reputation whose work on genetic diseases of muscle ranges from the molecular level through to the whole patient, where she has a particular interest in cardiovascular aspects. Her presentation, entitled "Genetic modifiers for muscular dystrophy" will be given at 4:00 pm today (May 28) in the de Grandpr? Communications Centre. We hope you will join us in this scientific celebration of George Karpati's life and his contributions to neuromuscular research and to the Neuro. In addition to the George Karpati Lecture today, Dr McNally will also present the Neurology Ground Rounds at 8:30 am tomorrow in the de Grandpr? Communications Centre, entitled "Cardiac complications of muscular dystrophy". Ken Ken Hastings Montreal Neurological Institute McGill University 3801 University Street Montreal, Quebec Canada H3A 2B4 514-398-1852 (phone) 514-398-1509 (fax) ken.hastings at mcgill.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Tue May 28 12:51:41 2013 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Tue, 28 May 2013 16:51:41 +0000 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Registration open for GSAN's Gradate Symposium in Neuroscience! In-Reply-To: <10682_1369747394_51A4AFC2_10682_42_3_AF3068FC45A86F4695008A00EE01FECB1BBCAB2F@exmbx2010-9.campus.MCGILL.CA> References: <8A0F722698221C4E8F58274A2A35E6083824C7F1@EXMBX2010-4.campus.MCGILL.CA> <10682_1369747394_51A4AFC2_10682_42_3_AF3068FC45A86F4695008A00EE01FECB1BBCAB2F@exmbx2010-9.campus.MCGILL.CA> Message-ID: <17E9FB1F37770C46891A5AD521DC19041BB794CC@exmbx2010-9.campus.MCGILL.CA> 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, May 28, 2013 9:21 AM To: MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA Subject: Registration open for GSAN's Gradate Symposium in Neuroscience! Hello all, Registration is open for the Graduate Symposium in Neuroscience (click here to access the form), presented by the Graduate Student's Association for Neuroscience, which will take place Wednesday, May 29th at 1:30 PM in the DeGrandpr? Communications Centre at the Montreal Neurological Institute. The afternoon will begin with a series of student presentations, followed by a keynote presentation by Dr. Eric Racine. Dr. Racine is the Director of the Neuroethics Research unit at the IRCM and is interested in developing a pragmatic framework for bioethics based on empirical research and exploring its implications in concrete questions related to the ethical application of neuroscience in research, patient care and public policy. His presentation is titled "Does the public's understanding of neuroscience matter? Questions and perspectives from neuroethics", which will begin at 4:00 PM. Coffee and refreshments will be available after the student presentations, and a wine and cheese reception will follow Dr. Racine's lecture. For more information, and titles of student presentations, please see our website! Looking forward to seeing you there! 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In order to qualify for the study, you must 1. have learned English as one of your first languages at birth 2. be between 18-35 years of age 3. not have a history of neurological disorders and/or seizures 4. not have a history of speech/language/hearing impairments, 5. not be left-handed or ambidextrous. To schedule an appointment and for more information on the study, please contact Katja (PhD student) at: email: katja.haeuser at mail.mcgill.ca. phone: 514 651 7006 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Jennifer From: neuro [mailto:NEURO at LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Sandra McPherson, Dr. Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 8:09 AM To: NEURO at LISTS.MCGILL.CA Subject: [NEURO] Reminder: Tuesday June 4 at 2 pm -Neuro Convocation & Lifetime Achievement Awards You are cordially invited to: The NEURO Convocation & Lifetime Achievement Awards Ceremony Tuesday, June 4, 2013 at 2pm Followed by a wine and cheese reception Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre Lifetime Achievement Awards Jack Antel, MD The Webster Family and The R. Howard Webster Foundation C. Nance Common Award Christopher Kent, PhD Promising Young Investigator Award Christopher Pack, PhD Outstanding Team Award Integrated Program in Neuroscience RSVP: Giovanna Caraffa, 514 398-8825 or giovanna.caraffa at mcgill.ca ---------------------------- Vous ?tes cordialement invit?s ? : La Convocation NEURO et la c?r?monie des Prix d'excellence Le mardi 4 juin 2013 ? 14 h Une r?ception vins et fromages suivra Amphith??tre Jeanne-Timmins Prix d'excellence - ensemble des r?alisations Jack Antel, M.D. La famille Webster et la Fondation R. Howard Webster Prix C. Nance Common Christopher Kent, Ph. D. Prix d'excellence - jeune chercheur le plus prometteur Christopher Pack, Ph. D. Prix d'excellence - ?quipe exemplaire Programme int?gr? en neurosciences RSVP: Giovanna Caraffa: 514 398-8825 ou giovanna.caraffa at mcgill.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Thu May 30 10:56:59 2013 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 14:56:59 +0000 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Special Seminar (Kobi Rosenblum) Wed. June 12, 2013, Revealing molecular mechanisms underlying taste memory consolidation may teach us how to enhance cognition and fight Alzheimer disease Message-ID: <17E9FB1F37770C46891A5AD521DC19041BB79646@exmbx2010-9.campus.MCGILL.CA> 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: Wednesday, May 29, 2013 3:45 PM To: MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA Subject: Special Seminar (Kobi Rosenblum) Wed. June 12, 2013 SPECIAL? LECTURE Host: ?Dr. Wayne Sossin (wayne.sossin at mcgill.ca) ? Speaker:?? Kobi Rosenblum, PhD Department of Neurobiology Center for Gene Manipulation in the Brain Haifa, ISRAEL http://neuroethocms.haifa.ac.il/rosenblum/ http://cgmb.haifa.ac.il/ ? ? Title:? ?Revealing molecular mechanisms underlying taste memory consolidation may teach us how to enhance cognition and fight Alzheimer disease.? ? Date:? ?Wednesday, June 12, 2013 ? Time:? ?4:00pm ? Place:? de Grandpre Communications Centre ? ? ?