From jidan.zhong at mail.mcgill.ca Mon Jan 6 15:46:30 2014 From: jidan.zhong at mail.mcgill.ca (Jidan Zhong) Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 20:46:30 +0000 Subject: [BIC-announce] recruiting healthy subjects and MS patients for MRIs Message-ID: <0FF49D8D59C75B4C9E82943C1E6BC4083193AD6B@EXMBX2010-2.campus.MCGILL.CA> Dear all, We are recruiting both subjects with multiple sclerosis and healthy adults (right handed) for our multiple sclerosis research study. This includes one MRI visit and 1 visit with other tests. For more information please contact me or check the advertisement material in the attachment. We are now more in need of female healthy adults aged>= 35, right handed. But other healthy adults (>30) are also welcome to contact us! Please help me to disseminate the message to whoever might be interested. Thanks a lot!! Best Wishes, Jidan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We have also simplified your payment procedures and have arranged a convenient way to collect payments for all BIC imaging services through electronic feeds (Section B). Finally, please read carefully our new policy for access conditioned to clearance of due payments (Section C). All policies take effect as of January 01, 2014. Thank you again for choosing the BIC for all your imaging needs. On behalf of all the core staff at the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, I wish everyone a productive and successful imaging year 2014. Cheers, Sylvain. ----------------------- Sylvain Baillet, PhD MNI Killam and FRSQ Senior Scholar Interim Director, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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This semester, the BIC Lecture Series is being held in conjunction with the BIC's new Open Methods Meetups (*OMM*) : a forum for discussing hands-on technical issues, brainstorming problem-solving for specific projects, and sharing personal tricks-of-the-trade. This will be a great venue for labs to transfer knowledge and to get to know one another. Please join us for our first 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, January the 13th, starting at 1:00 pm**. * *At that time, **Mr. Benjamin Elgie, Ms. Laureline Arnaud, and Mr. Michael Ferreira* *will lead an OMM aimed at presenting **an overview of the main features of three different fMRI analysis software packages: FSL, SPM, and AFNI.* Cheers! Aki PS - Please let me know if you are interested in presenting a future BIC Lecture or leading a future OMM (see below for currently available slots). ------------------------------------------- *BIC Lecture Series: Winter/Spring-2014 Program * *BIC Lectures are typically held on Mondays at 1:00 pm in the de Grandpr? Communications Centre of The Neuro. **For more information please visit the BIC Lecture website .* ---) Jan-06: *No Lecture* 01) Jan-13: *OMM: Overview of fMRI Analysis Software* -- Mr. Benjamin Elegy, Ms. Laureline Arnaud, and Mr. Michael Ferreira 02) Jan-20: *Structural MRI Analysis in the Study of Cognition, Large-Scale Networks, and Brain Pathology* -- Dr. Boris Bernhardt 03) Jan-27: *MRI Quantification of Local Tissue Volume and Composition in Individual Brains *-- Dr. Nikola Stikov 04) Feb-03: *Physiological Noise Correction in Resting State fMRI* ? Dr. Naj Mahani 05) Feb-10: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 06) Feb-17: *OMM: Diffusion Analysis with MINC Tools* -- Ms. Ilana Leppert 07) Feb-24: *OMM: MEG/EEG Analysis* -- Mr. Fran?ois Tadel 08) Mar-03: *OMM: MRI Registration* -- Dr. Hassan Rivaz 09) Mar-10: *OMM: **An Introduction to Automatic Segmentation of Brain MRI* -- Mr. Colm Elliot 10) Mar-17: *OMM: CIVET 2.0, An Automated Pipeline For Structural Human MRI* -- Dr. Lindsay Lewis 11) Mar-24: *OMM: Overview of PET* -- Mr. Paul Gravel 12) Mar-31: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 13) Apr-07: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 14) Apr-14: *To Be Announced* -- TBA ---) Apr-21: *No Lecture** -- Easter Monday* 15) Apr-28: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 16) May-05: *To Be Announced* -- TBA ---) May-12: *No Lecture** -- ISMRM in Milan* ---) May-19: *No Lecture** -- Victoria Day* 17) May-26: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 18) Jun-02: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 19) Jun-09: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 20) Jun-16: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 21) Jun-23: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 22) Jun-30: *To Be Announced* -- TBA -- 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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I hope you enjoyed our seminars last year, we will have many exciting presentations coming up this semester as well. We will actually have a special seminar for our first Biomedical Engineering seminar of the year, scheduled next Friday Jan 17th at 9h am, and there won't be any seminar scheduled next Wednesday. Friday ? Jan 17th, at 9 am (be carful of the change in schedule) Location: Room 333 Lyman Duff Building (Biomedical Engineering Dpt, 3775 University Street). Speaker: Dr. Nicole Li PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland-College Park, Visiting Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University Title: T owards personalized medicine for voice restoration Dr. Li is candidate for associate membership in Biomedical Engineering department, so attendance from our staff members and their students is highly encouraged. Abstract: Voice disorders are among the most common communication disorders across the lifespan. Teachers, actors, singers, teachers, politicians, journalists, and anyone who uses their voice intensively will experience a voice disorder at least once during the course of their careers. Patients? responses to surgical, pharmaceutical or behavioral voice treatments however vary substantially, hampering clinicians in planning targeted voice care. Most voice disorders involve physical injury of the vocal folds. In normal phonation, the vocal fold mucosa and ligament undergo vibrations at frequencies ranging from 20 to 3,000 Hz and amplitudes of a few millimeters. Recent advances have improved our understanding of mechanical and biological mechanisms in vocal fold injury and repair. However, much work remains to link these mechanisms, to uncover essential mechanical and biological factors in pathogenesis and treatment responses for the disorder. In this talk, a combined approach of in vivo, in vitro, and computer models we have developed to understand vocal fold mechanobiology will be described. The goal is to identify person-varying factors and predictors in pathogenesis of and recovery from vocal fold injury, which ultimately will be useful for near-future generations of personalized voice restoration models. 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 Multimodal Functional Imaging Lab (Multi FunkIm) Montreal Neurological Institute Centre de Recherches en 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.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ResearchLabsMFIL/PeopleChristophe http://www.bmed.mcgill.ca/ MultiFunkIm Lab: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ResearchLabsMFIL/HomePage *************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From caramanos at gmail.com Sun Jan 12 17:00:08 2014 From: caramanos at gmail.com (Zografos 'Aki' CARAMANOS) Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 17:00:08 -0500 Subject: [BIC-announce] Postdoc at Martinos Center (Development of motion aware diffusion and functional MRI analysis techniques for clinical autism research) Message-ID: *Postdoctoral Fellowship: *Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging and the Psychiatric Neuroimaging Division of the Psychiatry Department at Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA *Project: *Development of motion aware diffusion and functional MRI analysis techniques for clinical autism research *PI: *Dara S. Manoach, Ph.D. We are seeking a candidate who combines technical sophistication in fMRI and DTI data analysis with a strong interest in autism research to complement our team of clinical researchers and MRI engineers. Recent work clearly demonstrates that head motion can give rise to spurious group differences in studies of clinical populations. Our team is developing several technical innovations that will significantly reduce the impact of head motion on fMRI and diffusion acquisition. We are seeking a candidate to work with us to: 1) improve data analysis by making fMRI and diffusion analysis motion-aware using both the in-image data and the motion tracking data and 2) apply these optimized analyses to clinical data. Our goal is to develop a complete acquisition and analysis pipeline that allows us to overcome the artifactual group differences due to motion, and study the true underlying differences in functional and structural connectivity related to autism. The Research Fellow will be expected to: 1) Assist with setting up the data acquisition to ensure that the protocols are well- designed for the clinical questions; 2) Help with the modification of motion-aware processing tools that work in concert with existing software packages to improve the analysis of fMRI and DWI data; 3) Assist in the processing, interpretation and analysis of the results of both phantom and human studies; and 4) Apply these methods to address clinical research questions in autism. Our ideal candidate has a PhD in Cognitive Science, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field. Candidates with experience in image processing and time series analysis (ideally in fMRI and diffusion data analysis) will be preferred. This position requires strong programming skills, and the candidate is expected to have experience working in C++, scripting languages (e.g., Python), and rapid-prototyping languages for numerical algorithms (e.g., Matlab, Mathematica). Strong communication skills are essential, as the position involves working with an interdisciplinary team of scientists in both MRI physics/engineering and psychology/neuroscience in addition to research coordinators and MRI technologists. Mentoring in clinical research will be provided. Candidates available immediately will be preferred. Please send (a) CV, (b) statement of post-doctoral and career goals, (c) writing sample (e.g., a published manuscript), and (d) letters and/or contact information for three references to Dara Manoach at dara at nmr.mgh.harvard.edu. http://nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/manoachlab -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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This semester, the BIC Lecture Series is being held in conjunction with the BIC's new Open Methods Meetups (*OMM*) : a forum for discussing hands-on technical issues, brainstorming problem-solving for specific projects, and sharing personal tricks-of-the-trade. This will be a great venue for labs to transfer knowledge and to get to know one another. Please join us for our first 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, January the 13th, starting at 1:00 pm**. * *At that time, **Mr. Benjamin Elgie, Ms. Laureline Arnaud, and Mr. Michael Ferreira* *will lead an OMM aimed at presenting **an overview of the main features of three different fMRI analysis software packages: FSL, SPM, and AFNI.* Cheers! Aki PS - Please let me know if you are interested in presenting a future BIC Lecture or leading a future OMM (see below for currently available slots). ------------------------------------------- *BIC Lecture Series: Winter/Spring-2014 Program * *BIC Lectures are typically held on Mondays at 1:00 pm in the de Grandpr? Communications Centre of The Neuro. **For more information please visit the BIC Lecture website .* ---) Jan-06: *No Lecture* 01) Jan-13: *OMM: Overview of fMRI Analysis Software* -- Mr. Benjamin Elegy, Ms. Laureline Arnaud, and Mr. Michael Ferreira 02) Jan-20: *Structural MRI Analysis in the Study of Cognition, Large-Scale Networks, and Brain Pathology* -- Dr. Boris Bernhardt 03) Jan-27: *MRI Quantification of Local Tissue Volume and Composition in Individual Brains *-- Dr. Nikola Stikov 04) Feb-03: *Physiological Noise Correction in Resting State fMRI* ? Dr. Naj Mahani 05) Feb-10: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 06) Feb-17: *OMM: Diffusion Analysis with MINC Tools* -- Ms. Ilana Leppert 07) Feb-24: *OMM: MEG/EEG Analysis* -- Mr. Fran?ois Tadel 08) Mar-03: *OMM: MRI Registration* -- Dr. Hassan Rivaz 09) Mar-10: *OMM: **An Introduction to Automatic Segmentation of Brain MRI* -- Mr. Colm Elliott 10) Mar-17: *OMM: CIVET 2.0, An Automated Pipeline For Structural Human MRI* -- Dr. Lindsay Lewis 11) Mar-24: *OMM: Overview of PET* -- Mr. Paul Gravel 12) Mar-31: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 13) Apr-07: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 14) Apr-14: *To Be Announced* -- TBA ---) Apr-21: *No Lecture** -- Easter Monday* 15) Apr-28: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 16) May-05: *To Be Announced* -- TBA ---) May-12: *No Lecture** -- ISMRM in Milan* ---) May-19: *No Lecture** -- Victoria Day* 17) May-26: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 18) Jun-02: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 19) Jun-09: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 20) Jun-16: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 21) Jun-23: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 22) Jun-30: *To Be Announced* -- TBA -- 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 sylvain.baillet at mcgill.ca Mon Jan 13 11:39:14 2014 From: sylvain.baillet at mcgill.ca (Sylvain Baillet, Dr) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:39:14 +0000 Subject: [BIC-announce] Willam Feindel (1918-2014) References: <28466_1389629074_52D40E92_28466_213_8_890E80EF1DEFF64BA04F9C81BD1368533B62D5C9@EXMBX2010-7.campus.MCGILL.CA> Message-ID: <2C33BA54-191A-4684-BE8C-4961C3C4EA83@mcgill.ca> Dea All: This is a sad day for the BIC and the entire Neuro community: Dr William Feindel, the BIC's founding Director (1984-88) and former Neuro Director, passed away quietly yesterday at The Neuro. Please see Dr Rouleau's note below; a more detailed obituary will follow later this week. Dr Feindel has always been a passionate clinician, with a strong drive for groundbreaking techniques and imaging science at the MNI. With Drs Melan?on and Ethier, around the late 1970's, he contributed the installation of the first Body-Scan tomograph in Canada and about 5 years later, of the first MR scanner in the country. He also promoted the development at the BIC of the first PET system in the world to detect brain tumors and stroke. Everyone at the BIC continues to be inspired by his passion for innovation in imaging technology. Dr Feindel has been the most faithful attendee of our weekly BIC lectures and many students will remember his most-germane questions as an auditor of their MSc and PhD defense. With my warmest wishes to everyone, Sylvain. [cid:9DB5FC6E-5D98-4517-9C69-2E94D2EE6E8D] ----------------------- Sylvain Baillet, PhD MNI Killam and FRSQ Senior Scholar Interim Director, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University Begin forwarded message: From: "Sandra McPherson, Dr." > Subject: [NEURO] On behalf of Dr. Rouleau: Willam Feindel (1918-2014) Date: January 13, 2014 11:04:21 AM EST To: > Dear Neuro faculty and staff We regret to announce the death of William Feindel, O.C., G.O.Q., MDCM, D. Phil., one of Canada's most distinguished neurosurgeons and The Neuro?s third director. Dr. Feindel passed away quietly at The Neuro on Sunday night following a brief illness. For over 60 years, Dr. Feindel made his mark on Canadian medicine in surgery, research and administrative policy. His influence on his colleagues and on his many students was widespread. To the very end of his life, he remained a curious student of neurological science, and avidly took part in The Neuro?s activities. Dr. Feindel's many contributions to medical science were recognized in 2003, when he was among the earliest inductees into the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. The induction was one of numerous honours accorded him, including honorary degrees and membership in the Order of Canada, the Ordre national du Qu?bec (Grand Officier), the Academie des Grand Montr?alais, and the Royal Society of Canada. Details of the funeral and memorial service will follow. Regards, Guy Rouleau Director, The Neuro ------------------------------------------ Sandra McPherson, PhD Communications Director/Directrice, Communications [Description: C:\Documents and Settings\smcphe\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.Outlook\MUZ7M38O\neuro_web.gif] The Neuro I Le Neuro McGill University 3801, rue University, Montr?al (Qu?bec) H3A 2B4 T 514 398-1902 F 514 398-8072 www.mni.mcgill.ca Devez-vous absolument imprimer ce message ? 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The BIC Council is a new governance entity featuring representatives from all categories of staff and trainees. It is meant to be a venue to facilitate communication and encourage creative suggestions within our Centre. If you're not sure about who your rep is, please contact Grace Flynn >. Note that you can manage your registration to the bic-announce and other BIC mailing lists through: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/mailman/listinfo I encourage everyone to also register to the new core-user mailing list, where methodological and technical tips and tricks are shared amongst the BIC community members. Best wishes, Sylvain. ----------------------- Sylvain Baillet, PhD MNI Killam and FRSQ Senior Scholar Interim Director, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Speaker: Dr. Nicole Li PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland-College Park, Visiting Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University Title: T owards personalized medicine for voice restoration Dr. Li is candidate for associate membership in Biomedical Engineering department, so attendance from our staff members and their students is highly encouraged. Abstract: Voice disorders are among the most common communication disorders across the lifespan. Teachers, actors, singers, teachers, politicians, journalists, and anyone who uses their voice intensively will experience a voice disorder at least once during the course of their careers. Patients? responses to surgical, pharmaceutical or behavioral voice treatments however vary substantially, hampering clinicians in planning targeted voice care. Most voice disorders involve physical injury of the vocal folds. In normal phonation, the vocal fold mucosa and ligament undergo vibrations at frequencies ranging from 20 to 3,000 Hz and amplitudes of a few millimeters. Recent advances have improved our understanding of mechanical and biological mechanisms in vocal fold injury and repair. However, much work remains to link these mechanisms, to uncover essential mechanical and biological factors in pathogenesis and treatment responses for the disorder. In this talk, a combined approach of in vivo, in vitro, and computer models we have developed to understand vocal fold mechanobiology will be described. The goal is to identify person-varying factors and predictors in pathogenesis of and recovery from vocal fold injury, which ultimately will be useful for near-future generations of personalized voice restoration models. 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 Multimodal Functional Imaging Lab (Multi FunkIm) Montreal Neurological Institute Centre de Recherches en 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.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ResearchLabsMFIL/PeopleChristophe http://www.bmed.mcgill.ca/ MultiFunkIm Lab: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ResearchLabsMFIL/HomePage *************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Nous invitons ?galement les ?tudiants membres du r?seau ? pr?senter leurs travaux lors d?une p?riode d?affiches scientifique. Nous avons la capacit? de recevoir de 20 ? 30 affiches (information : https://www.rbiq-qbin.qc.ca/accueil Rendez-vous au https://www.rbiq-qbin.qc.ca/fr/evenement/1869 pour vous y inscrire! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- REMINDER? Less than 1 day to submit your poster?s abstract for the Scientific Day on January 31st, 2014. We remind you that the QBIN hold its Science Day on Friday, January 31, 2014 at the Amphitheatre Le Groupe Maurice at the CRIUGM. We also invite QBIN? students members to present their work during a posters session. We have the capacity to receive 20 to 30 posters. 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Speaker: Dr. Nicole Li PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland-College Park, Visiting Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University Title: T owards personalized medicine for voice restoration Dr. Li is candidate for associate membership in Biomedical Engineering department, so attendance from our staff members and their students is highly encouraged. Abstract: Voice disorders are among the most common communication disorders across the lifespan. Teachers, actors, singers, teachers, politicians, journalists, and anyone who uses their voice intensively will experience a voice disorder at least once during the course of their careers. Patients? responses to surgical, pharmaceutical or behavioral voice treatments however vary substantially, hampering clinicians in planning targeted voice care. Most voice disorders involve physical injury of the vocal folds. In normal phonation, the vocal fold mucosa and ligament undergo vibrations at frequencies ranging from 20 to 3,000 Hz and amplitudes of a few millimeters. Recent advances have improved our understanding of mechanical and biological mechanisms in vocal fold injury and repair. However, much work remains to link these mechanisms, to uncover essential mechanical and biological factors in pathogenesis and treatment responses for the disorder. In this talk, a combined approach of in vivo, in vitro, and computer models we have developed to understand vocal fold mechanobiology will be described. The goal is to identify person-varying factors and predictors in pathogenesis of and recovery from vocal fold injury, which ultimately will be useful for near-future generations of personalized voice restoration models. 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 Multimodal Functional Imaging Lab (Multi FunkIm) Montreal Neurological Institute Centre de Recherches en 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.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ResearchLabsMFIL/PeopleChristophe http://www.bmed.mcgill.ca/ MultiFunkIm Lab: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ResearchLabsMFIL/HomePage *************************** [X] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From caramanos at gmail.com Wed Jan 15 16:50:48 2014 From: caramanos at gmail.com (Zografos 'Aki' CARAMANOS) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 16:50:48 -0500 Subject: [BIC-announce] =?iso-8859-1?q?BIC_Lecture_Series_=28Mon-Jan-20=2C?= =?iso-8859-1?q?_1=3A00_pm=2C_de_Grandpr=E9_Communications_Centre?= =?iso-8859-1?q?=3B_=22Structural_MRI_Analysis_in_the_Study_of_Cogn?= =?iso-8859-1?q?ition=2C_Large-Scale_Networks=2C_and_Brain_Patholog?= =?iso-8859-1?q?y=22_--_Dr=2E_Boris_Bernhardt=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. This semester, the BIC Lecture Series is being held in conjunction with the BIC's new Open Methods Meetups (*OMM*) : a forum for discussing hands-on technical issues, brainstorming problem-solving for specific projects, and sharing personal tricks-of-the-trade. This will be a great venue for labs to transfer knowledge and to get to know one another. Please join us for our 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, January the 20th, starting at 1:00 pm**. * *At that time, **Dr. Boris Bernhardt will present some of his work using s**tructural MRI analysis in the study of cognition, large-scale networks, and brain pathology**.* Cheers! Aki PS - Please let me know if you are interested in presenting a future BIC Lecture or leading a future OMM (see below for currently available slots). ------------------------------------------- *BIC Lecture Series: Winter/Spring-2014 Program * *BIC Lectures are typically held on Mondays at 1:00 pm in the de Grandpr? Communications Centre of The Neuro. **For more information please visit the BIC Lecture website .* ---) Jan-06: *No Lecture* 01) Jan-13: *OMM: Overview of fMRI Analysis Software* -- Mr. Benjamin Elegy, Ms. Laureline Arnaud, and Mr. Michael Ferreira 02) Jan-20: *Structural MRI Analysis in the Study of Cognition, Large-Scale Networks, and Brain Pathology* -- Dr. Boris Bernhardt 03) Jan-27: *MRI Quantification of Local Tissue Volume and Composition in Individual Brains *-- Dr. Nikola Stikov 04) Feb-03: *Physiological Noise Correction in Resting State fMRI* ? Dr. Naj Mahani 05) Feb-10: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 06) Feb-17: *OMM: Diffusion Analysis with MINC Tools* -- Ms. Ilana Leppert 07) Feb-24: *OMM: MEG/EEG Analysis* -- Mr. Fran?ois Tadel 08) Mar-03: *OMM: MRI Registration* -- Dr. Hassan Rivaz 09) Mar-10: *OMM: **An Introduction to Automatic Segmentation of Brain MRI* -- Mr. Colm Elliott 10) Mar-17: *OMM: CIVET 2.0, An Automated Pipeline For Structural Human MRI* -- Dr. Lindsay Lewis 11) Mar-24: *OMM: Overview of PET* -- Mr. Paul Gravel 12) Mar-31: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 13) Apr-07: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 14) Apr-14: *To Be Announced* -- TBA ---) Apr-21: *No Lecture** -- Easter Monday* 15) Apr-28: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 16) May-05: *To Be Announced* -- TBA ---) May-12: *No Lecture** -- ISMRM in Milan* ---) May-19: *No Lecture** -- Victoria Day* 17) May-26: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 18) Jun-02: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 19) Jun-09: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 20) Jun-16: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 21) Jun-23: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 22) Jun-30: *To Be Announced* -- TBA -- 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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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. Sylvain Baillet ** starting at 5:30 pm on Wednesday, January 22nd in room 124 of the Montreal Neurological Institute (3801 University Street ).* *Dr. Sylvain Baillet *is an Associate Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University, as well as Interim Director of the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Founding Director of MEG Research at the Neuro, and Director of the Dynamic Neuroimaging Lab (neuroSPEED) . Dr. Baillet is a physicist with research interests in methodological developments for functional and structural brain imaging and their application to clinical and cognitive neuroscience. Although his primary expertise is with MEG imaging, he has also contributed new techniques for MRI image segmentation and inter-subject registration, and, using using diffusion-weighted MR sequences, he initiated new image analysis techniques for the early prediction of infarct growth in stroke patients. His current research projects with MEG include real-time therapeutic imaging, the evaluation of resting-state brain activity and connectivity in the healthy and diseased brain, and the development of original data mining and visualization techniques for time-resolved brain image series. He has also great interest in disseminating his research through academic software and is a founding developer of the Brainstorm open-source software project for MEG and EEG imaging with MRI integration. *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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Abstract: Voice disorders are among the most common communication disorders across the lifespan. Teachers, actors, singers, teachers, politicians, journalists, and anyone who uses their voice intensively will experience a voice disorder at least once during the course of their careers. Patients? responses to surgical, pharmaceutical or behavioral voice treatments however vary substantially, hampering clinicians in planning targeted voice care. Most voice disorders involve physical injury of the vocal folds. In normal phonation, the vocal fold mucosa and ligament undergo vibrations at frequencies ranging from 20 to 3,000 Hz and amplitudes of a few millimeters. Recent advances have improved our understanding of mechanical and biological mechanisms in vocal fold injury and repair. However, much work remains to link these mechanisms, to uncover essential mechanical and biological factors in pathogenesis and treatment responses for the disorder. In this talk, a combined approach of in vivo, in vitro, and computer models we have developed to understand vocal fold mechanobiology will be described. The goal is to identify person-varying factors and predictors in pathogenesis of and recovery from vocal fold injury, which ultimately will be useful for near-future generations of personalized voice restoration models. 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 Multimodal Functional Imaging Lab (Multi FunkIm) Montreal Neurological Institute Centre de Recherches en 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.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ResearchLabsMFIL/PeopleChristophe http://www.bmed.mcgill.ca/ MultiFunkIm Lab: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ResearchLabsMFIL/HomePage *************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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These lectures are open to all. This semester, the BIC Lecture Series is being held in conjunction with the BIC's new Open Methods Meetups (*OMM*) : a forum for discussing hands-on technical issues, brainstorming problem-solving for specific projects, and sharing personal tricks-of-the-trade. This will be a great venue for labs to transfer knowledge and to get to know one another. Please join us for our 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, January the 20th, starting at 1:00 pm**. * *At that time, **Dr. Boris Bernhardt will present some of his work using s**tructural MRI analysis in the study of cognition, large-scale networks, and brain pathology**.* Cheers! Aki PS - Please let me know if you are interested in presenting a future BIC Lecture or leading a future OMM (see below for currently available slots). ------------------------------------------- *BIC Lecture Series: Winter/Spring-2014 Program * *BIC Lectures are typically held on Mondays at 1:00 pm in the de Grandpr? Communications Centre of The Neuro. **For more information please visit the BIC Lecture website .* ---) Jan-06: *No Lecture* 01) Jan-13: *OMM: Overview of fMRI Analysis Software* -- Mr. Benjamin Elegy, Ms. Laureline Arnaud, and Mr. Michael Ferreira 02) Jan-20: *Structural MRI Analysis in the Study of Cognition, Large-Scale Networks, and Brain Pathology* -- Dr. Boris Bernhardt 03) Jan-27: *MRI Quantification of Local Tissue Volume and Composition in Individual Brains *-- Dr. Nikola Stikov 04) Feb-03: *Physiological Noise Correction in Resting State fMRI* ? Dr. Naj Mahani 05) Feb-10: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 06) Feb-17: *OMM: Diffusion Analysis with MINC Tools* -- Ms. Ilana Leppert 07) Feb-24: *OMM: MEG/EEG Analysis* -- Mr. Fran?ois Tadel 08) Mar-03: *OMM: MRI Registration* -- Dr. Hassan Rivaz 09) Mar-10: *OMM: **An Introduction to Automatic Segmentation of Brain MRI* -- Mr. Colm Elliott 10) Mar-17: *OMM: CIVET 2.0, An Automated Pipeline For Structural Human MRI* -- Dr. Lindsay Lewis 11) Mar-24: *OMM: Overview of PET* -- Mr. Paul Gravel 12) Mar-31: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 13) Apr-07: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 14) Apr-14: *To Be Announced* -- TBA ---) Apr-21: *No Lecture** -- Easter Monday* 15) Apr-28: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 16) May-05: *To Be Announced* -- TBA ---) May-12: *No Lecture** -- ISMRM in Milan* ---) May-19: *No Lecture** -- Victoria Day* 17) May-26: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 18) Jun-02: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 19) Jun-09: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 20) Jun-16: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 21) Jun-23: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 22) Jun-30: *To Be Announced* -- TBA -- 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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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. Sylvain Baillet ** starting at 5:30 pm on Wednesday, January 22nd in room 124 of the Montreal Neurological Institute (3801 University Street ).* *Dr. Sylvain Baillet *is an Associate Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University, as well as Interim Director of the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, Founding Director of MEG Research at the Neuro, and Director of the Dynamic Neuroimaging Lab (neuroSPEED) . Dr. Baillet is a physicist with research interests in methodological developments for functional and structural brain imaging and their application to clinical and cognitive neuroscience. Although his primary expertise is with MEG imaging, he has also contributed new techniques for MRI image segmentation and inter-subject registration, and, using using diffusion-weighted MR sequences, he initiated new image analysis techniques for the early prediction of infarct growth in stroke patients. His current research projects with MEG include real-time therapeutic imaging, the evaluation of resting-state brain activity and connectivity in the healthy and diseased brain, and the development of original data mining and visualization techniques for time-resolved brain image series. He has also great interest in disseminating his research through academic software and is a founding developer of the Brainstorm open-source software project for MEG and EEG imaging with MRI integration. *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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Mark Weber of McGill?s Commercialization Office will review the format used by McGill for invention reporting and commercialization, and discuss strategies that allow researchers to work with industry and other partners to maximize the benefits to each. 2:30pm - 3:30pm ?Ultrasound image analysis for applications in speech science?, Dr. Cathy Laporte, Department of Electrical Engineering, ?TS [McConnell Engineering MC12]: (This talk is being presented as a colloquium in the SOCS Colloquium Series. An informal reception will follow): Ultrasound (US) imaging is an effective and non invasive way of observing the tongue motions involved in normal and pathological speech, and the results of US studies are of interest to the study of the mechanisms underlying speech as well as the development of new strategies in speech therapy. (Semi-)automatically segmenting the tongue contour as it evolves in ultrasound video sequences is an image analysis task of particular interest since it allows the systematic study of tongue shape and motion. Challenges include maintaining high quality tongue tracking over time, as well as monitoring segmentation quality and developing meaningful ways to characterize tongue shape and motion. Our preliminary results touch upon each of these challenges and show how new adaptations of techniques previously rooted in the computer vision literature can be combined to provide useful tools to the speech scientist. Full details can be found on the CREATE-MIA website: http://aggie.cim.mcgill.ca.:8080/create-mia Best regards, Krys _________________________________________________________ Krys (Christine) Dudek Program Administrator, NSERC CREATE Program for Medical Image Analysis Centre for Intelligent Machines 3480 University Street McConnell Engineering Building, Room 410 Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2A7 kdudek at cim.mcgill.ca 514.398.6319 www.cim.mcgill.ca/create-mia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From christophe.grova at mcgill.ca Mon Jan 20 14:10:55 2014 From: christophe.grova at mcgill.ca (Christophe Grova) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 19:10:55 +0000 Subject: [BIC-announce] Seminar in Biomedical Engineering - Wednesday Jan. 22nd - 1h pm - Room 333 Message-ID: <9E1647EDA3EBB44AADA162CEC4C4222E2D31C4CE@exmbx2010-9.campus.MCGILL.CA> Dear all, We will have our next Biomedical Engineering seminar this coming wednesday Wednesday ? Jan 22nd, at 1 pm Location: Room 333 Lyman Duff Building (Biomedical Engineering Dpt, 3775 University Street). Speaker: Dr. Margaret Magdesian, PhD, Advanced Nano Designed Applications (ANANDA), McGill University, www.mcgill.ca/ananda Title: Get your cells in shape: the use of micro and nano tools to improve cell culture models Abstract: There are several limitations to study the mammalian nervous system. Difficult access and very small dimensions are recurring problems in neuroscience, especially for those studying the brain. Neurons extend through different organs creating a very complex network, where each connection has a specific role, fundamental to the proper function of the whole system. The connections between neurons are called synapses, which vary in size between 100 and 400 nm. To better understand neuronal function, degeneration and repair, smaller and more precise tools are needed. McGill ANANDA is the result of an interdisciplinary collaboration between cell biologists, physicist and engineers from the Montreal Neurological Institute and the McGill Nano Tools Microfab to develop new micro and nano tools for biological applications. We used microfluidics and silicon based microdevices to replicate the cell natural environment in vitro, improving cell culture models. ANANDA microdevices enable completely control of the cell microenvironment, providing important insights into cell adhesion, morphogenesis and chemotaxis. We also developed a model combining neurons grown on microdevices and Atomic Force Microscopy to explore the axonal resistance to injury and to manipulated axonal growth. Our results can help answering fundamental questions on the mechanism of axonal degeneration, growth and repair and on the development of new techniques to artificially (re)connect neurons. 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 Multimodal Functional Imaging Lab (Multi FunkIm) Montreal Neurological Institute Centre de Recherches en 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.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ResearchLabsMFIL/PeopleChristophe http://www.bmed.mcgill.ca/ MultiFunkIm Lab: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ResearchLabsMFIL/HomePage *************************** [X] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From christophe.grova at mcgill.ca Wed Jan 22 08:45:10 2014 From: christophe.grova at mcgill.ca (Christophe Grova) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 08:45:10 -0500 Subject: [BIC-announce] Seminar in Biomedical Engineering - Wednesday Jan. 22nd - 1h pm - Room 333 In-Reply-To: <2104_1390245690_52DD7739_2104_205_3_9E1647EDA3EBB44AADA162CEC4C4222E2D31C4CE@exmbx2010-9.campus.MCGILL.CA> References: <2104_1390245690_52DD7739_2104_205_3_9E1647EDA3EBB44AADA162CEC4C4222E2D31C4CE@exmbx2010-9.campus.MCGILL.CA> Message-ID: Dear all, We will have our next Biomedical Engineering seminar today Wednesday ? Jan 22nd, at 1 pm Location: Room 333 Lyman Duff Building (Biomedical Engineering Dpt, 3775 University Street). Speaker: Dr. Margaret Magdesian, PhD, Advanced Nano Designed Applications (ANANDA), McGill University, www.mcgill.ca/ananda Title: Get your cells in shape: the use of micro and nano tools to improve cell culture models Abstract: There are several limitations to study the mammalian nervous system. Difficult access and very small dimensions are recurring problems in neuroscience, especially for those studying the brain. Neurons extend through different organs creating a very complex network, where each connection has a specific role, fundamental to the proper function of the whole system. The connections between neurons are called synapses, which vary in size between 100 and 400 nm. To better understand neuronal function, degeneration and repair, smaller and more precise tools are needed. McGill ANANDA is the result of an interdisciplinary collaboration between cell biologists, physicist and engineers from the Montreal Neurological Institute and the McGill Nano Tools Microfab to develop new micro and nano tools for biological applications. We used microfluidics and silicon based microdevices to replicate the cell natural environment in vitro, improving cell culture models. ANANDA microdevices enable completely control of the cell microenvironment, providing important insights into cell adhesion, morphogenesis and chemotaxis. We also developed a model combining neurons grown on microdevices and Atomic Force Microscopy to explore the axonal resistance to injury and to manipulated axonal growth. Our results can help answering fundamental questions on the mechanism of axonal degeneration, growth and repair and on the development of new techniques to artificially (re)connect neurons. 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 Multimodal Functional Imaging Lab (Multi FunkIm) Montreal Neurological Institute Centre de Recherches en 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.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ResearchLabsMFIL/PeopleChristophe http://www.bmed.mcgill.ca/ MultiFunkIm Lab: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ResearchLabsMFIL/HomePage *************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From caramanos at gmail.com Wed Jan 22 22:13:13 2014 From: caramanos at gmail.com (Zografos 'Aki' CARAMANOS) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 22:13:13 -0500 Subject: [BIC-announce] =?iso-8859-1?q?Fwd=3A_BIC_Lecture_Series_=28Mon-Ja?= =?iso-8859-1?q?n-27=2C_1=3A00_pm=2C_de_Grandpr=E9_Communications_C?= =?iso-8859-1?q?entre=3B_=22MRI_Quantification_of_Local_Tissue_Volu?= =?iso-8859-1?q?me_and_Composition_in_Individual_Brains=22_--_Dr=2E?= =?iso-8859-1?q?_Nikola_Stikov=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. This semester, the BIC Lecture Series is being held in conjunction with the BIC's new Open Methods Meetups (*OMM*) : a forum for discussing hands-on technical issues, brainstorming problem-solving for specific projects, and sharing personal tricks-of-the-trade. This will be a great venue for labs to transfer knowledge and to get to know one another. Please join us for our 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, January the 27th, starting at 1:00 pm**. * *At that time, **Dr. Nikola Stikov will present some of his work examining **MRI quantification of local tissue volume and composition in individual brains.* Cheers! Aki PS - Please let me know if you are interested in presenting a future BIC Lecture or leading a future OMM (see below for currently available slots). ------------------------------------------- *BIC Lecture Series: Winter/Spring-2014 Program * *BIC Lectures are typically held on Mondays at 1:00 pm in the de Grandpr? Communications Centre of The Neuro. **For more information please visit the BIC Lecture website .* ---) Jan-06: *No Lecture* 01) Jan-13: *OMM: Overview of fMRI Analysis Software* -- Mr. Benjamin Elegy, Ms. Laureline Arnaud, and Mr. Michael Ferreira 02) Jan-20: *Structural MRI Analysis in the Study of Cognition, Large-Scale Networks, and Brain Pathology* -- Dr. Boris Bernhardt 03) Jan-27: *MRI Quantification of Local Tissue Volume and Composition in Individual Brains *-- Dr. Nikola Stikov 04) Feb-03: *Physiological Noise Correction in Resting State fMRI* ? Dr. Naj Mahani 05) Feb-10: *To Be Announced* -- Dr. Thien Thanh Dang-Vu 06) Feb-17: *OMM: Diffusion Analysis with MINC Tools* -- Ms. Ilana Leppert 07) Feb-24: *OMM: MEG/EEG Analysis* -- Mr. Fran?ois Tadel 08) Mar-03: *OMM: MRI Registration* -- Dr. Hassan Rivaz 09) Mar-10: *OMM: **An Introduction to Automatic Segmentation of Brain MRI* -- Mr. Colm Elliott 10) Mar-17: *OMM: CIVET 2.0, An Automated Pipeline For Structural Human MRI* -- Dr. Lindsay Lewis 11) Mar-24: *OMM: Why Use PET? Research in Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders* -- Mr. Paul Gravel 12) Mar-31: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 13) Apr-07: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 14) Apr-14: *To Be Announced* -- TBA ---) Apr-21: *No Lecture** -- Easter Monday* 15) Apr-28: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 16) May-05: *To Be Announced* -- TBA ---) May-12: *No Lecture** -- ISMRM in Milan* ---) May-19: *No Lecture** -- Victoria Day* 17) May-26: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 18) Jun-02: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 19) Jun-09: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 20) Jun-16: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 21) Jun-23: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 22) Jun-30: *To Be Announced* -- TBA -- 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 caramanos at gmail.com Mon Jan 27 02:23:47 2014 From: caramanos at gmail.com (Zografos 'Aki' CARAMANOS) Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 02:23:47 -0500 Subject: [BIC-announce] =?iso-8859-1?q?=5BTODAY=5D_BIC_Lecture_Series_=28M?= =?iso-8859-1?q?on-Jan-27=2C_1=3A00_pm=2C_de_Grandpr=E9_Communicati?= =?iso-8859-1?q?ons_Centre=3B_=22MRI_Quantification_of_Local_Tissue?= =?iso-8859-1?q?_Volume_and_Composition_in_Individual_Brains=22_--_?= =?iso-8859-1?q?Dr=2E_Nikola_Stikov=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. This semester, the BIC Lecture Series is being held in conjunction with the BIC's new Open Methods Meetups (*OMM*) : a forum for discussing hands-on technical issues, brainstorming problem-solving for specific projects, and sharing personal tricks-of-the-trade. This will be a great venue for labs to transfer knowledge and to get to know one another. Please join us for our 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, January the 27th, starting at 1:00 pm**. * *At that time, **Dr. Nikola Stikov will present some of his work examining **MRI quantification of local tissue volume and composition in individual brains.* Cheers! Aki PS - Please let me know if you are interested in presenting a future BIC Lecture or leading a future OMM (see below for currently available slots). ------------------------------------------- *BIC Lecture Series: Winter/Spring-2014 Program * *BIC Lectures are typically held on Mondays at 1:00 pm in the de Grandpr? Communications Centre of The Neuro. **For more information please visit the BIC Lecture website .* ---) Jan-06: *No Lecture* 01) Jan-13: *OMM: Overview of fMRI Analysis Software* -- Mr. Benjamin Elegy, Ms. Laureline Arnaud, and Mr. Michael Ferreira 02) Jan-20: *Structural MRI Analysis in the Study of Cognition, Large-Scale Networks, and Brain Pathology* -- Dr. Boris Bernhardt 03) Jan-27: *MRI Quantification of Local Tissue Volume and Composition in Individual Brains *-- Dr. Nikola Stikov 04) Feb-03: *Physiological Noise Correction in Resting State fMRI* ? Dr. Naj Mahani 05) Feb-10: *To Be Announced* -- Dr. Thien Thanh Dang-Vu 06) Feb-17: *OMM: Diffusion Analysis with MINC Tools* -- Ms. Ilana Leppert 07) Feb-24: *OMM: MEG/EEG Analysis* -- Mr. Fran?ois Tadel 08) Mar-03: *OMM: MRI Registration* -- Dr. Hassan Rivaz 09) Mar-10: *OMM: **An Introduction to Automatic Segmentation of Brain MRI* -- Mr. Colm Elliott 10) Mar-17: *OMM: CIVET 2.0, An Automated Pipeline For Structural Human MRI* -- Dr. Lindsay Lewis 11) Mar-24: *OMM: Why Use PET? Research in Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders* -- Mr. Paul Gravel 12) Mar-31: *OMM: Multivariate Pattern Analysis of fMRI using Python* -- Mr. Mike E. Klein 13) Apr-07: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 14) Apr-14: *To Be Announced* -- TBA ---) Apr-21: *No Lecture** -- Easter Monday* 15) Apr-28: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 16) May-05: *To Be Announced* -- TBA ---) May-12: *No Lecture** -- ISMRM in Milan* ---) May-19: *No Lecture** -- Victoria Day* 17) May-26: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 18) Jun-02: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 19) Jun-09: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 20) Jun-16: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 21) Jun-23: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 22) Jun-30: *To Be Announced* -- TBA -- 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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Future partnered funding plans to develop this sector through research and industry funding will be discussed. 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 Multimodal Functional Imaging Lab (Multi FunkIm) Montreal Neurological Institute Centre de Recherches en 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.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ResearchLabsMFIL/PeopleChristophe http://www.bmed.mcgill.ca/ MultiFunkIm Lab: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ResearchLabsMFIL/HomePage *************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Future partnered funding plans to develop this sector through research and industry funding will be discussed. 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 Multimodal Functional Imaging Lab (Multi FunkIm) Montreal Neurological Institute Centre de Recherches en 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.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ResearchLabsMFIL/PeopleChristophe http://www.bmed.mcgill.ca/ MultiFunkIm Lab: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ResearchLabsMFIL/HomePage *************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sylvain.baillet at mcgill.ca Wed Jan 29 18:24:07 2014 From: sylvain.baillet at mcgill.ca (Sylvain Baillet, Dr) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 23:24:07 +0000 Subject: [BIC-announce] Cognition and Circuits Lecture Series Message-ID: Highly-recommended: " Cognition and Circuits Lecture Series continues on Wednesday January 29th The Cognition and Circuits Lecture Series is a joint seminar series between the Neuro's Cognitive Neuroscience and Neural Circuits groups featuring novel and interesting research talks in an informal setting. This is a great opportunity to get to know what other labs are doing. Please join us for our next lecture, which will be held at The Neuro?s Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre on Wednesday January 29th @ 2pm. Dr. Daniel Guitton will present, ?Antisaccades- physiological basis, behavioural results, and relevance to neurology.? A pizza social will follow the lecture. 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This semester, the BIC Lecture Series is being held in conjunction with the BIC's new Open Methods Meetups (*OMM*) : a forum for discussing hands-on technical issues, brainstorming problem-solving for specific projects, and sharing personal tricks-of-the-trade. This will be a great venue for labs to transfer knowledge and to get to know one another. Please join us for our 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, February the 3rd, starting at 1:00 pm**. * *At that time, **Dr. Naj Mahani will present some of her work examining **physiological-noise correction in resting-state fMRI.* Cheers! Aki PS - Please let me know if you are interested in presenting a future BIC Lecture or leading a future OMM (see below for currently available slots). ------------------------------------------- *BIC Lecture Series: Winter/Spring-2014 Program * *BIC Lectures are typically held on Mondays at 1:00 pm in the de Grandpr? Communications Centre of The Neuro. **For more information please visit the BIC Lecture website .* ---) Jan-06: *No Lecture* 01) Jan-13: *OMM: Overview of fMRI Analysis Software* -- Mr. Benjamin Elegy, Ms. Laureline Arnaud, and Mr. Michael Ferreira 02) Jan-20: *Structural MRI Analysis in the Study of Cognition, Large-Scale Networks, and Brain Pathology* -- Dr. Boris Bernhardt 03) Jan-27: *MRI Quantification of Local Tissue Volume and Composition in Individual Brains *-- Dr. Nikola Stikov 04) Feb-03: *Physiological Noise Correction in Resting State fMRI* - Dr. Naj Mahani 05) Feb-10: *Functional Imaging of the Sleeping and Sleep-Disordered Brain* -- Dr. Thien Thanh Dang-Vu 06) Feb-17: *OMM: Diffusion Analysis with MINC Tools* -- Ms. Ilana Leppert 07) Feb-24: *OMM: MRI Registration* -- Dr. Hassan Rivaz 08) Mar-03: *OMM: Matlab vs. Python for Brain Imaging Experiments* -- TBA 09) Mar-10: *OMM: **An Introduction to Automatic Segmentation of Brain MRI* -- Mr. Colm Elliott 10) Mar-17: *OMM: CIVET 2.0, An Automated Pipeline For Structural Human MRI* -- Dr. Lindsay Lewis 11) Mar-24: *OMM: Why Use PET? Research in Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders* -- Mr. Paul Gravel 12) Mar-31: *OMM: Multivariate Pattern Analysis of fMRI using Python* -- Mr. Mike E. Klein 13) Apr-07: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 14) Apr-14: *OHBM Data Blitz* -- TBA ---) Apr-21: *No Lecture** -- Easter Monday* 15) Apr-28: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 16) May-05: *OMM: MEG/EEG Analysis* -- Mr. Fran?ois Tadel ---) May-12: *No Lecture** -- ISMRM in Milan* ---) May-19: *No Lecture** -- Victoria Day* 17) May-26: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 18) Jun-02: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 19) Jun-09: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 20) Jun-16: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 21) Jun-23: *To Be Announced* -- TBA 22) Jun-30: *To Be Announced* -- TBA -- 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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There are several newbies at the MNI (including myself) that would benefit from learning more about the programs available for presenting fMRI stimuli. If you have good knowledge/experience with Psychopy2, Presentation, MatLab, or Eprime, and wouldn?t mind putting a few slides together please contact me. I am looking for at least 3-4 people to take on one program each. Presentations are fairly short and there will be some time to answer questions from the audience. Please contact me for more information. -- Mayte Parada Ph.D. ____________________________ Laboratory for the Biopsychosocial Study of Sexuality McGill University 1205 Docteur Penfield Montreal QC Canada H3A 1B1 Mayte.Parada at mcgill.ca (514) 398-5323 -- Mayte Parada Ph.D. ____________________________ Laboratory for the Biopsychosocial Study of Sexuality McGill University 1205 Docteur Penfield Montreal QC Canada H3A 1B1 Mayte.Parada at mcgill.ca (514) 398-5323 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: