From christophe.grova at mcgill.ca Mon Jan 6 16:04:10 2020 From: christophe.grova at mcgill.ca (Christophe Grova) Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2020 21:04:10 +0000 Subject: [BIC-announce] PERFORM Centre NIRSTORM Training: January 29 In-Reply-To: References: <24464D8A98BB4FD2A491102F0AF0039F@concordia.ca>, <1578344232060.34816@concordia.ca>, Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Dear students, First of all, we would like to wish all the very best for this new year 2020 ! To start well, we are happy to announce that we will organize at PERFORM our second mini-course / hands on session on NIRSTORM, which is a Near Infra-Red Spectroscopy (NIRS) plugin, we created for Brainstorm software package. This will be a session dedicated first for NIRS beginners (NIRS data import and visualization, preprocessing, statistical analysis), whereas the second part of the training will feature more advanced analyses technique, such as 3D NIRS reconstruction and optimal NIRS probe design. The course is free but registration is mandatory, we wish you see many of you there. The number is seats is limited so please register ASAP. Christophe Grova on behalf of the whole NIRSTORM team: Thomas Vincent, Zhengchen Cai, Edouard Delaire, Amanda Spilkin ! * NIRSTORM Plug-in: https://github.com/Nirstorm/nirstorm * Brainstorm software: https://neuroimage.usc.edu/brainstorm/Introduction A Brainstorm plugin dedicated to fNIRS statistical analysis, 3D reconstructions and optimal probe design. January 29, 2020. Trouble viewing this email? Click here for the online version [Concordia University] [PERFORM Centre] NIRSTORM Mini-Course A Brainstorm plugin for fNIRS data analysis [Conference banner] Register Now! Wednesday, January 29, 2020 Loyola Jesuit Hall and Conference Centre, Loyola Campus Concordia University 7141 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal, Canada Schedules and event details will be posted to the PERFORM Centre website [https://perform.concordia.ca/Email/img/btn_calendar_90.png] add to calendar (.ics file) [https://perform.concordia.ca/Email/img/btn_website_90.png] go to website You received this email because you indicated that you're interested in receiving information about research projects and events that are taking place at PERFORM. To unsubscribe or change your settings, click here. www.concordia.ca/perform [PERFORM Centre] *************************** Christophe Grova, PhD Associate Professor, Physics Dpt, Concordia University PERFORM centre, Concordia University, Chair of PERFORM Applied Bio-Imaging Committee (ABC) Adjunct Prof in Biomedical Engineering, and Neurology and Neurosurgery Dpt, McGill University Multimodal Functional Imaging Lab (Multi FunkIm) Montreal Neurological Institute - epilepsy group Centre de Recherches en Math?matiques Physics Dpt Concordia University - Loyola Campus - Office SP 265.02 7141 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, QC H4B 1R6 Phone: (514) 848-2424 ext.4221 Biomedical Engineering Department McGill University - Room 304 3775 University Street, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2B4 Phone : (514) 398 2516 Fax : (514) 398 7461 email : christophe.grova at concordia.ca , christophe.grova at mcgill.ca web: Explore Concordia: http://explore.concordia.ca/christophe-grova Physics, Concordia University: http://www.concordia.ca/artsci/physics/faculty.html?fpid=christophe-grova McGill University: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ResearchLabsMFIL/PeopleChristophe MultiFunkIm Lab: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ResearchLabsMFIL/HomePage *************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From diana.le at mcgill.ca Fri Jan 10 15:44:45 2020 From: diana.le at mcgill.ca (Diana Le) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 20:44:45 +0000 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: NeuroHub Information Session (January 30, 2020) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <53FF7EF2-76E8-453E-8383-0536D4735256@mcgill.ca> FYI From: MNISTAFF - Montreal Neurological Institute Staff on behalf of NeuroEvents Reply-To: NeuroEvents Date: Friday, January 10, 2020 at 2:54 PM To: "MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA" Subject: NeuroHub Information Session (January 30, 2020) [cid:image002.png at 01D40939.759DAAC0] [cid:image004.png at 01D39F4E.40B16770] [cid:image005.png at 01D39F4E.40B16770] [cid:image006.png at 01D39F4E.40B16770] Events NeuroHub Special Seminar ? Information Session Presenters: Dr. Jean-Baptiste Poline and Xavier Lecours Thursday, January 30, 2020 1:00-2:00pm De Grandpr? Communications Centre In this information session, the vision of the NeuroHub platform will be introduced. NeuroHub was primarily envisioned as the overarching data and computational platform for Healthy Brains, Healthy Lives (HBHL) program, supporting researchers in their work, collaborations and infrastructure needs. The platform will be the place where McGill labs can manage their projects, data, computational work and collaborations to build a strong data-sharing community. Information will be presented regarding the architectural layout of the platform, the relation with other initiatives such as the Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform, its development philosophy, and the functionality that users can expect during initial rollout. 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The project, initially funded for 1.5 years and potentially extendable, includes the analysis of multifactorial brain alterations in AD, with a particular interest in tracking disease evolution with novel *AI* techniques and multimodal brain imaging. The NeuroPM lab (http://www.neuropm-lab.com/) is affiliated with the Healthy brain for Healthy Lives (HBHL) initiative (*https://www.mcgill.ca/hbhl/ *), the Ludmer Center (http://ludmercentre.ca/), and the McConnell Brain Imaging Center (https://www.mcgill.ca/bic/), involving computationally intensive and interdisciplinary research on the brain. The MNI is an internationally renowned institution, characterized by the integration of research and patient care. Interested candidates should have a solid background in brain imaging in neurodegeneration and AI. Experience in brain computational modeling will be an asset. 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Lucy From julien.doyon at mcgill.ca Tue Jan 14 09:06:41 2020 From: julien.doyon at mcgill.ca (Julien Doyon, Dr.) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 14:06:41 +0000 Subject: [BIC-announce] sad news - Dr. Chawki Benkelfat Message-ID: Please join us in offering our deepest sympathies for the passing of Dr. Benkelfat. (The obituary below was written by Dr. Marco Leyton, with contribution from Dr. Alan Evans.) Chawki Benkelfat, a creative clinician-scientist and James McGill Professor in McGill University?s Department of Psychiatry, died on January 6th at age 66 after a long struggle that somehow did not stop him from writing and supporting his many patients and prot?g?(e)s. His research interests were broad, sufficiently so that he described himself as studying ?human models of psychiatric disorders.? Our thoughts and sympathies are with his wife Naima, daughters Lamia and Rislaine, grandson Othman, father Othman, and brother Fethi. Chawki was born in Paris, the son of an Algerian diplomat. He went on to complete medical training in Morocco, a psychiatry residency in Paris with Pierre Deniker, and then post-doctoral training at NIMH with Dennis Murphy as part of an exceptional cohort that included Tom Insel, Josi Zohar, Tom Nordahl, and Peter Lesch. As a faculty member at McGill, he played a distinctive role, bringing creative people together, challenging them with penetrating questions, and taking pleasure in the fruit that grew. His first claims to scientific fame included a pair of papers in the Archives of General Psychiatry (1989, 1990). One provided evidence that serotonin was causally involved in clomipramine?s clinical efficacy for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The second provided early neuroimaging mapping of OCD?s functional neurocircuitry. As a faculty member, he had a major role in the early adoption of brain imaging by the psychiatric community at McGill and was an active member of the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, working with Albert Gjedde, Mirko Diksic, Alain Dagher and Alan Evans. With them and others, he was an early proponent of blood flow ?activation? studies to explore neural correlates of anxiety, identified serotonergic alterations in people at risk for mood and impulse-control disorders, and dopamine alterations in people with psychoses. With Guy Rouleau and Gustavo Turecki, he mapped both genetic and epigenetic features that associated with neuroimaging findings. Chawki trained a large number of post-doctoral fellows, including Marco Leyton, Pedro Rosa-Neto, Ridha Joober, Flavio Kapczinski, Alexandre Berney, Linda Booij and Atsuko Nagano-Saito, as well as exceptional graduate students, including Isabelle Boileau, Mariya Cherkasova and Paul Gravel. His concluding cohort consisted of Kelly Smart, Jennifer Lissemore, Hussein Bdair and Marie Fitoussi, all of whom we will likely hear much more from. We will miss him, the fine scientist and mentor, the wild ocean yachting enthusiast, and the passionate volleyball player who on hearing about a successfully completed study could leap into the air, brushing the ceiling with his hand, an unabashed expression of joy and athleticism. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Location: Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre @ The Neuro, 3801 University St, Montr?al, QC, H3A 2B4 Registration is free but registration is required - http://ludmercentre.ca/events Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020 * 11:30-12:00: Registration & Coffee * 12:00-1:00 pm: Lecture, Population Neuroimaging, Thomas Nichols * 1:00-1:30 pm: Lunch (free) * 1:30-2:30 pm: Tutorial on neuroimaging meta-analysis, Thomas Nichols * 2:30-3:00 pm: Reception & coffee Abstract: Brain imaging studies have traditionally struggled to break into 3-digit sample sizes: e.g., a recent Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) meta-analysis of emotion found a median sample size of n=13. However, we now have a growing collection studies with sample sizes with 4-, 5- and even 6-digits. Many of these "population neuroimaging" studies are epidemiological in nature, trying to characterise typical variation in the population to help predict health outcomes across the life span. Dr Nichols will discuss some of the challenges these studies present, in terms of massive computational burden but also in ways that they expose shortcomings of existing mass univariate techniques. Dr Nichols will also discuss how these datasets present intriguing methodological problems heretofore absent from neuroimaging statistics. For example, the "null hypothesis fallacy" is how H0 is never strictly true, and yet with 100,000 subjects you'll eventually find some effect even if it is meaningless. This motivates work spatial confidence sets on meaningful effect sizes (instead of thresholding test statistic images), providing intuitive measures of spatial uncertainty. Bio: Dr. Nichols is the Professor of Neuroimaging Statistics and a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow in Basic Biomedical Science at the Oxford University, Big Data Institute. Dr Nichols is a statistician with a solitary focus on modelling and inference methods for brain imaging research. He has a unique background, with both industrial (Director, Modelling and Genetics, GlaxoSmithKline) and academic experience, and diverse training including computer science, cognitive neuroscience and statistics. The focus of Dr. Nichols work is developing modelling and inference methods for brain image data. He has worked with a variety of types of data, including Positron Emission Tomography and Magneto- and Electroencephalography, though most of his methods are motivated by Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and functional MRI (fMRI) in particular. He has extensive experience in modelling large, complex data, particularly known for his contributions to multiple testing inference for brain imaging. He has developed methods for clinical trials with imaging, as well as methods for integrating genetic and imaging data. His current research involves meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies and informatics tools to make data-sharing easy and pervasive. 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Here is an abstract of Jake's talk: ----------------- Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by pathological aggregation of two different, aberrantly conformed proteins, beta-amyloid and tau. Classic pathological studies based on extensive autopsy cohorts have taught us that these proteins, particularly tau, spread through the cerebral cortex in a specific and highly stereotyped manner. However, rare subtypes of AD with divergent patterns of tau deposition have been reported and some studies have also reported variation even in typical AD. Pathology studies suffer from limitations that make identifying pathological subtypes challenging, including limited spatial sampling and semi-quantitative measurement strategies. However, neuroimaging subtyping studies have also been limited by non-specific measurements and methodological challenges that I will discuss in detail. I will report the application of a novel spatiotemporal subtyping approach to a large (n=1764), multisite dataset of tau-PET images. I will describe the phenotypic presentation of the subtypes identified, how they conform with and diverge from previous literature, and how these results fit with the current models of AD pathological progression. ----------------- From francine.belanger at mcgill.ca Thu Jan 16 15:56:54 2020 From: francine.belanger at mcgill.ca (Francine Belanger, Mme) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 20:56:54 +0000 Subject: [BIC-announce] =?utf-8?q?Journ=C3=A9e_scientifique_annuelle_du_RB?= =?utf-8?q?IQ_-_inscrivez-vous_et_soumettez_votre_r=C3=A9sum=C3=A9_!_/_QBI?= =?utf-8?q?N_Scientific_Day_-_register_and_submit_your_abstract!?= In-Reply-To: <20200113192515.54CE7C00BAAF4@server.rbiq-qbin.qc.ca> References: <20200113192515.54CE7C00BAAF4@server.rbiq-qbin.qc.ca> Message-ID: Journ?e scientifique annuelle du RBIQ - inscrivez-vous et soumettez votre r?sum? ! Le vendredi 7 f?vrier 2020, au CRIUGM, Amphith??tre Le Groupe Maurice Le RBIQ innove et vous propose un tout nouveau format pour sa Journ?e scientifique annuelle : 3 th?mes ? 3 tables rondes ? 3 sessions d?affiches avec pr?sentation ?clair des ?tudiants. Le r?seau pr?sentera la toute premi?re conf?rence ? ?toile montante ? en bio-imagerie donn?e par le Dr Maxime Descoteaux de l?Universit? de Sherbrooke et, en apr?s-midi, la 14e conf?rence William Feindel donn?e cette ann?e par la Dre Hedvig Hricak du Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center de New York. La journ?e se terminera par un vin-fromage. Veuillez vous inscrire et soumettre vos r?sum?s ici ! Le d?lai de soumission des r?sum?s a ?t? prolong? jusqu'? midi le 20 janvier 2020. Les inscriptions resteront ouvertes jusqu'au 5 f?vrier 2020. Vous soumettez un r?sum? pour une pr?sentation affich?e ? N?oubliez pas de vous inscrire et surtout de pr?parer 1-2 diapositives pour votre pr?sentation ?clair (max 2 min). Le programme d?taill? sera disponible sur le site web du RBIQ sous peu. ________________________________ QBIN Scientific Day - register and submit your abstract! On Friday, February 7th, 2020, at the CRIUGM, Le Groupe Maurice Amphitheatre QBIN offers you an innovative new format for its annual Scientific Day: 3 themes - 3 round tables - 3 poster sessions with power pitch presentations (1-2 min) by students. The network will present the very first ?Rising Star in bio-imaging? lecture, given by Dr. Maxime Descoteaux from the University of Sherbrooke, and in the afternoon, the 14th William Feindel lecture given this year by Dr. Hedvig Hricak from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. The day will end with a wine and cheese social. Please register and submit your abstracts here! The deadline to submit abstracts has been extended until noon on January 20, 2020. Registration will remain open until February 5th, 2020. 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Alternatively, are you a McGill data sciences researcher looking for interesting problems to solve? If so, this funding opportunity might be for you. On behalf of the McGill initiative in Computational Medicine (MiCM) we are excited to open the call for applications for the second iteration of the MiCM ResearchMatch program with support from the McGill Faculty of Medicine , Mi4 (McGill Interdisciplinary Initiative in Infection and Immunity) and other partners soon to be announced. In ResearchMatch, we are looking for collaborative projects to plan, organize or analyze data (no data generation). Each project will last up to one year with a funding envelope between $10K and $50K. Full details of this funding opportunity can be found on our website: https://www.mcgill.ca/micm/micm-researchmatch . The deadline is *February 26, 2020 at 5pm* (EST). If you have any additional questions, feel free to contact info-micm at mcgill.ca. We are looking forward to receiving your submissions! *MiCM Summer Scholars Program* We are also opening the call for applications for the MiCM Summer Scholars Program to both undergrad and graduate students in order to provide opportunities for students to learn about computational medicine through research projects. We are seeking applicants with an interest in computational medicine and strong quantitative skills. The deadline for receiving applications is *February 26, 2020 at 5pm* (EST). Full details of this program can be found on our website: https://www.mcgill.ca/micm/scholars-application . [image: Image removed by sender.] [image: Image removed by sender. Facebook] [image: Image removed by sender. Twitter] [image: Image removed by sender. 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To this end, our laboratory has developed a novel approach which integrates the following principles: (1) as opposed to voxel-by-voxel univariate analyses, use multivariate/multidimensional analysis methods computing networks based on the dominant pattern of intercorrelations between voxels; (2) as opposed to mixing task-related and task-unrelated variance in brain activity, extract the task-related variance prior to network extraction; (3) as opposed to selecting brain regions of interest (ROIs), compute networks that allow every voxel to participate in every brain network; (4) as opposed to assuming HDR shapes, use data-driven explorations of HDR shapes, allowing separate HDR shapes for every subject, network and task condition separately (Finite Impulse Response [FIR] model). Principles (1) and (2) can be achieved by applying constrained principal component analysis (CPCA) to fMRI data (fMRI-CPCA). Principles (3) and (4) are achieved by decisions about the content of the matrices submitted to fMRI-CPCA. This line of research has led to the identification of a set of 10 core task-based fMRI networks, a subset of which are retrieved from all task-based fMRI data, regardless of the specific task. Based on the experimental conditions to which they respond, we have assigned a preliminary cognitive function to each of these interacting networks. Some of them are already familiar to the field from resting state studies (e.g., default mode network, response network), but others are novel and specific to the task state (e.g., cognitive evaluation, volitional attention to internal representations). Extended applications of CPCA models to fMRI, MEG, and EEG data are also discussed. 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Pathology studies suffer from limitations that make identifying pathological subtypes challenging, including limited spatial sampling and semi-quantitative measurement strategies. However, neuroimaging subtyping studies have also been limited by non-specific measurements and methodological challenges that I will discuss in detail. I will report the application of a novel spatiotemporal subtyping approach to a large (n=1764), multisite dataset of tau-PET images. I will describe the phenotypic presentation of the subtypes identified, how they conform with and diverge from previous literature, and how these results fit with the current models of AD pathological progression. ----------------- From bratislav.misic at mcgill.ca Wed Jan 22 13:38:26 2020 From: bratislav.misic at mcgill.ca (Bratislav Misic, Dr.) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 18:38:26 +0000 Subject: [BIC-announce] Feindel BIC Lecture TOMORROW | Todd Woodward In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: Speaker: Todd Woodward | UBC Title: Task-state functional brain networks detectable with fMRI: Not just a pretty picture Time: Thursday Jan 23rd @ 1PM *SPECIAL TIME* Host: Sara Larivi?re Mon-Jan-13 Avgis Hadjipapas Thu-Jan-23 Todd Woodward Mon-Feb-03 Budhachandra Khundrakpam Mon-Feb-10 Michalis Kassinopoulos Mon-Feb-17 Emily Coffey Mon-Feb-24 Simon Ducharme Mon-Mar-09 Ian Tagge Mon-Mar-16 Michael Beauchamp Mon-Mar-23 Clara Moreau -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The programmer's responsibility will be to write Python3 trial-specific scripts which are then embedded as modules in a major umbrella python script that handles all the data importing and result generating functions. Necessary computing experience: - strong Python3 programming experience, familiarity with data structures (e.g., lists, dictionaries and hashes) required - extensive UNIX/linux user experience - deep familiarity with CLI and terminal-based work flow required - extensive experience with BASH use and BASH coding - experienced in using: SSH, TMUX, VPN, VNC Remuneration will be based on experience. Interested applicants should contact: Sridar Narayanan, PhD Assistant Professor McConnell Brain Imaging Centre Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University e-mail: sridar.narayanan at mcgill.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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NeuroHub was primarily envisioned as the overarching data and computational platform for Healthy Brains, Healthy Lives (HBHL) program, supporting researchers in their work, collaborations and infrastructure needs. The platform will be the place where McGill labs can manage their projects, data, computational work and collaborations to build a strong data-sharing community. Information will be presented regarding the architectural layout of the platform, the relation with other initiatives such as the Canadian Open Neuroscience Platform, its development philosophy, and the functionality that users can expect during initial rollout. 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ADALAT) Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 12:04:53 -0500 Subject: [BIC-announce] Reminder: MCIN lecture - Jake Vogel - This Friday, 13:00 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: > > > On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 1:14 PM Patrick Bermudez < > patrick.bermudez at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Please join us in the de Grandpr? auditorium Friday, the 24th of >> January, for a lecture by Jacob Vogel entitled "Spatiotemporal >> subtypes of Alzheimer's disease using tau-PET imaging". Here is an >> abstract of Jake's talk: >> >> ----------------- >> Alzheimer's disease (AD) is characterized by pathological aggregation >> of two different, aberrantly conformed proteins, beta-amyloid and tau. >> Classic pathological studies based on extensive autopsy cohorts have >> taught us that these proteins, particularly tau, spread through the >> cerebral cortex in a specific and highly stereotyped manner. 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Various forms of instability have been observed in neuroimaging, including across operating system versions, minor noise injections, and implementation of theoretically equivalent algorithms. We will explore the effect of various perturbation methods on a typical neuroimaging pipeline through the use of i) near-epsilon noise injections, ii) Monte Carlo Arithmetic, and iii) varying operating systems to identify the quality and severity of their impact. The work demonstrates that even low-order computational models, such as the connectome estimation pipeline that we used, are susceptible to noise. This suggests that stability is a relevant axis upon which tools should be compared, developed, or improved, alongside more commonly considered axes such as accuracy/biological feasibility or performance. The heterogeneity observed across participants clearly illustrates that stability is a property of not just the data or tools independently, but their interaction. Characterization of stability should therefore be evaluated for specific analyses and performed on a representative set of subjects for consideration in subsequent statistical testing. Additionally, identifying how this relationship scales to higher-order models is an exciting next step which will be explored. Finally, the joint application of perturbation methods with post-processing approaches such as bagging or signal normalization may lead to the development of more numerically stable analyses while maintaining sensitivity to meaningful variation. ----------- From bratislav.misic at mcgill.ca Wed Jan 29 07:38:54 2020 From: bratislav.misic at mcgill.ca (Bratislav Misic, Dr.) Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 12:38:54 +0000 Subject: [BIC-announce] Feindel BIC Lecture Mon Feb 3rd | Budhachandra Khundrakpam Message-ID: Speaker: Budhachandra Khundrakpam | MNI-MCIN Title: Toward better characterization of normal and abnormal brain development Time: Monday Feb 3rd @ 1PM Location: de Grandpr? 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