From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Tue Apr 1 10:04:34 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 10:04:34 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Killam Lecture - TODAY - Playing with fire: Sodium Channels and Their Roles in Diseases of the Nervous System Message-ID: PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER Killam Lecture - TODAY Speaker: Stephen G. Waxman, MD, PhD Department of Neurology, Yale University Title: Playing with Fire: Sodium Channels and Their Roles in Diseases of the Nervous System Date: April 1st, 2008 Place: de Grandpre Communication Centre Time: 4:00 pm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----- Dr. Stephen G. Waxman is Professor of Neurology at Yale University. He received both an MD and PhD at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and has been a professor at Yale since 1986. His research focuses on the general theme of functional recovery after injury to the brain and spinal cord. A major effort is currently underway to understand the ways in which spinal neurons build their excitable membranes, and to study the changes that occur in these membranes in response to various injuries. Dr. Waxman's team utilizes patch clamp, molecular biological, pharmacological, and biophysical techniques together with computer simulations. They have cloned a primary sensory neuron-specific sodium channel NaN, and have demonstrated that it produces a TTX resistant persistent sodium current. Since NaN channels are selectively deployed in nociceptive neurons, NaN represents an important molecular target in pain research. They have also demonstrated that there are state-dependant changes in sodium channel expression, both in normal neurons, and following injury to neurons (for example, following axonal transection and demyelination). They are, in addition, interested in calcium-mediated injury within white matter tracts, and are developing neuroprotective strategies that should be useful in spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, and related diseases. The title of Dr. Waxman's talk is "Playing with fire: Sodium channels and their roles in diseases of the nervous system." Enza Ferracane Montreal Neurological Institute 3801 University Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4 Director's Office, Rm 636 Tel: (514) 398-1903 Fax: (514) 398-8248 Email: enza.ferracane at mcgill.ca From belinda.preziosi at mcgill.ca Wed Apr 2 13:33:29 2008 From: belinda.preziosi at mcgill.ca (Belinda Preziosi, Ms.) Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 13:33:29 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] REMINDER - PROTOCOLS FOR SUBMISSION Message-ID: ________________________________ From: Belinda Preziosi, Ms. Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 8:36 AM To: BIC Mailing List (bic-announce at bic.mni.mcgill.ca) Subject: PROTOCOLS FOR SUBMISSION Importance: High To: B.I.C. Personnel From: Belinda Preziosi Date: March 19th, 2008 Subject: PROTOCOLS FOR SUBMISSION Hello, Please note that if you have any new or re-submission protocols for review by the PET Working Committee, Fifteen (15) copies of the protocol along with both the English and French consent forms (one copy, only, of the French Consent Form) must be submitted by Friday, April 4th, 2008 in Webster 220. For the most recent version of the Protocols and English and French Consent Forms, please see: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/admin/protocols. Regards Jean Paul Soucy Belinda Preziosi Administrative Coordinator McConnell Brain Imaging Center Montreal Neurological Institute Room WB220 3801 University Montreal, QC H3A 2B4 Tel: (514) 398-1585 Fax: (514) 398-8948 Email: belinda.preziosi at mcgill.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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From syl at bic.mni.mcgill.ca Mon Apr 7 16:04:21 2008 From: syl at bic.mni.mcgill.ca (Sylvia Cox) Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:04:21 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] PET slot this Wed at 3pm Message-ID: <47FA7E45.40506@bic.mni.mcgill.ca> Hi all, I'm afraid I have to cancel my PET slot this Wed....if you can use it, please email Stacey. Thanks, Sylvia From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Mon Apr 7 16:36:28 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 16:36:28 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Killam Lecture - Normal and Abnormal Pain: The Manor Role of Endogenous Pain Modulation Message-ID: PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER ________________________________ From: MNISTAFF - Montreal Neurological Institute Staff [mailto:MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Enza Ferracane, Ms. Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 9:50 AM To: MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA Subject: Killam Lecture Killam Lecture Speaker: Serge Marchand, PhD Department of Neurosurgery, Universite de Sherbrooke Title: Normal and Abnormal Pain: The Major Role of Endogenous Pain Modulation Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2008 Place: de Grandpre Communications Centre Time: 4:00 pm -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleagues, Serge Marchand of Sherbrooke University's Centre of Clinical Research will visit the MNI Tuesday, April 08, 2008 and speak in the Killam Seminar at 4 pm at the Grandpre Communications Centre. Serge holds a joint chair in pain at both UQAT and University of Sherbrooke and is the Director of the new CRC-CHUS FRSQ Pain Axis. He will present his recent work on "Normal and Abnormal Pain: The Major Role of Endogenous Pain Modulation". Serge is well-known for his work in the field of endogenous pain modulation mechanisms. His research is characterized by a close link between fundamental and clinical projects, aiming at understanding the neurophysiological basis of the development, persistency and treatment of chronic pain. Recent advances in his laboratory include studies demonstrating the role of olfaction in pain perception, the modulation of nociception by sex steroids in both animal and human subjects, and the contribution of expectation to the response to pain treatment. Serge is an engaging and exciting speaker. I am sure we can look forward to a stimulating and thought-provoking presentation combining fundamental and clinical findings on pain perception and therapy. I am looking forward to seeing you all there. Thomas Stroh, Ph.D. Enza Ferracane Montreal Neurological Institute 3801 University Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4 Director's Office, Rm 636 Tel: (514) 398-1903 Fax: (514) 398-8248 Email: enza.ferracane at mcgill.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www2.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/bic-announce/attachments/20080407/e344d4d3/attachment.htm From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Tue Apr 8 09:34:00 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 09:34:00 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Killam Lecture - Normal and Abnormal Pain: The Major Role of Endogenous Pain Modulation Message-ID: PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER *****REMINDER***** Killam Lecture Speaker: Serge Marchand, PhD Department of Neurosurgery, Universite de Sherbrooke Title: Normal and Abnormal Pain: The Major Role of Endogenous Pain Modulation Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2008 Place: de Grandpre Communications Centre Time: 4:00 pm -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleagues, Serge Marchand of Sherbrooke University's Centre of Clinical Research will visit the MNI Tuesday, April 08, 2008 and speak in the Killam Seminar at 4 pm at the Grandpre Communications Centre. Serge holds a joint chair in pain at both UQAT and University of Sherbrooke and is the Director of the new CRC-CHUS FRSQ Pain Axis. He will present his recent work on "Normal and Abnormal Pain: The Major Role of Endogenous Pain Modulation". Serge is well-known for his work in the field of endogenous pain modulation mechanisms. His research is characterized by a close link between fundamental and clinical projects, aiming at understanding the neurophysiological basis of the development, persistency and treatment of chronic pain. Recent advances in his laboratory include studies demonstrating the role of olfaction in pain perception, the modulation of nociception by sex steroids in both animal and human subjects, and the contribution of expectation to the response to pain treatment. Serge is an engaging and exciting speaker. I am sure we can look forward to a stimulating and thought-provoking presentation combining fundamental and clinical findings on pain perception and therapy. I am looking forward to seeing you all there. Thomas Stroh, Ph.D. Enza Ferracane Montreal Neurological Institute 3801 University Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4 Director's Office, Rm 636 Tel: (514) 398-1903 Fax: (514) 398-8248 Email: enza.ferracane at mcgill.ca From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Tue Apr 8 17:14:11 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 17:14:11 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Lecture on April 11th at 4:00 pm - Oxidative Stress in Neurological Disorders Message-ID: PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. JENNIFER Jennifer Chew McConnell Brain Imaging Centre MNI - WB317 3801 University Street Montreal, Qc H3A 2B4 Telephone: 514-398-8554 Fax: 514-398-2975 ________________________________ From: MNISTAFF - Montreal Neurological Institute Staff [mailto:MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Enza Ferracane, Ms. Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 3:33 PM To: MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA Subject: Lecture on April 11th at 4:00 pm LECTURE Speaker: Dr.Y.K.Gupta, M.D., Professor and Head Department of Pharmacology All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi Title: Oxidative Stress in Neurological Disorders Date: Friday, April 11th at 4:00 pm Place: Room W201. *This talk is open to all MNI staff * From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Wed Apr 9 09:58:09 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 09:58:09 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: NO BIC SEMINAR ON MONDAY,APRIL 14, 2008 Message-ID: Subject: [BIC-announce] NO BIC SEMINAR ON MONDAY,APRIL 7, 2008 THERE WILL BE NO BIC SEMINAR ON MONDAY, APRIL 14 , 2008 BIC SEMINAR SERIES Date: Time: Place: Speaker: Title: Jennifer Jennifer Chew McConnell Brain Imaging Centre MNI - WB317 3801 University Street Montreal, Qc H3A 2B4 Telephone: 514-398-8554 Fax: 514-398-2975 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Lana Vasung, M.D. Ph.D. Student Department of Developmental Neuroscience Croatian Institute for Brain Research School of Medicine University of Zagreb, Croatia Development of human gyrification Thursday, May 1st, 2008 W201 3801 University Street 1:30 p.m. From belinda.preziosi at mcgill.ca Thu Apr 10 09:22:22 2008 From: belinda.preziosi at mcgill.ca (Belinda Preziosi, Ms.) Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 09:22:22 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: [NEURO] Workshop on Research Ethics Message-ID: Hello, Please see attached for your information. Belinda Belinda Preziosi Administrative Coordinator McConnell Brain Imaging Center Montreal Neurological Institute Room WB220 3801 University Montreal, QC H3A 2B4 Tel: (514) 398-1585 Fax: (514) 398-8948 Email: belinda.preziosi at mcgill.ca ________________________________ From: neuro [mailto:NEURO at LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Enza Ferracane, Ms. Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 12:42 PM To: NEURO at LISTS.MCGILL.CA Subject: [NEURO] Workshop on Research Ethics Importance: High Hello All, The following notice will appear in e-en bref. I will also send it individually to members of the research community, but my list is incomplete. Your help in creating publicity for this event is very much appreciated. Linda Workshop on Research Ethics Are you concerned about protecting human participants in research? Whether you are an investigator, study coordinator, member of a research team, a trainee, or simply contemplating entering the research community, please note these events. Two educational workshops have been prepared to address your questions and needs. Topics include, but are not limited to, identifying ethical issues, the principles, policies and laws central to the promotion of ethical research, the informed consent process and confidentiality. Bring your lunch. Refreshments will be served. Date: Wednesday, April 23, 12:00 to 1:00 Location: RVH S4.37 Date: Wednesday, April 30, 12:00 to 1:00 Location: MGH L3 221 For more information, please contact: Linda Furlini, PhD Quality Assurance Officer Research Ethics Office Phone: 514-934-1934 X- 31976 e-mail: linda.furlini at muhc.mcgill.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Regards Jean Paul Soucy Belinda Preziosi Administrative Coordinator McConnell Brain Imaging Center Montreal Neurological Institute Room WB220 3801 University Montreal, QC H3A 2B4 Tel: (514) 398-1585 Fax: (514) 398-8948 Email: belinda.preziosi at mcgill.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www2.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/bic-announce/attachments/20080410/306e057e/attachment-0001.htm From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Thu Apr 10 16:21:44 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:21:44 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Dr Gupta, Dept Pharmacology, AIIMS LECTURE, Friday 4 pm Message-ID: P LEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER LECTURE Oxidative Stress in Neurological Disorders: anti-oxidant and herbal drugs Dr. YK Gupta, MD Department of Pharmacology All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi Friday, April 11 Room W201 4:00 pm Dr. Gupta is Professor and Head of the Department of Phamacology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi. He is the former President of the Indian Pharmacological Society and Editor of the Indian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology. The All India Institute of Medical Sciences, established in 1956, is a major teaching, research and patient-care centre in India. Research is conducted in 42 disciplines resulting in 600 research publications a year. With more than 1.5 million outpatients, 80,000 inpatients and 100,000 surgeries per year, AIIMS physicians and researchers use advanced equipment such as the gamma knife and linear accelerator to meet the demands of patient care. Dr. Gupta's lecture should be of interest to MNI faculty and students. All are welcome to attend. *This talk is open to all MNI staff * From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Fri Apr 11 11:52:35 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:52:35 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: UNF brain imaging seminar Thursday April 17th 12pm - Memory retrieval and the prefrontal cortex Message-ID: Unit de neuroimagerie fonctionelle Brain Imaging Seminar Series Speaker: Penelope Kostopoulos Department of Psychology McGill University Title: Memory retrieval and the prefrontal cortex Date and Time : Thursday April 17th, 2007 from 12-1pm Location: Institut universitaire de griatrie de Montreal 4565 Queen Mary Room R 0715 (enter through door 25) From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Fri Apr 11 13:24:30 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:24:30 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: CANCELLATION OF Dr Gupta, Dept Pharmacology, AIIMS LECTURE, Friday 4 pm Message-ID: PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER ________________________________ From: MNISTAFF - Montreal Neurological Institute Staff [mailto:MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Angela Broccoli, Mrs. Sent: Friday, April 11, 2008 12:42 PM To: MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA Subject: CANCELLATION OF Dr Gupta, Dept Pharmacology, AIIMS LECTURE, Friday 4 pm Importance: High MNI Faculty and Staff: This is to inform you that the lecture by Dr. YK Gupta, MD that was to be held in W201 at 4:00 today is being CANCELLED. We apologize for any inconvenience that this may have caused you. If you are interested in meeting Dr. Gupta for some informal talk and discussion, please contact Beth Kofron by email at Elizabeth.kofron at mcgill.ca . Dr. Gupta will be available today at 3:00 p.m. Thank you. LECTURE Oxidative Stress in Neurological Disorders: anti-oxidant and herbal drugs Dr. YK Gupta, MD Department of Pharmacology All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi Friday, April 11 Room W201 4:00 pm Dr. Gupta is Professor and Head of the Department of Phamacology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi. He is the former President of the Indian Pharmacological Society and Editor of the Indian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology. The All India Institute of Medical Sciences, established in 1956, is a major teaching, research and patient-care centre in India. Research is conducted in 42 disciplines resulting in 600 research publications a year. With more than 1.5 million outpatients, 80,000 inpatients and 100,000 surgeries per year, AIIMS physicians and researchers use advanced equipment such as the gamma knife and linear accelerator to meet the demands of patient care. Dr. Gupta's lecture should be of interest to MNI faculty and students. All are welcome to attend. *This talk is open to all MNI staff * From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Mon Apr 14 14:08:43 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:08:43 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Killam Lecture - Tomorrow - The Tadpole Larva of Ciona: The Miniature Brain of an Ancient Chordate Message-ID: PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER Killam Lecture Speaker: Ian Meinertzhagen, Ph.D. Department of Biology and Psychology Life Sciences Centre, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia Title: The Tadpole Larva of Ciona: The Miniature Brain of an Ancient Chordate Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 Time: 4:00 pm Place: de Grandpre Communications Centre ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------- Enza Ferracane Montreal Neurological Institute 3801 University Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4 Director's Office, Rm 636 Tel: (514) 398-1903 Fax: (514) 398-8248 Email: enza.ferracane at mcgill.ca From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Tue Apr 15 08:57:25 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:57:25 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Killam Lecture - TODAY - The Tadpole Larva of Ciona: The Miniature Brain of an Ancient Chordate Message-ID: PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER ________________________________ From: MNISTAFF - Montreal Neurological Institute Staff [mailto:MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Enza Ferracane, Ms. Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 8:18 AM To: MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA Subject: Killam Lecture - TODAY *****REMINDER***** Killam Lecture Speaker: Ian Meinertzhagen, Ph.D. Department of Biology and Psychology Life Sciences Centre, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia Title: The Tadpole Larva of Ciona: The Miniature Brain of an Ancient Chordate Date: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 Time: 4:00 pm Place: de Grandpre Communications Centre ----------------------------------------------------------- Hi everyone, The MNI Killam lecture on Tuesday April 15, 2008 will be given by neurobiologist Ian Meinertzhagen of Dalhousie University. The lecture title is "The tadpole larva of Ciona: the miniature brain of an ancient chordate". Ian will describe some of his recent work and will give an overview of the ascidian larval nervous system stressing its relationships to the vertebrate nervous system. He will also discuss the ascidian larva as an attractive model system for neurobiological and genomic studies. This should be a rather general and accessible talk and would be good for students (and of course professors!) Though his talk will focus on ascidians, Ian is also well-known for his long history of contributions to Drosophila neurobiology, including fundamental mechanisms of neurotransmission. He has broad knowledge and will have interesting insight into neurobiological aspects of chordate/vertebrate evolution. See you there. 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 From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Tue Apr 15 09:32:08 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 09:32:08 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: SPECIAL LECTURE - April 21st, 2008 - Adult polyglucosan body disease: A rich source of information about glucose-glycogen metabolism of neurons Message-ID: PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER ________________________________ From: MNISTAFF - Montreal Neurological Institute Staff [mailto:MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Enza Ferracane, Ms. Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2008 9:22 AM To: MNISTAFF at LISTS.MCGILL.CA Subject: SPECIAL LECTURE - April 21st, 2008 Dear Colleagues, On Monday, April 21, 2008, from 11 am to 12-noon, there will be a SPECIAL LECTURE entitled "Adult polyglucosan body disease: A rich source of information about glucose-glycogen metabolism of neurons" in Grandpre Centre Auditorium, MNI. The lecturer is Dr. Alexander Lossos, an Associate Professor of Neurology at the Hadassah Hospital-Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. Dr. Lossos is presently a Visiting Professor with the Neuromuscular Group at the MNI. He is an internationally known physician scientist who is an authority in a rare but highly instructive disease of the nervous system, called ADULT POLYGLUCOSAN BODY DISEASE (APGBD). He has the largest series of patients in the world and made seminal discoveries in APGBD including the identification of the metabolic defect (glycogen branching enzyme [BE] deficiency) and identified a common mutation in the BE gene. APGBD is a relative rare disease but it is a very useful model for the understanding of glycogen/glucose metabolism of neurons. Thus, even basic neuroscientists would derive hitherto unknown knowledge about carbohydrate-based energy metabolism of neurons and axonal transport. Furthermore, there are intensive efforts for the development of molecular therapies for APGBD which would permit a glance at the status of gene therapy for the central nervous system. Dr. Lossos is an excellent speaker and he will cover all these and additional aspects of APGBD. Nobody (neither clinician nor basic neuroscientist) should miss this golden opportunity for expanding one's knowledge in such important areas. 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URL: http://www2.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/bic-announce/attachments/20080416/243ed87c/attachment.htm From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Thu Apr 17 10:27:13 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:27:13 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: [Fwd: Ph.D Defense for Matthew Toews-A Probabilistic Model to Learn, Detect, Localize and Classify Patterns in Arbitrary Images Message-ID: The thesis defense of Mr. Matthew Toews has been scheduled to take place Monday April, 21, at 10:00 a.m. in Room 603, McConnell Engineering Building. A Probabilistic Model to Learn, Detect, Localize and Classify Patterns in Arbitrary Images Abstract This thesis presents a new, probabilistic model for describing image patterns arising from classes of visually similar objects, such as faces or brains. The model describes patterns in terms of a high level geometrical structure referred to as an object class invariant (OCI), which is invariant to nuisance parameters arising from the imaging process. The OCI itself is not directly observed from images, but can be inferred via a probabilistic model based on generic, spatially localized image features. The OCI model can be learned from a large set of natural images containing pattern instances with minimal manual supervision, in the presence of background clutter, illumination changes, partial pattern occlusion, multi-modal intra-pattern variation (e.g. faces with or without sunglasses), geometrical deformations (i.e. translations, rotations and magnifications) and viewpoint changes. In addition, it can be automatically fit to new images in similar difficult imaging conditions. Due to the general nature of the OCI model, it has a wide range of possible applications, and its importance is demonstrated in the research fields of computer vision and medical image analysis. In computer vision, the OCI model results in the first viewpoint-invariant system for detecting, localizing and classifying object instances in terms of visual traits. Experimentation on face and motorcycle imagery demonstrates the OCI model can be used to learn, detect and localize general 3D object classes in natural imagery acquired from arbitrary viewpoints. Viewpoint-invariant OCI detection performance is shown to be superior to that of the multi-view formulation which models viewpoint information explicitly. A data-driven algorithm demonstrates the existence of stable OCIs, which can potentially be identified in a fully automatic fashion. The first results in the literature are established for sex classification of face images from arbitrary viewpoints and in the presence of occlusion. In medical image analysis, the OCI model results in the first parts-based anatomical model of the human brain, where subject images of a population are described in terms of a collage of conditionally independent local features or 'parts'. The model is the first to explicitly address the situation where one-to-one correspondence between different subjects does not exist due to natural inter-subject variability. Experimentation modeling the human brain in MR image slices demonstrates that the OCI model is capable of robustly identifying and quantifying anatomical structures in terms of their geometry, appearance, occurrence frequency and relationship to traits such as sex in a population, in cases where other models cannot cope. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www2.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/bic-announce/attachments/20080417/39b98a45/attachment.htm From syl at bic.mni.mcgill.ca Mon Apr 21 09:23:32 2008 From: syl at bic.mni.mcgill.ca (Sylvia Cox) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:23:32 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] PET slot this afternoon 3pm Message-ID: <480C9554.4040908@bic.mni.mcgill.ca> Very short notice, but my subject just called sick for my PET slot this afternoon 3pm. If anyone needs a last minute slot, please email Stacey. Thanks, Sylvia From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Mon Apr 21 09:24:13 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 09:24:13 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: SPECIAL LECTURE - TODAY - Adult polyglucosan body disease: A rich source of information about glucose-glycogen metabolism of neurons Message-ID: PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER REMINDER Dear Colleagues, On Monday, April 21, 2008, from 11 am to 12-noon, there will be a SPECIAL LECTURE entitled "Adult polyglucosan body disease: A rich source of information about glucose-glycogen metabolism of neurons" in Grandpre Centre Auditorium, MNI. The lecturer is Dr. Alexander Lossos, an Associate Professor of Neurology at the Hadassah Hospital-Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Israel. Dr. Lossos is presently a Visiting Professor with the Neuromuscular Group at the MNI. He is an internationally known physician scientist who is an authority in a rare but highly instructive disease of the nervous system, called ADULT POLYGLUCOSAN BODY DISEASE (APGBD). He has the largest series of patients in the world and made seminal discoveries in APGBD including the identification of the metabolic defect (glycogen branching enzyme [BE] deficiency) and identified a common mutation in the BE gene. APGBD is a relative rare disease but it is a very useful model for the understanding of glycogen/glucose metabolism of neurons. Thus, even basic neuroscientists would derive hitherto unknown knowledge about carbohydrate-based energy metabolism of neurons and axonal transport. Furthermore, there are intensive efforts for the development of molecular therapies for APGBD which would permit a glance at the status of gene therapy for the central nervous system. Dr. Lossos is an excellent speaker and he will cover all these and additional aspects of APGBD. Nobody (neither clinician nor basic neuroscientist) should miss this golden opportunity for expanding one's knowledge in such important areas. George Karpati From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Mon Apr 21 10:25:49 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:25:49 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Procedural information regarding scholarship income reporting in tax returns - BROAD DISTRIBUTION TO MCGILL GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCS Message-ID: ATT: GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCS . Jennifer ________________________________ From: PostDoc-Contacts in Depts/Units/Hospitals at McGill [mailto:POSTDOC-CONTACTS at LISTS.MCGILL.CA] On Behalf Of Claude Lalande Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 7:21 PM To: POSTDOC-CONTACTS at LISTS.MCGILL.CA Subject: Procedural information regarding scholarship income reporting in tax returns For broad distribution to McGill graduate students and postdocs We have prepared this brief procedural summary in response to several requests for procedural information regarding the portions of the Federal and Quebec income tax returns relevant to scholarship and fellowship income. The following is not a comprehensive guide covering all student/postdoc tax information and issues, rather a brief summary of procedural differences in the entry of scholarship income information in the Federal and Quebec income tax forms. Scholarship income is treated differently for Quebec and Federal income tax, both at the policy level and at the procedural level. It is the individual's responsibility to read and understand the appropriate tax guides and forms, and to complete them accordingly. ________________________________ Federal Income Tax Return and Guide http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/formspubs/t1general/menu-e.html (the following information is taken from the version of the Guide and Form for Quebec Residents) (information in blue is procedural information added to assist you; please refer to the actual tax guide for required instructions) * Scholarship income is covered under: * ? Line 130 - Other income * Scholarships, fellowships, bursaries, and artists' project grants * Enter on line 130 the part of the post-secondary scholarships, fellowships or bursaries you received in the year that is more than $500, if you are not entitled to the education amount in respect of these amounts. ? * Procedural notes: Scholarship, fellowship and bursary income (including stipends paid as scholarship support from research grants) is reported in box 28 of a T4A slip. Eligibility for the education amount is established by a T2202 or T2202a form - indicating months of registration in eligible programs. * Report on line 130 (code 05) only the portion of scholarship income from the T4A box 28, minus a deduction of $500, received in months where you were not eligible to the education amount, as documented on your T2202 or T2202a (or by the absence of a T2202 or T2202a). * Do not report on line 130 the portion of scholarship income from the T4A box 29 received in months where you were eligible to the education amount, as documented on your T2202 or T2202a. * Important note 1: You will NOT receive a T2202 or T2202a from McGill for any months where you were NOT duly registered in an eligible program on McGill's student information system. You are NOT eligible for the education amount during the months in which you were NOT duly registered in an eligible program in an eligible institution. In addition to the above deduction, these slips are used to document tuition and educational amount deductions and credits (consult guide for information). * Important note 2: Any income not reported on a T4A slip, box 28, but rather on a T4 slip must be reported as salary in the appropriate boxes of your federal income tax return. Another important federal income tax document is interpretation bulletin IT75r4, at http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/E/pub/tp/it75r4/README.html. Please note, however, that the document dates from 2003, and does not cover fiscal changes introduced in 2006. It nonetheless contains relevant definitions. ________________________________ Quebec Income Tax Return and Guide http://www.revenu.gouv.qc.ca/eng/formulaires/tp/tp-1-v.asp (the following information is taken from the version of the Guide and Form for Quebec Residents) (information in blue is procedural information added to assist you; please refer to the actual tax guide for required instructions) * Scholarship income covered under: * ? Line 154. Other income * 1. Scholarships and bursaries (box O of the RL-1 slip) * If, in 2007, you received scholarships, bursaries or any similar financial assistance (such as a fellowship or a prize for an achievement), enter the amount shown in this respect in box O of your RL-1 slip. The amount is identified by the code "RB" in the "Code (case O)" box of the RL-1 slip or in the centre of the RL-1 slip. In the case of amounts received under a registered education savings plan (RESP), see point 3(i) below. For research grants, see point 3(j) below. Important : You may claim a deduction on line 295. * Line 295. Deductions for Certain Incomes * Deduction for scholarships, bursaries or similar financial assistance * If you received a scholarship, bursary or any similar financial assistance that you are reporting on line 154 (point 1), carry this amount to line 295. Amounts received under a registered education savings plan (RESP) do not entitle you to this deduction. ? * Procedural note 1: Scholarship income (box O, code RB of the RL-1 slip) is exempt from Quebec income tax, but it must be reported as income on line 154 and deducted on line 295, subject to the note regarding RESPs. The income, although exempt from income tax, will be included in the calculation for certain tax credits. There is no requirement to establish eligibility for this scholarship income deduction through a T2202 or Relev? 8. Relev? 8 information will serve in calculations for tuition and other forms of deduction and credit (consult guide for information). * Procedural note 2: Income not reported in box O, code RB of the RL-1 slip, rather in another box such as box A (employment income), does not constitute scholarship income and must be appropriately reported on your income tax return in accordance to the guide. ________________________________ Important note on Students/Postdocs and Income tax For payments from grants, it is the responsibility of the student/postdoc and supervisor to ensure that they accurately reflect and report the type of income appropriate to the relationship that is established (either support for training, i.e. scholarship income documented with an award certification form , or else an employment relationship, i.e. pay for work performed). Please note that the income tax applicable to a specific individual is subject to review and individual determination by the Canada Revenue Agency (Federal) and Revenue Quebec (Provincial). The income tax treatment indicated in the previous sections is a summary guideline of acceptable practices, but does not guarantee that the relevant agency will determine that the income tax treatment corresponds to the individual situation. If, in an individual review or audit of income tax declarations, the relevant agencies determine that the revenue category used by the individual does not accurately reflect the actual situation, they may require that the type of revenue be adjusted. ________________________________ Contact information * Income tax slips (T4/T4A and Relev? 1) for revenues received through McGill can be downloaded from the Employee menu on Minerva . * For further information on T4/T4A and Relev? 1 income tax slips issued by McGill: payroll.hr at mcgill.ca * Note 1: The payroll office will not change the type of payment issued after the fact, for the recipient to gain a fiscal advantage. The payment was processed in accordance with the nature of the relationship declared when the appointment was established. * Note 2: If your payments are issued to you directly by a non-McGill institution (hospital, agency), not through McGill, please contact the institution issuing your payments regarding your tax slips. * Educational amount slips (T2202, T2202a and Relev? 8) for income tax purposes can be downloaded from the Student menu on Minerva . * For further information on T2202, T2202a and Relev? 8 educational amount slips issued by McGill: student.accounts at mcgill.ca Please contact those offices directly. For information on completing your income tax returns, please consult tax professionals and specialists, or the appropriate taxation agency. The GPSO cannot provide professional advice on tax return preparation, beyond providing the above procedural summary. ________________________________ Claude Lalande Manager - Fellowships and Awards McGill University Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies Office http://www.mcgill.ca/gps/ claude.lalande at mcgill.ca Telephone: (514) 398-3990, ext. 00774 Fax: (514) 398-2626 Mailing address: James Administration Building, Room 400 845 Sherbrooke Street West Montreal (Quebec) H3A 2T5 In accordance with McGill University's policy concerning e-mail as the official means of communication with students http://www.mcgill.ca/email-policy/ , any official McGill communication with students will be addressed to their McGill Uniform Email Address. Note : This message may contain confidential information and is only destined to the intended recipient(s). If you receive this message in error, please destroy it and inform the sender. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www2.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/bic-announce/attachments/20080421/1d1982f9/attachment-0001.html From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Tue Apr 22 09:11:00 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:11:00 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Seminar in Cognitive Neuroscience, May 1st - Development of human gyrification Message-ID: ________________________________ Lana Vasung, M.D. Ph.D. Student Department of Developmental Neuroscience Croatian Institute for Brain Research School of Medicine University of Zagreb, Croatia Development of human gyrification Thursday, May 1st, 2008 W201 3801 University Street 1:30 p.m. Host: Michael Petrides About the speaker: Last summer, she graduated from the School of Medicine at Zagreb University with an MD diploma. In November 2007, she commenced her PhD research concerning fetal brain imaging (volumetric, cortical thickness and gyrification index studies). The aim of her PhD thesis is to study and try to enhance the histological, neurobiological and MRI processing methods and to use them in diagnostic purposes. She works under the supervision of Prof. Kostovic (CIBR); who is one of Dr. Alan Evans collaborators and is currently on a research visit at Alan Evans lab. From belinda.preziosi at mcgill.ca Tue Apr 22 10:07:50 2008 From: belinda.preziosi at mcgill.ca (Belinda Preziosi, Ms.) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:07:50 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] REMINDER - PROTOCOLS FOR SUBMISSION Message-ID: Hello, Please see attached reminder for your information. Belinda Belinda Preziosi Administrative Coordinator McConnell Brain Imaging Center Montreal Neurological Institute Room WB220 3801 University Montreal, QC H3A 2B4 Tel: (514) 398-1585 Fax: (514) 398-8948 Email: belinda.preziosi at mcgill.ca ________________________________ From: Belinda Preziosi, Ms. Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 10:43 AM To: BIC Mailing List (bic-announce at bic.mni.mcgill.ca) Subject: PROTOCOLS FOR SUBMISSION Importance: High To: B.I.C. Personnel From: Belinda Preziosi Date: April 10th, 2008 Subject: PROTOCOLS FOR SUBMISSION Hello, Please note that if you have any new or re-submission protocols for review by the PET Working Committee, Fifteen (15) copies of the protocol along with both the English and French consent forms (one copy, only, of the French Consent Form) must be submitted by Thursday, April 24th, 2008 in Webster 220. For the most recent version of the Protocols and English and French Consent Forms, please see: http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/admin/protocols. Regards Jean Paul Soucy Belinda Preziosi Administrative Coordinator McConnell Brain Imaging Center Montreal Neurological Institute Room WB220 3801 University Montreal, QC H3A 2B4 Tel: (514) 398-1585 Fax: (514) 398-8948 Email: belinda.preziosi at mcgill.ca -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www2.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/bic-announce/attachments/20080422/fa9893c6/attachment.htm From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Tue Apr 22 11:55:06 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 11:55:06 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Killam Lecture - TODAY - In Vivo Imaging and Genetic Analysis of Vertebrate glia Development Message-ID: PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER ________________________________ KILLAM LECTURE - TODAY Speaker: Bruce H. Appel, PhD, Department of Biological Science, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN Title: In Vivo Imaging and Genetic Analysis of Vertebrate Glia Development Time: 4:00 pm Place: de Grandpre Communications Centre ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ---------- The April 22 Killam lecture will be given by Bruce H. Appel, PhD, Dept of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville. The Appel lab uses in vivo live cell imaging to investigate molecular genetic mechanisms that regulate cell fate specification, cell migration, and differentiation in the developing zebrafish nervous system. Recent papers have provided exciting insight into mechanisms of oligodendrocyte migration and differentiation, and evidence for a new class of CNS derived glial cells. The title of his talk is, In vivo imaging and genetic analysis of vertebrate glia development Please join us for a fascinating seminar. Tim Kennedy Recent Publications from the Appel Lab Kucenas S, Takada N, Park HC, Woodruff E, Broadie K, Appel B. CNS-derived glia ensheath peripheral nerves and mediate motor root development. Nat Neurosci. 2008 Feb;11(2):143-51. Sarmah B, Winfrey VP, Olson GE, Appel B, Wente SR. Notch signaling regulates neural precursor allocation and binary neuronal fate decisions in zebrafish. Development. 2007 May;134(10):1911-20. Shin J, Poling J, Park HC, Appel B. An olig2 reporter gene marks oligodendrocyte precursors in the postembryonic spinal cord of zebrafish. Dev Dyn. 2007 Dec;236(12):3402-7. Shin J, Poling J, Park HC, Appel B. Notch signaling regulates neural precursor allocation and binary neuronal fate decisions in zebrafish. Development. 2007 May;134(10):1911-20. Kirby BB, Takada N, Latimer AJ, Shin J, Carney TJ, Kelsh RN, Appel B. In vivo time-lapse imaging shows dynamic oligodendrocyte progenitor behavior during zebrafish development. Nat Neurosci. 2006 Dec;9(12):1506-11. Park HC, Boyce J, Shin J, Appel B. Oligodendrocyte specification in zebrafish requires notch-regulated cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor function. J Neurosci. 2005 Jul 20;25(29):6836-44. Park HC, Appel B. Delta-Notch signaling regulates oligodendrocyte specification. Development. 2003 Aug;130(16):3747-55. Park HC, Shin J, Appel B. Spatial and temporal regulation of ventral spinal cord precursor specification by Hedgehog signaling. Development. 2004 Dec;131(23):5959-69. Park HC, Mehta A, Richardson JS, Appel B. olig2 is required for zebrafish primary motor neuron and oligodendrocyte development. Dev Biol. 2002 Aug 15;248(2):356-68. From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Wed Apr 23 14:30:54 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:30:54 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Special Lecture - April 30th, 2008 - Palliative Care and Neurology: Challenges and Possibilities Message-ID: PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER SPECIAL LECTURE Palliative Care and Neurology: Challenges and Possibilities Raymond Voltz, MD, PhD Professor of Palliative Medicine Director, Department of Palliative Medicine University of Cologne Vice President, German Society for Palliative Medicine 12:00 pm Wednesday, April 30, 2008 Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital 3801 University Street (Beverages will be provided, please feel free to bring your lunch) Dr. Raymond Voltz' clinical and research interests include T-cell immune pathogenesis of neuro-immunological, antibodies in paraneoplastic neurological syndromes, and palliative care in neurological disorders and neuropsychiatric symptoms in palliative care. He received his medical degree in Munich, and trained at Queen Square, London, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, and Klinikum Groshadern, Munich. He completed a PhD at Max-von-Pettenkofer Institute for Medical Microbiology, Munich, and his post doctoral fellowship at the Max-Planck-Institute at Martinsried. Dr. Voltz is board certified in palliative medicine and is a founding member of the German Association of Palliative Medicine. From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Thu Apr 24 16:50:22 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:50:22 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] NO BIC SEMINAR ON MONDAY,APRIL 28, 2008 Message-ID: PLEASE NOTE: THERE WILL BE NO BIC SEMINAR ON MONDAY, APRIL 28, 2008 . BIC SEMINAR SERIES Date: Time: Place: Speaker: Title: Jennifer Jennifer Chew McConnell Brain Imaging Centre MNI - WB317 3801 University Street Montreal, Qc H3A 2B4 Telephone: 514-398-8554 Fax: 514-398-2975 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Glimcher Center for Neural Science New York University Title: The Neural Basis of Decision-Making Date: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 Place: Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre Time: 4:00 pm Enza Ferracane Montreal Neurological Institute 3801 University Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4 Director's Office, Rm 636 Tel: (514) 398-1903 Fax: (514) 398-8248 Email: enza.ferracane at mcgill.ca From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Mon Apr 28 09:43:43 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:43:43 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Kamil Uludag's visit and talk, May 1st 11:00 AM Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Dr. Kamil Uludag from the Max-Planck Institute in Tuebingen, Germany, will be visiting us April 30th - May 1st. He will give a talk on May 1st, 11:00 AM, at the de Grandpre Communications Centre. His expertise is around the mechanism and modeling of fMRI signals, including BOLD and cerebral blood flow. To arrange a meeting with him, please send an email to Ms. Toula Papadopoulos, toula.papadopoulos at mcgill.ca Thank you, Amir Shmuel. Title: Exploring the limits of fMRI Abstract: The BOLD signal is an indirect measure of neuronal activity. Its physiological and physical basis is still poorly understood and therefore interpretation of fMRI signals might be ambigious. In the first part of my talk, I will discuss current limits and models of fMRI. In particular, the newly developed extended ballon model -- linking vascular physiology and physics of imaging - and general BOLD model up to 16.4T field strength for both GRE & SE will be presented. In the second part, I will show how, nonetheless, fMRI can be used to infer direct conclusion about neuronal activity. Recent results obtained at the MPI for biological Cybernetics using millisecond visual stimulation, EEG-fMRI combination and adaptation fMRI design will be discussed. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www2.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/bic-announce/attachments/20080428/57bf53e1/attachment.html From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Mon Apr 28 10:23:55 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:23:55 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Herbert Jasper Lecture - April 29, 2008 Message-ID: PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER ________________________________ ***REMINDER*** Herbert Jasper Lecture Speaker: Dr. Paul W. Glimcher Center for Neural Science New York University Title: The Neural Basis of Decision-Making Date: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 Place: Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre Time: 4:00 pm Enza Ferracane Montreal Neurological Institute 3801 University Montreal, Quebec H3A 2B4 Director's Office, Rm 636 Tel: (514) 398-1903 Fax: (514) 398-8248 Email: enza.ferracane at mcgill.ca From syl at bic.mni.mcgill.ca Mon Apr 28 10:25:11 2008 From: syl at bic.mni.mcgill.ca (Sylvia Cox) Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:25:11 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] PET slot today at 3pm Message-ID: <4815DE47.8050101@bic.mni.mcgill.ca> Hi all, I'm afraid I have to cancel my PET slot this afternoon at 3pm. Please email Stacey if you can use it. Thanks, Syl From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Mon Apr 28 10:52:10 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:52:10 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Herbert Jasper Lecture - April 29 Message-ID: PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER Herbert Jasper Lecture Tuesday, April 29th at 4 p.m. in the Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to welcome Paul W. Glimcher from New York University as the Herbert Jasper Lecturer of 2008, April 29th. Recording neural activity in primates and functional MRI in humans, Paul Glimcher has developed and applied economically based theories of behavior to neural activity in the brain in order to explain processes of subjective responses, choice and decision making. He has examined the role of dopaminergic circuits in animals and humans along with other extrapyramidal and cortical systems in these processes. In his research, writings and presentations, he integrates information from many different levels and disciplines to address fundamental neuroscientific, economic and philosophical issues which cross the mind/body and biological/social science divides. His lecture is entitled: The Neural Basis of Decision-Making. Dr. Glimcher's research and laboratory can be viewed on his website: http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~glimcher/ I strongly encourage all to attend this honorary lecture which promises to be highly informative for clinical and basic neuroscientists alike. Barbara E. Jones Complex Neural Systems From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Tue Apr 29 09:16:39 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:16:39 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Herbert Jasper Lecture - TODAY - The Neural Basis of Decision -Making Message-ID: Herbert Jasper Lecture Tuesday, April 29th at 4 p.m. in the Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre Dear Colleagues, I am pleased to welcome Paul W. Glimcher from New York University as the Herbert Jasper Lecturer of 2008, April 29th. Recording neural activity in primates and functional MRI in humans, Paul Glimcher has developed and applied economically based theories of behavior to neural activity in the brain in order to explain processes of subjective responses, choice and decision making. He has examined the role of dopaminergic circuits in animals and humans along with other extrapyramidal and cortical systems in these processes. In his research, writings and presentations, he integrates information from many different levels and disciplines to address fundamental neuroscientific, economic and philosophical issues which cross the mind/body and biological/social science divides. His lecture is entitled: The Neural Basis of Decision-Making. Dr. Glimcher's research and laboratory can be viewed on his website: http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~glimcher/ I strongly encourage all to attend this honorary lecture which promises to be highly informative for clinical and basic neuroscientists alike. Barbara E. Jones Complex Neural Systems From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Tue Apr 29 15:13:06 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:13:06 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] NO BIC SEMINAR ON MONDAY, MAY 5, 2008 Message-ID: PLEASE NOTE: THERE WILL BE NO BIC SEMINAR ON MONDAY, MAY 5, 2008 . BIC SEMINAR SERIES Date: Time: Place: Speaker: Title: Jennifer Jennifer Chew McConnell Brain Imaging Centre MNI - WB317 3801 University Street Montreal, Qc H3A 2B4 Telephone: 514-398-8554 Fax: 514-398-2975 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www2.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/bic-announce/attachments/20080429/abfe3abe/attachment.htm From syl at bic.mni.mcgill.ca Tue Apr 29 15:38:26 2008 From: syl at bic.mni.mcgill.ca (Sylvia Cox) Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:38:26 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] PET slot May 1st 3pm Message-ID: <48177932.4040401@bic.mni.mcgill.ca> Hi all, I have to cancel my PET slot on Thursday 3pm...if you can use it please email Stacey. Thanks, Syl From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Wed Apr 30 09:55:31 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 09:55:31 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Special Lecture - TODAY Message-ID: PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER SPECIAL LECTURE Palliative Care and Neurology: Challenges and Possibilities Raymond Voltz, MD, PhD Professor of Palliative Medicine Director, Department of Palliative Medicine University of Cologne Vice President, German Society for Palliative Medicine 12:00 pm Wednesday, April 30, 2008 Jeanne Timmins Amphitheatre Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital 3801 University Street (Beverages will be provided, please feel free to bring your lunch) Dr. Raymond Voltz' clinical and research interests include T-cell immune pathogenesis of neuro-immunological, antibodies in paraneoplastic neurological syndromes, and palliative care in neurological disorders and neuropsychiatric symptoms in palliative care. He received his medical degree in Munich, and trained at Queen Square, London, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, and Klinikum Groshadern, Munich. He completed a PhD at Max-von-Pettenkofer Institute for Medical Microbiology, Munich, and his post doctoral fellowship at the Max-Planck-Institute at Martinsried. Dr. Voltz is board certified in palliative medicine and is a founding member of the German Association of Palliative Medicine. From jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca Wed Apr 30 11:37:09 2008 From: jennifer.chew at mcgill.ca (Jennifer Chew, Ms.) Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:37:09 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: Kamil Uludag's visit and talk, May 1st 11:00 AM- Exploring the limits of fMRI Message-ID: PLEASE DISCARD IF THIS IS A DUPLICATE. THANK YOU. JENNIFER Dear colleagues, Dr. Kamil Uludag from the Max-Planck Institute in Tuebingen, Germany, will be visiting us April 30th - May 1st. He will give a talk on May 1st, 11:00 AM, at the de Grandpre Communications Centre. His expertise is around the mechanism and modeling of fMRI signals, including BOLD and cerebral blood flow. To arrange a meeting with him, please send an email to Ms. Toula Papadopoulos, toula.papadopoulos at mcgill.ca Thank you, Amir Shmuel. Title: Exploring the limits of fMRI Abstract: The BOLD signal is an indirect measure of neuronal activity. Its physiological and physical basis is still poorly understood and therefore interpretation of fMRI signals might be ambigious. In the first part of my talk, I will discuss current limits and models of fMRI. In particular, the newly developed extended ballon model -- linking vascular physiology and physics of imaging - and general BOLD model up to 16.4T field strength for both GRE & SE will be presented. In the second part, I will show how, nonetheless, fMRI can be used to infer direct conclusion about neuronal activity. Recent results obtained at the MPI for biological Cybernetics using millisecond visual stimulation, EEG-fMRI combination and adaptation fMRI design will be discussed. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www2.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/pipermail/bic-announce/attachments/20080430/a155ffab/attachment-0001.htm From keith.worsley at mcgill.ca Wed Apr 30 16:36:39 2008 From: keith.worsley at mcgill.ca (Keith Worsley) Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:36:39 -0400 Subject: [BIC-announce] =?windows-1252?q?=5BCRM-L=27officiel=5D_PRIX_ANDR?= =?windows-1252?q?=C9-AISENSTADT_2008=3A_J=2E_TAYLOR_=26_J=2E_SOLYM?= =?windows-1252?q?OSI__-__=281er_et_2_mai_2008=29?= Message-ID: <002801c8ab01$e64cf7e0$6401a8c0@KeithWorsley> This is indeed a momentous occasion - the first time a statistician has won the top *mathematics* prize in Canada. And I have to admit none of this would have come about without the BIC. A great example of neuroscience driving statistics (and mathematics!), and vice-versa. Although Jonathan has told me he will "take off his gloves" and give some of the math details, I can assure you that the reception afterwards will be of the highest quality. Keith Worsley Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McGill University 805 ouest, rue Sherbrooke, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2K6 tel: (514) 398-3842, fax: (514) 398-3899 e-mail: keith.worsley at mcgill.ca, web: http://www.math.mcgill.ca/keith ----- Original Message ----- From: "CRM" To: "lofficiel" Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 3:53 PM Subject: [Staff] [CRM-L'officiel] PRIX ANDR?-AISENSTADT 2008: J. TAYLOR & J. SOLYMOSI - (1er et 2 mai 2008) ****************************************************************** PRIX ANDR?-AISENSTADT 2008: J. TAYLOR & J. SOLYMOSI ****************************************************************** CONFERENCIER / SPEAKER : Jonathan Taylor (Stanford University) TITRE / TITLE : "The geometry of random fields" LIEU / PLACE : CRM, UdeM, Pav. Andr?-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214 DATE : Le jeudi 1 mai 2008 / Thursday, May 1, 2008 HEURE / TIME : 16 h / 4:00 p.m. RESUME / ABSTRACT: This talk will be a survey of the application of geometric techniques to the study of smooth random fields, particularly Gaussian random fields. The talk will focus on two aspects. The first part will use point processes derived from the critical points and values of a smooth random field along with Morse theory to approximate the supremum distribution of the random field, a long studied problem in probability. The second part of the talk will focus on a connection between Gaussian random fields and the uniform distribution on spheres of high dimension. This connection, known as Poincare's limit, allows us to translate (old) integral geometric results on spheres of high dimension to integral geometric properties of Gaussian random fields. These models of smooth random fields have found applications in many signal detection problems, such as brain imaging, astrophysics and multivariate analysis, though the focus of this survey will be on the techniques rather than the applications. Du caf? et des biscuits seront servis ? 15h30 et une r?ception suivra au Salon Maurice-l?Abb? (salle 6245). Coffee and cookies will be served at 3:30 p.m. and a reception will follow at Salon Maurice-l?Abb? (Room 6245). ****************************************************************** CONFERENCIER / SPEAKER : Jozsef Solymosi (University of British Columbia) TITRE / TITLE : "Problems in additive combinatorics" LIEU / PLACE : CRM, UdeM, Pav. Andr?-Aisenstadt, 2920, ch. de la Tour, salle 6214 DATE : Le vendredi 2 mai 2008 / Friday, May 2, 2008 HEURE / TIME : 16 h / 4:00 p.m. RESUME / ABSTRACT : In this survey-type talk I will introduce my three favourite problems. Like many important questions in additive combinatorics, the problems are originated with Paul Erdos. The three questions are: the distinct distances problem, multidimensional variants of Szemeredi's theorem, and the sum-product conjecture. A common element of the three problems is that one can use techniques from discrete geometry. We will review some recent developments and some possible further research directions. Du caf? et des biscuits seront servis ? 15h30 et une r?ception suivra au Salon Maurice-l?Abb? (salle 6245). Coffee and cookies will be served at 3:30 p.m. and a reception will follow at Salon Maurice-l?Abb? (Room 6245). ****************************************************************** -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Liste de distribution de courriel du CRM - Lofficiel - CRM mailing list Lofficiel at crm.umontreal.ca http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/mailman/listinfo/lofficiel -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > staff mailing list > staff at math.mcgill.ca