[BIC-announce] Announcing Results: MEG Study Competition

[Sylvain Baillet, Dr]

Dear All:

The People has spoken, the Reviewers have reviewed.

We are pleased to announce the 3 winners of the 2013 MEG Study Competition. As you probably remember, we had received 30 entries from investigators competing to win a free MEG study. 20 were selected for a speed-dating and voting process which took place in December. The 10 most-voted studies were then sent out for review by a panel of international MEG experts (see list below). This entire process has revealed the following 3 leading proposals:

First Prize:
n=20 MEG sessions, 20 T1 anatomical MRI scans, full assistance with experimental design, data collection & analysis from the MEG Team (a $18,000 value!)
Second Prize: n =10
Third Prize: n = 5

(In table below: a score of 1 is best)
Votes   Name    Study Title     Affiliation     Title   Supervisor
        Rev 1   Rev 2   Rev 3   Rev 4   Average rev score       Voting score    Total score
        Prize Rank

















32      Petra Schweinhardt      Seeing what you feel behind: neural correlates of analgesia induced by observing painful stimulation.   McGill, AECRP   Faculty

        1       1       1       2       1.25    1.00    1.13    Petra Schweinhardt      1
21      Avinash R. Vaidya       Role of the orbitofrontal cortex in reward-driven attentional capture   McGill, MNI     Grad Student    Lesley Fellows
        1.5     1
        1       1.17    1.52    1.35    Avinash R. Vaidya       2
15      John Lewis      Connection lengths and aberrant connectivity in developmental disorders         McGill, MNI     Post-doc        Alan Evans
        1.5     1.3
        1       1.27    2.13    1.70    John Lewis      3

Congratulations to all our winners and to all participants for their sportsmanship.

I will send the reviewers comments separately to all 10 finalists.

Petra, Avi and John: please contact me within the next 7 days or your prize will go to the next entry in the list ;)

To all: it's still a good time to try MEG for your research. Pilots are only $100/hour ($50 a 30-min scan!).

Cheers - Sylvain.

Reviewing panel:

Mathilde Bonnefond
Senior Researcher
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, The Netherlands

Markus Butz
Research Associate & Marie Curie Fellow
Sobell Department of Motor Neuroscience and Movement Disorders,
Institute of Neurology, UCL, UK

Dr Klaus Kessler
Senior Lecturer
Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology
University of Glasgow, UK

Cosimo del Gratta
Professor of Physics
Department of Neuroscience and Imaging
Gabriele D'Annunzio University, Italy

Olaf Hauk
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
Cambridge, UK

Stephan Moratti
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Departamento de Psicología Básica
Madrid, Spain

Dimitrios Pantazis
Research Scientist, Director of MEG Lab
McGovern Institute for Brain Research
MIT, Cambridge, USA

Denis Schwartz
MEG Research Engineer
Brain-Spin Institute (ICM)
Hôpital de la Salpêtrière,
Paris, France




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Sylvain Baillet, PhD

MNI Killam Scholar & Director, MEG Research
Associate Professor, Neurology & Neurosurgery
Associate Member, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering

neuroSPEED lab<http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/ResearchLabsNeuroSPEED/>
MEG @ McGill<http://www.facebook.com/MEGatMcGill>
Brainstorm project<http://neuroimage.usc.edu/brainstorm>

McConnell Brain Imaging Centre
Montreal Neurological Institute
McGill University

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