[BIC-announce] Special BIC Lecture (Mon-July-08, 1:00 pm, de Grandpré Communications Centre; Dr. Kate Watkins -- "Cortical Specialisation for Auditory and Language Processing in the Congenitally-Blind Brain")

[Zografos 'Aki' CARAMANOS]

*Special BIC Lecture*

The BIC Lecture
Series<http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/Seminars/BICLectureSeries>
features
informal lectures on brain imaging presented at the McConnell Brain Imaging
Centre <http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/Main/HomePage> (*BIC*) by experts in
the field.  These lectures are open to all.

Please join us for a Special BIC Lecture, which will be held in The Neuro's de
Grandpré Communications
Centre<http://neuromedia.mcgill.ca/mnibooking/facdirections/dgccdir.htm>
 (3801
University Street, Montreal, QC, H3A 2B4)* *on *Monday, July the 8th,
starting at 1:00 pm**.*
*
*
*At that time, **Dr. Kate
Watkins<http://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/about/people/profile/details/kate-watkins.html>,
who is visiting us from the University of Oxford, will be discussing her
work on c**ortical specialisation for auditory and language processing in
the congenitally-blind brain**.*

Cheers!
Aki



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*BIC Lecture Series: Winter-2013 Program
**BIC Lectures are typically held on Mondays at 1:00 pm in the de Grandpré
Communications Centre of The Neuro.
**For more information and links to the presentations as they become
available, please visit the BIC Lecture
website<http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/Seminars/BICLectureSeries>
.*

01) Feb-11:  *Nature versus Nurture: Contributions Towards Healthy
Cognition from Childhood to Senescence in Mice and Humans* -- Dr. Veronique
Bohbot <http://www.douglas.qc.ca/researcher/veronique-bohbot?locale=en>
02) Feb-18:  *Functional Brain Plasticity Induced by Musical Training* -- Dr.
Sibylle Herholz<http://www.uni-muenster.de/OCCMuenster/phd-students/sibylle-herholz.html>
03) Feb-25:  *Optimization of the PET Detector Blocks for a Small-Animal
PET Scanning Insert for Simultaneous PET/MRI* -- Dr. Chris
Thompson<http://www.mni.mcgill.ca/neuro_team/mbic/christopher_thompson/>

04) Mar-01:  *Lactate Links Brain Energy Metabolism to Cerebral Blood Flow*
 -- Dr. Albert Gjedde<http://www.bric.ku.dk/staff_dynamic/staff/description/?id=52543&f=2>
05) Mar-04:  *Multi-Manifold Diffeomorphic Metric Mapping for Cortical
Registration: Applications in Structural and Functional Studies of the Brain
* -- Dr.  <http://koskilab.mcgill.ca/people.html#JZ>Jidan
Zhong<http://koskilab.mcgill.ca/people.html#JZ>
06) Mar-11:  *Auditory-Motor Control of Singing* -- Dr.
<https://files.nyu.edu/jmz2039/public/>Jean
Mary Zarate <https://files.nyu.edu/jmz2039/public/>
07) Mar-18:  *The Brain on TED* -- Mr. Benjamin
Elgie<http://www.mcgill.ca/graccolab/people#BENJAMIN>
08) Mar-25:  *Glimpses Into Consciousness From the Ways We Lose It* -- Dr.
George Kostopoulos<http://physiology.med.upatras.gr/NU/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9&catid=6&Itemid=16>

---) Apr-01:  *No Lecture: Easter Monday*
09) Apr-08:  *The Brain on TED, 2* -- Mr. Benjamin
Elgie<http://www.mcgill.ca/graccolab/people#BENJAMIN>
---) Apr-15:  *No Lecture: Neuropsychology Day*
---) Apr-22:  *No Lecture: ISMRM Conference*
---) Apr-29:  *No Lecture*

 10) May-06:  *PET Imaging: Recent Research Highlights in Reconstruction
and Analysis* -- Dr. Andrew
Reader<http://www.mni.mcgill.ca/neuro_team/mbic/andrew_reader/>
11) Wed-May-08_4pm:  *Statistical Detection and Reproducibility Issues in
Brain Imaging Genetics Methods* -- Dr.
<http://scholar.google.com/citations?sortby=pubdate&hl=en&user=BU7Zdi4AAAAJ&view_op=list_works>Jean-Baptiste
Poline<http://scholar.google.com/citations?sortby=pubdate&hl=en&user=BU7Zdi4AAAAJ&view_op=list_works>
12) May-13:  *Impaired Structural Correlates of Memory in a Mouse Model of
Alzheimer’s Disease* -- Dr. Aman Badhwar
---) May-20:  *No Lecture: Victoria Day*
13) May-27:  *Brain Fuel Metabolism in Aging and Mild Alzheimer’s Disease:
Comparison of 18F-FDG with a Novel PET Ketone tracer -- 11C-Acetoacetate*
 -- Dr. Stephen
Cunnane<http://www.usherbrooke.ca/dep-medecine/recherche/professeurs-ayant-des-activites-de-recherche/endocrinologie/pr-stephen-cunnane/>

---) Jun-03: *No Lecture*
---) Jun-10: *No Lecture*
14) Jun-17: *Elucidating Consciousness with the Light of Philosophy,
Biology, and Physics -- *Ms. Jennifer Goldman
15) *Tue*-Jun-25: *Diffusion-Weighted MRI: A Non-BOLD Contrast for
Functional Brain Imaging* -- Ms. Rebecca
Williams<http://www.cai.uq.edu.au/williams>

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---) Jul-01: *No Lecture*
16) Jul-08: *Cortical Specialisation for Auditory and Language Processing
in the Congenitally-Blind Brain* -- *Dr. Kate
Watkins<http://www.st-annes.ox.ac.uk/about/people/profile/details/kate-watkins.html>
*




 --
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<https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to=zografos.caramanos@mcgill.ca>
(web)  Google-scholar<http://scholar.google.ca/citations?sortby=pubdate&hl=en&user=BcVBulQAAAAJ&view_op=list_works>
   www.zcaramanos.com
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