[BIC-announce] New BIC Council Committee Members

[Grace Flynn, Ms.]

Dear All:

I am very pleased to advise you of the results for the call for candidates for two positions on the BIC Council Committee:   External Trainees (PhD Student or Post-Doc), whose supervisors are not full Faculty members of the BIC.

The two new positions will be filled by Benjamin Elgie (external PhD Student representative) and Ami Tsuchida (external Post-doc representative).

See Bios and Statements Below:


Benjamin Elgie (Drs. Vincent Gracco and Shari Baum)

Bio: I am currently in the 3rd year of my PhD as a part of the Integrated Program in Neuroscience, having also completed an MSc in the same program. I am supervised by Drs. Vincent Gracco and Shari Baum. My research focuses on learning mechanisms in speech production. To this end I have worked with fMRI and TMS, and am now piloting an MEG study. I have organized various reading/study groups with the Centre for Research on Brain Language and Music, as well as some of their talks. In addition, I am the Chair of the AGSEM Bargaining Committee, and am completing my one-year term as Chair of the Board of Directors for the Daily Publication Society, which has responsibility for the financial and legal affairs of The McGill Daily and Le Délit français newspapers.

Statement: As an external user, I can speak to the needs of individuals at McGill who make use of the BIC facilities but are not on-site. This brings specific concerns with data transfer, hardware transportation and storage, software compatibility, scheduling, and other issues which may be taken for granted by individuals working at the BIC. My research has involved various imaging systems, and so I  have a base of knowledge for most of the imaging modalities in use by BIC users. My work with AGSEM and the DPS has also given me experience in dealing with the administrative needs of organizations, as well as the ability to work with committees and councils to meet the needs of the bodies to whom they are responsible.


Ami Tsuchida (Dr. Brenda Milner)

Bio: I completed my PhD with Dr. Lesley Fellows to investigate higher-order cognitive functions disrupted in patients with focal injury affecting different areas of the frontal lobe. Although my PhD work was primarily behavioral and focused on localizing specific cognitive functions to anatomically distinct prefrontal regions, I became interested in how these distinct regions might interact to achieve complex cognitive functions. I started my postdoc with Dr. Brenda Milner in 2012 to study how the two hemispheres of the brain interact with each other when forming a memory in healthy subjects using functional MRI.

Statement:  The BIC is regarded as one of the top brain imaging research facilities in the world and offer great expertise in many different imaging modalities. However, as a relatively new user of the BIC, I initially had difficult time trying to figure out what tools are available, or who to go for help. I believe that improving the communication between those at the BIC and the core users of the BIC who apply various neuroimaging modalities to answer cognitive and clinical research questions can enhance the productivity of the community as a whole. Through the new BIC Council Committee, I hope to help facilitate such communication by representing perspectives of my colleagues.

Welcome aboard!

Sylvain.

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Sylvain Baillet, PhD

MNI Killam and FRSQ Senior Scholar
Interim Director, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre
Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University

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