[BIC-announce] TODAY: [Feindel Brain Imaging Lecture] Yasser Iturria-Medina "Towards a Multifactorial Characterization of Neurodegeneration" [Monday, September 26, 2016 at 1:00 pm; de Grandpré Communications Centre, MNI]

[Zografos Caramanos, Mr]

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Subject: [Feindel Brain Imaging Lecture] Yasser Iturria-Medina "Towards a Multifactorial Characterization of Neurodegeneration" [Monday, September 26, 2016 at 1:00 pm; de Grandpré Communications Centre, MNI]

The Feindel Brain Imaging Lecture Series<https://www.mcgill.ca/bic/training-events/feindel-brain-imaging-lecture-series>

"Towards a Multifactorial Characterization of Neurodegeneration"

Monday, September 26, 2016 at 1:00 pm
de Grandpré Communications Centre, Montreal Neurological Institute

[Yasser Iturria Medina]
Yasser Iturria-Medina<https://www.linkedin.com/in/yasser-iturria-medina-06a90276>
Montreal Neurological Institute


Short Bio:
Yasser Iturria Medina (Havana, 1980), has a Nuclear Engineering background, a Master's degree in Neurophysics and a PhD in Health Sciences. In 2003, he joined the Cuban Neuroscience Center, pioneering initial attempts to map/characterize whole brain connectivity patterns using diffusion tractography techniques. His current work is mainly focused on the development and validation of multifactorial association models of brain (dis)organization and cognition, which a particular emphasis on neurodegenerative mechanisms. At the present, he is a Banting postdoctoral fellow at MNI.

Some relevant references for the talk:
- Yasser Iturria-Medina et al., 2016. Early Role of Vascular Dysregulation on Late-Onset Alzheimer´s Disease Progression: evidence from a multi-factorial data-driven analysis. Nature Communications, 7, # 11934, doi:10.1038/ncomms11934.
- Yasser Iturria-Medina and Alan C. Evans, 2015. On the central role of brain connectivity in neurodegenerative disease progression. Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience. Review paper. May, vol 7, article 90. DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2015.00090.
- Yasser Iturria-Medina et al., 2014. Epidemic Spreading Model to Characterize Misfolded Proteins Propagation in Aging and Associated Neurodegenerative Disorders. PLOS Computational Biology, Vol. 10 (11), e1003956.

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Feindel Brain Imaging Lecture Series: Fall-2016<https://www.mcgill.ca/bic/training-events/feindel-brain-imaging-lecture-series>

Unless specified otherwise, lectures are held on  Mondays at 1:00 pm in the de Grandpré Communications Centre<http://neuromedia.mcgill.ca/mnibooking/facdirections/dgccdir.htm> of the Montreal Neurological Institute<http://www.mni.mcgill.ca/site_info/contact/>. To be notified about these lectures and all the other events going on at the BIC, please join the BIC-Announcements Mailing List<http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/mailman/listinfo/bic-announce>. For more information, please contact Zografos Caramanos<mailto:caramanos%40gmail.com>.

01) Mon-Sep-19: Sylvain Baillet<https://www.mcgill.ca/neuro/research/researchers/baillet> [BIC General Assembly]
02) Mon-Sep-26: Yasser Iturria-Medina<https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=-aFepXoAAAAJ&hl=en> [Towards a Multifactorial Characterization of Neurodegeneration]

03) Mon-Oct-03:  Michael Petrides<https://www.mcgill.ca/neuro/research/researchers/petrides> [Van Essen's Multi-Modal Parcellation of Human Cerebral Cortex]
---) Mon-Oct-10: No Lecture (Thanksgiving Day)
04) Mon-Oct-17: Pierre Bellec<http://www.criugm.qc.ca/en/researchers/laboratory-directors/81-pierre-bellec.html> [The Neuroimaging Analysis Kit: Recent Developments and Challenges for the Standardization of fMRI Processing]
05) Mon-Oct-24: Seok Jun Hong<https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=N7uX1isAAAAJ&hl=en> [Neuroimaging of Cortical Malformation]
06) Mon-Oct-31: Claudine Gauthier<https://www.concordia.ca/artsci/physics/faculty.html?fpid=claudine-gauthier> [Title TBA]

07) Mon-Nov-07: Bratislav Misic<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Jv_ICEoAAAAJ&hl=en> [Practical Methods for Assessing Functional connectivity; as part of MEG at McGill<https://www.mcgill.ca/bic/training-events/training-programs/meg-comprehensive-training>]
08) Mon-Nov-14: Therese Lennert<http://neurotree.org/beta/publications.php?pid=3083> [Title TBA]
09) Mon-Nov-21: Krista L. Hyde<http://www.brams.org/en/membres/krista-hyde/> [Title TBA]
10) Mon-Nov-28: Mathieu Roy<https://www.mcgill.ca/psychology/mathieu-roy> [Title TBA]

11) Mon-Dec-05: Selin Neseliler<http://www.medicine.mcgill.ca/pharma/dbowielab/neseliler.html> [Title TBA]
12) Mon-Dec-12: Chris Steele<http://cobralab.ca/postdocs/steele.chris/> [Title TBA]
13) Mon-Dec-19: Karim Jerbi<http://en.psy.umontreal.ca/repertoire-departement/vue/jerbi-karim/> [Title TBA]



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These lectures are named in honour of Dr. William Feindel<http://publications.mcgill.ca/reporter/2014/01/dr-william-feindel-1918-2014/> (1918-2014), Former Director of the Neuro<http://www.mni.mcgill.ca/site_info/contact/> (1972-1984) and Founding Director of the BIC<http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/Main/HomePage> (1984-1988).  Dr. Feindel's<http://www.behance.net/gallery/Neuro-portraits-William-Feindel/10906655> presence and contribution will be greatly missed at our weekly Brain Imaging Lectures, where he almost always asked the final, most-germane question of the day: one that usually bridged the clinical and research realms, and that brought together the past, the present, and the future of brain science
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