[BIC-announce] Special Seminar: Wednesday March 28 1PM - Richard Bethlehem "Brain Imaging Genetics in Autism"

[Boris Bernhardt, Mr]

Dear all, 

Please join us for a special seminar on Wednesday, March 28th, in the DeGrandpre Communication Center at 1PM: 

"Brain Imaging and Genetics in Autism” 
Richard Bethlehem, PhD 


Brief bio: 
Dr Bethlehem is currently a Research Associate at the Autism Research Centre and collaborates with the Geschwind lab at UCLA to work on integrated Neuroimaging and Transcriptomics in order to gain better understanding of genetic underpinnings of atypical neurodevelopment. His work is funded by the Autism Research Trust, Marmaduke Sheild Fund and a Parke Davis Exchange fellowship. He conducted his PhD in Cambridge between 2013 and 2017, funded by the MRC, Pinsent Darwin Trust, and CHESS (Cambridge Home and EU Scholarship Scheme) studying the effects of oxytocin and testosterone administration on resting state and task neural activation in the typical and autistic brain.


Summary: 
During the talk I will be presenting our current work on integrating brain imaging and transcriptomic data in autism. I will also talk about our recent work to implement more individualised approaches to imaging analysis, specifically I will be presenting work on age-specific normalised modelling and integrative network analysis on structural brain imaging.


Relevant publications: 
Bethlehem, R.A.I., Seidlitz, J., Romero-Garcia, R. & Lombardo, M.V. Using normative age modelling to isolate subsets of individuals with autism expressing highly age-atypical cortical thickness features. (bioRxiv: https://doi.org/10.1101/252593). 

Romero-Garcia, R., Warrier, V., Bullmore, E.T., Baron-Cohen, S. & Bethlehem, R.A.I. (2018). Synaptic and transcriptionally downregulated genes are associated with cortical thickness differences in children with autism. Molecular Psychiatry,https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-018-0023-7 

Bethlehem, R.A.I., Romero-Garcia, R., Mak, E., Bullmore, E.T. & Baron-Cohen S. (2017). Structural covariance networks in children with autism or ADHD. Cereb. Cortex 27 (8): 4267-4276. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhx135


This event is generously funded by an MNI-Cambridge team grant.

Looking forward to seeing you there, 
Boris 



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Boris Bernhardt, PhD
Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery
Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital 
McConnell Brain Imaging Centre
McGill University

Multimodal Imaging and Connectome Analysis Lab 
http://mica-mni.github.io