HBM 2009 Satellite Activities Posted By: David Kennedy - May 6, 2009Tool/Resource: Conferences, Workshops and Meetings HBM 2009 Satellite Activities Details regarding satellite meetings that are being held in conjunction with HBM 2009 are listed below. The OHBM has not been involved in the planning of these activities. FSL & FreeSurfer Course June 12 - 16, 2009, 9:00 am - 6:15 pm San Francisco Marriott The 2009 FSL & FreeSurfer course will run immediately before the Human Brain Mapping conference, in the same venue - the San Francisco Marriott. The intensive course covers both the theory and practice of functional and structural brain image analysis. Background concepts and the practicalities of analyses are taught in detailed lectures; these are interleaved with hands-on practical sessions where attendees learn how to carry out analysis for themselves on real data, with one computer provided for every two attendees. After completing the course, attendees should be able to fully analyse their own FMRI and MRI data sets. For more information, and to register, visit http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fslcourse/sanf... The Keith Worsley Workshop: “Neuroimaging: Anatomical, Physiological, Methodological and Statistical Constraints on Neural Mass Modeling” June 14-17, 2009 Banff International Research Station (BIRS), Banff, Canada This workshop is will be held at the Banff International Research Station (BIRS), Banff, Canada (and will run from June 14 to June 17), just before the Human Brain Mapping Meeting. The objective is to bring together leading experts of the Human Brain Mapping Project together with computational neuroscientists, mathematicians and statisticians in order to assess the current state of database construction, neural modeling, numerical methods, computational technologies and statistical procedures that could bridge the gap between existing theory and the explanation of individually recorded brain images. We will emphasize the interpretation of data obtained from the human electroencephalogram (EEG) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), especially the understanding of oscillatory activity recorded in concurrent EEG-fMRI experiments. We hope to create links between several lines of work that have been developing in isolation and that are apparently ready to cross-fertilize. This OHBM sponsored workshop is part of a more general workshop on "Computational Modeling of Brain Dynamics: from stochastic models to Neuroimages". For more information see: http://www.birs.ca/birspages.php?task=di... Advances in Resting-State fMRI Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Stanford University , Palo Alto, CA Stanford University is hosting a one-day symposium on June 17th entitled “Advances in Resting-state fMRI” as satellite meeting to this year’s HBM conference. The meeting will provide the opportunity for leaders in the field of resting-state fMRI to meet and exchange ideas in a setting more conducive to group discussion of important issues in the field. For more information and registration, please visit http://restingstate.stanford.edu/. Contact Dr. Jessica Damoiseaux (jeske@stanford.edu) or Dr. Lucina Uddin (lucina@stanford.edu) with additional questions. LONI Pipeline Training Workshop Wednesday, June 17, 2009, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm Foothill Room E, San Francisco Marriott The LONI Pipeline provides a graphical framework for development, maintenance and dissemination of neuroimaging data-analysis protocols. The Pipeline environment offers a scalable infrastructure for graphical integration of diverse, complex and heterogeneous tools for neuroimaging and brain mapping research. The processing module library in Pipeline has been created using many commonly used data processing packages, including FSL, FreeSurfer, AFNI, AIR, MNI tools, etc. These processing steps can be linked using a user-friendly GUI interface to create simple or highly detailed processing routines to run via grid computing for massive scale processing of brain imaging data. This two-hour intensive course will provide the necessary training to employ any of the available LONI Pipeline processing modules and workflows. Attendees will also learn how to design their own pipeline workflows by using existent modules or by creation of their own module executables and accompanying parameters, descriptors, etc. Specific neuroimaging workflows (e.g., registration, tissue segmentation, cortical surface processing, etc.) will be demonstrated hands-on during the workshop. Attendees will also receive useful and detailed documentation on the use of Pipeline and the execution of neuroimaging workflows. Part 1 (1-hour): Introduction to the LONI Pipeline - What is the LONI Pipeline? - How does the Pipeline work? - How to construct basic module-descriptions and pipeline-workflows? - Pipeline optimization, environment variables, variable transformations, etc. Part 2 (1-hour): Neuroimaging Solutions - Automated and robust neuroimaging pipelines - Data management - Database connections - Skull-stripping and tissue classification - Automated Brain-Volume parsing - Cortical surface extraction - Volume-based (VBM) and Tensor-based (TBM) morphometry. Please visit http://cms.loni.ucla.edu/Pipeline_OHBM20... for additional course and registration information. Interested scientists should email workshops@loni.ucla.edu with their name, degree, current position, email address, URL, and professional affiliation. For more information on LONI Pipeline, please visit http://pipeline.loni.ucla.edu. NIH Meeting for NITRC Affiliates Thursday, June 18, 2009, 8:00 am - 5:00 pm Pacific Room B, San Francisco Marriott This workshop is intended to introduce NIH grantees supported by the Neuroimaging Tools and Resources Clearinghouse (NITRC) initiative to one another. The goal is to promote discussion of common interests and identify opportunities for collaboration and interoperability. A further goal of hosting this workshop at the OHBM is to provide an opportunity for all OHBM attendees to learn about the NIH-led NITRC initiative and to foster a relationship with the NITRC community. For more information please contact Zohara Cohen, Program Director of the National Institutes of Health at zcohen@mail.nih.gov or 301-402-1127. Frontiers in Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases – A New National Biotechnology Research Resource (NCRR) Thursday, June 18, 2009, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Pacific Room C, San Francisco Marriott Registration is free and is on a first-come first-served basis. The overall goal of this Symposium is to provide the attendees with advanced knowledge concerning state-of-the-art high-field neuroimaging, focusing on multimodality MRI at 3 to 7 Tesla and PET of neurodegenerative diseases. Pertinent technical aspects of MR data acquisition and processing at high field will be discussed in the morning. Speakers will specifically address MR data acquisition, reconstruction, processing, and analysis of structural, perfusion, and diffusion spectrum MRI data. The afternoon will be dedicated to hot-topic clinical applications in dementias and other neurodegenerative diseases. The following speakers are confirmed for the morning session (9-1pm): Sarah Nelson (UCSF)*: high field anatomical MRI and MRS David Feinberg (Advanced MRI Technologies)/Norbert Schuff (UCSF): perfusion MRI Van Wedeen (MGH): diffusion spectrum imaging John Kornak (UCSF): K-Bayes Reconstruction Ashish Raj (Cornell): various types of parallel reconstruction Ramin Zabih (Cornell) and Z.-P. Liang (UoI Urbana): MR image restoration Colin Studholme (UCSF): MR image atlas generation, segmentation The following UCSF speakers are confirmed to present practical clinical applications of these imaging modalities in the afternoon (2-5 pm): Michael Weiner: Alzheimer’s disease William Jagust (UCB)*: amyloid PET imaging of Alzheimer’s disease Susanne Muller: epilepsy Pratik Mukherjee*: traumatic brain injury Gail Kang*: Parkinson’s disease Thomas Neylan*: post traumatic stress disorder The presentations reflect activities in the recently funded NIH Biotechnology Research Resource for MRI of Neurodegenerative diseases at the VA Medical Center/University of California San Francisco’s Center for Imaging of Neurodegenerative Diseases (CIND). Speakers marked with an asterisk (*) are not RR faculty. Registration is free and is on a first-come first-served basis. The number of registrants is limited, so register early. A donation at the door for coffee and refreshments is appreciated. Lunch will not be provided. Check this site periodically for updates. For registration and more information contact Natalie Bareis, UCSF/SFVA/CIND at natalie.bareis@ucsf.edu or 415-750-2146 or dieter.meyerhoff@ucsf.edu EEG/fMRI: Methods and Practice Thursday, June 18, 2009, 9:30 am – 12:00 pm Pacific Room I, San Francisco Marriott Electrical Geodesics, Inc. (EGI) is hosting this half-day workshop before the 2009 Organization for Human Brain Mapping conference on June 18th at the San Francisco Marriott. This free workshop will include a review of studies showing concordance, and discordance between EEG and BOLD, a review safety and practical issues of joint recording, and current EEG/fMRI research. Speakers include: Don Tucker Ph.D., CEO and Chief Scientist of EGI Stacey Crane Ph.D., Scientist, EGI Mark Cohen Ph.D., Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, UCLA A continental breakfast is included. Register for the free workshop at http://www.egi.com/news-a-events/educati... Contact EGI at workshops@egi.com or 541.687.7962 with questions. |
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