Dear Colleagues
Computing Service have asked us to take our machines down for a period
of three hours on Wednesday evening. This will allow us to take
advantage of a change in the University network architecture and will
provide more resilience in our connections to the University.
Please can everyone stop submitting cluster jobs that will not be
complete by 5pm on Wednesday. To be on the safe side I would suggest not
submitting jobs after 3pm on Wednesday. Even then jobs may be lost if
they are still running at 5.
During the downtime, mail and web services will also be interrupted but
for a shorter period.
Thanks
--
Gary Green
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5DG
http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk
tel. 01904 435349
fax 01904 435356
mobile 07986 778954
Hello all,
As I'm sure many of you will know there's a fairly large contingent of
YNiC users and staff heading off to Barcelona in a couple of weeks for
the annual 4D users meeting. This will be a very hard working trip (with
not a hint of tapas or sangria, no siree) but does mean that for at
least some of the week beginning 14th of July there will be very limited
support available at YNiC. Some of the staff will be returning towards
the end of the week but for the 14th to 16th at least, YNiC will be
running with little more than a skeleton staff.
We apologise for the inconvenience this may cause, but the 4D meetings
have been very useful in the past and we hope will be so again this
year. If you have any issues that you think may come up over that week
you may well be advised to let us know as soon as possible so we can
resolve them ahead of time, or put them off till the following week.
Hopefully the disruption will be minimal, and worth the ideas and
developments we'll bring back.
Thanks,
Sam
Richard Wise, from Imperial College London, will be giving the Thursday
evening seminar on the 26th
entitled:
"So why hasn't functional imaging told us how we recover communication
after an aphasic stroke"
There will be the usual selection of refreshments afterwards and as
always, all are welcome.
The seminar will be held in YNiC at 4.30pm (note the change in time)
We will be taking Richard out to dinner afterwards. Do contact me if you
would like to join us,
--
Gary Green
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5DG
http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk
tel. 01904 435349
fax 01904 435356
mobile 07986 778954
Dear All,
Alex Wade, from the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute and previously
Stanford, will be giving a seminar at 16:30 tomorrow (24th June) in C003,
Psychology.
He will be talking about recent neuroimaging work on the human visual visual.
Refreshments will be available after the talk.
All welcome
Cheers
Tony
Hello again,
Thanks to all who pointed out my deliberate mistake in nicely clashing
next Thursday's seminar with an important, whole faculty psychology
meeting. Oops.
I'm just checking that there are no problems in moving the seminar back
a bit to allow people to get across to YNiC, and once I've confirmed
that I'll send another email with a slightly revised time.
In the mean time, thanks again to those who let me know, and watch this
space,
Yours abashedly,
Sam
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>I have two vacancies for post-doctoral
>researchers in my Lab at the WellcomeTrust
>Centre for Neuroimaging (the 'FIL'), Institute
>of Neurology, University College London. I
>wonder if you would be kind enough to bring
>these vacancies to the attention of anyone you
>think might be interested.
>
>Many thanks
>
>Eleanor Maguire
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>Vacancy1:
>***Post-doctoral Research Associate: fMRI of Memory and Imagination
>
>*A Wellcome Trust funded Post-doctoral Research
>Associateship is available under the supervision
>of Professor Eleanor Maguire. The appointee will
>play a key role in researching the neural basis
>of episodic/autobiographical memory, scene
>construction and imagination using functional
>MRI and neuropsychological assessment of
>patients with memory impairments. This is an
>exciting opportunity to contribute to a
>fast-developing field seeking to understand the
>relationship between recalling the past,
>imagining the future and other cognitive
>functions. The appointee will benefit from
>interactions with a critical mass of cognitive
>neuroscience researchers, methodologists and
>technologists at the Centre that contribute to
>an excellent environment for conducting the
>highest quality research. Applicants should have
>a PhD in psychology, cognitive neuroscience or a
>related discipline. They should have research
>experience within the broad project area, of
>programming with Matlab, and of designing,
>executing and analysing experiments using
>functional MRI. They should be able to
>demonstrate a consistently outstanding academic
>record, including publications. Excellent
>organisational and communication skills, and the
>ability to work both independently and as part
>of a team, are also required. This post is
>available from 1^st October 2008 and is funded
>for three years. Starting salary on the UCL
>Grade 7 scale in the range £30,939 - £33,561 pa
>inclusive, superannuable. Further details
>should first be obtained from Miss Katy Brinded,
>Personnel Officer, Institute of Neurology, Queen
>Square, London WC1N 3BG (tel: 020 7676 2191;
>email: personnel(a)ion.ucl.ac.uk
><mailto:personnel@ion.ucl.ac.uk>). Informal
>enquiries welcome to:
>e.maguire(a)fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk
><mailto:e.maguire@fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk>. *Closing
>date for applications:
>**Thursday 31^st July, 2008.*
>
>
>Vacancy 2:
>*Post-doctoral Research Associate: Decoding Memories from fMRI Signals
>
>*A Wellcome Trust funded Post-doctoral Research
>Associateship is available under the supervision
>of Professor Eleanor Maguire. The appointee will
>play a key role in researching spatial and
>episodic memory using multivariate analysis of
>high spatial resolution functional MRI data.
>Application of decoding techniques to the human
>hippocampus and related brain areas offers an
>exciting new avenue for exploring how memories
>are coded by the neurons of the brain. The
>appointee will benefit from interactions with a
>critical mass of cognitive neuroscience
>researchers, methodologists and technologists at
>the Centre that contribute to an excellent
>environment for conducting the highest quality
>research. Applicants should have a PhD in
>computer science, mathematics, physics,
>cognitive neuroscience or a related discipline.
>They should have advanced skills in programming
>(e.g. Matlab, C++) combined with experience of
>or an interest in applying these skills to
>biological questions relating to human memory.
>Experience of analysing fMRI data, and of
>machine learning/multivariate analysis
>techniques is also highly desirable. Applicants
>should be able to demonstrate a consistently
>outstanding academic record, including
>publications. Excellent organisational and
>communication skills, and the ability to work
>both independently and as part of a team, are
>also required. This post is available from 1^st
>October 2008 and is funded for three years.
>Starting salary on the UCL Grade 7 scale in the
>range £30,939 - £36,429 pa inclusive,
>superannuable. Further details should first be
>obtained from Miss Katy Brinded, Personnel
>Officer, Institute of Neurology, Queen Square,
>London WC1N 3BG (tel: 020 7676 2191; email:
>personnel(a)ion.ucl.ac.uk
><mailto:personnel@ion.ucl.ac.uk>). Informal
>enquiries welcome to:
>e.maguire(a)fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk
><mailto:e.maguire@fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk>*. Closing
>date for applications:
>**Thursday 31^st July, 2008.*
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Professor Andy Ellis
Department of Psychology
University of York
York YO10 5DD
England
Tel. +44 (0)1904 433140
http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/psych/www/people/biogs/awe1.html
Hello All,
Richard Wise will be giving the Thursday evening seminar on the 26th
(next week), entitled:
"So why hasn't functional imaging told us how we recover communication
after an aphasic stroke"
There will be the usual selection of refreshments afterwards and as
always, all are welcome.
There is no seminar this afternoon.
Thanks,
Sam
Dear All,
Please be aware that when you submit bookings for scanning there is a limit
of 7 hours per week per scanner for your project. Also note, that requests
for bookings after 4pm may not be possible to arrange because it involves
additional radiographer cover.
Thanks
Tony
Antony Morland PhD
Deputy Director York Neuroimaging Centre
Professor of Visual Neuroscience
Department of Psychology
University of York
York YO10 5DD
UK
Tel +44 (0) 1904 432 860
Email a.morland(a)psychology.york.ac.uk
Dear All,
I just wanted to pass on some advice with regard to accessing the MRI
corridor, when you are about to scan participants. I am communicating
this information because over recent days, quite consistently,
investigators together with their participants have been milling around in
the MRI corridor in advance of their booked slot. I know that this
reflects enthusiasm and an effort on the investigators part to be well
prepared for their scan session and make good use of time. However, the
presence of people in the MRI corridor also runs the risk of disquieting
patients who have been scanned for health reasons. I want to try and
strike a balance between optimising the use of the scanner and maximising
privacy for patients and research participants, who change clothes in the
cubicles on the MRI corridor.
Heres the plan then:
(1) A maximum of two investigators, but preferably just one investigator,
may accompany the research participant into the MRI corridor.
(2) The investigator(s) can stay in the corridor only for the time it
takes to explain the procedure for changing into scrubs to the
participant.
(3) The investigator(s) must then enter the interview room and wait for
the participant to join them.
(4) The MRI operator with then come to the interview room to invite the
investigator(s) and participant through to the scanner suite. It is very
likely that a patient will be changing back into their clothes at this
time, so please keep conversation professional and to a minimum.
(5) If other investigators wish to join the scan session, they may do so
only at the discretion of the MRI operator, who will be able to determine
whether patients privacy will be compromised by the presence of addition
people and will be able to advise when investigators should leave to
ensure privacy is maintained.
If you find that the interview room has already been reserved,
participants may change into scrubs, but must return to and wait in
reception with the investigators until they are invited through to the
scanner suite by the MRI operator.
If investigators are found not to be conforming to this procedure, one of
their scan sessions will be used as a training session on how to prepare
participants for scanning.
Thanks for your help with this.
Tony
Hi,
As of today, there is a small change to the booking system for MEG and
MRI at YNiC. Whilst previously, bookings were made on 10-minute
intervals, in order to fit the clinical and research booking together
more easily, this has now changed, for future bookings, to 15-minute
intervals (i.e bookings start and end at 00, 15, 30 and 45 minutes past
the hour).
The bookings page (https://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/bookings/) has also been
changed to show the timings of existing bookings more clearly.
Thanks,
Mark
--
Mark Hymers
York Neuroimaging Centre
