from a colleague that many of you will remember
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Dear colleagues,
there will be an international congress "Changing People, Changing
Brains" in Konstanz next year (see:
http://www.psychologie.uni-konstanz.de/abteilungen/clinicalpsychology/chang…
and the flyer attached). There are sixteen travel awards (travel,
accomodation, attendance) for outstanding junior scientists. Interested
people can apply for the travel awards via the homepage. Would you be so
kind to forward this email to people who might be interested?
Thank you very much!
Isabella
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*Dr. Isabella Paul-Jordanov*
http://www.clinical-psychology.uni-konstanz.de/member-55.html
University of Konstanz, Germany
Departments of Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology
PO-Box D23
D-78457 Konstanz
Email: Isabella.Paul-Jordanov(a)uni-konstanz.de
<mailto:Isabella.Paul-Jordanov@uni-konstanz.de>
Tel.: +49 7531 882696
Fax: +49 7531 884601
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Gary Green
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5DG
http://www.ynic.york.ac.ukhttps://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/about-us/people/ggrg
tel. +44 (0) 1904 435349
PA (Sara Narayan) +44 (0) 1904 435329
fax +44 (0) 1904 435356
mobile +44 (0) 788 191 3004
This may be of interest to some.
Best wishes for the holiday season,
Katerina
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Dr. Ekaterini Klepousniotou
Lecturer in Cognitive Neuroscience & Neuropsychology
Institute of Psychological Sciences
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
UK
Tel: +44 (0)113 3435716
Fax: +44 (0)113 3435749
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From: bic-announce-bounces(a)bic.mni.mcgill.ca [bic-announce-bounces(a)bic.mni.mcgill.ca] On Behalf Of Jennifer Chew, Ms. [jennifer.chew(a)mcgill.ca]
Sent: 14 December 2009 18:26
To: bic-announce(a)bic.mni.mcgill.ca
Subject: [BIC-announce] FW: post-doctoral job offer
Posted on behalf of Pierre Bellec . Jennifer
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From: Saad Jbabdi <saad(a)fmrib.ox.ac.uk<mailto:saad@fmrib.ox.ac.uk>>
Date: 2009/12/14
Subject: Re: TF diagrams
To: Pierre Bellec <pbellec(a)bic.mni.mcgill.ca<mailto:pbellec@bic.mni.mcgill.ca>>
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Postdoctoral Research Assistant: Modelling Brain Connectivity
Oxford University Centre for Functional MRI of the Brain (FMRIB)
Academic-related salary scale, Grade 7: Salary £28,839 – 35,469 p.a.
The Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain (FMRIB) seeks a postdoctoral research assistant to work with Drs. Tim Behrens and Saad Jbabdi in diffusion MRI methods development. Employment could begin from March 2010 and is funded by the European Commission for a period of 2 years as part of a pan-European consortium of diffusion-imaging researchers “CONNECT”. Oxford’s contribution to this project aims to integrate biophysical models of white matter architecture into Bayesian tractography routines. Candidates should have a doctorate in a relevant discipline, together with knowledge of statistics and preferably Bayesian learning, with the necessary mathematical and computational skills to put these into practice. Knowledge in methods for analysing neuroimaging data, in particular diffusion MRI, is desirable but not essential. Skills in computer programming (especially Matlab and C++) are essential. For links to further information seewww.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/analysis<http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/analysis>.
Applications, including a curriculum vitae and details of two referees, should be sent to Mrs Marilyn Goulding, FMRIB Centre, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford OX3 9DU, fax: (01865) 222717; e‑mail: marilyn(a)fmrib.ox.ac.uk<mailto:marilyn@fmrib.ox.ac.uk>. Please quote reference HM09-024. The closing date for applications is January 8th 2010.
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Saad Jbabdi
University of Oxford, FMRIB Centre
JR Hospital, Headington, OX3 9DU, UK
+44 (0) 1865 222466 (fax 717)
www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~saad<http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/%7Esaad>
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FYI
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ESRC STUDENTSHIPS FOR MRes+PhD/PhD: UCL Centre for Human Communication
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: Friday 29th January 2010
The UCL Centre for Human Communication (CHC) is pleased to announce that
it has been awarded two quota ESRC studentships for the academic year
commencing September 2010 and is additionally able to nominate
applications for an ESRC open competition studentship.
ESRC studentships provide up to four years full funding for postgraduate
training. They cover tuition fees and include a maintenance grant.
The CHC will consider applicants for 1+3 quota and open studentships for
the MRes in Speech, Language and Cognition followed by PhD research
within the CHC group. Information about the MRes can be found at
http://tinyurl.com/yb9p5d2
We will also consider applicants who have completed relevant
Masters-level training for a 3 year PhD studentship within the CHC.
The CHC is a virtual centre that exists to foster interaction amongst
UCL staff who are involved in research on human language and
communication. Research spans an unusual range of disciplines, from
those traditionally considered to lie in the humanities and social
sciences, to those of a more scientific, engineering and medical aspect.
Areas studied include, among others:
* basic aspects of hearing, speech and language, both in the adult
and the developing child;
* linguistic theory concerning syntax, phonology and pragmatics;
* speech production and speech perception;
* acquisition of first and later-learned languages;
* sign languages;
* developmental language disorders like stuttering, dyslexia and
specific language impairment;
* acquired language disorders like aphasia and dysarthria;
* hearing impairments and their remediation through training and
prostheses (hearing aids and cochlear implants);
* speech recognition and speech synthesis by computer.
More information about the CHC can be found at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/chc/
Applicants should send a CV, covering letter and the names and email
addresses of two referees to Dr Bronwen Evans at
bronwen.evans(a)ucl.ac.uk. The covering letter should include an outline
of the applicant's principal research interests. Applications for the 3
year PhD studentships only must also outline a plan of the intended
research. Ideally, this plan should have been discussed with a potential
supervisor based at UCL. Staff details can be found at
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/psychlangsci/staff
All applications are subject to the ESRC’s nationality and residency
restrictions and applicants are also asked to indicate in their
submission that they meet these criteria. Information about these are
available in the ESRC's Postgraduate Funding Guide, which applicants are
strongly advised to consult when completing their application. This can
be downloaded at http://tinyurl.com/y8tm2qa
Deadline: Friday 29th January 2009. Applications received after this
date will still be considered for admission but will be too late to be
considered for the ESRC quota studentship.
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Dr Bronwen G. Evans,
UCL Speech, Hearing and Phonetic Sciences,
Rm 321 Chandler House
2 Wakefield Street
London WC1N 1PF
Tel +44 (0) 20 7679 4089 (internal: 24089)
Fax +44 (0) 20 7679 4010
http://www.langsci.ucl.ac.uk
Dear Users
YNiC seminars have finished for this term due to clashes with other
events in the department.
The Thursday seminar series will start again on 14th January 2010.
Best wishes
Rebecca
Dear colleagues
Over Christmas we will be carrying out some essential maintenance to the
MEG facilities. The most important job that we will be doing is warming
the sensor dewar. During the past year the dewar will have slowly
accumulated a small amount of solid oxygen, nitrogen and water in the
bottom of the Helium reservoir and this affects the insulation
properties of the system. By warming the system up we can remove all the
frozen solids. The system will be cleaned out and then we will be
cooling it down again to liquid Helium temperatures.
We will do the final Helium fill on the morning of the 18th of December.
We lose 20% of the Helium a day so the dewar will effectively cease to
be at liquid Helium temperatures from the 23rd. We would not advise
anyone to carry out experiments from the 21st onwards as the
characteristics of the system cannot be guaranteed once the Helium level
goes below about 15%.
The system will be allowed to warm up over Christmas and we will start
work on a number of maintenance jobs in the new year. These will
culminate with the recooling of the MEG dewar starting on the 10th of
January. This should take 5 days. We plan to allow MEG experiments to
resume on the 17th.
I hope that you will be pleased to hear that a major quarterly
maintenance of the MRI system on Friday went very smoothly. A new
cooling system was installed and this should improve air flow through
the bore of the magnet. There had also been a problem with some coherent
noise being observed on some scans (not head scans) and the cause of
this was located and removed.
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Gary Green
telephone +44 (0) 1904 435349
fax +44 (0) 1904 435356
Secretary
telephone +44 (0) 1904 435329
http://www.ynic.york.ac.ukhttps://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/about-us/people/ggrg
mobile +44 (0) 788 191 3004
Dear Users
This afternoon (4-5 pm in YNiC open plan) I will be giving a talk on
"Spatiotemporal reconstruction of the auditory steady-state response to
frequency modulation using magnetoencephalography".
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Best wishes
Rebecca
This may be of interest.
Tony
Invitation to the CCNi debate - 'Does BOLD fMRI reveal Pseudo Neuronal
Activity?'
We would like to invite you to the Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging (CCNi)
debate on Monday 1st February 2010 at 2pm.
The debate will be chaired by CCNi director Professor Philippe G. Schyns and
will feature 4 international panel members debating the topic 'Does BOLD
fMRI reveal Pseudo Neuronal Activity?'
Panel members are:
Professor Aniruddha Das (Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University);
Professor Martin Lauritzen (Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Glostrup
Hospital, Denmark); Professor Nikos Logothetis (Max Planck Institute for
Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen); Dr Ahalya Viswanathan (Max Planck
Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen)
Synopsis:
Cognitive Neuroscience depends on a proper interpretation of brain imaging
signals. Former interpretation has been simple, comparing number of spiking
neurons with average BOLD signals (i.e. Rees, Friston, Koch 2000, Nat
Neurosci.). What is the state-of-the art interpretation of BOLD today?
Results of Sirotin and Das (2009, Nature; and Devor et al. 2008, JNS) have
questioned the simple interpretation of BOLD by providing evidence for
BOLD-signal without neuronal activity. Is there a non-neuronal source for
the BOLD signal? Is there a brain activity signal that is missed by
electrophysiology? Does an activated region reflect activation in this
region or elsewhere (e.g. in the form of feedback)? How should
state-of-the-art models of neurovascular coupling affect the interpretation
of brain imaging data? (Logothetis 2008, Nature Reviews; Viswanathan and
Freeman 2007, Nat Neurosci.; Lauritzen 2005 Nature Reviews).
Scientific co-ordinator: Dr Lars Muckli, CCNi.
Please see attached flyer for event schedule and to register your place
please reply to me with your details.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Kind regards
Claire
Claire Gallagher, CCNi Administrator
Department of Psychology
University of Glasgow
58 Hillhead Street
G12 8QB
Tel: 0141 330 3201
Fax: 0141 330 5086
http://www.ccni.gla.ac.uk <http://www.ccni.gla.ac.uk/>
The University of Glasgow, charity number: SC004401
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Dear Colleagues -
We have two new jobs for MEG research (and not only) here in Cambridge
- could you please distribute the attached job information to your
departmental maillists? Sorry for taking your time and cluttering your
mailboxes with it - and many thanks in advance!
Best,
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MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit – Cambridge
MEG Postdoctoral Research Support Scientist
The MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (CBSU) is an internationally
renowned research institute. Our theory-guided and translational
research groups are supported by state-of-the-art cognitive
neuroscience facilities including 306-channel MEG (Elekta Neuromag),
3T-fMRI (Siemens), EEG and eye-tracking equipment, and have
established clinical collaborations.
Applications are invited for a postdoctoral scientist to support the
research of the Unit in exploring the mind and brain using MEG, and to
carry out specific scientific research in collaboration with line
manager and other team members.
The postholder’s research will be centred on MEG methods and on the
spatio-temporal dynamics of the neural activity underlying speech and
language processing in the human brain. Ideal candidates will
therefore have experience in neuroimaging and in language research.
Previous experience in using EEG or/and MEG is essential. Eligible
candidates should hold a PhD or similar degree in a relevant
discipline, including psychology, neuroinformatics or neuroscience.
The starting salary will be in the range of £26,022 - £31,758 per
annum, depending upon qualifications and experience. We offer a
flexible pay and reward policy, 30 days annual leave entitlement, and
an optional MRC final salary Pension Scheme. On site car and bicycle
parking is available. Initially, this will be an 11.5 month
appointment, but it may be extended or tenured subject to performance
and availability of funding.
More general information on the CBSU is available at
http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk For informal discussion, contact Yury
Shtyrov, by email: yury.shtyrov(a)mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
Applications for this vacancy must now be made online at
http://jobs.mrc.ac.uk quoting ref CBSU09/618. Please ensure that you
upload a current CV and cover letter with your application. If you do
not have internet access, or experience technical difficulties, please
call 01793 301280.
If you would like to receive this advert in large print, Braille,
audio, or electronic format/ hard copy, please contact the Recruitment
team at the MRC Shared Service Centre on the telephone number below or
recruitment(a)ssc.mrc.ac.uk.
Closing date: December 23, 2009.
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Research Support Scientist (Postdoctoral position)
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit - Cambridge
The MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (CBSU) is an internationally
renowned research institute. Our theory-guided and translational
research groups are supported by state-of-the-art cognitive
neuroscience facilities, including 3T-fMRI (Siemens), EEG and MEG
(Elekta Neuromag).
Applications are invited for a postdoctoral scientist to study
language mechanisms in the human brain with multimodal neuroimaging
and neuropsychological methods in the context of an ongoing research
programme led by Prof Pulvermüller (MRC Programme Leader in the
Cognitive Neuroscience of Language). The primary objective of this
position is to perform MEG, EEG, fMRI and DTI research on semantic and
syntactic mechanisms. This will be an 11.5 month appointment
initially, but may be extended.
Candidates should be experienced in both language and brain research.
They should hold a PhD or similar degree in a relevant discipline,
including linguistics, biology, psychology, neuroscience,
neuroimaging, neuropsychology or computational neuroscience. Previous
research experience using EEG or MEG is crucial and previous fMRI,
TMS, DTI or patient work an advantage.
The starting salary will be in the range of £26,022 - £31,758 per
annum, depending upon qualifications and experience. We offer a
flexible pay and reward policy, 30 days annual leave entitlement, and
an optional MRC final salary Pension Scheme. On site car and bicycle
parking is available.
Further information on the research programme can be found at
http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/research/speech-language/slfourresearchreport.…
More general information on the CBSU is available at
http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
For informal discussion, contact Friedemann Pulvermuller, by email:
friedemann.pulvermuller(a)mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk
If you would like to receive this advert in large print, Braille,
audio, or electronic format/ hard copy, please contact the Recruitment
team at the MRC Shared Service Centre on the telephone number below or
recruitment(a)ssc.mrc.ac.uk.
Applications for this vacancy must now be made online at
http://jobs.mrc.ac.uk quoting ref CBSU09/617. Please ensure that you
upload a current CV and cover letter with your application. If you do
not have internet access, or experience technical difficulties, please
call 01793 301157.
Closing date: 7th January 2009
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Dr Richard Henson
MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit
15 Chaucer Road
Cambridge
CB2 7EF, UK
Office: +44 (0)1223 355 294 x522
Mob: +44 (0)794 1377 345
Fax: +44 (0)1223 359 062
http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/rik.henson/personal
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Gary Green
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5DG
http://www.ynic.york.ac.ukhttps://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/about-us/people/ggrg
tel. +44 (0) 1904 435349
PA (Sara Narayan) +44 (0) 1904 435329
fax +44 (0) 1904 435356
mobile +44 (0) 788 191 3004