Two new papers have just been published
Reversible Interactions with para-Hydrogen Enhance NMR Sensitivity by
Polarization Transfer
Ralph W. Adams, Juan A. Aguilar, Kevin D. Atkinson, Michael J. Cowley,
Paul I. P. Elliott, Simon B. Duckett, Gary G. R. Green, Iman G. Khazal,
Joaquín López-Serrano, David C. Williamson
Science vol. 323 pp 1708-1711.
http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1126/science.1168877
and
Dataviewer3D : An open source, cross-platform multi-modal neuroimaging
data visualization tool.
Andre D. Gouws, Will Woods, Rebecca E. Millman and Gary G R Green.
Frontiers in Neuroinformatics.
http://frontiersin.org/neuroinformatics/paper/10.3389/neuro.11/009.2009/
Doughnuts are available in YNiC to help us celebrate!
Gary
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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.uk
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Bernstein Conference on Computational Neuroscience (BCCN*2009)
http://bccn2009.org/
The Bernstein Conference on Computational Neuroscience (BCCN) strives to be
the major European Conference on Computational Neuroscience and
Neurotechnology. It has grown out of the annual Symposium of the German
National Bernstein Network for Computational Neuroscience, which has been
held since 2005. Now in its 5th year, organized by the Frankfurt Institute
for Advanced Studies, it has been opened as an international conference. We
expect around 300 international participants from the areas of Cognitive
Science, Neuroscience, Computer Science, Physics, Machine Learning,
Mathematics, Engineering and related fields. Selected abstracts will be
published in the Journal Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience.
The meeting is open for contributions from all relevant areas of
computational neuroscience including, but not limited to:
learning and plasticity, sensory processing, motor control, reward system,
brain computer interface, neural encoding and decoding, decision making,
information processing in neurons and networks, dynamical systems and
recurrent networks, neurotechnology.
This year's meeting will have an emphasis on all aspects of vision.
MAIN MEETING:
30 September - 2 October, 2009
Goethe University,
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
PHD STUDENT-SYMPOSIUM:
3 October, 2009
Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies Frankfurt am Main, Germany
IMPORTANT DATES:
Abstract submission open: 4 May 2009
Abstract submission deadline: 17 May 2009 Demonstration proposals deadline:
15 June 2009 Notification of acceptance: 13 July 2009 Early registration
closed: 15 August 2009
INVITED SPEAKERS (confirmed):
Jozsef Fiser (Brandeis)
Wulfram Gerstner (EPFL)
Gilles Laurent (Caltech)
Klaus Obermayer (Bernstein Center Berlin) Bernstein Award 2009 winner
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
General Chair: Jochen Triesch
Program Chairs: Jörg Lücke, Gordon Pipa, Constantin Rothkopf Demonstrations
Chair: Cornelius Weber Publications Chair: Junmei Zhu Finace Chair:
Cornelius Weber Publicity Chair: Prashant Joshi PhD Student-Symposium Chair:
Cristina Savin Local Arrangements Chair: Gaby Schmitz
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Dr. Gordon Pipa - Email: gpipa(a)mit.edu & pipa(a)mpih-frankfurt.mpg.de
Research fellow at Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT),
Dep. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences &
Massachusetts General Hospital, Dep. of Anesthesia and Critical Care
77 Massachusetts Ave. , Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, Building 46-6079 Room 6057
tel. +1-617-324-1881 (office)
tel. +1-617-297-2274 (home)
mobil +1 857-753-7177
Group leader at Max-Planck Inst. for Brain Research Dep. Neurophysiology &
Junior fellow at Frankfurt Inst. for Advanced Studies (FIAS)
Deutschordenstr. 46, 60528 Frankfurt/Main Germany
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Dear Users
The YNiC seminar scheduled for this afternoon has been cancelled.
The next YNiC seminar will be during the first week of the summer term.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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Dr. Rebecca E. Millman
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5DG
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 567614
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
Dear Users
This week the YNiC seminar will be given by Katrin Krumbholz from the
Institute of Hearing Research in Nottingham. The title of Katrin's talk is
"Feature processing in the human auditory cortex".
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/neuroscience/contact/a-z/G-L/krumbholz_katrin.p…http://www.ihr.mrc.ac.uk/staff/index.php?id=6
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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Dr. Rebecca E. Millman
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5DG
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 567614
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
Dear Users
The last YNiC seminar of this term (Thursday 19th March) has been left
open so that Users can present work in progress from their neuroimaging
projects.
Does anyone have any exciting/problematic results that they would like
to present next week?
Please let me know if you are interested in volunteering.
Thanks
Rebecca
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Dr. Rebecca E. Millman
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5DG
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 567614
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
Dear Users,
There is a conference in April (15-16th) in York related to using imaging
technologies such as MRI and PET to image cancers and pathogens. The
conference is being organised by HYMS and The Yorkshire Immunology Group.
Details of the conference are found at,
http://www.york.ac.uk/res/cii/bsi/imaging_conf_BSI.shtml
The deadline for registration is Friday 13th March.
Best wishes,
Aziz.
Dear Users
This week the YNiC seminar will be given by Katrin Krumbholz from the
Institute of Hearing Research in Nottingham. The title of Katrin's talk is
"Feature processing in the human auditory cortex".
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/neuroscience/contact/a-z/G-L/krumbholz_katrin.p…http://www.ihr.mrc.ac.uk/staff/index.php?id=6
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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Dr. Rebecca E. Millman
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
York
YO10 5DG
Email: rem(a)ynic.york.ac.uk
Tel: 01904 435 5373
Dear all,
On Monday 9th at 16:00 in the YNiC open plan area there will be a
presentation entitled:
"An Introduction to MRI Pulse Programming on GE systems"
The talk will cover a brief introduction to the MRI scanner hardware and
what actually happens when you prescribe a series and press the scan
button. The talk will not include (many) code examples but should be of
interest to anyone who wishes to start working on pulse sequences.
All welcome.
Thanks,
Mark
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Mark Hymers
York Neuroimaging Centre
Dear All,
I am delighted to announce that Tim Andrews and Andy Young have been awarded
a 3-year project grant funded by Wellcome Trust. The title and abstract of
the grant are copied below. I am sure you will all join me in
congratulating Tim and Andy on this award. I would also like to thank them
for all the hard work they have put in to applying multiple times for
external funding. It is reassuring to know and a pleasure to see that all
their efforts have now paid off.
Tony
The Neural Basis of Familiar Face Perception
The aim of this proposal is to understand further the neural processes
involved in the recognition of familiar faces. It is well established that
while people are very good at identifying familiar faces (even from very low
quality images), whereas performance in recognition or matching of
unfamiliar faces is poor. The main objective of this proposal is to compare
and contrast how structural information about familiar and unfamiliar faces
is represented in the human brain using fMRI in combination with recent
developments in computer graphics and image analysis.
Dear Users
This week two Users will be reporting on developments in their MEG projects:
1) Andy Young "Impact of responses on subsequent trials in MEG"
2) Sam Mathias "What are the neural correlates of detecting and naming
the direction of changes in pitch?"
A number of psychophysical experiments have suggested that simply
detecting a change in frequency between pure tones and naming the
direction of pitch shifts rely on separable mechanisms. To my
knowledge, no neuroimaging studies have investigated this directly. In
the presentation I will give a (very) brief outline of the relevant
literature and explain the motivation behind my proposal for an MEG
study to be conducted at YNiC.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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Dr. Rebecca E. Millman
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5DG
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 567614
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356