FYI
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Gary Green
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
York
YO10 5DG
tel (+44) (0) 1904 435349
fax (+44) (0) 1904 435356
mobile 07986778954
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Dear colleagues,
I would like to bring your attention to the position below.
Alt the best,
Ole Jensen
http://www.neuosc.com
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*Senior Researcher for 'Neuronal Oscillations and Networks' (1,0 fte)
*
*Donders Institute, Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging*
*Vacancy number: 30.01.12*
*Closing date: 15 April 2012*
*Responsibilities*
The Neuronal Oscillation group at the Donders Institute for Brain,
Cognition and Behaviour has funding available for a senior researcher
position. The position has a strong research component, but also
includes additional management and teaching responsibilities. The
management tasks involve active participation in structuring the
research group, including supervision of MSc and PhD students (who will
receive senior authorship where applicable). Further, you will
contribute to grant writing. The research responsibilities focus on
investigating the role of oscillatory neuronal activity involved in
shaping the functional architecture of the working brain. This will be
done in the context of advanced cognitive paradigms on attention,
perception and memory. There will be a strong focus on the role of
phase, network interactions and subcortical structures. You will have
the following state-of-the-art equipment to your disposal: MEG, (f)MRI,
EEG combined with TMS, and EEG combined with fMRI. A further aim is to
link structural (e.g. DTI) and functional measurements. You will also
participate in conceptually developing the framework for understanding
the functional role of brain oscillations.
*Work environment*
The Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour consists of the
Centre for Cognition, the Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging and the
Centre for Neuroscience.
The mission of the Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging is to conduct
cutting-edge fundamental research in cognitive neuroscience. Much of the
rapid progress in this field is being driven by the development of
complex neuro-imaging techniques for measuring activity in the human
working brain - an area in which the Centre plays a leading role. The
research themes cover central cognitive functions such as perception,
action, control, decision making, attention, memory, language, learning
and plasticity. The internationally renowned centre currently hosts more
than 100 PhD students and postdoctoral researchers from more than 20
countries, offering a stimulating and multidisciplinary research
environment. The centre is equipped with three MRI scanners (7T, 3T,
1.5T), a 275-channel MEG system, an EEG-TMS laboratory, several
(MR-compatible) EEG systems, and high-performance computational
facilities. English is the lingua franca at the centre. You will work
within the Neuronal Oscillations group.
*What we expect from you*
As a candidate for the position, you should have a PhD degree and
several years of experience as postdoctoral researcher in a field
related to cognitive neuroscience. Selection criteria will consider the
record of published research, familiarity with neuroimaging techniques
(fMRI, EEG, MEG, and/or TMS) and supervision experience.
Proficiency in oral and written English is a prerequisite. You are
expected to work in a team, sharing technical know-how and ideas.
*What we have to offer*
We offer you:
- employment: 1,0 fte;
- in addition to the salary: an 8% holiday allowance and an 8.3%
end-of-year bonus;
- the gross salary will be between EUR3,195 and EUR4,970 (scale 12),
depending on experience;
- salary scale 11 will apply during the first year;
- duration of the contract: 6 years maximum.
Are you interested in our excellentemployment conditions
<http://www.ru.nl/english/arbeidsvoorwaarden>?
*Would you like to know more?*
Further information on:DCCN <http://www.ru.nl/donders>
Further information on:Neuronal Oscillations group <http://www.neuosc.com/>
Dr. Ole Jensen
Telephone: +31 24 3610884
E-mail:ole.jensen@donders.ru.nl <mailto:ole.jensen@donders.ru.nl>
*Applications*
Are you interested?
It is Radboud University Nijmegen's policy to only accept applications
by e-mail. Please send your application,/stating vacancy number
30.01.12/, tovacatures(a)dpo.ru.nl <mailto:vacatures@dpo.ru.nl>, for the
attention of Dr. Ole Jensen, before 15 April 2012.
For more information on the application procedure: +31 24 3611173
Hi everyone,
I am involved in the project P1125 at YNIC. I've been trying to connect through the remote server and, although I can do the connection, when I try to initiate the NX Client for Windows I always get this error:
NX> 203 NXSSH running with pid: 8348
NX> 285 Enabling check on switch command
NX> 285 Enabling skip of SSH config files
NX> 285 Setting the preferred NX options
ssh: connect to host nirem001.ynic.york.ac.uk port 22: Connection timed out
I'm aware that you guys had a flood, and are encountering some problems. Do you have any idea of when am I going to be able to have access again? I'm a little bit worried because I'm going to a conference next 4th of March and there are still some data that I'd like to analyse.
Best,
Susana Maia
Bolseira de Investigação
Departamento de Psicologia Básica, Universidade do Minho
tel: +351 933290673
Hello all,
Further to the scanning loss details, it would also be very useful to know
to what extent analysis has been interrupted. Obviously this is much
harder to quantify, but an estimate would be very helpful.
If you were planning on using any of the YNiC facilities over the next
month or so, could you let us know:
* What you were working towards (e.g. conference presentation,
publication, thesis etc)
* Roughly how much time you were setting aside for your analysis
* Any upcoming deadlines for ongoing work
Thanks again,
Sam
Hello all,
As part of the insurance and recovery process it would be very helpful to
get an estimate of how much scanning we have lost/will lose due to the
flooding. If you were planing to scan over the next few weeks (including
last week if you hadn't already booked it), could you let me know:
* the project number you want to scan under
* roughly how many hours you want to scan
* what timescale you want to scan over (over the next month)
* which machine you want to scan on.
This will also help us plan for the load we can expect as and when we get
the intermediate service up and running.
Thanks,
Sam
Dear Users
This Thursday the Cognitive Neurosciences MSc students will again be giving
project proposal presentations for their empirical research projects.
Please note that the talks will start at the usual time of 4.15 pm but
these talks will take place in Psychology (B020).
Please below for details of project titles and speakers.
Best wishes
Rebecca
(1) People or Faces - The neural correlates of recognition - Tim Andrews
(fMRI)
GUDER, ZEYNEP
RICE, GRACE
SLEZAK, MARTINA
(2) The hippocampus and anxiety: a structural MRI study using Voxel based
morphometry - Tom Hartley, Liat Levita
BOIS, CATHERINE
PAPAKONSTANTINOU, EVANGELIA
SMYLLIE, EMMA
HEALEY, ANDREW
(3) Approach and Avoidance - neural circuitry of pain and pleasure - Liat
Levita (fMRI)
WALSH, SEAN DANIEL
GREAVES, ASHA MARIE
PEASE, CHRISTOPHER RYAN
ROUND, JASON TONY
(4) The neural basis of Deutsch's speech-to-song illusion - Mark Hymers,
Rebecca Millman
SCHULZE, ANJA
YOUNG, MICHELLIE
LIU, CAN
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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 Colleagues
A brief update.
The most important thing that happened today is that the 'Complex and
Major Loss' Adjuster visited the site. Tony Morland and I described the
situation and gave him a tour of the Centre. It is clear that we are going
to get considerable support from the insurers, the disaster recovery team
and others.
Some good news:
5 of the 6 'partitions' of the main disc storage area have now been
rebuilt and verified. As this has been done on hardware that could fail,
the data has been written to tape and this has been put in the
fireproof/waterproof safe. We already had a backup - now we have two. They
will be placed in different locations. Backups of psychmail are now back
to the regular four hourly schedule.
The vulnerable partition is with ta data recovery team in Surrey. At this
point we cannot be optimistic or pessimistic. We just do not know whether
this data is recoverable from the discs. We will not know until next
Friday at the earliest.
Work has started on creating a temporary IT server room. Today, we managed
to get our hands on the last 30 3Terabyte discs in the UK that are
compatible with our HP hard disc enclosure. Apparently discs are in very
short supply. No 2 terabyte discs were available at all. This is due to a
flood in Thailand. All the manufacturers have factories within a few miles
of each other!
Extra drying machines have been installed. We have been told that drying
will continue for at least one more week.
I hope you can have a reasonably worry free weekend. It is good to see
some green lights here again on the front of machines.
Gary
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Gary Green
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
York
YO10 5DG
tel (+44) (0) 1904 435349
fax (+44) (0) 1904 435356
mobile 07986778954
Dear Colleagues
You may have just noticed a temporary loss of psych mail. Apologies for that.
It was caused by a temporary routing problem, not a failure of a server or
discs.
At about 18:30 tonight (Thursday), we will have to stop and restart the
mail server. This is so that we can reroute cables to and from a network
switch that has to be physically moved. This should take approximately 45
minutes. It will increase the resilience of the temporary IT service as we
continue to rebuild YNiC. Please accept our apologies for the
inconvenience that will be caused.
Gary
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Gary Green
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
York
YO10 5DG
tel (+44) (0) 1904 435349
fax (+44) (0) 1904 435356
mobile 07986778954
Dear Users
Many users have contacted the ynic team as they are understandably very
concerned about their data, programs, documents and other critical
material that was stored on the disc arrays at YNiC.
The first thing to say is that all of the raw data (MRI, MEG) is safe.
Everyday we store this material on tape backups. The same is also true of
Users' home and Group/Project home data. The last major complete tape
backup was carried out three days before the calamity.
But we are hoping not to have to resort to recovery from tape. We are
working on forcing the RAID to rebuild itself and this is why we are
closing the psych mail service later today.
In the meantime we have asked for quotations to replace any damaged
equipment.
Some good news (well a tiny bit). Some services are now working eg the
database, RT and other internal services. These will help us in terms of
the recovery plan.
The loss adjustor attended the site this morning and is helping formulate
this plan.
TMS should be available in room 54 on the ground floor of the Biocentre
within 24 hours.
Next update will be tomorrow, Thursday.
Gary
Gary Green
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
York
YO10 5DG
tel (+44) (0) 1904 435349
fax (+44) (0) 1904 435356
mobile 07986778954
Dear Colleagues
I am sorry to announce that psych email will have to be suspended for one
hour today at 5pm. I am apologise for any inconvenience caused.
This is necessary so that we can attempt to salvage another area of disc
storage on the RAID arrays.
Gary
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Gary Green
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
York
YO10 5DG
tel (+44) (0) 1904 435349
fax (+44) (0) 1904 435356
mobile 07986778954
Dear Colleagues
As promised here is a short update on the current situation in YNiC.
We now know that 12 separate leaks occurred from a pressurised water
system within the plant area in the top floor of the Biocentre sometime on
Sunday.
The water had descended throughout the building mainly down the cavity
wall of the offices and through the risers.
The first we knew of the incident was that one of the disc RAID
controllers emailed the IT manager that it was failing.
He went straight to YNiC and started evacuating the server area. This
prompt action may, I emphasise may, have allowed us to save some
equipment.
Today we have had building surveyors inspecting the building. We have been
informed that we should continue to dehumidify and heat the affected areas
for at least a week. A further inspection will take place next Monday, the
20th. New areas of water ingress are appearing so the full extent of the
damage has yet to be revealed.
The University's insurance manager has attended the site. She is our link
to the insurers and we have been informed that a loss adjustor has been
appointed and will attend YNiC tomorrow, Wednesday the 15th. Disaster
Recovery experts have also been appointed and they will advise on the best
methods for dealing with the damage and also with the consequential loss
of all the YNiC services, not just IT.
We have set in motion a recovery plan. Tony Morland is co-ordinating this
and we would be grateful if people could inform him if they are working to
particular deadlines, contracts or clinically critical timelines. The
recovery plan will, eventually, include contingency planning if recovery
is going to be lengthy.
Within YNiC we are systematically going through all the equipment to try
and establish what is irrevocably lost. We should point out though that we
know that all our warranties are void. Therefore we will be discussing our
options with the advisors tomorrow about how to recreate a working system
that will last the original estimated life.
We are attempting to rebuild the RAID arrays. As these contain a very
large amount of data this will take time, maybe days. At this stage we are
unable to say which, if any, data is lost from the discs. We do know that
some discs within the RAID were lost.
We do have backups on tape in a fireproof safe. But at the moment we do
not have an infrastructure that will allow us to use these backups. The
ideal scenario will be that RAIDs will be largely rebuilt but we cannot
guarantee that. Moreover, we do not have the network switches, servers and
analysis machines that would allow useful access to the discs.
We do appreciate that many, many, projects, PhDs, staff, external
collaborators will be seriously affected by this. We will do all we can to
get a system working as soon as we can.
Please note, the current emails services are vulnerable. We even lost
service yesterday when another drive failed. Please keep local drafts as
often as you can.
You will be pleased to note that the MATLAB licence service is now active.
Gary
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Gary Green
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
York
YO10 5DG
tel (+44) (0) 1904 435349
fax (+44) (0) 1904 435356
mobile 07986778954
