ynic-users February 2012

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[Fwd: senior researcher position at the Donders Institute]
by Gary Green 28 Feb '12

28 Feb '12

FYI -- 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 would like to bring your attention to the position below. Alt the best, Ole Jensen http://www.neuosc.com ------------------------ *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

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YNIC Connection
by Susana Maia 20 Feb '12

20 Feb '12

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

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Analysis Plans
by science.manager＠ynic.york.ac.uk 20 Feb '12

20 Feb '12

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

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Scanning plans
by science.manager＠ynic.york.ac.uk 20 Feb '12

20 Feb '12

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

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YNiC seminar 23rd February (in B020)
by Rebecca E Millman 20 Feb '12

20 Feb '12

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 -- 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

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YNiC update : Friday 17th
by Gary Green 17 Feb '12

17 Feb '12

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 -- 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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Psych mail outage
by Gary Green 16 Feb '12

16 Feb '12

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 -- 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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Data at YNiC
by Gary Green 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

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

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Urgent : YNiC update : this will affect you
by Gary Green 15 Feb '12

15 Feb '12

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 -- 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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update on the situation in YNiC
by Gary Green 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

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 -- 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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