ynic-users February 2012

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YNiC seminar 16th February (room change)
by Rebecca E Millman 14 Feb '12

14 Feb '12

Dear Users This Thursday the Cognitive Neurosciences MSc students will 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) MEG to faces: is M170 on the blink? - Pat Johnston JOHNSON, EILEANOIR BRIDGET, KOKKINAKIS, ATHANASIOS (2) Cortical mechanisms involved in attention to colour - Alex Wade (fMRI) OLIVER, ZOE, SMITH, AARON, WONG, PEONY (3) Imaging using hyperpolarised molecules - Gary Green ALI, SHELIZA CAMILLERI, JULIA ANN, TROY, DAVID MAURICE, CHEN, JING, ROBERTS, INDIA MELANIE SUZANNE (4) A combined fMRI-TMS study of semantic representation and control - Beth Jefferies (fMRI/TMS) COSTIGAN, ALISON GRACE LIU, YANNAN MURPHY, NICHOLAS GOGOLEV, PAVEL (5) Understanding Misunderstanding - S.A. Rueschemeyer (EEG) STONER, CATHERINE GARDNER, TOM -- 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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News about the flood in YNiC
by Gary Green 13 Feb '12

13 Feb '12

Dear Colleagues and Users As you may have heard, there has was a major flood within the Biocentre building on Sunday afternoon. Unfortunately we only found out about this when computers went off line. By that time water had been leaking into our area for about two hours. It took a further three hours before the problems were brought under control. Water came through the ceilings into YNiC and has caused damage within a number of rooms. The most seriously affected area was the server room. Mark Hymers and his colleagues managed to get a large amount of the equipment out of the room but not before some serious damage had been done. We now have to assess the extent of that damage. I am sorry to say that this will take time. We have already emptied water out of many disc drives, servers, network switches and power supplies. In other words we are very badly affected by this flood. The University insurers have been informed and we are waiting for a loss adjustor to come to the site. A very basic set of services have been re-established. These allow psych-mail and ynic-mail to work as we realise that people would have been greatly affected by the loss of those services. But we have to say that these services are not guaranteed. The machines that are running may have been affected by the water damage and may fail. We may also have to change the servers managing these services at short notice. I apologise for any inconvenience that may be caused. We do not have any other services within YNiC. The desktop computers, data-stores (MEG/MRI), remote access, tape-backups and other core services are not available. As the MRI and MEG devices depend on these services they are also not available. The Scratch spaces within the disc space have been affected and some data/analyses will be lost. Water leaked into the TMS area and is also not useable. I am unable at this stage to tell you when these facilities and resources will be available again. As information becomes available I will let you know of any changes. The YNiC open plan area is not accessible. We have used some desks for the temporary server configuration. Cables have had to be run across the floor and as there are no user accessible services we would be grateful if everyone can stay away from YNiC until further notice. This will affect a large number of people. We will try hard to get serive back to normal. at this stage I cannot tell you when this will be. It will certainly take at least two weeks as we will have to order some replacement machines and discs to be able to get anyway close to normal operation. 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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no YNiC seminar this week
by rem 08 Feb '12

08 Feb '12

Dear Users There will not be a YNiC seminar this week (9th February). Normal service will resume next week when the MSc CN students will be giving project proposal presentations for their empirical research projects. Best wishes Rebecca -- ************************************************************************ 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

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YNiC seminar today
by rem 02 Feb '12

02 Feb '12

Dear Users Today (4.15-5.15 pm) Mark Hymers and Padraig Kitterick will be giving a talk on "Safe levels of noise exposure in MR scanning at YNiC". Please see below for the talk abstract. Everyone is welcome to attend. Best wishes Rebecca Abstract: In 2011 Mark Hymers, Padraig Kitterick, Rebecca Millman and Quentin Summerfield were awarded a small grant by the Department of Psychology to investigate the feasibility of carrying out auditory fMRI research safely at YNiC. This talk will present the main findings of the work funded by this grant and should be 1) of interest to anyone who uses MRI and 2) of particular interest to those who wish to carry out auditory fMRI experiments. MR scanners generate very loud levels (>105 dB SPL) of noise. Exposure to intense noise can potentially damage hearing and the effects of exposure to very loud sounds are cumulative over the total exposure time. Researchers who use MR scanners must protect their participants against hearing damage by ensuring that exposure to noise levels in MR remain within the UK legal limits. Important considerations that will impact the design of all MRI experiments are 1) the duration of the structural scans/fMRI experiments and 2) the amount of attenuation of unwanted noise provided by hearing protection available at YNiC. For auditory fMRI experiments, researchers must also take into account the effects of adding the presentation level of auditory stimuli to the scanner noise. The talk will provide an overview of the guidelines written by Hymers et al. in the full report and present easy-to-use tools for calculating levels of noise exposure in MRI experiments. -- ************************************************************************ 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

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Re : Downtime
by Gary Green 01 Feb '12

01 Feb '12

Apologies for cross-postings ------------------------------- Dear Colleagues, On Friday 10th February, YNiC Open Plan and Offices will be closing at midday. This is to allow for some essential maintenance and debugging to occur on one of the core IT systems. We will be taking the opportunity to also move certain data to new storage and perform some other system upgrades at the same time which would have otherwise required separate downtime. The MRI scanner will still be usable during this period and the Psychology mail server will not be affected. Systems which will be affected include the YNiC website, booking system, remote desktop, VPN service and all YNiC desktops. We expect these systems to be back online around 5pm. We apologise for any inconvenience caused Gary Gary Green York Neuroimaging Centre The Biocentre York Science Park Innovation Way Heslington York YO10 5NY http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk https://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/about-us/people/ggrg tel. +44 (0) 1904 435349 PA - Denize Chessa : +44 (0) 1904 435329 or email dcds500(a)ynic.york.ac.uk fax +44 (0) 1904 435356 mobile +44 (0) 788 191 3004

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