ynic-users March 2012

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update on progress at YNiC
by Gary Green 29 Mar '12

29 Mar '12

Apologies for not keeping you informed of the progress at YNiC. The reason is simply that over the last two weeks we have mainly been dealing with the insurers, getting equipment tested and refurbishing the affected spaces. Unfortunately progress has been slow because we have been waiting for others outside of the University to visit YNiC and write reports. We have also been delayed as some items were not available from stock. The IT server room is now being used again and some equipment is being moved back into the racks. We have taken delivery of the first replacement servers and these are being tested. The memory tests will hopefully be completed tomorrow. Then they will be configured. This is really just the start of rebuilding the services and is not enough to be able to offer users access to data or to resume scanning. I am very sorry for the inconvenience that this is causing. We are still negotiating with the insurers. This has become protracted due to issues around service agreements and whether items of equipment are working properly. These discussions will continue into next week but we hope to resolve all the outstanding issues before Easter. We are still confident of being up and running for next term, but I will keep you informed of any change in these plans. Gary -- Gary Green Director York Neuroimaging Centre& YNI Ltd The Biocentre York Science Park York YO10 5DG tel (+44) (0) 1904 435349 fax (+44) (0) 1904 435356 mobile 07986778954 PA (Denize Chessa) (+44) (0) 1904 435329

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Fwd: we are recruiting for Scientiifc Software Engineers, Quality Assurance and Business Analyst
by Gary Green 20 Mar '12

20 Mar '12

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Fwd: PhD and early postdoc positions available at FMRIB
by Gary Green 13 Mar '12

13 Mar '12

FYI ---------------------------- Early Career Research Assistantship/Phd studentship in Brain Plasticity (two posts) Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford EC Marie Curie Fellowship: €38,095 Two fellowship positions are available for a period of 3 years, tenable at Oxford University, on a project entitled “Adaptive Brain Computations” (ABC) which is a multi-disciplinary research and training programme which aims to integrate the study of learning and brain plasticity to promote wellbeing and advance healthcare interventions. Candidates will be employed by the University on an EC Marie Curie Initial Training Network award and, if suitable, registered for a DPhil. Candidates will work within the Plasticity Group at the FMRIB Centre, under the supervision of Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg. Our research aims to understand how learning, recovery of function and changes in the environment, result in plastic changes in the human brain. The work will combine brain imaging, brain stimulation and behavioural techniques to study healthy volunteers, stroke sufferers and people with sensory loss or limb amputation. Involvement in the MC ITN network provides exciting opportunities for high-level research training, international travel and exchange between labs. The EC funding for this position starts from £35,400 (depending on employer deductions, personal circumstances and the exchange rate to be notified by the EC), which includes an annual living allowance and a mobility allowance (to cover the expenses associated with working in a different country). Under the terms of the EC funding, which aims to promote mobility within the research community, to be eligible for the post you must not have been resident in the UK for more than 12 months in the past three years. The closing date for applications is Monday 2 April 2012 and interviews will be held on Monday 16 April 2012. Contact Person : Professor Heidi Johansen-Berg Vacancy ID : 102318 Closing Date : 02-Apr-2012 Contact Email : heidi.johansen-berg(a)ndcn.ox.ac.uk <mailto:heidi.johansen-berg@ndcn.ox.ac.uk?subject=Early%20Career%20Research%20Assistant%20in%20Brain%20Plasticity%20%28two%20posts%29> Search for the jobs at: http://www.ox.ac.uk/about_the_university/jobs/research/ Using the Vacancy ID: 102318 -- Prof Heidi Johansen-Berg Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience FMRIB Centre John Radcliffe Hospital Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU, UK Tel: +44 (0) 1865 222548 Fax: +44 (0) 1865 222717 heidi-johansen-berg(a)ndcn.ox.ac.uk http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/~heidi

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Position for PhD project in Maastricht entitled "The overlap between social mentalizing and attentional reorienting: The role of the temporo-parietal junction"]
by Andy Ellis 12 Mar '12

12 Mar '12

---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: FW: [esan] Position for PhD project entitled "The overlap between social mentalizing and attentional reorienting: The role of the temporo-parietal junction" From: "Wheat Katie (PSYCHOLOGY)" <katie.wheat(a)maastrichtuniversity.nl> Date: Fri, March 9, 2012 1:04 pm To: "'ynic-users(a)ynic.york.ac.uk'" <ynic-users(a)ynic.york.ac.uk> -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear all, FYI: PhD position advertised below Best wishes, Katie ____________________________________________________________________________ Katherine L Wheat Post-Doctoral Researcher Department of Cognitive Neuroscience | Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience | Maastricht University Room 5.741 | Universiteitssingel 40 East | 6229 ER Maastricht * PO Box 616 | 6200 MD Maastricht | The Netherlands * +31 (0)43 3881901 katie.wheat(a)maastrichtuniversity.nl<mailto:katie.wheat@maastrichtuniversity.nl> From: Ruiter R (PSYCHOLOGY) Sent: 09 March 2012 12:44 To: FDP-CN-L Subject: FW: [esan] Position for PhD project entitled "The overlap between social mentalizing and attentional reorienting: The role of the temporo-parietal junction" FYI ________________________________ From: owner-esan(a)listserv.vub.ac.be<mailto:owner-esan@listserv.vub.ac.be> [mailto:owner-esan@listserv.vub.ac.be]<mailto:[mailto:owner-esan@listserv.vub.ac.be]> On Behalf Of Frank Van Overwalle Sent: vrijdag 9 maart 2012 12:28 To: esan(a)listserv.vub.ac.be<mailto:esan@listserv.vub.ac.be> Cc: baps(a)listserv.vub.ac.be<mailto:baps@listserv.vub.ac.be> Subject: [esan] Position for PhD project entitled "The overlap between social mentalizing and attentional reorienting: The role of the temporo-parietal junction" We are looking for a student interested in working on a PhD project entitled "The overlap between social mentalizing and attentional reorienting: The role of the temporo-parietal junction". The project involves behavioral and fMRI studies in the domain of social cognitive neuroscience. We are looking for students who are motivated, interested in the topic, and have earned high grades in their masters year. Experience with fMRI is not required, but some programming experience is welcomed. The selected candidate can start right away. The project is conducted at the universities of Brussels and Ghent, Belgium. Supervisors are Frank Van Overwalle and Marcel Brass. If you are interested, sent your CV and a letter of motivation, no later than *Wednesday 21 march.* (Please name the attached CV and letter as follows: yourname_CV, yourname_letter). For more information contact: Frank Van Overwalle at Frank.VanOverwalle(a)vub.ac.be<mailto:Frank.VanOverwalle@vub.ac.be> Best regards, Frank Van Overwalle -- ynic-users mailing list ynic-users(a)ynic.york.ac.uk https://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/ynic-users Prof Andy Ellis Department of Psychology University of York York YO10 5DD UK http://www.york.ac.uk/psychology/staff/faculty/awe1/

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FW: [esan] Position for PhD project entitled "The overlap between social mentalizing and attentional reorienting: The role of the temporo-parietal junction"
by Wheat Katie (PSYCHOLOGY) 09 Mar '12

09 Mar '12

Dear all, FYI: PhD position advertised below Best wishes, Katie ____________________________________________________________________________ Katherine L Wheat Post-Doctoral Researcher Department of Cognitive Neuroscience | Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience | Maastricht University Room 5.741 | Universiteitssingel 40 East | 6229 ER Maastricht * PO Box 616 | 6200 MD Maastricht | The Netherlands * +31 (0)43 3881901 katie.wheat(a)maastrichtuniversity.nl<mailto:katie.wheat@maastrichtuniversity.nl> From: Ruiter R (PSYCHOLOGY) Sent: 09 March 2012 12:44 To: FDP-CN-L Subject: FW: [esan] Position for PhD project entitled "The overlap between social mentalizing and attentional reorienting: The role of the temporo-parietal junction" FYI ________________________________ From: owner-esan(a)listserv.vub.ac.be<mailto:owner-esan@listserv.vub.ac.be> [mailto:owner-esan@listserv.vub.ac.be]<mailto:[mailto:owner-esan@listserv.vub.ac.be]> On Behalf Of Frank Van Overwalle Sent: vrijdag 9 maart 2012 12:28 To: esan(a)listserv.vub.ac.be<mailto:esan@listserv.vub.ac.be> Cc: baps(a)listserv.vub.ac.be<mailto:baps@listserv.vub.ac.be> Subject: [esan] Position for PhD project entitled "The overlap between social mentalizing and attentional reorienting: The role of the temporo-parietal junction" We are looking for a student interested in working on a PhD project entitled "The overlap between social mentalizing and attentional reorienting: The role of the temporo-parietal junction". The project involves behavioral and fMRI studies in the domain of social cognitive neuroscience. We are looking for students who are motivated, interested in the topic, and have earned high grades in their masters year. Experience with fMRI is not required, but some programming experience is welcomed. The selected candidate can start right away. The project is conducted at the universities of Brussels and Ghent, Belgium. Supervisors are Frank Van Overwalle and Marcel Brass. If you are interested, sent your CV and a letter of motivation, no later than *Wednesday 21 march.* (Please name the attached CV and letter as follows: yourname_CV, yourname_letter). For more information contact: Frank Van Overwalle at Frank.VanOverwalle(a)vub.ac.be<mailto:Frank.VanOverwalle@vub.ac.be> Best regards, Frank Van Overwalle

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YNiC seminar today
by Rebecca E Millman 08 Mar '12

08 Mar '12

Dear Users This afternoon there will be a project proposal presentation given by David Watson. The title of the talk is "How are Scenes Represented in the Brain?". Please note that the talks will start at the usual time of 4.15 pm but these talks will take place in Psychology in the Venables room (A202). Please below for the talk abstract. Best wishes Rebecca Abstract: Human ventral visual cortex has been noted to contain regions showing selectivity for higher level visual objects categories – including faces, body parts, inanimate objects, and place scenes. A key question in this area is whether such regions may best be regarded as discrete modules with no finer internal structure and not belonging to any wider overarching structure, or whether such regions may exist as points along a wider topographical map of object category. The current project aims to investigate this question within the context of cortical regions responsive to place scenes. It has been shown that scene images can be categorised along their semantic categories (e.g. cityscape, forest, coastline, etc.) based on their underlying low-level visual properties (Oliva & Torralba, 2001). As such, scene category forms a possible dimension along which scene selective cortical regions could be organised. Using fMRI, we propose to compare patterns of cortical activity elicited by fixed blocks of natural scene sub-categories (coasts, forests, and mountains) against those elicited by mixed blocks containing all sub-categories. If scene selective regions are found to respond uniformly to all scene categories, this would support a modular-based hypothesis. If, on the hand, these regions are shown to respond heterogeneously to different scene categories, this would suggest the presence of a larger scale topographical map of scene / object category. -- 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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Downtime for Psycmail : THIS WILL AFFECT YOU
by Gary Green 06 Mar '12

06 Mar '12

As previously notified, we need to take psycmail out of service for a short period. This will be at 10am on Wednesday the 6th of March. It will last for an hour at most. Then psycmail should restart and then will be running on what we hope will be more reliable and resilient equipment in the refurbished IT server room. Any problems, do contact A.Morland(a)psych.york.ac.uk, Mark.Hymers(a)ynic.york.ac.uk AND me Gary.Green(a)ynic.york.ac.uk. Of course, you will not be able to contact us when the email service is down, but if necessary, just ring me 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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Important : break in Psych mail services
by Gary Green 05 Mar '12

05 Mar '12

Dear users of the psychology email services We are currently moving data and services off of vulnerable equipment on to new machines. To complete this process we need to disable Psycmail for a period of about an hour. Restarting the psycmail will not require much down time, but physical relocation of associated servers will take longer. We would like to do this sometime tomorrow afternoon, Tuesday, or sometime on Wednesday. IF the loss of psycmail will inconvenience anyone at any time on Tuesday afternoon or Wednesday, please let Mark.Hymers(a)ynic.york.ac.uk, A.Morland(a)psych.york.ac.uk AND Gary.Green(a)ynic.york.ac.uk know. So if you have a grant deadline, an urgent publication submission time or any other reason why psycmail migration should be delayed, please let us know. If no-one objects then we will write again to give as much notice as possible of the time when psycmail will not be available. 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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YNiC seminar 8th March (in Venables room - A202)
by Rebecca E Millman 05 Mar '12

05 Mar '12

Dear Users This Thursday there will be a project proposal presentation given by David Watson. The title of the talk is "How are Scenes Represented in the Brain?". Please note that the talks will start at the usual time of 4.15 pm but these talks will take place in Psychology in the Venables room (A202). Please below for the talk abstract. Best wishes Rebecca Abstract: Human ventral visual cortex has been noted to contain regions showing selectivity for higher level visual objects categories – including faces, body parts, inanimate objects, and place scenes. A key question in this area is whether such regions may best be regarded as discrete modules with no finer internal structure and not belonging to any wider overarching structure, or whether such regions may exist as points along a wider topographical map of object category. The current project aims to investigate this question within the context of cortical regions responsive to place scenes. It has been shown that scene images can be categorised along their semantic categories (e.g. cityscape, forest, coastline, etc.) based on their underlying low-level visual properties (Oliva & Torralba, 2001). As such, scene category forms a possible dimension along which scene selective cortical regions could be organised. Using fMRI, we propose to compare patterns of cortical activity elicited by fixed blocks of natural scene sub-categories (coasts, forests, and mountains) against those elicited by mixed blocks containing all sub-categories. If scene selective regions are found to respond uniformly to all scene categories, this would support a modular-based hypothesis. If, on the hand, these regions are shown to respond heterogeneously to different scene categories, this would suggest the presence of a larger scale topographical map of scene / object category. -- 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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no YNiC seminar today
by Rebecca E Millman 01 Mar '12

01 Mar '12

Dear Users There will not be a YNiC seminar today. Thanks Rebecca -- 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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