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Fwd: Full-time Research Assistant Position
by Gary Green 11 Feb '14

11 Feb '14

The University of Southern California Imaging Genetics Center (http://igc.ini.usc.edu) in Marina del Rey, California is looking for talented full-time Research Assistants to perform research including analysis of brain images. The 30-member team at IGC is the hub of the ENIGMA project (http://enigma.ini.usc.edu/), which integrates brain imaging data from around the world. We are actively involved in some of the largest brain imaging studies of diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, HIV/AIDS, schizophrenia, depression, and bipolar illness. We also lead or participate in numerous studies of normal development, genetics, traumatic brain injury, and brain connectivity. Our laboratory writes and applies novel computational algorithms to study how major psychiatric and neurological diseases affect brain structure, function, and connectivity. The successful applicant will be a reliable, independent worker with a bachelor’s or master’s degree in engineering, computer science, math, neuroscience, or a related field. Computer programming skills in Matlab, shell scripting, or C++, and knowledge of image analysis software such as FSL or SPM are preferred. Knowledge of advanced statistics or genetics is a plus. This full-time position is ideal for candidates looking to spend a couple of years doing neuroimaging research before medical school or an advanced graduate degree. To apply, please e-mail Professor Paul Thompson, IGC Director, at pthomp(a)usc.edu with your cover letter and CV.

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YNiC seminar 13th February
by rem 10 Feb '14

10 Feb '14

Dear Users Please note that the "YNiC seminar" this week will take place over 3 hours (2-5 pm) in B020 in the Department of Psychology. The MSc CN students will be giving project proposal presentations for their empirical research projects. Please see below for a list of times, speakers, supervisors and talk titles. Everyone is welcome to attend. Best wishes Rebecca Time Students Supervisor Title 2.00 David Coggan, Wanling Liu Andrews Can low-level image properties predict category-selective responses in higher-level visual areas? 2.10 Phoebe Asquith, Eddy Rhodes, Amy Turner Barraclough Investigation connectivity within the human mirror neuron system using dual TMS 2.20 Shanelle Canavan, Ellie Cole, Lucy Spencer, Vera Wang Baseler Neural correlates of peripheral visual sensitivity in hearing and deaf adults 2.30 Lauren Debney Evans Global processing in medical images 2.40 Jennifer Ashton Gaskell Reactivating emotional memories during sleep 2.50 Zihao Chen, Zach Cotter, Rachael Hulme, Ellie Suffill Gennari Time in Language 3.00 Binglei Zhao Goebel Arithmetic networks in adults with dyslexia 3.10 Lysia Demetriou, Theodore Karapanagiotidis, Ashley Symons Green Learning and extinction with positive and negative outcomes 3.30 Geoff Gallagher, Meng Yang Hartley/ Baker Neural correlates of the tilt-shift illusion 3.40 Hannah Biddles, Rachel Garcia, Eftychia Giannakopoulou, Mrinmayi Kulkarni Hymers/ Millman Name that tune: the functional organization of music recognition 3.50 Phil Dwerryhouse, Jonathan Robinson, Junior Whiteley Johnston Exploring MEG/EEG violations of expectancy violation 4.00 Rachel Woodall Morland Longitudinal measures of brain function and structure of patients with Macular Degeneration 4.10 Holly Brown, Emily Shoesmith, Jonathan Kennedy, Wai Hong Liu, Morland The role of lateral occipital visual field maps in viewpoint perception 4.20 Josie Hogg, Milena Kaestner Wade Assessing the intrinsic dimensionality of visual cortex using multidimensional scaling 4.30 Debs Vallejo Lopez Wade Measuring the effect of environmental contrast on visual gain control 4.40 Irene De Caso, Borong Yan Young Decoding facial expression and gaze direction from fMRI -- ************************************************************************ 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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Fwd: ISMRM British Chapter Postgrad Symposium 2014
by Gary Green 10 Feb '14

10 Feb '14

I am writing on behalf of the local organizing committee to invite you and your postgraduate / postdoctoral colleagues to attend the 23^rd Postgraduate Symposium of the British Chapter of the ISMRM, which will be held in Cardiff on 11^th April. For those who have already been to the PG-Symposium, you know what a valuable experience this for the students and more senior academics.First, it provides a great opportunity for students to present their work in a relaxed and friendly setting and to receive constructive feedback on their work. Second, it provides a great networking opportunity for all attendees. Thirdly, it provides a very rich ‘snapshot’ of the current MR research activity in the UK. I’ve always come away slightly humbled by the quality and breadth of research being presented and I know that the students appreciate having an academic representation in the audience. This year’s event,thanks to generous support of our sponsors, is being held in a wonderful location (The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama),with great catering.We’re also able to offer some substantial prizes to students giving the best presentations at the meeting. The aim is to carry on the usual tradition of a very lenient acceptance rate so as to give as many students as possible a chance to present their work either as oral, poster-pitch or traditional poster. Please could I ask you to encourage as many of your student lab members as possible to attend the meeting.It’s completely free to attend, but we do need people to register in advance.Our postgrad/postdoc team, headed by Jess Steventon and Esther Warnert, have assembled a great programme, with scientific debates being a new feature for 2014. Please visit our website: http://sites.cardiff.ac.uk/pgbcismrm2014 for more information, and registration. I’d be grateful if you could promote this within your centre and help us to make this a real UK-wide activity.Questions / more information available via email at: cubric-ismrm2014(a)cardiff.ac.uk <mailto:cubric-ismrm2014@cardiff.ac.uk> <mailto:cubric-ismrm2014@cardiff.ac.uk> …and as mentioned above, academics are absolutely more than welcome!I promise that it will not rain! Many thanks in advance for your help and support Derek Jones

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Fwd: PRG Mon 10th Feb
by Gareth Gaskell 07 Feb '14

07 Feb '14

This talk may be of interest to ynic types... Gareth ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Kirsten Bartlett <kirsten.bartlett(a)york.ac.uk> Date: 7 February 2014 10:02 Subject: PRG Mon 10th Feb Dear all, I am pleased to announce that next Mon Manon Grube<http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ion/staff/profile/manon.grube>, a guest speaker from Newcastle, will be giving a talk on "The relationship between auditory rhythm processing and language and literacy skills in the early-adolescent brain". When: 1-2pm, Mon 10th Feb Where: Venables room And don't forget that Bob McMurray<http://www2.psychology.uiowa.edu/faculty/mcmurray/> is visiting on 17th Feb from The University of Iowa. With best wishes, Kirsten and Huarda PRG calendar <https://wiki.york.ac.uk/display/PRGCAL/PRG-cal+Home> -- Kirsten Bartlett, Research assistant in Psycholinguistics Psychology dept. University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD UK email; kirsten.bartlett(a)york.ac.uk -- Gareth Gaskell Department of Psychology University of York Heslington, York YO10 5DD UK Office: Psychology, C226 Phone: 01904 323187 Fax: 01904 323181 Email: gareth.gaskell(a)york.ac.uk <g.gaskell(a)psych.york.ac.uk> Home page: http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~mgg5/ Research group: http://www.york.ac.uk/res/prg/

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Fwd: Lectureships in Psychology/Hearing
by Gary Green 07 Feb '14

07 Feb '14

Dear Colleagues, I would like to draw your attention to two lectureships in my department that are currently being advertised: http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/3176/ One of the preferred areas is hearing and one of the jobs is at the Senior Lecturer level (equivalent to Associate Professor in the USA). With best wishes, Brian Moore Brian C. J. Moore, Ph.D, FMedSci, FRS, Emeritus Professor of Auditory Perception, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EB, UK Tel. +44 (0) 1223 333574 Fax. +44 (0) 1223 333564 http://hearing.psychol.cam.ac.uk

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Fwd: New Postdoc position available in the MRC Cognition and Brain Science Unit, Cambridge, UK.
by Gary Green 07 Feb '14

07 Feb '14

Dear all, Applications are invited for a post-doctoral position to join the Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (CamCAN). This centre brings together a large group of researchers across the University of Cambridge and at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit (MRC-CBU) who aim to relate brain changes to cognitive changes over the adult lifespan (covering ages 18-88). You will work with a unique population-representative sample of 700 adults on whom we have already collected extensive cognitive and structural brain measures. A subset of these individuals will be tested in a further set of fMRI and MEG studies designed to probe specific cognitive functions. The CamCAN project will integrate across these data-sets using a variety of methods, relating changes in neural structure and function over the lifespan to changes in cognitive function and capacity. Your role will be to help conduct the second stage fMRI and MEG studies, and to play a key role in integrating the various CamCAN cognitive and imaging datasets, using multivariate and multimodal neuroimaging methods. You will be a cognitive neuroscientist with a strong background in statistics, especially of large data-sets, and in functional imaging, imaging statistics and cognitive and/or physiological ageing. Please follow this link for further details and application procedure: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AID115/investigator-scientist-to-study-ageing/ Many thanks Jason Stretton

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Fwd: Potential PhD project in Edinburgh
by Gary Green 07 Feb '14

07 Feb '14

Please see following link for a competitive PhD project (7 projects of which 2 will be funded based on candidates) entitled 'Magnetic resonance tractography of the developing brain' which we are currently advertising in Edinburgh. If you know of a suitable person who would be interested please pass on this link. The closing date to apply is Monday, 10 March 2014. http://www.findaphd.com/search/ProjectDetails.aspx?PJID=51646&LID=2055 With best wishes, Mark Dr. Mark E. Bastin Medical and Radiological Sciences (Medical Physics) University of Edinburgh Western General Hospital Crewe Road Edinburgh, EH4 2XU UK. TEL: ++44 (0)131 537 2511 FAX: ++44 (0)131 537 1026 -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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Fwd: Position for Technically-skilled Neuroimaging Post-doc with UPenn Addictions Group
by Gary Green 07 Feb '14

07 Feb '14

___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Penn MedicineAnna Rose Childress, Ph.D. Perelman School /of/ Medicine/Research Professor/ University /of/ Pennsylvania Health System Department of Psychiatry * * * OPEN for IMMEDIATE APPLICATION * We are seeking a _Post-Doctoral Fellow with strong technical skills in neuroimaging_, and a potential interest in the clinical neuroscience of addiction, for a position in our NIH/NIDA T32 Translational Addiction Research Fellowship within the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine in Philadelphia. The selected candidate will become a member of our inter-disciplinary clinical neuroimaging laboratory with ongoing, funded projects in cocaine, marijuana, nicotine and opiate addiction. The T32 Fellowship position is funded up to three years, and could develop into a long-term position within the laboratory and the University. Our laboratory is especially focused on understanding brain vulnerabilities that may underlie the difficult clinical problem of relapse, with the goal of improving addiction treatment. Within this general domain – we are pursuing several vulnerabilities (e.g., heightened response of motivational/reward circuit response to drug cues; poor frontal modulation of the limbic response to appetitive and aversive/stress cues; poor inhibition, impaired decision-making, etc.), using these brain measures both as predictors of relapse, and as brain targets for medication/medication discovery. Recently, we have begun to combine brain imaging and hypothesis-driven genetics with the goal of understanding the heterogeneity in relapse, and in medication response, for our clinical populations. Though our primary tool is MRI (BOLD, ASL, and structural), we also have ongoing neuroligand imaging. We push our neuroimaging tools toward novel applications, including recent characterization of the brain response to ultra-brief, subliminal cues for reward, and the development of real-time fMRI feedback for improved cognitive control. _All of the described projects have significant existing datasets, offering a technically-skilled post-doc a stream of immediate publication opportunities. _ Our addictions research group is part of an extensive network of neuroimaging efforts across several research Centers and schools at Penn (Perelman School of Medicine, School of Arts and Sciences, Annenberg School of Communications, Wharton School of Business), and the adjacent Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. The imaging resources include multiple MR scanners, as well as capabilities for MRS, MEG, FNIRS, PET, and soon-to-come, concurrent MRI-PET scanning. Our custom, web-based neuroinformatics software, WISDM, enables rapid sharing and display of raw data and imaging results, facilitating collaborations within and beyond our lab. Successful candidates will have strong communication skills and clear technical expertise, including prior experience with one or more statistical packages for neuroimaging (e.g., SPM, FSL, AFNI). Demonstrated ability to apply more advanced tools (e.g., connectivity, causal modeling, FIR, etc.), and to integrate imaging and non-imaging (behavioral measures; genetics) will be an advantage. The ability to publish research findings is important for this position. Candidates will have completed an MD or PhD or equivalent degree in a relevant discipline (e.g., engineering, biomedical engineering, biophysics, mathematics, neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, psychology, etc.). The University of Pennsylvania is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Minorities and women are strongly encouraged to apply. *US Citizenship or Permanent Resident status (green card) is required. *Applications will be considered until the position is filled. Please e-mail a CV, a one-page letter of your interest in, and potential fit for, the position, and the names of 3 references to the laboratory director / NIDA T32 Fellowship Training Director, Dr. Anna Rose Childress _(childres(a)mail.med.upenn.edu)_.

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Conference: British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience
by Daniel Baker 06 Feb '14

06 Feb '14

Dear all, As you may be aware, the department is hosting the annual meeting of the British Association for Cognitive Neuroscience on September 11th and 12th this year. This is an excellent opportunity to showcase our research activites and facilities, and I'd encourage as many people as possible to get involved in the conference. In particular, we are soliciting proposals for symposia, and it would be great to have one of these organised by York researchers. There is the possibility of attracting sponsorship (e.g. to pay speaker expenses) from some of the various organisations who exhibit at the conference, particularly if the symposium topic relates to their products in some way. Details of the conference are here: http://www.bacn.co.uk/meetings.html The deadline for symposium proposals is Friday 7th March. All the best, - Daniel

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Fwd: a post-doc position available at Michigan State University
by Gary Green 06 Feb '14

06 Feb '14

Dear All, Applications are invited for a one-year postdoctoral position at the Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Laboratory at Michigan State Univ. Depending on productivity and a candidate’s desire to grow independent research, the position will allow for additional years. The candidate will work with Dr. Fan Cao on projects concerning language development, learning and disorders in monolingual and bilingual populations using fMRI and DTI. Michigan State University provides an excellent multi-disciplinary and highly interactive neuroimaging environment with its own physics, psychology and neuroscience groups as well as a research dedicated 3T MR scanner, EEG- and eye-tracking laboratories. A requirement for the position is good familiarity with fMRI techniques including data collection and data analysis. Preference will be given to applicants with a strong understanding of language processing, reading development and disorders, and bilingualism, and/or those who have expertise in functional connectivity and DTI technique.Other desired skills include experience or exposure to neuroanatomy, statistical methods, signal processing, and computer scripting (e.g. MATLAB). The successful candidate will be responsible for planning/conducting experiments, running neuroimaging data analysis, and preparing written/oral presentations for journal publications and conferences. Additional responsibilities will include oversight of undergraduate and graduate students working on the projects. A Ph.D. degree is required for this position; preference will be given to candidates with a Ph.D. in hand, but candidates with ABD will be considered as well.Relevant areas for the Ph.D. include but are not limited to Cognitive Neuroscience, Engineering, Bioengineering, Speech and Hearing Science, Psychology, and Linguistics. The successful candidate will have excellent organization and communication skills and strong personal motivation. Background and experience with submission of manuscripts to scholarly journals is desirable; English language**proficiency required. The salary range will depend on applicant’s incoming skill set. The position includes health coverage per Michigan State University regulations. To apply for this position, please refer to posting *# 9026* and complete an electronic submission at the Michigan State University Employment Opportunities website, https://jobs.msu.edu <https://jobs.msu.edu/>. Applicants should submit the following information: (1) a current CV, (2) statement of research interests, and (3) contact information of at least 3 references. Review of applications begins immediately; applications received by March 15, 2014 will receive full consideration. Applications received later than this date will be considered until the position is filled. Work begins as soon as possible. Inquiries can be sent by email to Dr. Fan Cao (fcao(a)msu.edu <mailto:fcao@msu.edu>). MSU is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer. MSU is committed to achieving excellence through cultural diversity. The university actively encourages applications and/or nominations of women, persons of color, veterans, and persons with disabilities. Best, Fan Cao

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