ynic-users February 2015

ynic-users@ynic.york.ac.uk

7 participants
53 discussions

by Gary Green

This link could interest someone looking to do PhD in Zurich on data acquisition methods for diffusion MRI based in-vivo Brodmann mapping.... http://www.biomed.ee.ethz.ch/openpositions/Advertisement_for_PhD_Student_at… Best regards, -John

10 years, 2 months

Fwd: Position as PhD Research Fellow within the field of PET/MR

by Gary Green

Dear all, A position for masters in physics/biophysics/biomedical engineering is now open as PhD Research Fellow at the Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging (ISB), Faculty of Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, Norway. For more information about the Department and the research group, see the following pages: http://www.ntnu.edu/isb & http://www.ntnu.edu/isb/fmri. The PhD Research Fellow will also collaborate closely with several clinical departments at St. Olavs Hospital (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Thoracic Medicine and Department of Medical Imaging). The period of employment for the position is three years. The person holding the post will be working joining the project “Simultaneous PET/MR in lymph node staging of lung cancer”. The main aim of this project is to investigate whether integrated PET/MR will improve the accuracy when assessing the extent of disease in lung cancer patients compared to today’s method of choice, PET/CT. Specific aims centre on technical challenges regarding the acquisition and analysis of simultaneous PET/MR examinations for lung cancer and include: an improved MR-based attenuation correction of the PET images, and an MR-based correction technique for respiratory motion in the mediastinum. *More information about the position and application details here:* *http://www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-stillinger/stilling/110574* *The application deadline is on 16 March 2015.* For further information about the position, please contact: Researcher Live Eikenes, email: live.eikenes(a)ntnu.no, phone: +47 73551534.

10 years, 2 months

Fwd: Position as PhD Research Fellow within the field of MRI image analysis

by Gary Green

-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Position as PhD Research Fellow within the field of MRI image analysis Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 13:08:30 +0100 From: Eikenes <live.eikenes(a)NTNU.NO> Reply-To: FSL - FMRIB's Software Library <FSL(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK> To: FSL(a)JISCMAIL.AC.UK Dear all, A position for masters in physics/biophysics/biomedical engineering is now open as PhD Research Fellow at the Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging (ISB), Faculty of Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). The PhD Research Fellow will be part of Traumatic Brain Injury group - Trondheim TBI group, which is a multidisciplinary group including clinicians and researchers from many different departments at the Faculty of Medicine (NTNU) and at St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital. The candidate will also collaborate with Trondheim fMRI group. For more information about the Department and the different research groups, see the following pages: http://www.ntnu.edu/isb, http://www.ntnu.edu/inm/tbi, http://www.ntnu.edu/isb/fmri. The period of employment for the position is three years. The main goal of the project “Mild and moderate TBI” is to increase our understanding of the pathophysiological processes of traumatic brain injuries and of the complex aetiology of the long-term morbidity commonly seen after moderate and even mild injuries. The PhD project will focus on analyses of the longitudinal evolution of diffusion tensor imaging and diffusion kurtosis imaging (DTI/DKI) metrics and more in-depth studies of susceptibility to injury in different regions within the brain. This will provide new knowledge about the relative strength and spatial distribution of on-going biological processes in the brain as a response to injury; plasticity and chronic degeneration. *More information about the position and application details here:* ** *http://www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-stillinger/stilling/110709* ** *The application deadline is on 16 March 2015.* For further information about the positions, please contact: Researcher Live Eikenes, email: live.eikenes(a)ntnu.no, phone: +47 73551534.

10 years, 2 months

YNiC seminar 26th February

by rem

Dear Users This Thursday (from 4.15 pm in B020), there will be two internal project proposal presentations: * * 1) "A neural predictor of movie popularity" Keise Izuma 2) "Assessing the Status of Visual Cortex in Patients with Macular Disease" Holly Brown Everyone is welcome to attend and refreshments will be available after the seminar. 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

10 years, 2 months

Fwd: SUNY Brain Network of Excellence Post-doctoral Fellows program

by Gary Green

==================================================================== The State University of New York (SUNY) Brain Network of Excellence Post-doctoral Fellows program SUNY and the Research Foundation for SUNY (RF) have created the SUNY Networks of Excellence to facilitate system-wide collaboration and partnerships to share expertise and assets for innovative advances in research. In neuroscience, the SUNY Brain Network of Excellence (BNE) is designed to maximize diverse strengths in interdisciplinary research across the SUNY campuses and facilitate partnerships with academia, industry, and the community. The BNE is launching a competitive call for 4 Postdoctoral positions. The call is open for highly motivated individuals interested in carrying out their postgraduate training in neuroscience in laboratories across the SUNY campuses. The work is collaborative and multidisciplinary, and will occur in two or more participating laboratories. Positions are for 2-3 years, starting as early as June 1, 2015 but no later than December 1, 2015. HOW TO APPLY:  Applications must be submitted online no later than March 13, 2015. http://www.rfsuny.org/media/RFSUNY/Documents/Networks-of-Excellence/RFP/Pos… There are 8 possible projects. The relevant project for this list is: Exploring the Role of Structural and Functional Connectivity in Vivo; Dwyer, Radulescu, Zivadinov; SUNY Buffalo, SUNY New Paltz. -- Michael G. Dwyer, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Neurology and Biomedical Informatics Director of Technical Imaging Development Buffalo Neuroimaging Analysis Center University at Buffalo 100 High St. Buffalo NY 14203 mgdwyer(a)bnac.net <mailto:mgdwyer@bnac.net> (716) 859-7065

10 years, 2 months

Fwd: postdoc position at MIT

by Gary Green

POSITION OPENING: We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher for a 1-year position (possibly extendable by another year), to work in an interdisciplinary project investigating the representation of semantic information in the brain and how it is used during sentence comprehension. The project is a collaborative effort across the labs of Ev Fedorenko (MGH/MIT) and Nancy Kanwisher (MIT), within a team in the IARPA Knowledge Representation in Neural Systems program, led by Francisco Pereira (Siemens). The ultimate goal of the team is to build a computational model of the process of language comprehension at the sentence and/or text level, and validate it with behavioral and brain imaging data. Target start date is as soon as possible. RESPONSIBILITIES: Leading one or more components of the project, including designing experiments, collecting and analyzing data (plus overseeing data collection / analyses carried out by graduate students / lab tech working on this project), presenting the results at conferences, and writing up the results for publication. The interdisciplinary nature of the project means that we will be carrying out experiments to inform the building of models of semantic representation of words and sentences from text corpora and curated resources. These will, in turn, be used to help design more informative experiments or carry out other analyses. This presents a unique opportunity for a postdoc to acquire new skills; for example, if the postdoc has a cognitive neuroscience background s/he will be expected to interact closely with the model developers in the team and learn about and leverage the techniques that they use. REQUIREMENTS: We are looking for individuals with a Ph.D. in Neuroscience, Computer Science, Psychology, Cognitive Science, or related fields. Strong quantitative skills are a must. Other desirable knowledge / skills include: i) machine learning, ii) natural language processing, and iii) collection, preprocessing and analysis of brain imaging data (using SPM, FSL or AFNI). SEND APPLICATIONS TO: Ev Fedorenko (evelina9(a)mit.edu). Applications will be reviewed until the position is filled.

10 years, 2 months

YNiC seminar today

by rem

Dear Users This afternoon (from 4.15 pm in B020), Milena Kaestner will give an internal project proposal presentation on "Neural pathways underlying human 3D motion perception". Everyone is welcome to attend and refreshments will be available after the seminar. 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

10 years, 2 months

Fwd: Three postdoc and one PhD position at CIMeC, University of Trento. (fMRI/MEG).

by Gary Green

I’m building a collaborative team of motivated researchers to study the cortical representation of conceptual, person and factual knowledge at the systems level. This dedicated, 5-year, ERC funded (€1.5 million) project will determine the core organisational factors that drive representation across the semantic system, then build a model of how the system functions as a whole to represent our complex factual knowledge. The project will use fMRI and MEG and take place at the Center for Mind Brain Sciences of the University of Trento in Italy. I’m looking for 3 postdocs (starting after May 1^st , 2015), one PhD (starting November, 2015; application deadline: 13/05/2015) as well as a research assistant (starting May). Candidates should have experience in fMRI, MEG or EEG, competence in programming (Matlab) and experience/interest in the research topic. Starting postdoc salaries will range between ~€24,000-30,000/annum (net), commensurate with experience. The PhD scholarship is ~€12600/annum (net). For more information, go to theFairLab.org <http://theFairLab.org>. For informal inquiries about any of these positions (including the RA), email me at scott.fairhall(a)unitn.it <mailto:scott.fairhall@unitn.it>.

10 years, 2 months

Fwd: Announcing the 2015 HCP Course: “Exploring the Human Connectome"

by Gary Green

This 5-day intensive course will provide training in the acquisition, analysis and visualization of imaging and behavioral data from the Human Connectome Project (HCP) using methods and informatics tools developed by the WU-Minn HCP consortium <http://humanconnectome.org/> plus data made freely available to the neuroscience community. The course is designed for investigators who are interested in: ·using data being collected and distributed by HCP ·acquiring and analyzing HCP-style imaging and behavioral data at your own institution ·processing your own non-HCP imaging data using HCP pipelines and methods ·learning to use Connectome Workbench <http://humanconnectome.org/software/connectome-workbench.html> tools and the CIFTI <http://www.nitrc.org/projects/cifti/> connectivity data format ·learning HCP multi-modal neuroimaging analysis methods, including those that combine MEG and MRI data ·positioning yourself to capitalize on HCP-style data from forthcoming large-scale projects (e.g., Lifespan HCP and Connectomes Related to Human Disease) Participants will learn how to acquire, analyze, visualize, and interpret data from four major MR modalities (structural MR, resting-state fMRI, diffusion imaging, task-evoked fMRI) plus magnetoencephalography (MEG) and extensive behavioral data.Lectures and labs will provide grounding in neurobiological as well as methodological issues involved in interpreting multimodal data, and will span the range from single-voxel/vertex to brain network analysis approaches. The course is open to graduate students, postdocs, faculty, and industry participants.The course is aimed at both new and existing users of HCP data, methods, and tools, and will cover both basic and advanced topics. Prior experience in human neuroimaging or in computational analysis of brain networks is desirable, preferably including familiarity with FSL and Freesurfer software. For more info and to register visit the HCP Course website <http://humanconnectome.org/course-registration/2015/exploring-the-human-con…>. Contact us for a flyer PDF for posting to interested colleagues. We hope to see you in Hawaii! Best, 2015 HCP Course Organizers Jennifer Elam, Ph.D. Outreach Coordinator, Human Connectome Project Washington University School of Medicine Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Box 8108 660 South Euclid Avenue St. Louis, MO 63110 314-362-9387<tel:314-362-9387> elamj(a)pcg.wustl.edu<mailto:elamj@pcg.wustl.edu> www.humanconnectome.org<http://www.humanconnectome.org>

10 years, 2 months

YNiC seminar 19th February

by rem

Dear Users This Thursday (from 4.15 pm in B020), Milena Kaestner will give an internal project proposal presentations on "Neural pathways underlying human 3D motion perception". Everyone is welcome to attend and refreshments will be available after the seminar. 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

10 years, 2 months

2025

2024

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

2006

ynic-users February 2015