Good morning everyone,
I hope you are all doing well and enjoying a bit of respite from the heat!
*YNiC Clinical Scans*
As part of a phased reopening, the University approved clinical work at
YNiC to recommence, and so we held our first clinical session yesterday,
which went very smoothly, with increased cleaning and safety between each
patient.
Along with our colleagues in Psychology, we are still awaiting news on the
University policy regarding resuming research, scanning participants, and
permitting users into the centre. Therefore YNiC remains closed to all
users until further notice.
*Journal Club - Thursday 4pm*
Due to popular demand, we will be repeating last week's talk by Dr Kafui
Dzirasa, from Duke University Medical Center (
https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=28097), titled:
*"Mapping Emotions: Discovering structure in mesoscale electrical brain
recordings."*
As this talk crosses some interdisciplinary topics, I think it will have a
wide appeal for our YNiC users. A summary of Dr Dzirasa's research is
detailed below:
*Summary:*
The focus of Dr. Dzirasa lab’s research is to determine how genetic
variants interact with environmental factors (including stress and drugs of
abuse) to lead to mental illness. They accomplish this by implanting
multiple small electrodes directly into the brains of mice that express
genes which lead to mental illness in humans. They then monitor the
activity of many brain cells simultaneously as these mice perform various
behavioral tasks. They also record brain activity in mice exposed to
various environmental stresses, and drugs of abuse. It is their hope that
these experiments will one day lead to the discovery of new treatments for
our patients with mental illness.
The Zoom link can be found below, and one of the YNiC staff will host the
video for everyone to watch together. Please note that there is no
pressure to have your mic or video on at any time during or after the talk.
*Zoom link:*
https://york-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92531105447?pwd=aHNVa1ZBUUMwd0ZlWW1WMEFJY3hEQT…
*Meeting ID:* 925 3110 5447
*Password:* 005039
*SfN Event - Thursday 5pm*
Following our Journal Club on Thursday, at 5pm, there is an event being
hosted by SfN titled "Black Lives Matter and Neuroscience: Why This Moment
Matters", which will feature a panel discussion of the challenges faced by
BAME neuroscientists, and what the neuroscience community can do to elicit
change. I encourage you to take a look at the details and register for the
event (registration is free):
https://neuronline.sfn.org/diversity/black-lives-matter-and-neuroscience
We will aim to start the Journal Club talk as close to 4pm as possible, to
ensure we are finished before the start of the SfN event (which we won't
screen share - you can just register individually and watch on your own PC).
I hope you have a good week!
Take care,
Lauren
--
Lauren Welbourne, PhD
Senior Research Technician
lauren.welbourne(a)york.ac.uk
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5NY
Hi everyone
This week I will keep the email short - though I still hope you are all
doing well!
*Journal Club - 4pm Thursday*
We are continuing our efforts to select talks from topics that cover the
range of interests of our YNiC users (not everyone is as excited about
vision as the YNiC staff!), so this week we will be watching a talk by Dr
Kafui Dzirasa, from Duke University Medical Center (
https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=28097), titled:
*"Mapping Emotions: Discovering structure in mesoscale electrical brain
recordings."*
*Summary:*
The focus of Dr. Dzirasa lab’s research is to determine how genetic
variants interact with environmental factors (including stress and drugs of
abuse) to lead to mental illness. They accomplish this by implanting
multiple small electrodes directly into the brains of mice that express
genes which lead to mental illness in humans. They then monitor the
activity of many brain cells simultaneously as these mice perform various
behavioral tasks. They also record brain activity in mice exposed to
various environmental stresses, and drugs of abuse. It is their hope that
these experiments will one day lead to the discovery of new treatments for
our patients with mental illness.
The Zoom link can be found below, and one of the YNiC staff will host the
video for everyone to watch together. Please note that there is no
pressure to have your mic or video on at any time during or after the talk.
*Zoom link:*
https://york-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92531105447?pwd=aHNVa1ZBUUMwd0ZlWW1WMEFJY3hEQT…
*Meeting ID:* 925 3110 5447
*Password:* 005039
We hope to see you on Thursday at 4pm!
Take care
Lauren
--
Lauren Welbourne, PhD
Senior Research Technician
lauren.welbourne(a)york.ac.uk
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5NY
Hello Everyone,
We at YNiC are in support of the message below. We have a diverse user
community, which we value enormously. We strive to have an open,
supportive and inclusive approach to all our activities - teaching,
research and a clinical service for the community.
I would encourage any of you to make suggestions on how we can improve by
contacting Professor Beth Jefferies as detailed in the message below.
Best wishes
Tony
---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Psychology HoD <psychology-hod(a)york.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 at 09:41
Subject: Inclusivity, Equality and Diversity
To: All Staff and PhD Students <all-psyc-group(a)york.ac.uk>, <
ugs-psyc-group(a)york.ac.uk>, <msc-psyc-group(a)york.ac.uk>
To all students and staff in the Department of Psychology
Following the message from the Vice Chancellor about the importance of
an inclusive
community
<https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2020/inclusive-community/> within
the University, we would like to take this opportunity to restate our deep
and long-standing commitment to Equality and Diversity within the
Department of Psychology, and our support for the Black Lives Matter
movement.
We strive to provide an inclusive, friendly and supportive environment that
allows all our staff and students to thrive and fulfil their potential. The
more we can draw on everyone's talents, the more successful our department
and our discipline will be.
The Inclusiveness and Development Committee oversees our work towards
Equality and Diversity in the Department. We recognize there is much more
work to be done and this is highlighted by the striking
under-representation of Black and Minority Ethnic staff in UK universities
and in our Department. Our outreach work with schools with high numbers of
students in under-represented groups aims to attract more diverse people to
university in the future. We have also introduced a student survey to
better understand the experiences of students from different backgrounds.
We want to see much faster progress in this area, and we welcome any
comments and suggestions about how we can further address inequalities. If
you would like to make a suggestion, please contact the Chair of the
Inclusiveness and Development Committee (beth.jefferies(a)york.ac.uk).
With many thanks,
Signed:
Beth Jefferies, Chair of the Inclusiveness and Development Committee,
Department of Psychology
Mike Burton, Head of Department, Department of Psychology
--
Antony Morland, PhD.
Director, York Neuroimaging Centre
Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
Hi everyone
As usual, I hope you are all doing well!
*Remote Desktop Update*
Firstly, a quick update on the status of the Remote Desktop. Everything is
up and running as normal now, and you should hopefully not experience the
lagging that we had previously. Big thanks to Mark and Joe for resolving
this, and we appreciate your patience while it was fixed.
Just a reminder that we have a Remote Desktop channel on Mattermost (
https://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/discuss/everyone/channels/remote-desktop),
which you can log onto from the browser on your computer (rather than via
the remote desktop) to check for any current issues, or to report any
Remote Desktop related problems to us.
*Journal Club - 4pm Thursday*
In an effort to branch out on the topics of our Journal Club meetings, this
week we will be watching a talk by Dr Liz Romanski, from the University of
Rochester Medical Centre (https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=27916), titled:
*"Memory and Integration of Face and Vocal Information in the Primate
Prefrontal Cortex."*
The Zoom link can be found below, and one of the YNiC staff will host the
video for everyone to watch together. Please note that there is no
pressure to have your mic or video on at any time during or after the
talk. We hope to see you on Thursday at 4pm!
*Zoom link:*
https://york-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92531105447?pwd=aHNVa1ZBUUMwd0ZlWW1WMEFJY3hEQT…
*Meeting ID:* 925 3110 5447
*Password:* 005039
*Support*
If you have any questions or need assistance, no matter how minor, please
send an email to support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk, rather than to specific
individuals, as this will be the best way to get help quickly.
All the best,
Lauren
--
Lauren Welbourne, PhD
Senior Research Technician
lauren.welbourne(a)york.ac.uk
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5NY
Hi everyone
We have the weekly YNiC journal club today at 4pm.
This week we will be watching a talk by Prof Giovanna Mallucci, titled:
"Neurodegeneration: Mechanisms to medicines".
Please follow the zoom link below, and one of the YNiC staff will host the
video for everyone to watch together - we can then pause during the talk if
necessary, add comments in the zoom chat, or just discuss it at the end.
Note that there is no pressure to have your mic or video on at any time
during or after the talk (you also don't need to watch it in advance).
*Zoom link:*
https://york-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92531105447?pwd=aHNVa1ZBUUMwd0ZlWW1WMEFJY3hEQT…
*Meeting ID:* 925 3110 5447
*Password:* 005039
We'll aim to start the talk just after 4pm. Hope to see you there!
Kind regards
Lauren
--
Lauren Welbourne, PhD
Senior Research Technician
lauren.welbourne(a)york.ac.uk
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5NY
Hello All,
We have been having a few glitches with the remote desktop, as Lauren
communicated earlier. I should also say that your input is proving useful
already in debugging the issues.
Mark and Joe are working on this. These are challenging times because Joe
is on paternity leave. Please be patient given the circumstances.
Best regards
Tony
--
Antony Morland, PhD.
Director, York Neuroimaging Centre
Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
Good morning everyone
I hope you are all doing well? There are some interesting talks happening
this week that I want to highlight to you all below, as well as a notice
about returning YNiC fobs to us.
*Department Research Seminar*
*Today at 4pm* there will be a research seminar by Prof Matthew Rushworth
from the University of Oxford.
*Talk title:* Recording and manipulating activity in frontal cortical
circuits for learning and decision making
*Zoom Meeting ID: *973 5677 8950
*Password:* YO105DD
*Web link to Zoom meeting: *https://york-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/97356778950
*YBRI Internal Seminar*
*Tomorrow (10th) at 2pm* there will be a YBRI Seminar given by Prof Paul
Kaye and our very own Prof Alex Wade.
*Prof Alex Wade:* Attention modulates how the human visual system
processes simple shapes
*Prof Paul Kaye:* Microglial activation and electrophysiological changes
in experimental leishmaniasis
*Zoom link:*
https://york-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92698790779?pwd=cnVoWmJEaXdkSFdIcTNzSzdxOVU4QT…
*Meeting ID:* 926 9879 0779
*Password:* 676445
*YNiC Journal Club*
I hope some of you were able to attend the OSA webinar last week - their
upcoming webinars can be viewed here, and past ones are available in
the 'On Demand' tab:
https://www.osa.org/en-us/get_involved/technical_groups/technical_group_web…
This week we will watch another recorded talk together, at our usual time
of *4pm on Thursday*.
We will all join a zoom meeting (details below), and one of the YNiC staff
will host the video for everyone to watch together - we can then pause
during the talk if necessary, add comments in the zoom chat, or just
discuss it at the end. Note that there is no pressure to have your mic or
video on at any time during or after the talk (you also don't need to watch
it in advance).
*Zoom link:*
https://york-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92531105447?pwd=aHNVa1ZBUUMwd0ZlWW1WMEFJY3hEQT…
*Meeting ID:* 925 3110 5447
*Password:* 005039
*Fob Arrangements*
For those of you that will be finishing your courses over the summer, we
would just like to let you know that we haven't forgotten about your fobs
or returning your fob deposits to you. We will continue to be consistent
with University Policy, which at this time does not allow unauthorised
campus visits, and so at present fobs cannot be returned to the centre.
We will keep you informed once a plan can be put in place for returning
fobs/deposits, and we appreciate your patience and understanding in this
matter.
*Support*
If you have any questions or need assistance, no matter how minor, please
send an email to support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk, rather than to specific
individuals, as this will be the best way to get help quickly.
All the best,
Lauren
--
Lauren Welbourne, PhD
Senior Research Technician
lauren.welbourne(a)york.ac.uk
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5NY
Hi everyone
I hope you are all doing well.
You will have likely seen Tony's email last Wednesday, which marked YNiC's
15th year since opening - this is also the same date as Professor Gary
Green's birthday, who was YNiC's first Director! YNiC celebrations will
be postponed to a future date, when we hope to be reunited with you all
under happier and safer circumstances.
*Congratulations*
Here's some good news during these strange times - congratulations to our
IT wizard Joe Lyons and his wife Emma, who gave birth to their second
child, Samuel, on the 16th May. We look forward to meeting him in the
future!
*Journal Club*
This week we'd like to promote a webinar that is being hosted by the OSA
Color Technical Group this Thursday at 5pm UK time (12pm East Coast USA
time). Registration is free, and the talk is being given by Prof Michael
Webster from University of Nevada, Reno. Details and link to register are
found below:
*Title: Seeing Color Through Different Eyes - Individual Differences in
Human Color Perception*
*Hosted by:* OSA Color Technical Group
*Date and time*: 4 June 2020, 12:00 - 13:00 ET
*Registration*:
https://www.osa.org/en-us/meetings/webinar/2020/seeing_color_through_differ…
*Summary*
Even among observers with normal color vision, color sensitivity and
perception can vary widely. These differences arise at many levels, from
well-characterized variations in the spectral sensitivities of the cone
receptors to still-mysterious factors affecting how people experience and
name colors.
In this webinar hosted by the OSA Color Technical Group,
Professor Mike Webster (University of Reno, Nevada) will provide an
overview of individual differences in color vision, how they can be
studied, and why they matter for understanding or working with color. The
webinar will also explore visual processes that compensate for sensitivity
variations, contributing to constancy in color percepts both within and
between observers despite seeing the world through different eyes.
*What You Will Learn:*
- Basics of human color vision
- Individual differences in how we see color
- Implications of individual differences for color discrimination
and color appearance
*Who Should Attend:*
- Students, researchers and professionals interested in color vision
- Anyone interested in understanding how color vision
and color perception differs between individuals
*About the Presenter*: Prof. Michael Webster, University of Nevada, Reno
Michael Webster is a vision scientist who studies the cognitive and neural
processes that underlie how we see. Much of his work focuses on
characterizing how our perception adapts when the environment changes (e.g
we move to a drier climate) or we change (e.g. as we age). He has
discovered a number of novel and influential forms of adaptation, affecting
how we see colors, how we correct for blurry vision, and how our perception
of someone's face depends on the faces we have seen previously.
*Logging out of the Remote Desktop*
We would like to remind users about the importance of *logging out* to end
remote desktop sessions at the end of the day. You should treat the remote
desktop in the same way as the open plan PCs: save your work and log out as
you normally would once you finish for the day (i.e. Applications > Log
Out) - once you've logged out your session should automatically terminate,
but if not, you should also terminate the session on the x2go client.
Any remote desktop sessions that have been suspended (not opened or used)
for more than ten days will be terminated to free up space.
*Support*
If you have any questions or need assistance, no matter how minor, please
send an email to support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk, rather than to specific
individuals, as this will be the best way to get help quickly.
I hope you all have a good week and enjoy the last of the sun before the
much-needed rain begins this week (allegedly).
Take care,
Lauren
--
Lauren Welbourne, PhD
Senior Research Technician
lauren.welbourne(a)york.ac.uk
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5NY
