Dear Users,
Unfortunately there has been a fault with the Siemens MRI scanner over the
weekend. We are working to get this fixed as soon as possible, but will be
unable to run any scans in the meantime.
We will keep you updated.
Many thanks,
Jennifer
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Jennifer Ashton, PhD
Senior Research Technician
York Neuroimaging Centre
Working days: Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
Dear all,
Next Wednesday (19th July) we are fortunate to be hosting Professor Micah
Murray at YNiC. Micah is the Scientific and Academic Director of the Sense
Innovation and Research Center, Lausanne, Switzerland and section head, EEG
CHUV-UNIL at the Center for Biomedical Imaging. At noon he will be giving a
talk on recent work he has been doing on high spatial- and
temporal-resolution fMRI and also on recent advances in EEG.
12 Noon, Weds 19th July, at YNiC
Title: "From old dogs to new tricks in human EEG and fMRI"
Some links are provided to give you more background:
Micah Murray (
https://www.unil.ch/line/en/home/menuinst/people/micah-m-murray.html)
Rapid fMRI (
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.13.540663v2.abstract)
EEG (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10548-021-00882-w).
All are welcome to come along
Thanks,
Becky
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Rebecca Lowndes
Research Technician
York Neuroimaging Centre
Hi all,
As many of you will have noticed, the Siemens scanner was blocked out for
use next week for the removal of GE. This work has now been postponed, so
we have released the scanner for booking next week. We are not able to
provide operator cover, as we have already committed to covering MEG, but
if you are able to operate yourselves, please go ahead and book.
Apologies for the late notice and any inconvenience caused
Thanks
Becky
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Rebecca Lowndes
Research Technician
York Neuroimaging Centre
Hello,
Please find details about submitting poster abstracts to this year's
MEG-UKI meeting below. You can find more information about the meeting
here https://meguk.ac.uk/meg-uki-2023-conference/
Many thanks,
Jennifer
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Jennifer Ashton, PhD
Senior Research Technician
York Neuroimaging Centre
Working days: Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
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From: Redmond O'Connell <REOCONNE(a)tcd.ie>
Date: Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 2:54 PM
Subject: poster abstracts for MEG-UKI
Hi all,
Just a very quick word. Places are filling up nicely for the MEG-UKI
meeting but we haven't had a lot of poster abstract submissions as yet.
Please do encourage your labs and colleagues to submit something (not
obligatory that there be MEG data involved specifically). We understand
that some are not ready to commit to an abstract just yet so please note
that *we're happy for people to register now and submit a poster abstract
later on* through the conference e-mail address (meguki2023(a)gmail.com) with
the deadline for the abstracts being 1st August.
All the best
Redmond
Hi all,
I am sorry to report that due to coolant leak the MRI scanner is offline
for the rest of today, all day tomorrow (Tues 20th) and possibly Wed 21st.
We have diagnosed the problem but it will take a while to ship the parts
for repair from Germany - this could happen today but may only happen
tomorrow.
If you have the scanner booked on tomorrow Tues 20th you will need to
reschedule. If you have the scanner booked on Wed / Thu you may want to
let your participants know that there may be a cancellation, but we are
hopeful to be back online.
We will update you as soon as we have any further information.
Best wishes,
--
André
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André Gouws PhD
Lead Technical Specialist
York Neuroimaging Centre and York Diagnostic Imaging
Departmental Safety Advisor - Dept. of Psychology
University of York
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5NY
Dear Users,
We have a system fault with the Siemens MRI scanner at YNiC, as such the
scanner will be down for the rest of the day. We are working to get this
fixed and we will keep you updated on our progress.
Many thanks,
Jennifer
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Jennifer Ashton, PhD
Senior Research Technician
York Neuroimaging Centre
Working days: Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
Hello,
Please find details about upcoming inductions and training.
*YNiC User Inductions*
If you are aware of any new students/staff that will require access
to YNiC and/or an IT account, they must attend a YNiC user induction. Our
next induction will be on *Friday the 30th of June, at 13:00*. Please ask
them to contact support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk to sign up.
*Level 0 operator training*
*The next L0 training session will be held on Thursday the 20th of July,
13:00-15:00. *Please note that users requesting Level 0 training should be
a PhD, RA/Postdoc, or staff, and should already have a project proposal
submitted to YNiC. Please email support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk if you have any
questions or wish to book on to this session. Please note that sessions are
limited to 4 trainees, which will be allocated on a first-come first-served
basis. Training must be booked at least a week before the session date, in
order to reserve the scanner booking.
*YNiC Seminar*
If you would like to give a talk next term, please get in touch, there are
no specific requirements; presentations can include previously collected
data, new data, pilot data and/or study plans and ideas. This is a great
way to get feedback in a relaxed and friendly environment (and there is
usually Pizza!!). Please message support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk.
*Poster Call*
We are still looking to revamp some of our display boards, if you have any
posters from past/present YNiC projects, we would love to display them
around the centre. Our boards are size A0 (landscape or portrait). Please
drop them off at reception next time you are over here :)
Have a great week!
Many thanks,
Jennifer
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Jennifer Ashton, PhD
Senior Research Technician
York Neuroimaging Centre
Working days: Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
Hello,
Please find details about upcoming inductions and training. We are also
looking for speakers for our YNiC Thursday seminar (for next term), and for
posters to add to our display boards (see below for details).
*YNiC User Inductions*
If you are aware of any new students/staff that will require access
to YNiC and/or an IT account, they must attend a YNiC user induction. Our
next induction will be on *Friday the 30th of June, at 13:00*. Please ask
them to contact support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk to sign up.
*Level 0 operator training*
*The next L0 training session will be held on Wednesday the 14th of June,
13:00-15:00. * Please note that users requesting Level 0 training should be
a PhD, RA/Postdoc, or staff, and should already have a project proposal
submitted to YNiC. Please email support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk if you have any
questions or wish to book on to this session. Please note that sessions are
limited to 4 trainees, which will be allocated on a first-come first-served
basis. Training must be booked at least a week before the session date, in
order to reserve the scanner booking.
*YNiC Seminar*
We would like to thank all the speakers and attendees who have made the
YNiC seminar series a success this academic year! If you would like to give
a talk next term, please get in touch, there are no specific requirements;
presentations can include previously collected data, new data, pilot data
and/or study plans and ideas. This is a great way to get feedback in a
relaxed and friendly environment (and there is usually Pizza!!). Please
message support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk.
*Poster Call*
We are looking to revamp some of our display boards, if you have any
posters from past/present YNiC projects, we would love to display them
around the centre. Our boards are size A0 (landscape or portrait). Please
drop them off at reception next time you are over here :)
Have a great week!
Many thanks,
Jennifer
--
Jennifer Ashton, PhD
Senior Research Technician
York Neuroimaging Centre
Working days: Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
Hi all,
See below for details of a great opportunity to get (re)acquainted with MEG
at the MEG-UKI conference, ahead of the installation of our
much-anticipated new OPM system towards the end of the year.
Cheers,
Rich
Dear all,
I'm delighted to say that the registration is now open for the MEG-UKI
conference taking place in Trinity College Dublin on 27th and 28th October
2023 https://meguk.ac.uk/meg-uki-2023-conference/. As places are limited
(200 max), we are starting by inviting the consortium labs to register
first. I would be really grateful if you could do so as soon as you can to
ensure your places are reserved before we advertise the meeting more
widely. As you'll see, there is a really nice lineup of talks there. In the
end, we didn't feel it was possible to dedicate separate slots to every lab
in the consortium as has been done in previous years and instead opted to
group the talks thematically, based on the speaker nominations that you
provided while also trying to maintain a good balance in terms of gender
diversity. We're accepting poster submissions and will be selecting 4
additional early career speakers based on those abstracts so there are
still opportunities there for any labs not currently represented to appear
in the lineup. Please do get in touch if you have any feedback on the
webpage itself or on the running of the meeting. Please also feel free to
share the registration link with other labs at your institution who may be
interested in attending. Really hope you can join us for what promises to
be a fun couple of days!
All the best
Redmond
____________________________
Redmond G. O'Connell, PhD
Professor in Decision Neuroscience
Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience & School of Psychology
Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin
Dublin 2, Ireland.
+353 1 896 4543
http://oconnell-lab.com
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Dr Richard Aveyard
Senior Technical Specialist
York NeuroImaging Centre
University of York, UK
Hello,
Just a quick reminder that we have a YNiC seminar *tomorrow* (Thursday 1st
of June) at 4pm. This will be the last one of the term and will be given by *Dr
Daniel Baker, Dr Lauren Welbourne and Dr Joel Martin.*
*Title:* Non-canonical binocular pathways in human vision
*Summary:*
The classical view of binocular combination is that signals from the two
eyes remain anatomically segregated until they reach V1, where they are
combined. However there are additional locations in the brain where
binocular combination might occur independently of V1, and which subserve
functions other than conscious visual perception. These include the network
of subcortical nuclei responsible for determining pupil diameter, and a
potential direct koniocellular projection from LGN to MT that might process
rapid motion. We know relatively little about how binocular combination
operates in these pathways, so conducted an fMRI study in which five
different stimuli were presented either monocularly or binocularly. The
stimuli include flickering gratings, a flickering disc (intended to
stimulate light-sensitive pathways), and rapidly drifting achromatic and
isoluminant stimuli (intended to target motion pathways). We will report
the results of whole brain and ROI-based analyses.
Refreshments will be provided for those attending the talk at YNiC, or you
can catch it on zoom using the following link:
https://york-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96762553290?pwd=UEluT1lMd3V5azY5YzNmWkJCV1VTdz…
<https://www.google.com/url?q=https://york-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/96762553290?pwd%3…>
We hope to see you there! :)
Many thanks,
Jennifer
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Jennifer Ashton, PhD
Senior Research Technician
York Neuroimaging Centre
Working days: Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
