Dear Users
In this week's YNiC session (4-5pm) Gary Green will provide feedback
from the Annual Users' Meeting, which was held in September.
Items in the presentation will include:
1. Feedback of responses and actions that arose from the Annual Users'
Meeting.
2. Work in progress in YNiC
What research is going on
The proposed training programme
Changes to the infrastructure
Details of the new database and booking system.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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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
Hi,
The YNiC cluster is now back in operation. Apologies for the delay but
we were unfortunately hindered by (very) slow delivery of some parts
needed for server maintenance.
All of the machines were imaged overnight to get the client software for
the cluster up-to-date. For staff, you need to make sure your machine
is running image 20081117.
The main change which should be noted is that it is no longer necessary
to apply for your account to be enabled to use the cluster. The step is
now automatically performed at account creation. The docwiki has been
updated to reflect this and the paper-based guides will be updated at
their next revision.
Thanks,
Mark
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Mark Hymers
York Neuroimaging Centre
Gary, Tony and I would like to invite anyone planning a YNiC-based grant
application to think about making a Thursday 4pm presentation outlining
your ideas. We know that our applications will have to be good to be
successful: a presentation would allow YNiC staff and everyone else
involved in YNiC research to offer comments and suggestions that might
help you introduce some additional methods or concepts that you hadn't
thought of. It would also enable us all to know where each other's
research is going, rather than having to wait to hear the results at some
point in the future.
If you are interested / prepared to do this, please contact Rebecca who
will try to accommodate you as early as possible. That's
rebecca.millman(a)ynic.york.ac.uk
Andy
Dear colleagues
In addition to the celebration of TMS coming to York (Thursday at 4pm)
we also have a visitor on Wednesday who has expressed his interest in
meeting users and discussing the science at YNiC.
Lord Sainsbury who officially opened the Centre in 2005, will be
visiting from 1:45pm to 2:45. He specifically asked to be shown around
YNiC to hear about progress since his last visit. Lord Sainsbury studied
Psychology at Cambridge and is known to retain a personal interest in
the development of our understanding of cognition.
He will be visiting MEG where we will be demonstrating its use in
studying verbal & non-verbal memory, MRI where he will be shown recent
work on use of fMRI in vision sciences and then he will be taken into
the open plan to meet users.
If you are free and would like to meet our visitor then please do come
along to YNiC on Wednesday from 1:30pm onwards.
Lord Sainsbury will be accompanied by the VC and the pro-VC for research
thanks
Gary
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Gary Green
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5DG
http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk
tel. 01904 435349
fax 01904 435356
mobile 07986 778954
Dear Users
This is a reminder that the official opening of the TMS lab will take
place this Thursday.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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"The official TMS Lab Opening will take place at YNIC on November 20th
4pm onwards. Beth Jefferies and Silke Goebel will give an introduction
to Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) and an overview of their
research to date using TMS. This will be followed by a practical
demonstration of TMS. Please join us to mark this occasion and stay for
drinks and nibbles. This is also an opportunity to ask us any questions
you might have about TMS. "
Silke and Beth
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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
Dear Users
This week's YNiC session (4-5pm) will consist of a discussion led by Prof. Sue Gathercole on strategies for successful grant applications, followed by a YNiC project proposal by George Tsoulas.
1) 16.00-16.45
Professor Sue Gathercole, who is a member of the Medical Research
Council's Neurosciences and Mental Health Board, will lead a discussion of
how to optimize the chances of success with grant applications. Other
researchers with experience of applying successfully for grants, working
for grant awarding bodies etc. will then be invited to contribute their own
thoughts. Winning grant income is not easy in the current climate, but
this event is designed to pool advice and guidance on what you can do to
maximize your chances.
2) 16.45-17.00
George Tsoulas & Silvia Gennari "The computation of ellipsis: Evidence from brain imaging"
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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
Hello all,
Just a reminder that the open plan will be full again this afternoon for
the MSc practical, from 13:15 to 15:15. We will be very busy and there
are unlikely to be machines available, so no matter how eager you are to
arrive early for the seminar at 16:00 you'd be advised to wait till
after 15:15.
This week we have an external speaker, Stephan Moratti. The title of
Stephan's talk is "Steady state visual evoked potentials/ fields:
Advantages of High Signal to Noise Ratio in Basic and Clinical
Psychophysiological Research" and, as ever, everyone is welcome.
Thanks,
Sam
Dear Users
This week there will be an external speaker, Stephan Moratti. The title of Stephan's talk is "Steady state visual evoked potentials/ fields: Advantages of High Signal to Noise Ratio in Basic and Clinical Psychophysiological Research". This talk will take place at YNiC from 4-5 pm.
http://web.mac.com/smoratti/Stephan_Moratti,_Researcher/Stephan_Moratti_Inf…
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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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
Dear all
I have just come across this advert for a workshop on MEG and Cognitive
Neuroscience to be held in Leipzig on 5-6 December. Speakers include
James Haxby, Eric Halgren, Murray Grossman and Liina Pylkkanen.
Registration is free with a deadline of 20 November.
http://www.cbs.mpg.de/news/workshops/bmaess
Andy
Dear Users
This afternoon Joachim Gross will talk about "Oscillatory coupling and activity
in sensorimotor areas studied with MEG" at YNiC (4-5pm).
http://www.psy.gla.ac.uk/staff/index.php?id=JG001
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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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
Dear Users,
The MEG system will be undergoing planned, preventative maintenance from
Friday, Nov.7th until Friday, Nov. 14th.
There will be no MEG scanning during this maintenance window.
The work will include a recalibration of the system, an overhaul of the
mechanics of the bed and the replacement of half of the SAD cards. We
replaced the first half in June, and this is the second and final stage in
the replacement.
We thank you for your patience in this matter and apologise for any
inconvenience this may cause.
Best Regards,
Maribel Pulgarin-Montoya
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Maribel Pulgarin-Montoya
MEG Manager
York Neuroimaging Centre
Innovation Way
York
YO10 5DG
Tel: 01904 567614
Fax: 01904 435356
Web: http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk
Dear Users
This week there will be an external speaker, Joachim Gross, at YNiC
(4-5pm). The title of Joachim's talk is "Oscillatory coupling and activity
in sensorimotor areas studied with MEG".
http://www.psy.gla.ac.uk/staff/index.php?id=JG001
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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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
Dear all,
as many of you know, Laura Lee has just submitted her PhD thesis.
Naturally, we congratulate her for this achievement, and are glad that
she has manged to complete her thesis so promptly. However, we do now
have a Laura Lee shaped hole in the YNiC DSO (Duty Support Officer)
rota. Are there any PhD students, Postdocs, or staff members out there
who would like the honour of being a YNiC DSO as a fortnightly or
monthly fixture on the rota?
If so, please email me.
With thanks,
Michael
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Dr Michael Simpson
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
Innovation Way
York
YO10 5DG
Tel: 01904 567614
Web: http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk
Dear Users,
at the 'Meet the Researchers' session for new Psychology first years,
there were a number of first years and seconds years interested in getting
involved in brain imaging. Those who showed interest were encouraged to
join the participant pool, and to sign up to the ynic-users mailing list.
Should you be looking for volunteers for your study, now may be a good
time to use the new database and advertise for your study. Similarly, if
you are looking for undergraduates to get involved with your studies,
there are a number of new members of the ynic-users mailing list eager to
learn the finer arts of neuroimaging.
Best wishes,
Michael
Dear Users
This week's YNiC session (4-5pm) will consist of a project proposal by
Ekaterini Klepouosniotou and then Andy Ellis will lead a discussion on
taking your research through to publication.
1) 16.00-16.15. Ekaterini Klepouosniotou "Neural correlates of lexical
ambiguity processing".
2) 16.15-1700. This session will focus on problems that YNiC users may
be experiencing in analyzing their data to the point where they are
happy to submit it for publication, and will try to identify issues
concerning the analysis tools, visualisation tools, statistics etc that
could usefully be addressed. Please use ynic-users(a)ynic.york.ac.uk to
generate ideas for the agenda. The co-ordinator of this meeting will be
Andy Ellis.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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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
Hello all,
Just to let you know about a couple of busy periods in the open plan at
YNiC next week. On the 22nd (Wednesday) there will be a group of ~10
school children at YNiC between 14:00 and 15:30 using some of the
machines in open plan. They will be accompanied by a Calendar film crew
so those of you who are camera shy may want to avoid the area.
Alternatively of course, if you want your 5 minutes of fame as
background scientition, feel free to look industrious.
On the 23rd (Thursday, though you probably could have worked that out)
the first of the MSc sessions will be held between 13:15 and 15:15.
During this time open plan will be extremely busy, and there are
unlikely to be machines available. I'd strongly advise you not to come
in to YNiC in the afternoon until after they've finished, when you will
of course be rushing in for the "Taking your research through to
publication" seminar.
Thanks,
Sam
Dear Users
This week's YNiC seminar (4-5 pm) will be given by Piers Cornelissen.
His talk is titled "Virtual electrodes II: an update on group level
analysis of VE data" .
Everyone is welcome to attend.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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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
Dear Colleagues
The annual user meeting is tomorrow (9th October 2008) at 4pm.
The meeting will be held in the Venables room in Psychology
All welcome
The agenda will be
1. Welcome and statements by the Director (GG)
2. News from YNiC
- The New Science Committee (A. Ellis)
- Ethics & Governance (A. Morland)
- The new database and booking system (YNiC staff)
- Operator training 2008/09 (YNiC staff)
- Proposed changes to web and documentation (YNiC staff)
3. Topics raised by users
- Financial situation at YNiC (GG to lead)
- The proposed charging system (AM to lead)
- The software programme for 08/09 (WW to lead)
4. AOB
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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
Dear colleagues
Topics that have been suggested/requested for discussion at the Annual
Users' Meeting, so far, include
a. The financial situation at YNiC (budgets, equipment upgrades,
sustainability)
b. The new booking system
c. Operator training for MRI and MEG (when, how)
d. The proposed charging system for YNiC
e. The software programme (including inclusion of dipole and minimum norm
estimation in the software framework)
f. Ethics and Governance (a proposal for permission to conduct work in an
area rather than by project)
Please do suggest other topics.
We would welcome discussion on the scientific programme at YNiC if Users
would like to suggest specific areas of interest or concern.
Gary
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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
Dear Users
This week the Thursday afternoon meeting, which will be held in *Venables*
(4-5 pm), is the Annual General Meeting for Users. The purpose of this
meeting is for YNiC staff and Users to discuss the best way forward for
research at YNiC.
Please use ynic-users(a)ynic.york.ac.uk <mailto:ynic-users@ynic.york.ac.uk>
to generate ideas for the agenda.
The co-ordinators for this meeting will be Andy Ellis and Gary Green.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
*N.B. This meeting will be held in Psychology in Venables (room A202)*
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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
Hello All,
At 4pm today we will be having an informal session on aspects of
neuroimaging that folks picked up at conferences this year. Andre, Michael
and Will are going to give brief talks. I will also be providing some
information concerning the upgrades that will be made at YNiC next week
during the scheduled closure.
As is customary, some light refreshments will be available afterwards.
Hope to see you there
Tony
Antony Morland PhD
Deputy Director York Neuroimaging Centre
Professor of Visual Neuroscience
Department of Psychology
University of York
York YO10 5DD
UK
Tel +44 (0) 1904 432 860
Email a.morland(a)psychology.york.ac.uk
Dear All,
One of the disk partitions used to store analyzed data is full. As an
emergency measure the disk partition is being extended so that analysis
can continue. The extension of the partition will slow access time
considerably this morning, so it would be wise to postpone heavy duty
analysis until this afternoon.
Thanks
Tony
Hello All,
This is a reminder that YNiC will be closed from 5pm Friday 3rd October
through to 9am 13th October for a major infrastructure project. Computing
on the cluster will not be possible during this period and desktop access
will not be available. Cluster jobs submitted on Friday will have to be
complete before 5pm. At 5pm, all cluster jobs will be stopped.
The new infrastructure will allow, among many other improvements,
investigators to book scanner slots via a web interface. Details of the new
booking procedures will appear in another email.
Thanks
Tony
Antony Morland PhD
Deputy Director York Neuroimaging Centre
Professor of Visual Neuroscience
Department of Psychology
University of York
York YO10 5DD
UK
Tel +44 (0) 1904 432 860
Email a.morland(a)psychology.york.ac.uk