Hi everyone
I hope you are all doing well?
This week we have nothing new to report, so I'd just like to promote a
webinar that is happening at *5pm* *today*, which is being given by the
very brilliant Profs Brian Wandell (Stanford University) and David Brainard
(University of Pennsylvania). Registration is free but needs to be done in
advance of the webinar, details can be found here (note that the time
listed is US eastern time):
https://www.osa.org/en-us/meetings/webinar/2020/july/modeling_the_initial_s…
Hope you have a great week!
Take care
Lauren
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Lauren Welbourne, PhD
Senior Research Technician
lauren.welbourne(a)york.ac.uk
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5NY
Good afternoon everyone,
Hope you are all doing well!
*Journal Club*
We will be taking a summer break from our journal club with an aim to
return in late September. In the meantime, if anyone has talks they would
like to give, let us know and we shall see if we can schedule you in!
Thank you to everyone who has attended our virtual journal clubs this year.
It has been great to maintain a sense of scientific community at YNiC even
while we can't be together in person. We look forward to seeing you all in
the new academic year.
Many thanks
Becky
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Rebecca Lowndes
Research Technician
York Neuroimaging Centre
Hello All,
There are a couple of talks at 2pm today that may be of interest to you.
Best wishes
Tony
Dr Steve Quinn: *Amyloid-beta oligomerization monitored by
single-molecule stepwise photobleaching*
Holly Brown: * Assessing the status of visual cortex in macular disease*
Host for the session is Sean Sweeney
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Antony Morland, PhD.
Director, York Neuroimaging Centre
Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
Good afternoon,
This week our clinical work continued successfully at YNiC, under the
increased cleaning and safety procedures. We are continuing to engage with
the Psychology Department and the University with regards to opening YNiC
for users, but at this time please be reminded that the centre remains
closed to all users.
*Journal Club - Thursday 4pm*
This week we will branch into the auditory domain, with a talk by Dr Lisa
Goodrich from Harvard Medical School, titled:
*"Sounding Out Neuronal Diversity in the Auditory System"*
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
I hope you are all doing well, and we will see some of you for the Journal
Club on Thursday! :-)
All the best,
Lauren
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Lauren Welbourne, PhD
Senior Research Technician
lauren.welbourne(a)york.ac.uk
York Neuroimaging Centre
University of York
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5NY
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Antony Morland, PhD.
Director, York Neuroimaging Centre
Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.
