Hello everyone,
The cold head on the GE scanner was successfully replaced by engineers
yesterday, and the system is now ready for scanning again. Apologies again
for the unexpected downtime, we appreciate your patience with this.
Best wishes,
Rich
--
Richard Aveyard, Senior Research Technician
York NeuroImaging Centre
University of York, UK
Hello everyone,
Things to note this week:
1. The *GE* scanner requires a replacement cold head and so will be
*unavailable
until Wednesday the 3rd of April at the earliest. *
2. YNiC was closed for maintenance last week, this included IT upgrades
with security patching and fibre work, adjustments to the security alarm
system, and a layout change. The central meeting room off open plan is now
an extension to the staff office.
* Consent debriefing and other private interviews should be carried out in
the small sound-proof room opposite the PhD office in open plan, or the
interview room on the MRI corridor. *
3. YSPL will be doing maintenance on IT systems this week, however, this
is not expected to affect uses.
4. A large cohort of YNiC staff will be away for the MEG UK conference
15-17th of April.
*Signatures for conditional exceptions on consent forms for 15th-17th of
April must be organized for no later than the 12th of April. We would also
like to remind users that exceptions in consent forms should be arranged in
advance of the scan day in all cases. *
5. We have provisionally scheduled our next *User Induction on Thursday
the 18th of April at 10am*. Subject to availability and interest.
Please ask any relevant students/staff to email support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk
to sign up if they intend to start using the centre.
Best wishes,
Rich
--
Richard Aveyard, Senior Research Technician
York NeuroImaging Centre
University of York, UK
Hello
We'll be doing some essential IT security maintenance during the closure at
YNiC on Friday 29th March at 12 noon. All systems will be down including
the remote desktop and the cluster.
Thanks
Joe
--
Joe Lyons, UNIX Systems Administrator
York Neuroimaging Centre (YNiC), University of York
Hello everyone,
Things to note this week:
1. *YNiC will be closed 27th-29th of March for vital maintenance. *Some
scans will be operating in this period due to unexpected scanner downtime
but the facility will not be accepting new bookings and will not be open
for other users.
2. A number of YNiC forms have been updated. *Please ensure that you use
the latest forms from the YNiC website
<https://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/docs/forms>* and, as usual, please read all
forms in full before signing.
Note that we will no longer start training operators until their PI/ line
manager signs to confirm that they have completed all statutory University
training.
3. We have provisionally scheduled our next *User Induction on Thursday the
4th of April at 10am*. Subject to availability and interest. Please ask
any relevant students/staff to email support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk to sign up
if they intend to start using the centre.
4. The GE scanner is down for urgent maintenance, we will have GE
engineers in to replace the cold head during the closure, with
*normal service on GE expected to resume next week from Monday the 1st of
April. *
Best wishes,
Rich
--
Richard Aveyard, Senior Research Technician
York NeuroImaging Centre
University of York, UK
Hello everyone,
Before the notes for the coming week, we are pleased to report that the
neuroimaging facility continues to be increasingly well used, with last
week seeing our busiest week on record with a total of *82 hours of booked
scanner time!*
Things to note this week:
1. We are running our next *User Induction this Tuesday (19th) at 10am*.
Please ask any relevant students/staff to email support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk
to sign up if they intend to start using the centre.
2. YNiC will be visited by a group from the University of the Third Age,
as a consequence
*open plan will be closed to all users 2-4pm on Tuesday the 19th of March. *
3. Due to annual leave, we have fewer staff than usual at the moment, so
thank you for your patience with any increases in wait times for support
that may occur.
4. *YNiC will be closed 27th-29th of March for vital maintenance.*
Best wishes,
Rich
--
Richard Aveyard, Senior Research Technician
York NeuroImaging Centre
University of York, UK
Hi everyone
Things to note this week:
1. There will be *teaching in Open Plan 9am - 1pm on Wednesday 13th*;
only those involved in the teaching will have access to Open Plan at this
time.
2. We are running our next *User Induction this Wednesday (13th) at 10am*.
Please ask any relevant students/staff to email support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk
to sign up if they intend to start using the centre.
3. This *Thursday at 4pm* we have a *Project Presentation from Dr Scott
Cairney*, followed by refreshments. We hope to see you there!
Hope you have a great week,
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
Good afternoon all,
A necklace has been handed in to YNiC reception that was found on Friday
afternoon.
If you think this is yours please come to YNiC reception to collect it.
Kind regards,
Ryan
Hi everyone
We have teaching in Open Plan on Tuesday and Friday this week between 12
and 4pm, there will be no access to open plan for anyone who is not
involved in this teaching.
Please be reminded that YNiC will be closed from Wednesday 27th to Friday
29th March for building and maintenance work. Siemens will be available as
normal on 25th March (the scheduled maintenance took place on 25th *Feb*, I
made an error in a previous email).
Finally, our next *YNiC user induction* will take place on *Wednesday 13th
March at 10am*. If you are aware of any students that will require an IT
account for YNiC, they must complete a User Induction first. Please ask
them to contact support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk to sign up for the next induction
date.
Hope you have a good week,
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
Just a reminder that today's YNiC Project Presentations are starting at the
earlier time of *2:30pm*.
We have two talks today, the first from Adam Turnbull, and the second from
Nerissa Ho.
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
Hi all
We have quite a few things going on this week that we'd like you to be
aware of:
*Presentations and Inductions:*
1. We have two project presentations this Thursday, starting from
*2:30pm* in YNiC open plan. The first will be given by Adam Turnbull,
and the second by Nerissa Ho.
2. We will be running a *YNiC user induction this Wednesday* 27th at
10am - if you are aware of anyone that needs to be inducted, please ask
them to contact us to sign up (support(a)ynic.york.ac.uk).
3. There is a seminar in Biology room K018 on *Friday 1st at 1pm*, as
part of the Biomedical Sciences seminar series, by Prof Rob Lucas
(University of Manchester) entitled "Vision Beyond Rods and Cones", which
may be of interest to a number of YNiC users (
https://www.york.ac.uk/biology/news-events/seminars/infection-immunity/spri…
)
*Closures:*
1. *YNiC will be closed from 3:45pm this Thursday 28th*, after the
project presentations, in order for staff and YNiC users to attend the YBRI
Neuroscience Social (Register at
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ybri-social-neuroscience-theme-tickets-54695…
Password: YBRI2019)
2. *YNiC will be closed from 27th to 29th March*, in order for a number
of building and maintenance works to be carried out.
3. Open Plan will be closed for teaching this Friday between 12 and 4pm.
*Scanner Bookings:*
1. Both GE and Siemens scanners will be used for Masters projects from
the end of April. The slots restricted to these projects have been marked
on the booking system, and can only be booked for these projects.
2. Other restricted slots that occur in March will be released a week
before the scan date, in the event that they are not booked by the
restricting group. Please note that we have also added some additional
operator covered slots in Siemens on Mondays, for those weeks where the
scanner is heavily restricted.
Hope you have a good week,
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
