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Posters
by David Coggan 06 Oct '17

06 Oct '17

Hello all, We are still looking for posters to put up around YNiC open plan. If you would like to contribute one, please get in touch or drop it off at YNiC. Best wishes, Dave

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Postponed: Today's YNiC seminar.
by Andre Gouws 05 Oct '17

05 Oct '17

Hi all, Due to some unforeseen circumstances we have to postpone today's seminar - We will reschedule and update you in next week's update bulletin. Best wishes, -- André ************************************************************************ André Gouws PhD York Neuroimaging Centre University of York The Biocentre York Science Park Heslington YO10 5NY Tel: +44 (0) 1904 435327 Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356

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Next YNIC Science Meeting
by Jonny Smallwood 03 Oct '17

03 Oct '17

Hello all, We are holding the next meeting of the YNIC Science Committee next Monday. Please send any items you would like me to raise by Thursday so I can add them to the agenda. Thanks Jonny -- Jonathan Smallwood, Reader in Psychology / Cognitive Neuroscience Room C023, Department of Psychology, University of York, England. YO10 4PH. Telephone: 01904 324651

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Disruption
by Antony Morland 03 Oct '17

03 Oct '17

Hello All, We have a Heating and Cooling contractor in attendance today. Alarms may sound. Apologies if they disrupt your work. If an alarm does and stops within 30s there is no need to act. Please be aware that staff may need to ask you to leave at short notice. Thanks Tony -- Antony Morland, PhD. Director, York Neuroimaging Centre Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.

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Weekly update
by Antony Morland 02 Oct '17

02 Oct '17

Hello All, Two things this week 1) The will be a seminar held in the Chemistry Department this week that may interest users: Dr Luisa Ciobanu: Functional MRI at ultra-high magnetic fields Wednesday 4th October 13.00-14.00 In room Chemistry/B101 Abstract Despite the fact that BOLD-fMRI is routinely used to map brain activity and connectivity in preclinical and clinical settings its exact relation with the underlying microscopic changes, either vascular or neuronal, is still not fully elucidated. The development of high magnetic fields promise substantial improvements in the contrast to noise ratio and the spatial resolution with which functional MRI maps are acquired possibly allowing the comparison with other, microscopic, techniques. In the first part of my talk I will review the advantages, but also the challenges, imposed by imaging at ultra-high magnetic fields. Following this, I will present recent results demonstrating that BOLD fMRI faithfully reports microvascular hyperemia, and that the detection of the smallest neuronal activation is limited only by its sensitivity. Beside improved BOLD acquisitions, high magnetic fields allow the development of other alternative ways for studying neuronal activation. In the last part of my presentation, I will describe a novel metabolic imaging approach, based on Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer (CEST), for assessing the changes induced by neuronal stimulation in rat brains at 17.2T. Specifically, I will present images acquired under glucose-sensitizing conditions showing a significant negative contrast that highlights the same brain regions as those activated in conventional BOLD maps. 2) We are to give 'Tips of the week', hopefully, as the name suggests on a weekly basis. This will largely give advice on IT tricks and work-arounds for commonly occurring analysis tasks. Here's this week's: Scenario: You've submitted a load of jobs to the cluster which you find out will be of no use to you and you want to bring them to a halt. Solution typing: qdel -u <username> into a terminal will stop all cluster jobs submitted by that user, e.g. qdel -u ddc506 Best wishes Tony -- Antony Morland, PhD. Director, York Neuroimaging Centre Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.

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Important information: YNiC schedule for 2017-2018
by Andre Gouws 27 Sep '17

27 Sep '17

Dear All, We have put together a provisional schedule for the YNiC seminars for the academic year. The YNiC led seminars will occur on even weeks during the autumn and spring terms. On the odd weeks we will have seminars on an ad-hoc basis and will largely focus on project presentations or presentations arranged by the YNiC Science Committee. We have also scheduled training opportunities for scanner operators. We would really like new PhD students and postdocs who will want to operate the scanners to take these opportunities as they dovetail nicely into our workload and MSc teaching and training. With that in mind, please note that the first element of training will be held Thursday 28th September. The detailed schedule is attached. Best wishes Tony -- Antony Morland, PhD. Director, York Neuroimaging Centre Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.

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This week at YNiC
by Antony Morland 25 Sep '17

25 Sep '17

Hello All, This week we will be having induction sessions for our new intake of PhD and MSc students between 9am and 1pm on Thursday. An introduction to the IT systems will take place between 9am and 1pm on Friday. It will, therefore, be busier than usual in open plan, so please take that into account when planning your work at YNiC. We are hoping to freshen up the posters at YNiC over the next week or so. Could you bring us any spare, but relatively recent, posters that you would like to have on display at YNiC? Many thanks Tony -- Antony Morland, PhD. Director, York Neuroimaging Centre Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.

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Updates
by Antony Morland 19 Sep '17

19 Sep '17

Hello All, Thanks to those of you who have reported issues arising after the IT upgrade. We have managed to deal with the majority of them. A reminder for those of you who haven't given your analysis or stimuli a spin for a while to give them a go well in advance of needing them, so we can help with any issues that arise. Next week is the start of term and therefore ynic will be busy with inductions and teaching. If you are here, please join us in welcoming our new recruits. Best wishes Tony -- Antony Morland, PhD. Director, York Neuroimaging Centre Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.

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Updates
by Antony Morland 11 Sep '17

11 Sep '17

Dear All, A few updates: 1) Staff changes: Ross Devlin has now left YNiC. He will be having a period of leave before taking up his new role at York Instruments. He has given YNiC many years of valuable and helpful service for which we are all very thankful. 2) A brief reminder that there will be no operator cover for any scanner on Wednesday this week. We are undertaking some training that will look at the documentation and processes we use to train operators for the Siemens scanner. 3) Project booking limits: We have a standard limit of 7 hours per week per project. We are aware however that such limits can constrain throughput on projects. We can offer some flexibility on how much time can be booked if we are given a period of time to plan. So, please get in touch should your requirements for booking be greater than 7 hours per week. Best wishes Tony -- Antony Morland, PhD. Director, York Neuroimaging Centre Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.

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Updates
by Antony Morland 05 Sep '17

05 Sep '17

Hello All, 1) Please test stimulus code and analysis streams you rely on and feedback any errors (including the error report) through the IT system. Note that it is not a safe assumption that all code will run perfectly after an IT upgrade. 2) We will be closed from 1330 on Thursday. 3) Next Wednesday 13th September, we will be closed from midday to test out training materials for the Siemens scanner. Best wishes Tony -- Antony Morland, PhD. Director, York Neuroimaging Centre Department of Psychology, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK.

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