List of speakers in Visual Brain Core Seminar Series

Previous talks from newest to oldest for the Brain Core Seminar Series from the Civitan International Neuroimaging Labs. Meetings are at noon on the second Friday of the month in Civitan International Research Center room 120.

April 13, 2018: “New methods for mediation and moderation analysis” Martin Lindquist, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins

March 2, 2018: Computer science + Neuroscience: Opportunities for collaboration

Feb 9, 2018: "An unfortunate number of things indexed by head motion" Jonathan Power, MD, PhD, Weill Cornell Medical School

December 15, 2017: "Stimulus Locked Network Dynamics" Chris Honey, PhD, Johns Hopkins University

October 13, 2017: "CMEG in epilepsy care: Current applications and the need for innovation" Ismail Mohamed, M.D., FAAP, FRCPC, UAB

September 8, 2017: "Corrections for multiple comparisons in voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping" Daniel Mirman, PhD, UAB

June 9, 2017: Hyemin Han, PhD, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa

May 12, 2017: "Threats to Valid Inference in fMRI" Tal Yarkoni, PhD, University of Texas at Austin

April 14, 2017: "Stress reactivity in patients with psychogenic nonepileptic seizures" Jane Allendorfer, PhD, UAB

March 3, 2017: "Diffusion Imaging" Anastasia Yendiki, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital

Feb 3, 2017: "Eddy for FSL: dealing with noise in diffusion images" Jesper Andersson, PhD, writer of EDDY software for Diffusion in FSL

December 2, 2016: "Power analysis for neuroimaging studies: Past, present and future" Jeanette Mumford, PhD, Center for Investigating Healthy Minds Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison

November 4, 2016: "TBA" Purushotham V. Bangalore, PhD, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Interim Director of Research Computing, UAB.

October 7, 2016: No seminar due to CCTS Retreat

September 9, 2016: "Measuring Human Melanopsin Function" Geoffrey K. Aguirre, MD, PhD, Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania

August 5, 2016: TBA, Kamil Ugurbil, PhD, Director of the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research at the University of Minnesota.

 July-No Seminar:

June 3, 2016: "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On: The Artifact Runing your fMRI Data", Erik H. Middlebrooks, Department of Radiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham.

May 6, 2016: "Project Quality Assessment Protocol- a resource for measuring the quality of MRI data", Cameron Craddock, PhD., Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research

April 1, 2016: "Microstructural Modeling in Diffusion MRI", Kristi Clark, PhD, University of Southern California, Department of Neurology.

March 4, 2016: "Using XNAT for neuroimaging data management, sharing, and analysis", Daniel S. Marcus, PhD., Director, Neuroimaging Information Analysis Center, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

February 5, 2016: "The future of fMRI in Cognitive Neuroscience", Russel Poldrack, PhD, Stanford University, Department of Psychology.

December 4, 2015: "Age Differences in Brain Functioning During Memory Formation and Retrieval", Ian M. McDonough, University of Alabama, Department of Psychology.

November 6, 2015: "Contributions and Challenges for Network Models in Cognitive Neuroscience", Paper Discussion, presentation by Jarrod Hicks.

October 2, 2015: "Resting State Functional Connectivity: Methods, Debates and Clinical Applications" Susan Whitfield Gabrieli, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

August 7, 2015: "Research Computing, Storage, and Networks: the UAB vision and other imperatives for innovation" Curtis Carver, PhD, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, UAB Information Technology

June 5, 2015: "Which fMRI Analysis Software?" Speakers: David Knight, PhD, Department of Psychology; Rodolphe Nenert, PhD, Department of Neurology; Rishi Deshpande, MS, Department of Radiology.''

May 1, 2015: "13C MRS Studies of Brain Metabolism of Alcohol and Acetate" Speaker: Graeme F. Mason, PhD, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine.

April 3, 2015: "Generalized Psychophysical Interactions (gPPI): What are they and What they can tell us" Speaker: Donald McLaren, PhD, Department of Neurology, Harvard Medical School.

March 6, 2015: "How do we measure functional connectivity? An interactive discussion of functional connectivity methods" Speaker: Kristina Visscher, PhD, University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Feb 6, 2015: "High Gradient Diffusion MRI from the Human Connectome Project" Speaker: Koene Van Dijk, PhD, Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School.

Jan 9, 2014 : "UAB Research Computing Resources for Neuroimaging Research" Speakers: John-Paul Robinson, Mike Hanby, Thomas Anthony

Nov 21, 2014: "White Matter in the Older Brain is More Plastic than in the Younger Brain" Speaker: Yuka Sasaki, PhD, Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences, Brown University.

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Link to list of upcoming speakers for combined Brain Core seminar series and Neuroimaging Journal club. Together these meet every Friday at noon in CIRC 120. Usually, we have pizza.