2020-Spring

Cancelled due to Pandemic

We'll meet twice a month in the same place: Room 309 in Speech and Hearing Science (1131 E 2nd St, Building 71). The time will be 10:30am-11:30am, on the first and third Mondays of each month. Room 309 is equipped with two 48" monitors mounted near the ceiling. HDMI and VGA connectors are available to hook up a laptop for presentation (VGA always works, HDMI is weird). Note the disadvantage of this system is that the images your audience sees are somewhat smaller than if they were projected onto a screen. In addition, you cannot effectively point at the screens with a laser pointer.

Feb 3 Planning

Feb 17 Saren Seeley: fMRIprep

March 2 Dianne Patterson: Graph theory for neuroimaging GraphTheory.pptx and GraphTheoryCheatSheet.docx

March 16 Aneta Kielar: CONN Discussion

April 6 Adam Raikes QSIprep (A containerized DWI processing tool)

April 20 Ted Trouard, Nan-kuei Chen, Chidi Ugonna: ASL Update

May 4 Vicky Lai (and others, like Ying-hui Chou and Aneta Kielar): Discussion about adding EEG to our protocols (with TMS? With fMRI? As a separate session?)

Other events

Jan 24-26, 2020: Social Neuroscience of Grief: 2020 Vision

The neurobiology of grief as an emerging research field has the potential to provide mechanistic and systems-level insight into this nearly universal stressful life event. Recent years have seen an explosion of research in grief research, with 1) an animal model of spousal bereavement developed in voles, 2) construction and inclusion of prolonged grief disorder in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11), and 3) the first human fMRI studies on bereavement.

Join the first conference bring together investigators using animal and human neurobiological models to study grief, and learn information with high translational value!

https://psychology.arizona.edu/NOGIN2020

This NIA-funded conference will bring together researchers from around the world, including Zoe Donaldson (University of Colorado; NIH Director’s New Innovator Award “Neuronal basis of selective social motivation and the failure to adapt to loss” (1DP2MH119427), Oliver Bosch (University of Regensburg; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) grant “Impact of brain neuropeptides on partner loss-induced depressive-like behaviour in monogamous prairie voles” (DFG GRK2174), Mary-Frances O’Connor (University of Arizona), Beate Ditzen (University of Heidelberg), Adam Smith (University of Kansas), Noam Schneck (Columbia University), and others.

Because January is right around the corner, we hope you will plan to attend and will register if you are interested.

Feb 8, 2020: The UArizona Machine Learning Literacy Project

A free, one-day, introductory workshop on ML-AI concepts. Check it out here: https://sites.google.com/view/mlhackathontest/home

March 10-13 Cyverse Container Camp

April 27? 2020: HPC Workshop (will likely last several hours and be held in Keating 103? More information to come). Typically, you have to indicate that you are coming to the workshop so you can get an account on the HPC. If you'd like, you can get started here: https://neuroimaging-core-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pages/hpc.html