Over the past few years, multiple MEG labs have sprouted in Texas USA. We have joined together to initiate a local consortium for data sharing, exchange of ideas, and multi-site collaboration. In the spirit of this effort, we are excited to announce that we are organizing a MEG symposium, as a satellite event preceding the second annual Texas Pediatric Neuroscience Network Conference happening in Austin Texas March 6-8^th 2020. The symposium will feature work from our labs and cover both clinical case presentations, as well as translational and basic neuroscience research. We look forward to seeing you in Austin, TX!

Warm regards from the organizers:

Elizabeth Davenport PhD., University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Paul Ferrari PhD., Dell Children’s Medical Center & University of Texas at Austin
Christos Papadelis PhD., Cook Children’s Health Care System, TCU and UNTHSC School of Medicine

MEG Symposium Registration

There is no cost associated with registration, but we do require an RSVP:

Register Here!

Agenda

10:30am - 12:30pm Consortium Member Work Group

• TX MEG Consortium Members Only (Breakfast Provided)

• Location: Executive Board Room in Dell Children's Medical Center, 4900 Mueller Blvd. 3rd floor, Room Number 3K.040

12:30pm - 6:00pm MEG Symposium

Location: Vincent DePaul Auditorium SAO - Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas, 1345 Philomenia Street, Austin, TX.

• 12:30pm Reception : SAO - Room 154 (light refreshments)

• 1:00pm Welcome and Introduction: SAO - Auditorium Room 100 - Paul Ferrari, PhD

Clinical MEG in Practice:

• • 1:10pm - MEG in Epilepsy Surgery Planning
    Mark McManis, PhD,University of Texas at Austin & Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas

  • 1:30pm - The Utility of MEG Beamformers in Presurgical Brain Mapping.
    Paul Ferrari, PhD, University of Texas at Austin & Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas

  • 1:50pm - Dell Children's Clinical Case Studies: Where MEG makes the difference
    Dave Clarke, MD, University of Texas at Austin & Dell Children's Medical Center of Central Texas

  • 2:10pm - High Frequency Oscillations: A non-invasive biomarker of epileptogenic tissue
    Christos Papadelis, PhD, Cook Children's Health Care System & TCU School of Medicine

  • 2:30pm - Language Mapping in Patients with Focal Epilepsy: MEG Beta Desynchrony During Naming Tasks
    Vahab Youssof Zadeh, PhD, Medical College of Wisconsin, Froedtert Hospital.

  • 2:50pm - Cook Children's Clinical Case Studies: Not So Concordant MEG
    Saleem Malik, MD, Cook Children's Health Care System

• 2:50pm -3:20pm Coffee and Pizza

Traumatic Brain Injury and Aging:

• • 3:20pm The Impact of Head Impacts: MEG Measured Changes over a Season of Football
    Elizabeth Davenport, PhD, University of Texas Southwestern

  • 3:40pm Identification of Gray and White Matter Abnormalities in Chronic TBI with MEG
    Don Krieger, PhD, University of Pittsburgh

  • 4:00pm Age-Related Differences in the Oscillatory Dynamics Underlying Verbal Working Memory Performance
    Amy Proskovec, PhD, University of Texas Southwestern

Sensorimotor Systems and Disease:

• • 4:20pm Mapping brain plasticity in children with Cerebral Palsy
    Christos Papadelis, PhD, Cook Children's Health Care System & TCU School of Medicine

  • 4:40pm UT Austin Student Projects - Overview by Paul Ferrari, PhD.

    • • • • Cortical Oscillations Reflecting Visuomotor Coupling, Chungmin Han, Phd Candidate

          • Advanced AI for MEG to Speech Decoding BCIs, Debedatta Dash, PhD. Candidate

The Future of Wearable MEG Technology : Vendor Presentations

• • 5:20pm FieldLine Inc. : Magnetic Sensing and Imaging Solutions

  • 5:40pm QuSpin Inc. : An Atomic Devices Company

  • 6:00pm Meeting Close

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