Science on Tap is a weekly Friday afternoon social where members of the Martinos community gather to eat, maybe have a libation or two, and get to know each other’s work a little better. Every meeting features a 10 to 15 minute talk by a Martinos employee about their latest research, including work in progress, or not yet published efforts, followed by informal discussion over chips, guac and sweets!

The videos below show many of these presentations, and thus open a window onto the cutting-edge research under way at the Martinos Center.

Seminar Organizers:

If you’re interested in presenting your work at an upcoming Science on Tap seminar, email the seminar organizers.

 

Past Presentations

2024 Science on Tap Speakers

DateSpeakerTitle
January 5thDakota (Jiawen) FanCharacterizing fMRI signatures of systemic physiology in healthy aging
January 19thShreyas BrahmavarUsing Deep Learning for Non-Invasive Molecular Profiling of Brain Metastases from MR Imaging
January 26thMichael DezubeHarnessing Python to Process Millions of Rows in an Instant. A Case Study with All Home Values in Massachusetts
February 2ndAndre VanderkouweTracoline: A Shared Instrument for Head Motion Tracking in Bays 1 and 4
February 9thKaty MainaValentine’s Day Quiz
February 16thAnirudh WodeyarDelimiting and Tracking Brain Electrophysiology
February 23rdPenghui DuThe organization of human cerebral cortex estimated by functional PET-FDG: the promise and controversy of “metabolic connectivity”
March 15thWen ShiLocalization of Epileptogenic Zone Using EEG
March 22ndTing GongThe Quest for Microstructural Biomarkers in Brain Development
March 29thShakeeb HabashNon-invasive Cerebral Hemodynamic Monitoring in a Porcine Cardiac Arrest Model
April 5thKaty MainaJunior Scientists: How do we inspire the youth community?
April 19thHunki KwonToward Enhancing Cognitive Function in Epilepsy
April 26thMeher JuttukondaThree things you should know about sickle cell disease (& unsolicited advice for aspiring scientists)
September 6thBruce RosenNew adventures coming to a Martinos Center near you!
September 13thMoritz BlumenthalSelf-supervised learning for improved calibrationless radial real-time MRI with NLINV-Net
September 20thEmma YeonAn animated cartoon video on NMR and fMRI for high-school students"
September 27thJeff ShortLeveraging the Tenets of Rapid Prototyping for Any Project
October 4thSai SrinivasGradient Free Frequency Encoded MRI
October 11thLilianne Strey
October 18thEman Akam Baxter
October 25thVladimir Ivkovic
November 1stDomenic Minicucci
November 8thLidia Gomez Cid
November 15thMalte Hoffmann
November 22ndKaty MainaScience on Tap Thanksgiving Quiz
December 6thEkim Lou
December 13thFrancesca Marturano
December 20thDagoberto Pulido

 

2023 Science on Tap Speakers

DateSpeakerTitle
January 20thSarah KingInterviewing Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence about Brain Injury: A Comparison of Two Tools
January 27thLaura LewisMultimodal imaging of brain dynamics across sleep and wakefulness
February 3rdCaroline MagnainPostmortem Brain Imaging by Optical Coherence Tomography/Microscopy: Application to the Infant Brainstem
February 10thGanesh BabulalThe Importance of Diversity in Clinical Research
February 24thShahrokh Abbasi-RadUltra High Field MRI and its challenges: a 7T-FLAIR experience
March 3rdBin DengShed some light on breast cancer imaging
March 10thBarnaly RashidExploring the associations between cardio-metabolic risk, functional connectivity, and cognition
March 17thGiorgio BonmassarAdvancing neuroimaging in new uncharted directions: A system for fMRI and Diving Research/Hyperbaric Medicine
March 24thMatt Rosen & Eugenio IglesiasThe Center for Machine Learning
March 31stDavid HikeHigh Resolution fMRI at 14T in awake mice using implanted RF coils
April 7thJon TamirDeep Generative Physical Models for MRI Reconstruction
April 14thRangaprakash DeshpandeFunctional imaging of the spinal cord: why it matters
April 21stKaty MainaScience on Tap Spring Quiz
April 28thMalte HoffmannUpgrade your neuroimage analysis: skull-stripping with SynthStrip
May 5thJunfeng WangSite-specific labeling of nanobodies for disease imaging
May 12thClas LinnmanPhantom limbs and phantom sounds, a mix of Dr House, the Free Engergy Principle, and how I built a tinnitus treatment device in my basement
May 19thYohan JunSelf-Supervised Learning for Rapid Quantitative MRI
May 26thWiS collab (Pride Month)
September 8thAaron PurchasePortable MRI: a journey from spaceflight to the NICU
September 15thDivya VaradarajanMeasuring individual artery BOLD response to visual stimuli in humans with multi-echo single-vessel functional MRI at 7T
September 22ndChristopher BridgeOpen Standards for Clinic-Ready AI in Medical Image Analysis
September 29thAnastasia YendikiThe center for Large-scale Imaging of Neural Circuits (LINC): new frontiers in mapping the human connectome
October 13thDagoberto PulidoInterpretable Machine Learning in Microscopy Pathology
October 20thKaty MainaHalloween Quiz
October 27thNikou DamestaniThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to Imaging Blood Flow in the Brain During Typical Aging
November 3rdMason CleavlandA Deep Learning Algorithm for Fully Automated Volumetric Measurement of Meningioma Burden”
November 17thPatricia MusolinoGene therapy of vascular neurodegenerative diseases
December 1stShohei Fujita
December 8thTiango Goncalves
December 15thKathleen Larson

 

2022 Science on Tap Speakers

DateSpeakerTitle
April 22ndNikou Damestani
Daniel Gomez
Cerebrovascular changes during typical aging

Properties of fast BOLD fMRI responses in veins and parenchyma
April 29thRobert Barry3 Things You Didn’t Know About Spinal Cord Imaging
May 20thDylan Hughes & Erendira Xenia Garcia PallaresAn Introduction to Women in Science @ Martinos
May 27thMeher JuttukondaTo perfusion and beyond with arterial spin labeling MRI
June 3rdDylan HughesThe Genetics of Adolescent Psychopathology And the Underdog of Neuroscience
June 10thJosue Llamas RodriguezVulnerability of Entorhinal Subfields to Neurofibrillary Tangles in Preclinical Alzheimer’s Disease
June 18thPaulina KnightMagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy in Chronic Pain
July 15thGrant HartungCan realistic models of brain vasculature inform fMRI?
July 22ndNikou DamestaniThe Grand Martinos Summer Quiz
September 16thBruce RosenA few Martinos Center Updates and a Challenge
September 23rdWomen in Science @ MartinosThe Martinos Center Summer Symposium
September 30thJuan Iglesias GonzalezRobust AI for large-scale analysis of heterogeneous clinical brain MRI: Implementation in FreeSurfer
October 7thMGB Smartsheets TeamAn Introduction to Smartsheets
October 14thSam SchoerningDigital privacy
October 21stHanne Vanduffel3D printing of passive shim configurations
October 28thUpdates on the Martinos Center Startup Development Program
November 4thMichael VanElzakkerThe current State of Long Covid research
November 11thKaty Maina and Nikou DamestaniThe Grand Martinos Thanksgiving Quiz
November 18thIkbeom JangMultiscale structural mapping of Alzheimer’s disease neurodegeneration and neuropathology
December 2ndNikou Damestani, Adam Khay and Divya Varadarajan & Women in Science @ MartinosInclusive Language Across the Research Pipeline
December 9thMainak JasOPM-MEG: The present and the future


Video

View the Science on Tap YouTube playlist here.