Martinos Center

Science on Tap: How Does the Brain Solve Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM)?
2020-06-05 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/658603416
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Maaike van den Boomen
Patricia Cirillo
John Samuelsson

Brain Map: White Matter Development in Children and Youth
2020-06-04 12:00 - 13:00
Catherine Lebel, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Radiology at the University of Calgary
Abstract:
White matter development is critical to support proper cognitive function. Over the past two decades, diffusion tensor imaging has provided a clearer picture of the patterns of typical white matter development across childhood and adolescence. However, many questions remain. In this talk, I will discuss some of our recent work to (1) provide better specificity describing white matter changes in late childhood and adolescence, (2) detail typical white matter development in early childhood, and (3) describe altered developmental trajectories in children and youth with prenatal alcohol exposure.
Bio:
Catherine Lebel is an Associate Professor of Radiology at the University of Calgary and the Canada Research Chair in Pediatric Imaging. She leads the Child Brain & Mental Health Program at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute and is a member of the Hotchkiss Brain Institute.
Dr. Lebel received her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Alberta and completed postdoctoral training in Neurology and Pediatrics at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research uses MRI to study how brain structure and function change with age in typical children and those with neurodevelopmental disorders, including fetal alcohol spectrum disorder and learning disabilities. She also examines how brain structure and function are related to cognitive, behavioural and environmental factors, including the prenatal environment.
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Speaker
Catherine Lebel, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Radiology at the University of Calgary

Science on Tap
2020-05-29 16:00 - 17:00

BrainMap: Portable Point-of-Care Bedside MRI
2020-05-28 12:00 - 13:00
E. Brian Welch, Ph.D., M.B.A., Director of Clinical Science, Hyperfine, Guilford, CT
Abstract:
How can we bring MRI to the most vulnerable patients? How can we timely provide MRI when and where it is truly needed? The Hyperfine portable point-of-care MRI scanner employs custom cutting-edge engineering approaches and applies the latest knowledge from the MR community to achieve the goal of bringing MRI to a patient’s bedside. I will describe my role as a Hyperfine clinical scientist and specific activities helping to validate the clinical utility of the world’s first commercial bedside MRI scanner. I will share some of the carefully selected technical specifications of the scanner and present real-world imaging results.
Bio:
Dr. Welch is a biomedical-electrical engineer (B.S. BME-E University of Southern California, 1998) whose Ph.D. training at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine focused on biomedical imaging. Specifically, he is an expert in methods and software development for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). His previous and ongoing work concentrates on overcoming the real-world limitations that hinder research and clinical applications of MRI. Strategies to overcome these challenges include hardware and software solutions, alternative data acquisition and reconstruction methods, novel MRI pulse sequences, quantitative imaging methods and associated post-processing tools. Based on more than 20 years of experience in MRI and 6 years of work experience as the on-site Philips Healthcare MR clinical scientist supporting research projects at Vanderbilt University, Dr. Welch acquired deep knowledge of the capabilities of the 3T and 7T human scanners housed at the Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science (VUIIS). Dr. Welch applied that experience and knowledge to his own independent research programs as a Vanderbilt faculty member with contributions in the areas of fat-water MRI, human brown adipose tissue imaging, and continuously moving table MRI. Most recently, Dr. Welch joined the startup company Hyperfine in 2017 as the Director of Clinical Science with the goal of validating the clinical utility of the world’s first portable point-of-care bedside MRI scanner.
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Speaker
E. Brian Welch, Ph.D., M.B.A., Director of Clinical Science, Hyperfine, Guilford, CT

Science on Tap: MGH in the Time of COVID: Mary O’Hara on Assuring a Safe Return to the Lab
2020-05-22 16:00 - 16:30
Mary O’Hara
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BrainMap: Multi-partner consortium to expand dementia research in Latin America (ReDLat)
2020-05-21 12:00 - 13:00
Agustin Ibanez, Director of the Cognitive Neuroscience Center (CNC), Universidad de San Andres, Argentina
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Women in Science Movie Night: Secrets of the Surface: The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani
2020-05-15 19:00 - 21:00
Filmed in Canada, Iran, and the United States, Secrets of the Surface: The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani examines the life and mathematical work of Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian immigrant to the United States who became a superstar in her field. In 2014, she was both the first woman and the first Iranian to be honored by mathematics’ highest prize, the Fields Medal.
Mirzakhani’s contributions are explained in the film by leading mathematicians and illustrated by animated sequences. Her mathematical colleagues from around the world, as well as former teachers, classmates, and students in Iran today, convey the deep impact of her achievements. The path of her education, success on Iran’s Math Olympiad team, and her brilliant work, make Mirzakhani an ideal role model for girls looking toward careers in science and mathematics.
http://www.zalafilms.com/secrets/synopsis.html
We will watch the film together through zoom, however, please register yourself previously here for free:
https://may12.womeninmaths.org/screening-secrets
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/97702717663

Science on Tap: Imaging Fast Haemodynamic Responses with High Spatiotemporal Resolution fMRI
2020-05-15 16:00 - 16:30
Daniel Gomez
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/658603416
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BrainMap: Characterizing Brain Microstructure using Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Toward in-vivo Histology
2020-05-14 12:00 - 13:00
Nikolaus Weiskopf
Department of Neurophysics, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany
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Speaker
Nikolaus Weiskopf

Women in Science Book Club
2020-05-13 17:00 - 18:00
Book club – discussion with the authors, Linda Babcok and Sara Laschever
Book: Women Don’t Ask: The High Cost of Avoiding Negotiation and Positive Strategies for change | Linda Babcock and Sara Laschever.
You can access the book online through your Harvard id here:
https://muse-jhu-edu.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/book/36217/.
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/97706981903

Science on Tap: Monitoring MEG Measurements with MNE Scan
2020-05-08 16:00 - 16:30
Lorenz Esch, PhD candidate TU Ilmenau
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John Samuelsson johnsam@mit.edu

BrainMap: Advanced MRI for in vivo imaging of the effects of inflammation on the CNS
2020-05-07 12:00 - 13:00
Mara Cercignani, Clinical Imaging Sciences Centre, Department of Neuroscience, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
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Mara Cercignani

Science on Tap: Neural Mechanisms Underlying Social Reward-Threat
2020-05-01 16:00 - 16:30
Travis Evans, MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
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Why & How: Development and Applications of Molecular Probes for PET and MRI
2020-04-30 17:00 - 18:00
Changning Wang & Veronica Clavijo Jordan
MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/95325814992
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Science on Tap: Do you find this face attractive? Measuring anhedonia through explicit ratings of facial attractiveness
2020-04-24 16:00 - 16:30
Tracy Barbour, MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
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Why & How Seminar: Development and Applications of Molecular Probes for PET and MRI
2020-04-23 17:00 - 17:30
Changning Wang & Veronica Clavijo Jordan – The Martinos Center
When: Apr 30, 2020 05:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Every week on Thu, until Dec 31, 2020, 36 occurrence(s)
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Topic: Why & How Seminar:
Development and Applications of Molecular Probes for PET and MRI
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BrainMap: Connectomic Brain Stimulation
2020-04-23 12:00 - 13:00
Andreas Horn, PhD, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
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Speaker
Andreas Horn, PhD, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

Science on Tap: In-vivo imaging of neuroinflammation in veterans with Gulf War illness
2020-04-17 16:00 - 16:30
Zeynab Alshelh, PhD, MGH Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
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BrainMap: From water molecules to the mind: Exploring brain function with diffusion MRI
2020-04-16 12:00 - 13:00
Denis Le Bihan, MD, PhD, Founding Director, NeuroSpin, CEA
NeuroSpin, CEA-Saclay Center, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Speaker
Denis Le Bihan, MD, PhD, Founding Director, NeuroSpin, CEA
NeuroSpin, CEA-Saclay Center, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Science on Tap: Ending the paper trail with REDCap: optimized workflows for screening, consenting, and compensating subjects at the Martinos Center (Olivia Rowe)
2020-04-10 16:00 - 16:30
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John Samuelsson johnsam@mit.edu

Martinos on the Front Lines: Redeployment during the COVID-19 pandemic (Matthew Larrabee)
2020-04-09 16:30 - 17:30
Join us @ 4:30 this afternoon as the Center’s Matt Larrabee discusses and takes questions about his experience thus far with his MGH redeployment.
Please register in advance using a Partners or MGH/Martinos email address. Prior to the webinar, you will receive a confirmation email with information about how to join.
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A big thanks to Allison Stevens for the idea and for organizing the webinar.

BrainMap: From Areas and Networks to Individual Predictions (Simon Eickhoff)
2020-04-08 12:00 - 13:00
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Speaker
Simon Eickhoff, Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf, Germany
Abstract
The long predominant paradigm in neuroimaging has been to compare (mean) local volume or activity between groups, or to correlate these to behavioral phenotypes. Such approach, however, is intrinsically limited in terms of possible insight into inter-individual differences and application in clinical practice. Recently, the increasing availability of large cohort data and tools for multivariate statistical learning, allowing the prediction of individual cognitive or clinical phenotypes in new subjects, have started a revolution in imaging neuroscience.
The transformation of systems neuroscience into a big data discipline poses a lot of new challenges, yet the most critical aspects is the still sub-optimal relationship between the extremely wide feature-space from neuroimaging and the comparably low number of subjects. This, however, is only true when approaching neuroimaging machine-learning in a naïve fashion, i.e., when ignoring the large body of existing work on human brain mapping. The regional segregation of the brain into distinct modules as well as the large-scale, distributed networks provide the fundamental organizational principles of the human brain and hence the basis for cognitive information processing. Importantly, both can now be mapped in a highly robust fashion by integrating information on hundreds or even thousands of individual subjects to provide a priori information.
This talk will outline the fundamental principles of topographic organization in the human brain and the robust mapping of functional networks. I will then illustrate, how this knowledge on human brain organization can be leveraged for inference on socio-affective or cognitive traits in previously unseen individual subjects or psychopathology in mental disorders. Providing a bidirectional translation, such application will in turn provide information on the respective brain regions and networks.
Speaker Bio
Simon Eickhoff is a full professor and chair of the Institute for Systems Neuroscience at the Heinrich-Heine University in Düsseldorf and the director of the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-7, Brain and Behavior) at the Forschungszentrum Jülich. He is furthermore a visiting professor at the Chinese Academy of Science Institute of Automation. Workig at the interface between neuroanatomy, data-science and brain medicine, the he aims to obtain a more detailed characterization of the organization of the human brain and its inter-individual variability in order to better understand its changes in advanced age as well as neurological and psychiatric disorders. This goal is pursued by the development and application of novel analysis tools and approaches for large-scale, multi-modal analysis of brain structure, function and connectivity as well as by machine-learning for single subject prediction of cognitive and socio-affective traits and ultimately precision medicine.

Science on Tap: Resting-State Physiological Networks Mimic Functional Networks (Jingyuan Chen)
2020-04-03 16:00 - 16:30
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/658603416
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Upcoming speaker schedule:
Apr 10 – Olivia Rowe

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Martinos Town Hall Meeting
2020-04-02 14:00 - 15:00
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/364286784
Join us for a discussion with:

Bruce Rosen
Bill Shaw
Donna Crowe
Monical Langone
Mary Roy

Science on Tap: Martinos at the Front Lines (Bruce Rosen and Bruce Jenkins)
2020-03-27 16:00 - 16:30
Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/658603416
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Upcoming speaker schedule:
Apr 3 – Jingyuan Chen
Apr 10 – Olivia Rowe

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Maaike van den Boomen mvandenboomen@mgh.harvard.edu
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John Samuelsson johnsam@mit.edu

BrainMap: The Role of Awake Surgery in Studying the Function of Structural Connections
2020-03-25 12:00 - 13:00
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