Dissertation by Juha Martola

Juha Martola will defend his thesis on Friday 28th of May, at 11.00 in the C1-87 lecture room. The title is "Brain volume reduction over four decades in multiple sclerosis" and you can read the thesis abstract at http://diss.kib.ki.se/2010/978-91-7409-815-0/


All are welcome!

Peter Aspelin on television

Peter Aspelin will be featured on Kunskapskanalen and give a lecture entitled "En tredimensionell resa genom kroppen", as part of the Karolinska Institute 200-year jubilee.

The show is in Swedish and will be aired twice:

Thursday May 27th 16.20-17.25
Saturday May 29th 12.35-13.35

Working on obelix is full

The working directory on obelix is much too full. It needs to be emptied in time for summer, when many students will produce a lot of ROI:s... If you have unsaved data in the obelix working directory, please take care of it before the end of next week! (Contact me if this is not possible for some reason). We will then remove all files from obelix working.

The fan

Sometimes people turn off the fan inside the lab (I do understand you, the noise results in poor working conditions). You really shouldn't though, since the computers will last longer if properly cooled.

However, if you do turn off the fan, turn the fan back on when leaving the lab! This will be especially important when summer approaches...

Data contract

As you may have seen or heard at the users' meetings, we will now start to implement the Data contract at SMILE. It is a simple contract which the board would like all SMILE users to sign, regulating (obivous) data protection issues such as never downloading illegal material to the SMILE computers or giving out one's password, as well as clearly stating that data will not be kept at SMILE indefinitely and that each user ultimately is responsible for data backup, among other things.

Please come by SMILE at your leisure to sign such a contract.

Extra academic meeting

One of the exam workers has been very quick in finishing his project and will give a presentation of his master thesis in Medical imaging at an extra academic meeting.

Thursday 3rd of June at 11.00 in the R43 conference room:
Carlos Aguilar Palomeque -- "Machine learning algorithm for studies in Alzheimer’s disease"

All are welcome!

neuGRID Best Demo

At the EGEE Forum in Uppsala, a competition was held among the participating posters/demos. The first prize went to neuGRID who by far outclassed all other participants!


Picture proof enclosed, from the aula at Uppsala University.

A reminder about bibliometry

Don't forget to verify your publications in the KI webcatalogue -- it is now also possible to do it for those of you with affiliations at SLL. In the future, funding will be distributed more according to the bibliometry. This is why it is so important that you always acknowledge SMILE in your papers...! See instructions here: http://www.smile.ki.se/publ/credit_en.html

You can go to a half-hour seminar on how to verify your publications, either on 11th of May or on 20th of May, both days at 14.30-15.00 in Birkeaulan.

Hermes -> valhall

The red SMILE binder in the lab has been updated with instructions on how to transfer data between the Hermes and the valhall system.

Exam work projects

During the spring we will have three exam workers doing projects in connection with SMILE. You can read more about what they will be doing at the new Exam work project page on the SMILE website! Here is the link: http://www.smile.ki.se/education/exam_en.html. In particular, Victor Alvarez Barrientos will also be helping out with the GSK medical study project.

Valborg lunch cancelled

Due to a combination of unfortunate events, the Valborg lunch outing to Uppsala has had to be cancelled. Hopefully we will manage to organize another event at a later point!

Jeffrey Looi in the lab

Today Professor Jeffrey Looi arrived at SMILE for a working visit of a week and a half. Welcome Jeffrey!

Looi talk moved forward

Due to a change in schedule, Prof. Looi has had to move his talk "Shape analysis of the neostriatum in frontotemporal lobar degeneration, Alzheimer's disease and controls" forward one day.

The talk will now take place on Wednesday the 28th at 11.00 in the R43 conference room. All are welcome!

Course in Imagelab on 4th of May

On the 4th of May, Gabi and Eric will be conducting an MR-imaging exercise as part of the course "Application of molecular biology and molecular brain imaging techniques in neurodegenerative disorders". This course is part of the postgraduate course programme The Neurosciences given by the Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society. The exercise will take part between 10-12 that day, so expect the Imagelab to be quite full then!

Valborg lunch, Uppsala

All SMILE users are invited to a Valborg traditional herring lunch in Uppsala! You will have to pay for the transport to Uppsala yourself, but the lunch is courtsey Lars-Olof Wahlund. Please tell me at the latest on Wednesday 21st of April if you wish to come! I will then send more details on how to get there etc...