New seminar on the seminar list

I've added one more seminar to the academic meeting series list. Make room also for

Thursday 11th of November:
Love Nordin (PhD student at Department of Clinical Sciences, Danderyd Hospital): Detection of drug related cortical responses and pathophysiological mechanisms by using arterial spin labelling MRI techniques

ARC lecture

Anna Rieckmann invites you all to the lecture on Thursday, the 30th September, 10.00 - 12.00 by Dr. Marco Catani entitled "Defining the anatomical complexity of human networks" at the Aging Research Center (Gävlegatan 16). She thinks that this lecture may be of interest to many SMILE members!

neuGRID user test meeting, Brescia

Four of the lab's users (+ our previous guest Julia Miralbell) helped out with the second round of grid testing in Brescia during September 6-8. More functionalities had been implemented, and our users contributed with valuable feedback on the look and feel of the neuGRID user interface.

User meetings

The remaining user meetings during the autumn will take place on:

Tuesday 12/10
Tuesday 16/11
Tuesday 7/12

Autumn academic seminars

Here is the list of the seminars planned (so far!) in the autumn's academic meeting series.

Thursday 7th of October:
Eric Westman (PhD at Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Division of Clinical geriatrics, Karolinska Institute): A report from ICAD 2010

Thursday 14th of October:
Daniel Ferreira Padilla (PhD student at Psychobiology and Methodology Department, Faculty of Psychology, University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain): Image analysis under FreeSurfer: NGF dataset as test images

Thursday 28th of October:
Gabriela Spulber (PhD student at Institute of Clinical Medicine/neurology at University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio and Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Division of Clinical geriatrics, Karolinska Institute): TBD

Thursday 18th of November:
Tracing students (Linnea Engström, CH Ehrenkrona, Nathalie Thomé, Jenny Åström, all undergraduate students at Karolinska Institute): Manual tracing of the hippocampus, the anterior cingulate cortex and the entorhinal cortex

Thursday 25th of November:
Michael Schöll (PhD student at Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Division of Alzheimer Neurobiology, Karolinska Institute): Application of PET in Alzheimer's disease

Thursday 16th of December:
Martin Uppman (PhD student at Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and technology at Karolinska Institute, Stockholm): Integrating EEG and MRI

Starter Kit

I have produced a SMILE Starter Kit for all new users and anyone who feel they would like to brush up on how the lab works. It details among other things the various computer systems and softwares we have available here, our meeting series, the data policy, how to gain access to the emailing list and much more. Please ask the manager for your own personal copy!

Call for exam work projects

If you have a suitable project for a master student's thesis work, please contact me as there have been requests for exam works coming in (and no doubt more will come in the coming months). I will add your project to the SMILE web page listing exam work projects -- http://www.smile.ki.se/education/exam_en.html -- and also put you in contact with students asking for projects.

Posters

If you have produced expensive posters with no other place to put them after the event than rolled-up in a corner -- remember that you are always welcome to bring them to SMILE, where we will be happy to display them on our walls!

Visitors and a new co-worker

We have at the moment two visitors at the lab:

• Daniel Ferreira Padilla, PhD student at Psychobiology and Methodology Department, Faculty of Psychology, University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain, from August 2nd to November 1st. He is working together with Gabriela Spulber in Lars-Olof Wahlund's group.
• Stefania Geraci from Department of electronics, informatics and system science at University of Bologna, Italy, from August to January 2011. She is performing her master's thesis work (Reduction of pulse artefact in EEG data recordings at 3T) with Tie Qiang Li as supervisor.

We also welcome Carlos Aguilar Palomeque who will be working part-time in the lab for six months, mainly helping out with the computers.

Long hiatus

There has been a long break in the blog entries, due to large workload. Hopefully I will have time to update a little more often during the autumn! To compensate, I will now make several entries at once about recent and upcoming events.

neuGRID users' mailing list

Though neuGRID is still not fully operational, you may be interested in joining an emailing list for neuGRID users. In that case, please contact the manager!

More news about the power cut

I have found out that the power cut will affect the card reader, so that it will not be possible to enter SMILE (the door will not work) during 07-12 on Monday 23rd of August. At the latest after lunch everything should be back to normal again!

Autumn Statistica courses

The Statistica catalogue sent to me gives a list of the Statistica Stockholm course dates for autumn:

STATISTICA BLOCK 1: 12-13 October, KS, Huddinge

and 9-10 November, KS, Solna

STATISTICA BLOCK 2: 11-12 November, KS, Solna

STATISTICA BLOCK 3: 1-2 December, KS, Solna

Interested? Read more about the Statistica courses at http://statsoft.se/utbildningar (only in Swedish: contact me if you need translation).

Prolonged power cut at R43

Due to the ongoing rebuilding of the power stations at the hospital, the power will be turned off at the R43 corridor on Monday 23rd of August from 07.00 to 12.00, when a new power station is installed for our location. All sockets with white labels will be powerless, but greenmarked sockets will still have power. The sockets at SMILE are all green (except for the ones by the white bench out in the corridor), but the internet connection will perhaps not work and there may be other hiccups during the day.

Matlab courses

The Mathworks offer courses in fundamental use of the software, programming techniques and more. See above for a list of courses, dates and prices (click on the image for a larger view). The manager can help you sign up for a course if you are interested!