Vacation

The manager will be gone on vacation during June 1-8, back on the 9th. Sorry for the short notice, but the manager is currently at home with a cold. (Therefore the manager will go on vacation with a horrible runny nose and persistent cough...)

MR basics, again

There will be one more MR basics lecture by Love Nordin. It will be given on Tuesday 31st of May at 14.30 in the R43 conference room, and it is already almost full. There are still a few seats left -- in case of interest, contact me!

New seminar

As previously announced, Tomas Jonsson will give a seminar. This will take place on June 14th at 11.00 in the R43 conference room and has the title News from the 2011 ISMRM conference . All are welcome!

Cancelled seminar

Virginija Karrenbauer has unfortunately needed to cancel her talk which should have taken place today at 11. We hope to see Virginija here during the autumn instead.

Even though there is no seminar today, the seminar series is not yet over for the summer. We will have a seminar next week (by Lena Cavallin, I will send a reminder later), and also an extra seminar by Tomas Jonsson on the news from the ISMRM conference, on a date to be decided.

The Hermes situation

(See the previous entry about Hermes first).

At the board meeting it was decided to keep the HERMES computers and not to remove HERMES. Users can use those computers and can ask the manager to install other softwares on them if they want to.

neuGRID introduction on Wednesday 18th of May

I realize I have forgotten to put up information about the neuGRID introduction on Wednesday 18th of May here on the blog!

neuGRID supplies the individual researcher with powerful computational resources, sophisticated algorithms with which to process brain images, and database access -- all within easy reach from the personal laptop (you can read more about neuGRID on our dedicated neuGRID web page).

The neuGRID event will take place on the 18th of May at 13-16 in the X-ray department's library in Huddinge (C2-42). All are welcome!

We will cover the following aspects:

• What is neuGRID? (13-14)
  
  
  
  • What is a grid?
    
  • How to create a certificate
    
  • Overview of the functionalities inside neuGRID
    
  
  
• The LONI pipeline tool (14-15)
  
  
• Creating scripts with gLite (15-16)
  

Autumn's users' meetings

I know it's early, but here are the dates for the users' meetings during the autumn: 6/9, 4/10, 1/11 and 6/12.

Cancelled users' meeting

The June users' meeting has been cancelled. We will next meet on September 6th.

Moved users' meetings

The May meeting has been moved from 3rd of May to 5th of May (due to the lectures on the 3rd).

MRI and PET lectures at Novum on May 3rd

The division of Alzheimer Neurobiology Center are arranging the PhD course "Application of molecular biology and molecular brain imaging techniques in neurodegenerative disorders" from 2nd May – 12th May, 2011.

On May 3rd there will be two public talks:

9:00-10:45

"Introduction of MRI imaging technique and application in
neuro-degenerative diseases".

Elna-Marie Larsson, professor, överläkare
BFC/Röntgen
Akademiska Hospitqal, Uppsala


11:00-12.15

"Development of PET tracers and use of PET in neurodegenerative diseases".

Bengt Långström, Professor
Uppsala University,
Department of Biochemistry and Organic Chemistry
Faculty of Technology and Science, Uppsala, SWEDEN

Place: Seminar room in Geriatric-lab, Novum 4th floor

Kuopio workshops

Two workshops are organized in Kuopio on June 13-15:

14th Bio-NMR Workshop (MRI of stroke, epilepsy
and neurodegenerative diseases)

PredictAD workshop

Venue: University of Eastern Finland, Mediteknia Auditorium, Kuopio, Finland.

Organizers: Biomedical Imaging Unit, A.I. Virtanen Institute for
Molecular Sciences, Graduate School of Molecular Medicine, and
Institute of Clinical Medicine, Neurology, University of Eastern Finland

These workshops will cover topics from basic principles of MRI
techniques to applications in studies of neurodegenerative diseases
and finally to clinical studies. The aim is to bring together
international renowned faculty of MRI researchers from both
experimental and clinical research environment.

Please, register by May 31, 2011. (Deadline for Abstracts is May 15, 2011.)

New seminar on 19th of May

We will have an extra seminar in the academic meeting series on Thursday 19th of May, at 11.00 in the R43 conference room.

Virginija Karrenbauer (PhD student at Department of clinical neuroscience at Karolinska Institutet) and collaborators:

Comparison of MRI lesion location in multiple sclerosis patients with and without oligoclonal bands in the cerebrospinal fluid

All are welcome!

Change of title

Tomorrow's seminar by Xiaozhen Li has a new title:

"Pre-processing of resting-state fMRI".

ISMRM 2011

The ISMRM meeting will this year be held on May 7-13 in Montreal, Canada. Participants going from the lab include Tomas Jonsson, Love Nordin and Martin Uppman. We hope to hear a report from them when they get back on their impressions of what's new!

Goodbye to Ariadna

Ariadna is on her way back to Spain after her two month stay here at SMILE. We will therefore all go out to dinner tomorrow Wednesday, at 19.30 at the Vapiano by Stureplan. All are welcome!