Extra seminar on Aug 29th, 11.00

Even though the seminar list has not yet been quite finalized, we will have a talk tomorrow to "open the season". This extra seminar is given by Louise Blomkvist, and is a presentation of her recently finished exam work project at Medical physics, Stockholm university.

Title: Optimization of activity administration in myocardial perfusion SPECT

Place and time: Tomorrow Wednesday 29th of August, at 11.00 in the R43 conference room.
All are welcome to participate!

The manager is leaving in December

I have been offered and have accepted a new position as program coordinator at a company named Equalis, which means that I will be leaving Imagelab in just a few months. My official last day of work is Dec 14th, but I have a large amount of saved-up vacation which I graciously have been granted leave to use, which means that I will be gone during the period Oct 26th to Dec 7th.

Even though I am looking forward to new horizons I do regret leaving Imagelab, which has been an exciting workplace with interesting challenges and many friendly and talented people -- I will miss you all, but sometimes in life one needs to move on. I shall do my best to leave behind a tidy lab with no loose ends, in order to make the transition to a new manager as smooth as possible for you all.

Vacation

The manager will be on vacation counting from tomorrow. Back again on July 30th.

Coffee and tea

More coffee and tea has been added to the kitchen, to last over the summer. The tea comes in the form of a sampler with a large variety of flavours. Enjoy!

Dissertation by Julia Miralbell

Julia Miralbell will defend her thesis on Friday 13th of July, at 12.00 noon at the University of Barcelona in  Spain. The title is "Biomarkers of cognitive impairment and dementia". If you wish to read the thesis, please contact the manager who will supply you with a PDF. After the defense the thesis will be listed in the University of Barcelona's publication database, and a link to the thesis will be added to the SMILE webpages.  

Freesurfer in DN

Reading the paper on the train, I stumbled on a short notice (p 31 in DN on June 21st) about how the analysis of brain scans with Freesurfer differ significantly if they have been run on a Mac or a PC. Digging around on the net brought me to this article on PLoS ONE:

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0038234

Summer slow-down

Summer is here, and as a consequence there is less activity in the lab. The seminar series as well as the users' meetings will be on hold until August/September.

We plan for several courses during the autumn, but it is not too late to wish for learning activities. All suggestions are welcome!

Service of freja

Please note that service of freja has been reset to happen every second week instead of once a month. So, every Monday in an odd-numbered week freja wil be restarted.

IP-numbers, continued

Now the printer in the lab has a new IP-number and all machines have been reset to print to that number, so you do not need to worry about printing, it should work as normal. If you have a laptop that needs to be reconfigured, the manager can help you (or do it yourself -- the new number is written on the printer).

Also, az can connect to the web again. However, a restart of the machine could possibly mess that up, in which case the manager can fix the problem (but you should not restart the machine without the managers' permission anyway...)

Now all which needs to be fixed are the connections to the cameras, Sabb etc.

IP-numbers reset

So, the IP-numbers have now been reset in the lab. As stated earlier, please contact the manager if you need them.

As a consequence of the resetting, az can now no longer reach the net. We will try to solve this, alternatively ask Hermes support to help.

The printer IP has not changed however (another department within IT has to do this). We will be advised when this happens, but please tell the manager if the printer should suddenly behave oddly.

Workshop on statistical analysis of neuroimaging data

Information about the next workshop by Rita Almeida:

The next workshop on statistical analysis of neuroimaging data will be held on Wednesday, 30th of May from 9.00 to 12.30.

The first 2 hours will be held at the Tellus room, Dept. of Neuroscience, Retzius Väg 8, KI Solna.
The last part, the tutorial, will take place in the computer room Space, close to the library at the Solna Campus.

I will talk about methods used to study  connectivity using functional brain imaging data, with focus on fMRI. The workshop is organized as follows:

9.00-9.45 and 10.00-10.45: "Analysis of connectivity using functional brain imaging data" - in these two seminars I will review methods to study functional and effective connectivity from functional brain imaging data, with focus on fMRI.

11.00 - 12.30: Tutorial.

Please do register by sending the manager an email if you are planning to attend the workshop. In particular, it is helpful to know if you are following the tutorial.

Brain 101 cancelled

The lecture tomorrow by Lars-Olof Wahlund has had to be cancelled on short notice. We will however return in the early autumn (September?) with a broader program on the same theme.

No Linux course tomorrow

Due to the low number of participants, the Linux mini-course tomorrow (May 22nd) has been canceled. The next opportunity for learning more about Linux will take place in the autumn.

The 15-net is being closed down

On Monday 28th of May all IP numbers at SMILE will be changed, due to a policy decision by the hospital about the use and function of each number net. We will be given the new numbers shortly.

Please contact the manager ASAP if the IP number change will conflict with any activities you are planning to perform on the computers. Please also contact me if you need the new IP numbers for connecting remotely after next Monday.

Carlos and I will during next week work on re-setting SMILE's external connections to the MR cameras etc.

  

Dissertation by Olof Lindberg

Olof Lindberg will defend his thesis on Tuesday 19th of June, at 11.30 in the lecture room Hörsalen on floor 4, Novum, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge. The title is "The aging frontal lobe in health and disease: a structural magnetic resonance imaging study", and you can read the thesis at

http://hdl.handle.net/10616/40977