TRIUMPH at MDACC or UT Medical School 

TRIUMPH (Translational Research in Multi-Disciplinary Program) Post-docs  is a new post-doctoral program ( http://www.mdanderson.org/prof_education/triumph) that will provide training in clinical and translational research.  The immediate goal of this program is to recruit talented, productive, well trained PhDs and train them through didactic course work as well as clinical rotations and a unique mentorship to pursue clinical and/or translational research.  A long term goal of this program is to produce scientists who can be paired with suitable physician scientists to co-PI a research laboratory.  This is a 3 year training program where  the post-docs will take a series of didactic clinical course work offered at either Graduate School for Biomedical Sciences (GSBS), MDACC or UT Medical School, participate in 5 different clinical rotations, while pursuing research in a translational research laboratory.   The expectation for the post-docs is that by the end of their 3 year training, they will have become fluent in the understanding of intricacies of translational research and have published in high tier journals. This program will also award a certificate from the University of Texas, GSBS.  The eligibility requirements include the following 1) Ph.D. from a top US graduate school programs in any of the life sciences, 2) high tier publications and 3) dedication to pursue cancer research.

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Cheers

Khandan

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Khandan Keyomarsi, PhD
Hubert L. and Olive Stringer Professor in Medical Oncology
Department of Experimental Radiation Oncology
Unit 66
University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center
1515 Holcombe Blvd
Houston, Texas 77030

713-792-4845
713-794-5369 (FAX)
kkeyomar@mdanderson.org
http://www.esi-topics.com/breast-cancer/interviews/dr-khandan-keyomarsi.html
http://gsbs.uth.tmc.edu/tutorial/keyomarsi.html
http://www.mdanderson.org/prof_education/triumph

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF CLINICAL NEUROANATOMY

May 25-27, 2011

Palermo, Sicily

We're pleased to invite you to attend to the first meeting of the INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF CLINICAL NEUROANATOMY to be held May 25-27, 2011 in Palermo, Sicily.
The meeting is dedicated to the clinical neuroanatomy of the Frontal Lobes.

Keynote speakers include Donald Stuss, Michael Petrides, Geraint Rees, Michael Kopelman, Mark Richardson and Marco Catani

Topics cover comparative anatomy, cytoarchitectonic maps, connectional anatomy, executive functions, intra-operative mapping, consciousness, fronto-temporal dementia, motor neuron disease, traumatic brain injury, memory and confabulation, neuropsychological testing, virtual tractography dissections and epilepsy.

A hands-on workshop on diffusion tensor imaging tractography will be run in parallel.

Deadline for registration and abstract submission is 15 April 2011.

For further information please visit our website http://www.isocn.eu

We look forward to seeing you in Sicily!

On behalf of the program committee.

Michel 

Michel Thiebaut de Schotten, PhD
NATBRAINLAB
ANR-CAFORPFC/ANR-HMTC
CRICM-INSERM UMRS 975
Pavillon de l'Enfance et l'Adolescence
47 Bd de l'Hôpital
75651 Paris Cedex 13, France

http://www.isocn.com
http://www.natbrainlab.com

Lesion analysis workshop

27th of May 2011

Tuebingen, Germany

The workshop will provide an overview on the background, rationale and methods of modern lesion analysis as well as a demonstration of their practical application. At the end of the workshop, participants should be able to independently conduct modern lesion analyses.

Further information including program and registration form can be found on:
Lesion Analysis Workshop 

Universitätsklinikum Tübingen

Neurologische Klinik
Zentrum für Neurologie
Neurologische Klinik und Hertie-Institut für klinische Hirnforschung
 

Lesion Analysis Workshop Theory and practical application of modern statistical lesion analysis

Modern lesion analysis - general rationale and background (Hans-Otto Karnath)
Normalisation of MRI images in stroke patients (Bianca de Haan)
Statistical procedures in modern lesion analysis (Bianca de Haan)
Application of modern lesion analyses techniques to scientific questions (Hans-Otto Karnath)
Practical demonstration of normalisation and statistical lesion analysis in SPM and MRIcron (Bianca de Haan)

2011 FSL & FreeSurfer Course

June 20-24
Montreal, Canada

We are pleased to announce the 2011 FSL & FreeSurfer Course, to be held in 
Montreal, Canada. It will run immediately before the Human Brain Mapping 
conference, which will be in Quebec City, a short plane/train/road journey from 
Montreal.

The intensive course covers both the theory and practice of functional and 
structural brain image analysis. Background concepts and the practicalities of 
analyses are taught in detailed lectures; these are interleaved with hands-on 
practical sessions where attendees learn how to carry out analysis for 
themselves on real data, with one computer provided for every two attendees. 
After completing the course, attendees should be able to analyse their own FMRI 
and MRI data sets.

The course lasts 5 days, from June 20-24.

  Numbers of attendees are strictly limited and are available on a 
first-come-first-served basis.

For full information and to register for the course, please go to:

http://www.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fslcourse/montreal2011.html

Regards, course organisers.

POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN FMRI LABORATORY
Center for Cognitive Neuroscience of Duke University
Postdoctoral position available in the laboratory of Roberto Cabeza
(www.cabezalab.org) at the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience of Duke
University (www.mind.duke.edu). fMRI scanning is conducted at the
nearby Brain Imaging and Analysis Center (www.biac.duke.edu). Research
will focus on the neural mechanisms of memory (e.g., relational
memory, emotional memory, memory development). Within this general
topic, the postdoctoral researcher will design her/his own studies.
The position includes RA support and collaborations with graduate
students and faculty at CCN and BIAC. The ideal candidate will have
several of the following qualifications: (1) background in episodic
memory research; (2) experience in fMRI methods; (3) programming
skills; (4) expertise in statistics; and (5) a promising publication
record. Send a statement of research interests and a CV to
cabeza@duke.edu. Please enter "Postdoctoral Position" as the subject
of the e-mail.

9th Neuroanatomy and Tractography workshop
London (Institute of Psychiatry)
23-24-25 March 2011

Dear all,

The 9th Neuroanatomy and Tractography workshop will be held in London (Institute of Psychiatry) on the 23-24-25 March 2011. This workshop intends to help scientists to develop and optimise strategies for DTI datasets analysis and tractography. The number of participants is limited to 12 for allowing 1:1 tutoring. 
The participants will be able to work on their own datasets and receive advice from the members of the Natbrainlab (http://www.natbrainlab.com). 
This is also an opportunity to familiarise with fundaments of white matter anatomy and brain hodology.

Wednesday 23th March VISUALIZATION OF WHITE MATTER CONNECTIONS 
09:30 - 10:00 Registration
10:00 - 10:30 Brain Hodology: From post mortem dissections to diffusion MRI (M Catani)
10:30 - 11:30 Introduction to Diffusion Tensor MRI (F Dell'Acqua)
11:30 - 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 - 12:45 Diffusion Tensor Tractography (F Dell'Acqua)
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:15 DTI data formats: Management and pre-processing (M Thiebaut de Schotten)
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 - 17:00 Tractography with TrackVis (M Thiebaut de Schotten)

Thursday 24th March VIRTUAL IN VIVO DISSECTIONS 
09:30 - 10:00 Classification of white matter connections (M Catani)
10:00 - 11:00 Association Pathways 1 (M Catani)
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:30 Association Pathways 2 (S Budisavljevic)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:15 Commissural Pathways (S Forkel)
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 - 17:00 Projections Pathways (S Forkel)

Friday 25th March DTI TRACTOGRAPHY: CURRENT APPLICATIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS 
09:30 - 10:30 Beyond the limitations of tensor modeling (F Dell'Acqua)
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break
10:40 - 11:30 Studying Normal Anatomy with DTI Tractography (M Catani)
11:30 - 12:30 Applications to Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders (M Catani)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 - 15:15 Supervised Dissection 1
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 - 16:30 Supervised Dissection 2
16:30 -17:00 Conclusions & Take Home Messages (M Catani)


Michel Thiebaut de Schotten, PhD
NATBRAINLABANR-CAFORPFC/ANR-HMTC
CRICM-INSERM UMRS 975
Pavillon de l'Enfance et l'Adolescence
47 Bd de l'Hôpital
75651 Paris Cedex 13, France
www.natbrainlab.com
skype: michel_thiebaut_de_schotten
+33 613579133