4th Scientific Symposium on Clinical Needs, Research Promises and Technical Solutions in Ultrahigh Field Magnetic Resonance

  

we are very much delighted to announce the 4^th Scientific Symposium on Clinical Needs, Research Promises and Technical Solutions in Ultrahigh Field Magnetic Resonance, which will be held on Friday, May 31^st 2013  in Berlin, Germany. Please save the date.

Goals and ObjectivesThe symposium is designed to provide an overview of state-of-the-art (pre)clinical ultrahigh field (UHF) MR, to discuss the clinical relevance of UHF MR, to explore future directions of UHF MR, to foster explorations into ultrahigh field MR and to initiate local, regional, national and international collaboration. The symposium is designed to attract basic scientists, clinicians with all levels of experience and expertise ranging from students interested in imaging to advanced users and applications experts.

Scientific ProgramThe scientific program comprises 4 sessions, all balancing technical developments and clinical applications. We are very much honored to present extraordinary (inter)national speakers including MR technology leaders and distinguished clinical experts, all bridging disciplinary boundaries and stimulating the imaging community to throw further weight behind the solution of unsolved problems and unmet clinical needs.

Poster SessionThe scientific program will be paralleled by a poster session. We wish to encourage those of you who are prepared to walk the extra mileage. The best posters will be rewarded with a poster award. We are eagerly looking forward to your poster contributions.

Technical Exhibition and Social EventThe symposium will be supplemented by a technical exhibition, by an open day of the Berlin Ultrahigh Field Facility (B.U.F.F.) as well as a social event.

Pre-Symposium Workshop on RF Coil DesignThis year's symposium will be preceded by a workshop on RF coils: design, build and characterize your own. This workshop is part of the Lectures of MRI series of the European Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology (ESMRMB). The RF coil workshop provides an overview of designing, constructing and testing RF coils for both animal and human scanners. Practical sessions will cover approximately ~50% of the course, in which participants will learn to build and characterize surface coils and volume resonators of their particular interests. The hands-on course is designed for basic scientists and engineers but also invites clinicians, radiographers, applications specialists and other MR users interested in gaining a better insight into RF coil technology.

Professional Child CareOn a special note; many of us know first-hand how challenging it can be to balance the needs of our families with the mission to advance science. To this end we are very pleased to offer professional child care for the course of the symposium and the social event. Please do not hesitate to contact us so that we can provide further details.

We warmly invite you to join us for the 4^th Annual Scientific Symposium on Ultrahigh Field MR in Berlin on May 31^st2013. Please save the date. A visit to Berlin is always worth it. Alongside MR science, Berlin has numerous historical landmarks, cultural highlights and sport events to offer. Be Berlin.

Thoralf Niendorf                   Jeanette Schulz-Menger          Bernd Ittertmann MDC & Charité                     Charité & Helios Clinic                    PTB
     Berlin                                      Berlin                                Berlin

SCMR-ISMRM Joint Workshop: New Horizons in Highfield Cardiovascular MR: Promise and Progress

  

  

Dear all,

On behalf of the organizing committee, the Society of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance (SCMR) and the Cardiac MR and Highfield MR study groups of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (ISMRM) we would like to draw your attention to the upcoming SCMR-ISMRM Joint Workshop on

New Horizons in Highfield (B₀≥3.0 Tesla) Cardiovascular MR: Promise and Progress

which will be held on January 30^th/31^st 2013 at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square, San Francisco, USA.

Opportunities for presenting your work during the scientific sessions!The workshops program balances invited talks with numerous oral abstract presentations as outlined in the attached agenda. For further details please see the PDF attachment or please visitwww.scmr.org.

Abstract submission site still open!Please be advised that the abstract submission site (http://scmr2013.abstractcentral.com/)

will be open throughout November 21^st 11.59 p.m. EST.

Bridging Clinical Science and Basic ResearchThe purpose of the workshop is to connect cardiologists, radiologists, physicians, clinical scientists, basic researchers, MR engineers or physicists, cardiac MR applications specialists and MR technicians, bioengineers, physiologists and all fields related to theses disciplines with a focus on highfield MR techniques and methodology and their capabilities for advancing cardiac MR. The workshop is designed to provide a forum for disseminating information related to state-of-the-art highfield and ultrahigh field MR techniques regarding cardiovascular function, myocardial perfusion, MR angiography and flow in humans and small animals. The interdisciplinary and international faculty and audience will ensure that technologies and methodologies are communicated and shared for the purpose of advancing science and improving patient care while balancing technology developments with clinical applications and future directions.

Educational ObjectivesUpon completing this workshop, participants should be able to:

• Explain the basics of highfield cardiac MR; and identify, discuss and compare novel developments of highfield cardiac MR
• Examine and select methods used for assessment of myocardial perfusion and viability, for functional and microstructural imaging of the heart, for myocardial tissue characterization and for MR angiography and vessel wall imaging together with new dimensions in flow imaging flow at high fields
• Describe and explain challenges and differences of methods used for CMR at higher fields versus the counterparts used a lower magnetic field strengths
• Identify and summarize progress and promises of highfield CMR in small animals
• Recognize, describe and select opportunities of emerging highfield CMR technologies including early explorations into ultrahigh field CMR and real time imaging of the heart
• Discuss, practice and disseminate clinical applications of highfield CMR

We are looking forward to meet you in San Francisco,

Thoralf Niendorf, Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular in Medicine, Berlin. GermanyDebiao Li, University of California Los Angeles and Cedars Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles, USAPeter Kellman, Laboratory of Cardiac Energetics, NHLBI, Bethesda, USA

2012 MICCAI Grand Challenge and Workshop on Multi-Atlas Labeling

  

 

Acropolis Convention and Exhibition Centre, Nice France            October 5th, 2012 - AM Session

Website: https://masi.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/workshop2012/                      Paper submission deadline: June 12th, 2012

CALL FOR PAPERS

Multi-atlas techniques are becoming increasingly integral to numerous medical image computing approaches and are now expanding into for diverse anatomical regions. The proposed workshop will present a forum to discuss recent advances in multi-atlas techniques. The discussion will focus on new methods/applications of multi-atlas labeling and comparative evaluations of methods on a newly public, manually labeled dataset. First, we will host a discussion on methods, theory, and applications in which traditional MICCAI format papers will be solicited. Second, we will host a challenge on whole-brain labeling which will provide an opportunity to characterize multiple labels, inter-label relationships, and heterogeneous structures (sponsored by NeuroMorphometrics). Submissions will be encouraged using a limited 3-4 page format.

WORKSHOP TOPICS

* Full-length papers are invited in (but not limited to) the following areas:

* Multi-atlas registration

* Statistical methods for label fusion

* Theory and applications with discrete, continuous, or non-traditional label types

* Manifolds theory and applications for voxel, volume, surface, or non-traditional multi-atlas representations

* Atlas design, selection, and exclusion

* Multi-atlas informed and augmented approaches, including shape modeling

* Applications of multi-atlas methods for segmentation and labeling

* Visualization and hypothesis exploration approaches using multi-atlases

Manuscripts may not be accepted at the main conference or submitted to any other MICCAI 2012 workshop.

ORGANIZERS

Bennett Landman, Vanderbilt University

Simon Warfield, Harvard Medical School

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Paul Aljabar, Imperial College London; Dzung Pham, Henry M. Jackson Foundation; Hakmook Kang, Vanderbilt University; Arno Klein, Columbia University; Torsten Rohlfing, Stanford University; Dinggang Shen UNC Chapel Hill; T. Robin Langerak, Utrecht University ; Paul Thompson, UCLA; Paul Yushkevich, UPENN

IMPORTANT DATES

Technical Manuscripts Due (Extended MICCAI Format) - 6/12/2012

Challenge Testing Procedure Available - 6/1/2012-6/8/2012

Challenge Manuscripts Due (Abbreviated MICCAI Format) - 6/12/2012

We look forward to seeing you in Nice!

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Bennett Landman, Ph.D., bennett.landman@vanderbilt.edu

Assistant Professor

     Department of Electrical Engineering (primary)

     Department of Biomedical Engineering

     Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences

     Vanderbilt University, School of Engineering

Director of the Center for Computational Imaging

     Vanderbilt University Institute of Image Science

INDI SUMMER OF SHARING 2012

   

 

THE INTERNATIONAL NEUROIMAGING DATA-SHARING INITIATIVE (INDI) SUMMER OF SHARING 2012

 http://fcon_1000.projects.nitrc.org/

 

Open science initiatives are transforming the neuroimaging community.  Researchers who once struggled to obtain 20-30 datasets now have unrestricted access to thousands of scans, including data obtained from developing, aging and clinical populations.  Equally important, the sharing of data analysis scripts and code is becoming increasingly common, thereby enhancing the dissemination of knowledge and capabilities among laboratories – as well as facilitating replication efforts. Although exciting, we are only at the beginning. The success of open science initiatives remains dependent upon continued community participation.

 

Against this background, the International Neuroimaging Data-sharing Initiative (INDI) is pleased to announce the launch of its 2012 Summer of Sharing – an effort dedicated to the sustenance and acceleration of data and analytic resource sharing among imaging community members.  In order to accomplish its goal the INDI Summer of Sharing initiative is requesting pledges for the contribution of:

 

1) DATA: Resting state fMRI and/or diffusion data employed in published studies, along with any available meta-data you’d like to share (See INDI Retro for previously shared datasets; examples include Kelly C. et al., 2011 Bio Psych, Keller C. et al., 2011 PNAS, and Power J. et al., 2012 Neuroimage).

2) ANALYTIC RESOURCES:  Python, Matlab, BASH, C/C++ - we’re not choosy! INDI is actively promoting the sharing of analytic scripts and codes employed in published and/or ongoing studies through NITRC and GitHub – if you post them, we’ll help to make sure you’re recognized for it.

3) OPEN SCIENCE EVENTS: Just provide us the information and we’ll help to get the word out!

4) MISCELLANEOUS RESOURCES: Atlases, parcellation schemes, reference resources, etc. – everyone can benefit from them.

 

We are actively asking investigators around the world to get involved in the sharing process. Already, the following resources are scheduled for sharing this summer:

1) The Autism Brain Imaging Data Exchange (ABIDE): a global, multisite consortium of laboratories dedicated to the study of autism that will release an aggregate dataset that is expected to consist of nearly 500 individuals with autism, and their matched typically developing controls.

2) The Enhanced NKI Rockland Sample: a recently launched large-scale, R-fMRI and DTI cross-sectional, community ascertained sample of individuals between 6 and 85 years of age, accompanied by a deep phenotypic protocol that broadly samples psychiatrically relevant behavioral domains.

3) Brainhack: a Neuro-Bureau resource (http://brainhack.org/) that points to collaborative projects in the field; the resource will be complemented by the Brainhack 2012 Unconference – a workshop that will blend the “unconference” and “hackathon” concepts to create a unique collaborative experience for participants interested in advancing analytic techniques and resources for functional and structural imaging.

4) The Configurable Pipeline for the Analysis of Connectomes (C-PAC): Building on the success of the release of the 1000 Functional Connectomes Project analysis scripts, the INDI team will be releasing a plug-and-play Nipype-based pipeline package that is easily configurable to accomplish a broad array of resting-state fMRI analyses.

5) DPARSF and REST: With the new releases of MATLAB-based user-friendly pipelines of Data Processing Assistant for Resting-State fMRI (DPARSF 2.2) and Resting-State fMRI Data Analysis Toolkit (REST 1.8) (www.restfmri.net), users can acquire resting-state fMRI measures efficiently (by parallel computing) and conveniently (by GUI or command line).

6) Power et al. 2011 (Neuron): The authors are now sharing the summary community assignments from their work on fcMRI networks (http://sumsdb.wustl.edu/sums/directory.do?id=8293343&dir_name=power_Neuron11), and will release a suite of scripts through NITRC this summer, so that others can replicate these analyses and carry out related work. Additionally, later this summer, the dataset used for this work will be released through INDI.

7) The Child Mind Institute (CMI) Librarian Initiative: Comprehensive hand-vetted and sorted reference libraries for various literatures, including Resting State fMRI and Diffusion Tensor Imaging are now available via Mendeley, with monthly updates scheduled (http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/cmi-librarian/).

 

It is our hope that this list is just the beginning. We will follow with updates throughout the summer months. The success of open science depends on all of us – so get involved, and Share That Brain!

 

Contact us at INDI_SummerOfSharing@childmind.org to make a pledge or learn more about how to get involved.

 

The International Neuroimaging Data-sharing Initiative (INDI) is now sponsored by the Child Mind Institute (http://childmind.org).

Third International Workshop on Polarized Carbon-13 and its Application in Metabolic Imaging

    
   
We are pleased to inform you that the Department of Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania, School of Medicine will be hosting the Third International Workshop on Polarized Carbon-13 and its Application in Metabolic Imaging. The workshop is scheduled from July 25 through July 27, 2012 and will be held in the BRB II/III auditorium at the University of Pennsylvania.  

This is a three day workshop and sessions are aimed at providing faculty members, post-docs, fellows, and graduate students the opportunity to learn more about state-of-the-art metabolic and molecular imaging techniques and how they can be used to obtain real-time information for fundamental studies of metabolism and extended application to disease management.

Please share this information with your faculty, colleagues and trainees.  

For information on how to register and send abstracts, please look at:     

http://www.med.upenn.edu/fmig/workshop2012.html

Rahim R. Rizi, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Radiology

NMR in Biology at the IUBMB - FEBS Congress, Sevilla, Spain

Dear colleague,

I call your attention on the 22nd IUBMB - 37th FEBS Congress that will be held in Sevilla (Spain) from September 4th - 9th, 2012

http://www.iubmb-febs-2012.org/IUBMBFEBS2012

As part of the activities of BioNMR (http://www.bio-nmr.net) a satellite event will be organized on September 7th 2012 in the same venue of the main 22nd IUBMB - 37th FEBS Congress, well integrated in the conference program:

NMR in Biology - http://www.bio-nmr.net/index.php/events/events/38

This is an opportunity for BioNMR to meet the European Biological community and for biologists to appreciate the progress of NMR technologies towards the understanding of biological problems. I take the liberty to remind you that the deadline for early registration to the FEBS/IUBMB meeting is April 30th and that for abstract submission is May 31st 2012.

Registration to the BioNMR workshop 'NMR in Biology' is free of charge but you should confirm your participation by clicking on the appropriate field when registering to the main 22nd IUBMB - 37th FEBS Congress.

For more information you can refer to the web site or contact nmr_at_febs@bio-nmr.net.

Best regards,

Ivano Bertini

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Bio-NMR Satellite Meeting - NMR in Biology
Satellite of the 22nd IUBMB - 37th FEBS Congress

September 7th 2012, from 13.00 to 19.30 Seville, Spain

Synopsis
This satellite meeting is intended to present the opportunities provided  by NMR today to the broad biological community and the enabling role of the European Bio-NMR research infrastructures (www.bio-nmr.net) providing access to state of the art NMR instrumentation and expertise.

Tentative Program

13:00 - 14:00

Welcome by
Israel Pecht (FEBS - Secretary General), Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
Miguel A. De la Rosa (Chair of the Organizing Committee), University of Seville & CSIC, Spain

Opening and Introduction by Ivano Bertini, CERM, Florence, Italy (Bio-NMR Project Coordinator)

14:00 - 14:30 Snacks
14:30 - 15:15 Beat Meier (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
15:15 - 16:00 Guido Pintacuda (ENS Lyon, France)
16:00 - 16:45 Sheena Radford (University of Leeds, UK)
16:45 - 17:15 Break
17:15 - 18:00 Guy Lippens (Universite des Sciences et Technologies de Lille 1, France)
18:00 - 18:45 Sonia Longhi (CNRS et Universites d'Aix-Marseille I et II, Marseille, France)
18:45 - 19:30 Peter Tompa (VIB, Brussels, Belgium)

Closing Remarks


Location
The workshop will be held at the Seville Conference and Exhibition Centre (FIBES) where the 22nd IUBMB - 37th FEBS Congress will take place.

Lunch snack
A lunch snack will be organized in order to stimulate informal discussions among registered participants to the Bio-NMR workshop. If you are interested in participating, please click the appropriate field when registering to the main 22nd IUBMB - 37th FEBS Congress.

Registration form
There is no registration fee for attending the NMR in Biology meeting, but you have to be registered to the main 22nd IUBMB - 37th FEBS Congress. Please click the appropriate box in the official registration form to the 22nd IUBMB - 37th FEBS Congress.

For further information, please contact: nmr_at_febs@bio-nmr.net

Organizing Committee
Prof. Miquel Pons (IRB Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)
Prof. Wiktor Kozminski (Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland)
Prof. Isabella Caterina Felli (CERM, Florence University, Florence, Italy)

Scientific Secretariat
Dr. Francesca Morelli (CERM, Florence University, Florence, Italy)

2nd Provence Summer Workshop: Molecules & Networks

   

 

Dear friends and colleagues

It is my pleasure to announce details for the 2^nd Provence Summer Workshop (Sat 1^st September – Tues 4^th September 2012), with this year’s theme ‘Molecules & Networks’.

Following on from the great success of our first Workshop, we will once again meet at the beautiful Domaine des Escaunes set in the heart of Provence, France.

We are also delighted to highlight the involvement of our two international guest speakers – Professor Ed Bullmore from Cambridge University (UK) and Professor Mirjana Maletic-Savatic from Baylor Medical College (USA).

This year’s Workshop is certain to be over-subscribed, so register now and take advantage of our early-bird rates. Even better, get involved by presenting your work – submit an abstract for consideration by our scientific committee.

Abstract deadline and Early Bird Registration deadline is 1^st May 2012.

Please visit http://rng.org.au/2nd_provance_workshop.html for more information or to register.

I look forward to seeing you in Provence this summer! And feel free to pass this message on to anyone who may be interested.

Regards

Michael Valenzuela

The 3rd UHF User Meeting

Minneapolis, MN // October 16-18, 2011

The 3rd UHF User Meeting  

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7T - Today's Ideas Create the Clinical Future of MRI

We are pleased to invite you to our 3rd UHF User Meeting taking place in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

As you know, collaboration is very important in this field.  Sharing the experiences, knowledge and wisdom that we have gained working in a non-routine and experimental environment is essential for success.  The 2011 meeting will feature two full days of education and dialogue with 7T and experimental MR users from all over the world.  Don't miss the opportunity to join us and other Siemens MR users for this informative meeting. 

 

Meeting Details:

October 16, 2011	Opening Reception at the CMRR, University of Minnesota
October 17 -18, 2011	Sessions & Presentations at the Graves 601 Hotel, Minneapolis

    

We kindly ask that you register before September 23, 2011.

Please complete registration by clicking on the 'Registration' tab located to the right.

If you require assistance with registration, please contact Jeannie Wert via email: jeannie.m.wert@siemens.com

Research Fellow on Imaging Neurodegeneration

SBIC Singapore

Several postdoc positions are available in the Magnetic Resonance Imaging Group, Singapore Bioimaging Consortium (SBIC) in Singapore. The research focus of the group is on the development of MRI methods and imaging biomarkers for detection of neurodegeneration and regeneration in rodent models. One project is to study the structural and functional connectivity in rat/mouse models of axonal degeneration using techniques such as DTI, magnetization transfer, resting-state fMRI, etc. The other project is to develop functional imaging, including BOLD/CBV fMRI, perfusion, manganese enhanced MRI, CEST and PET, to understand how metabolic disorders such as diabetes exacerbate neurodegenerative diseases like dementia. We have very active interdisciplinary research teams consisting of people from engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, and neuroscience backgrounds. We also have extensive collaboration with major pharmaceutical companies to develop new methods for evaluating drug effects in the brain.

The successful candidate will have chance to work at the Clinical Imaging Research Center to translate the methods into clinical applications. The center currently hosts a Siemens 3T TIM Trio system and is expanding to include more imaging modalities and higher field MRI.

Institute and Resources:

SBIC is a national research institute dedicating on advancing pre-clinical imaging and its translation to clinical applications. SBIC is composed of four major labs studying from animal models, imaging probe design, imaging techniques, to data processing. For further information about SBIC, please visit our website: http://www.sbic.a-star.edu.sg/.

The lab currently hosts a Varian 9.4T MRI, a Bruker 7T ClinScan MRI, a Bruker 400MHz NMR, a NanoSPECT/CT, a Siemens microPET/CT, and a hyperpolarizer (Hypersense). Another 9.4T MRI and a 600MHz NMR microimager will be installed in 2012. Other facilities include a chemistry lab for imaging probe development, a molecular biology lab for developing transgenic animal models, and the SBIC-Nikon imaging center, which hosts all the advanced live cell optical imaging systems by Nikon. We also have access to animal behavior and radiochemistry facilities.

Qualifications:

We welcome highly-motivated people who want to explore new ideas and multidisciplinary researches to apply. Preferred background includes, but not limited to, neuroscience, physics, and engineering. Prior experience with in vivo MRI/NMR, programming language (C or Matlab), image processing and rodent imaging is preferred.

Contact Info:

Interested candidates should submit his/her CV to the following address: recruit@sbic.a-star.edu.sg.

Research Fellow on Functional Neuroimaging

Postdoc positions are available in the Clinical Imaging Research Centre (CIRC) in Singapore. CIRC is a national research institute jointly funded by the Biomedical Research Council (BMRC, A*STAR) and the National University of Singapore dedicated on advancing imaging techniques for clinical applications.

The research focus is on the development of quantitative arterial spin labeling perfusion MRI and fMRI methods to evaluate the disease progress and drug effects. One project is to detect functional connectivity and its correlation with structural connectivity and perfusion in brain development, stroke and dementia. Another project is to study the pharmacological activation and modulation of the brain function. The results will be correlated or validated by other imaging modality like PET. We have active collaboration with clinician in the National University Hospital, KK Children and Women Hospital and pharmaceutical companies. The postdoc will also have close interaction with scientists working in pre-clinical imaging at the Singapore Bioimaging Consortium to translate knowledge/methods between bench and bedside.

Facility and Equipment:

The Clinical Imaging Research Centre currently hosts a Siemens 3T TIM Trio system and is expanding to incorporate a cyclotron, radiochemistry, PET/CT, MRI-PET, and another high field MRI in 2011 with the opening of the new CIRC building.

Qualifications:

We welcome highly-motivated people who want to explore new ideas and multidisciplinary researches to apply. Preferred Ph.D. background includes, but not limited to, physics, computer science, neuroscience and engineering. Prior experience with programming language (C or Matlab) and/or MRI are required. Experience with sequence programming (especially IDEA) is preferable.

The position will start with a 3-year contract and can be renewed depending on performance. The salary is competitive based on experience.

Contact Info:

Interested candidates should submit his/her CV to the following address: CIRC-Recruit@bmsi.a-star.edu.sg.

35th Steenbock Symposium 'Advances in Biomolecular NMR'

June 26-28, 2011
Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
 

Registration and abstract submission for the 35th Steenbock Symposium
'Advances in Biomolecular NMR' are now open!

http://www.biochem.wisc.edu/seminars/steenbock/symposium35/

The 35th Steenbock Symposium 'Advances in Biomolecular NMR' will be
held June 26-28, 2011 at the Wisconsin Institutes of Discovery on the
campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin.
This symposium will honor the career of John L. Markley, Steenbock
Professor of Biomolecular Structure, Department of Biochemistry,
University of Wisconsin-Madison. Through his service to the NMR
community and leadership of the National Magnetic Resonance Facility
at Madison (NMRFAM), the Biological Magnetic Resonance Data Bank
(BMRB) and the Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics, Professor
Markley has made enormous contributions to the field of biomolecular
NMR.

The Symposium will have presentations from leaders in the field of
biological NMR spectroscopy and in various fields of biochemistry who
collaborate on protein structure-function studies with Professor
Markley and NMRFAM. Topics will include applications of NMR
spectroscopy to study the dynamics and structure-function
relationships of proteins and nucleic acids, high-throughput structure
determination, metabolomics, and natural products. A poster session
will provide those attending the symposium an opportunity to present
their recent work in biological NMR spectroscopy. A full list of
speakers is included below.

The 35th Steenbock will be held Sunday, June 26 to Tuesday, June 28, 2011.

REGISTRATION IS NOW AVAILABLE. Please visit:
http://www.biochem.wisc.edu/seminars/steenbock/symposium35/register.aspx

Below are some of the details about registration:
The Registration fee includes admission to talks and poster session,
abstract book, scheduled breaks, and the reception on Sunday, June 26,
breaks on Monday, June 27, and Tuesday, June 28.

The banquet will be held on the evening of Monday, June 27. (correction!)

Fees:
Early - Full Registration $200.00 by 05/15/2011
Early - Student Registration $175.00 by 05/15/2011

Banquet $50

Registration Deadlines: Early registration will last until May 15.
After May 15 rates will increase by $50. The late registration
deadline is June 15. After that date, you must register at the door
with payment by check or cash.

Poster Abstract Deadline: April 15, 2011
INFORMATION ABOUT ABSTRACTS FOR THE POSTER SESSIONS IS ALSO NOW
AVAILABLE. Please visit
http://www.biochem.wisc.edu/seminars/steenbock/symposium35/abstract_guidelines.aspx.

Cancellation Policy: If you cancel before June 15, your registration
fee will be refunded, minus a $50 administrative fee. No refunds for
cancellations received on or after June 15.

The symposium will begin with a reception on Sunday, June 26. It is
expected to end in the afternoon of Tuesday June 28.

Sponsors:
Bruker BioSpin
Promega
ISOTEC, Shigemi
Agilent Technologies, Cambridge Isotope Laboratories, Scientific
Protein Laboratories, Wilmad-Labglass,
Daedalus Innovations LLC

Thanks and hope to see you in June,
Speakers:

Hashim Al-Hashimi - University of Michigan
Cheryl Arrowsmith - University of Toronto
Ad Bax - The National Institutes of Health
Tim Bugni - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Sam Butcher - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Silvia Cavagnero - University of Wisconsin-Madison
David Cowburn - Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Hector DeLuca - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Art Edison - University of Florida
Juli Feigon - University of California Los Angeles
Kevin Gardner - University of Texas Southwestern
Mark Girvin - Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Angela M. Gronenborn - University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Andrew Hinck - The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Jeffrey C. Hoch - University of Connecticut Health Center
Charles Hoogstraten - Michigan State University
Mitsu Ikura - University of Toronto
Oleg Jardetzky - Stanford University
Masatsune Kainosho - Tokyo Metropolitan University
Robert Kaptein - Utrecht University
Slobodan Macura - Mayo Foundation
Gaetano Montelione - Rutgers University
James Prestegard - University of Georgia
Michael Reily - Bristol-Myers Squibb
Gordon Roberts - University of Leicester
Heinz Ruterjans - University of Frankfurt
Richard Vierstra - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Brian Volkman - Medical College of Wisconsin
Gerhard Wagner - Harvard University

Organizers:
Sam Butcher
Eldon Ulrich
Milo Westler

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National Magnetic Resonance Facility at Madison
      An NIH-Supported Resource Center

W. Milo Westler, Ph.D.

NMRFAM Director
Senior Scientist
       and
Adjunct Professor
433 Babcock Drive
Department of Biochemistry
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI USA 53706-1544
EMAIL: milo@nmrfam.wisc.edu
PHONE: (608)-263-9599
FAX: (608)-263-1722

Wednesday, March 23rd 2011

The City College of New York
The Great Hall
160 Convent Avenue
New York, NY 10031

Program 8:30 AM  – 9:30 AM                 Breakfast Session 1 (Chair: Ruth Stark, The City College of New York) 09:30 AM – 09:45 AM             Introductions by President Lisa Staiano-Coico 09:45 AM – 10:00 AM             Introduction by Dean Ruth Stark, Division of Science 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM             Lewis Kay (University of Toronto) 11:00 AM – 11:15 AM             Break Session 2 (Chair: David Eliezer, Weill Cornell Medical College) 11:15 AM – 12:00 PM             Chad Rienstra (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM             Hashim Al-Hashimi (University of Michigan) 12:45 PM – 2:00 PM               Lunch Buffet Session 3 (Chair: Ming-Ming Zhou, Mount Sinai School of Medicine) 2:00 PM – 2:45 PM                  Lila Gierasch (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) 2:45 PM – 3:30 PM                  Charalampos Kalodimos (Rutgers University) 3:30 PM – 4:15 PM                  Kevin Gardner (University of Texas Southwestern Medical                                                     Center) 4:15 PM – 4:30 PM                  Break Session 4 (Chair: David Cowburn, Albert Einstein College of Medicine) 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM                  Ad Bax (NIH) 5:30 PM – 5:45 PM                  Concluding Remarks

Chicago Area NMR Discussion Group 2010 Meeting Saturday, November 6, 2010 at School of Chemical Sciences University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Host:   Dr. Chad Rienstra

Keynote Speakers:   Hashim Al-Hashimi, University of Michigan Len Mueller, University of California Riverside

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FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR THE 2009 MEETING AND SPEAKERS

European IDEA Users Group Meeting

June, 17th-18th 2010

Juelich, Germany

The meeting is organized by the Sequence Development Team of the Institute of Medical Imaging Physics at the Research Centre Juelich, Germany.
Siemens Medical Solution supports the meeting and will be actively participating with several IDEA and ICE experts presenting new features of the software.

As always we especially appreciate active participation of the community and invite you to submit an abstract for oral presentation. Furthermore, hands-on training and interactive sessions are planned. It is recommended to bring a
laptop along with IDEA installed.
Detailed information and registration procedure is available a


http://www.jemris.org/IDEA2010/
In case of further questions send an email to d.brenner@fz-juelich.de

We are looking forward to seeing you in Juelich!

With our highest regards
Tony Stöcker and Kaveh Vahedipour.

2nd International Conference on Resting State Connectivity

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

September 17–19, 2010

http://www.restingstate.com/

Dear colleagues:

We are organizing the second International Conference on Resting State Connectivity in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from September 17–19, 2010. This meeting aims to bring together key researchers working on the physiological background, application, and analysis of resting-state functional connectivity data in a very congenial and highly interactive setting. Thus, the number of attendees will be restricted in order to ensure priority to communication on a highly professional level instead of promotion or introduction of the phenomenon. During our three-day schedule, we will focus on the physical, physiological, statistical, and psychological implications of R‑fMRI and use this forum to define future directions in R-fMRI research.

We have assembled an impressive list of speakers (that continues to increase). We look forward to you joining us. More details, including registration information and abstract submission, can be found at: 

http://www.restingstate.com/

Invited speakers include:

Peter Bandettini, NIMH/NIH
Habib Benali, Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Rasmus Birn, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Bharat Biswal, UMDNJ–New Jersey Medical School
Melanie Boly, University of Liège
Michael Breakspear, Royal Brisbane Hospital
F. Xavier Castellanos, New York University
Gustavo Deco, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Damien Fair, Oregon Health & Science University
Gary Glover, Stanford University
John Gore, Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science
Michael Greicius, Stanford University
Christian Habeck, Columbia University
Michelle Hampson, Yale University School of Medicine
Silvina Horovitz, NINDS/NIH
Xiaoping Hu, Emory University
Anthony Hudetz, Medical College of Wisconsin
James Hyde, Medical College of Wisconsin
Fahmeed Hyder, Yale University
Viktor Jirsa, Theoretical Neuroscience Group (Paris, France)
Clare Kelly, New York University
Shella Kielholz, Emory University
Vesa Kiviniemi, Oulu University Hospital
Andreas Klienschmidt, INSERM (CEA/SAC/DSV/DRM/NeuroSpin)
Rolf Kötter, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre
Stephen LaConte, Baylor College of Medicine
Helmut Laufs, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
David Leopold, NIH/NIMH
Shi-Jiang Li, Medical College of Wisconsin
Tom Liu, University of California, San Diego
Mark Lowe, Cleveland Clinic
Anthony McIntosh, The Rotman Research Institute Baycrest
Beth Meyerand, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Michael Milham, New York University Lagone Medical Center
Rosalyn Moran, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging
Christopher Pawela, Medical College of Wisconsin
Scott Peltier, University of Michigan
Steve Petersen, Washington University School of Medicine
Serge Rombouts, Leiden University
Bart Rypma, The University of Texas at Dallas
Robert Shulman, Yale University
Amir Shmuel, McGill University
Olaf Sporns, Indiana University
Stephen Strother, University of Toronto
Robert Turner, Max Planck Institute
Chandan Vaidya, Georgetown University
Arno Villringer, Max Planck Institute
Martin Walter, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli, MIT
Christian Windischberger, University of Vienna
Yu-Feng Zang, Beijing Normal University

Thanks,
Bharat Biswal

Gordon Conference: In Vivo Magnetic Resonance July 25-30, 2010 Proctor Academy Andover, NH Chair: Risto A. Kauppinen Vice Chair: Greg J. Stanisz

Site Information A/V Information Poster Information Travel Information Bus Information Off-Site Housing Info Site Photos Conferee (Single) $825 Conferee (Double) $760 Conferee (Off-Site) $655 Guest (Single) $650 Guest (Double) $585 Guest (Off-Site) $480

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Application Deadline

Applications for this meeting must be submitted by July 4, 2010. Please apply early, as some meetings become oversubscribed (full) before this deadline. If the meeting is oversubscribed, it will be stated here. Applications will still be accepted for oversubscribed meetings. However, they will only be considered by the Conference Chair if more seats become available due to cancellations.

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In Vivo applications of Magnetic Resonance (MR) continue to grow owing to technical advancements in several key domains of MR technology, including ultra-high magnetic field instrumentation, gradient and radio-frequency coils, image processing algorithms as well as contrast agents. All these advancements further promote MR as the most powerful single imaging modality to study living systems, spanning from anatomy and metabolic functions to detection and characterization of disease processes, and on spatial scales from individual cells to whole organs. The research field of in vivo MR is inherently interdisciplinary, bringing together scientists with backgrounds in physics, chemistry, engineering, biology and medicine. This conference focuses on the latest developments in both MR methodology and applications, providing a unique venue for exchanging ideas and developing collaborations. Young investigators and students are particularly encouraged to apply. In addition to the invited talks and poster presentations, the Hot Topics presentations - selected from the submitted abstracts - provide for inclusion of late-breaking developments. Topics to-be-covered include, but are not limited to: novel approaches for creating, detecting, and localizing the MR signal; applications of in vivo spectroscopy in disease and basic studies of metabolism; physical, chemical and biological mechanisms that affect the MR signal in vivo; development of new agents and approaches for manipulating the MR signal and contrast; functional MRI to study activation, blood flow and metabolism; and cellular function, from metabolism to gene expression to migration.

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Contributors

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SUNDAY
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm	Arrival and Check-in (Office Closed 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm)
6:00 pm	Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm	Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by Chair, Risto Kauppinen
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm	FUTURE MR - LIGHTER AND FASTER
	Discussion Leader: Peter Luijten (Utrecht University Medical Centre, Utrecht, Holland)
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm	Klaas Pruessmann (ETH, Zurich, Switzerland) "Mind the field: the promise of dynamic magnetometry for in vivo MR"
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm	Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm	Mark Griswold (Case Western University, Cleveland, OH, USA) "Breaking the speed limits of MRI"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm	Discussion
MONDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 am	Breakfast
8:30 am	Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm	ADVANCES IN MR HARDWARE AND SIGNAL ENCODING
	Discussion Leader: Tommy Vaughan (University of Minnesota, MN, USA)
9:00 am - 9:40 am	Lawrence Wald (Martinos Imaging Center, Boston, MA, USA) "Parallel transmit hardware, pulse design and SAR considerations for shaped excitations"
9:40 am - 10:00 am	Discussion
10:00 am	Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 am	Andrew Kiriluta (Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA) "Traveling wave MR: From momentum in space to holography and beyond"
11:10 am - 11:30 am	Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm	Maxim Zaitsev (University of Freiburg, Germany) "PatLoc: New approaches to spatial encoding in MRI"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm	Discussion
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Poster Session I
6:00 pm	Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm	PUSHING THE LIMITS OF SPATIAL RESOLUTION
	Discussion Leader: Greg Stanisz (Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, Toronto, Canada)
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm	Russel Jacobs (Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA) "Microscopic MRI: compromises, qualifications and applications in small animal imaging"
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm	Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm	Christian Degen (MIT, Boston, MA, USA) "Nanoscale magnetic resonance imaging by force microscopy"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm	Discussion
TUESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 am	Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm	MRS: FROM MICE TO MAN
	Discussion Leader: Alena Horska (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA)
9:00 am - 9:40 am	Jullie Pan (Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA) "Developments in ultra high field MR: evaluating the human brain in health and disease"
9:40 am - 10:00 am	Discussion
10:00 am	Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 am	Gulin Oz (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA) "High field MR spectroscopy in spino-cerebellar ataxias: from mice to man"
11:10 am - 11:30 am	Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm	Pratip Bhattacharya (Huntington Medical Research Institute, Pasadena, CA, USA) "Imaging tricarboxylic acid cycle metabolism in vivo by hyperpolarized 13C succinate"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm	Discussion
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Poster Session II
6:00 pm	Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm	MAGNETIC PARTICLES AND NOVEL IMAGING APPLICATIONS
	Discussion Leader: Chrit Moonen (University of Bordeaux, France)
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm	Joern Borgert (Philips Healthcare, Hamburg, Germany) "Magnetic Particle Imaging"
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm	Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm	Alan Koretsky (NINDS, Bethesda, USA) "Micron scale particles for tracking new neurons in the rodent brain"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm	Discussion
WEDNESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 am	Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm	PRECLINICAL ADVANCEMENTS IN MR: NOVEL CONTRASTS AND BIOLOGICAL TARGETS
	Discussion Leader: Timothy Duong (University of Texas, San Antonia, TX, USA)
9:00 am - 9:40 am	Klaas Nicolay (Technical University of Eindhoven, Holland) "Visualising the invisible: Is molecular and cellular MRI there to stay?"
9:40 am - 10:00 am	Discussion
10:00 am	Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 am	Olli Gröhn (University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio, Finland) "Applications of spin-lock MRI contrast in vivo"
11:10 am - 11:30 am	Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm	Ricardo Carano (Genentech, Palo Alto, CA, USA) "MRI of tumor angiogenesis: from mice to man"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm	Discussion
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Poster Session III
6:00 pm	Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm	HOT TOPICS SESSION
	Discussion Leader: Joel Garbow (Washington University, St Louis, MO, USA)
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm	Eight 10 minute (+5 minute discussion) presentations selected from submitted work
THURSDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 am	Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am	Business Meeting
	(Nominations for the next Vice Chair; Fill out Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss future Site & Scheduling preferences; Election of the next Vice Chair)
9:00 am - 12:30 pm	ADVANCING NEURO-MR TECHNIQUES
	Discussion Leader: Karla Miller (FMRIB, University of Oxford, UK)
9:00 am - 9:40 am	Xiang He (Washington University, St Louis, MO, USA) "Biophysical mechanisms of phase contrast in gradient echo MRI: theory and validation"
9:40 am - 10:00 am	Discussion
10:00 am	Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 am	Penny Anne Gowland (University of Nottingham, UK) "Why MR signals from grey and white matter differ?"
11:10 am - 11:30 am	Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm	Jeff Duyn (NINDS, Bethesda, MD, USA) "Origin and use of spontaneous BOLD fMRI fluctuations"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm	Discussion
12:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm	Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Poster Session IV
6:00 pm	Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm	APPLIED MR METABOLOMICS
	Discussion Leader: Sabrina Ronen (UCSF, San Francisco, CA, USA)
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm	Joe Ackerman (Washington University, St Louis, MO, USA) "Plantae vs. Homo Sapiens: Secrets to survival revealed by 31P NMR"
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm	Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm	Xin Yu (Case Western University, Cleveland, OH, USA) "The metabolomics of normal and disease hearts"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm	Discussion
FRIDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 am	Breakfast
9:00 am	Departure

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The project described was supported by Award Number R13EB011782 from the National Institute Of Biomedical Imaging And Bioengineering. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute Of Biomedical Imaging And Bioengineering or the National Institutes of Health.