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)

The 2012 International Workshop on Brain, Cognition and Learning (IWBCL2012)

Please see below the announcement of the pre-OHBM workshop on Brain,
Cognition and Learning, to be held on June 8-9, Beijing, China

The 2012 International Workshop on Brain, Cognition and Learning (IWBCL2012)

June 8-9, 2012, Beijing, China

http://iwbcl.bnu.edu.cn

 We are pleased to announce that the 2012 International Workshop on
Brain, Cognition and Learning (IWBCL) will be held on June 8-9, 2012
at the China National Conventional Center (CNCC) in Beijing, as a
satellite conference of 2012 Organization of Human Brain Mapping
(OHBM) Annual Conference. This workshop is co-organized by the
National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning,
Beijing Normal University and the Society of Brain Sciences and
Education Research, a division of the Chinese Society of Education
(CSE).

 This year the IWBCL will focus on language learning. The theme for
this workshop is set as “Towards an integrated perspective of language
learning”, to reflect the trend that the cognitive neuroscience of
language has increasingly become an interdisciplinary endeavor.

 Confirmed Speakers.

§   Yanchao Bi, Beijing Normal University

§   James Booth, Northwestern University

§   Urs Maurer, University of Zurich

§   Marcus Meinzer,  Charite Universitasmedizin

§   Russell A. Poldrack, University of Texas at Austin

§   Bradley L. Schlaggar, Washington University School of Medicine

§   Mark Seidenberg, University of Wisconsin-Madison

§   Hua Shu, Beijing Normal University

§   Michael Ullman, Georgetown University

§   Richard J. Wise, Imperial College London

§   Gui Xue, Beijing Normal University

§   Jason D. Zevin, Weill Medical College of Cornell University



Participants are encouraged to fill the online registration form by
May 1, 2012 to secure a seat. For more information, please visit our
website http://iwcbl.bnu.edu.cn . We look forward to seeing you in
Beijing this June!

2012 Brainhack, Sept 1-4, Leipzig Germany

  

The Neuro Bureau is proud to announce the 2012 Brainhack, to be held from September 1-4 at the Max Plank Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.

Brainhack is a unique workshop with the goals of fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and open neuroscience. The structure builds from the concepts of an unconference and a hackathon: The term “unconference” refers to the fact that most of the content will be dynamically created by the participants -- a hackathon is an event where participants collaborate intensively on science-related projects.

Participants from all disciplines related to neuroimaging are welcome. Ideal participants span in range from graduate students to professors across any disciplines willing to contribute (e.g., mathematics, computer science, engineering, neuroscience, psychology, psychiatry, neurology, medicine, art, etc...). The primary requirement is a desire to work in close collaborations with researchers outside of your specialization in order to address neuroscience questions that are beyond the expertise of a single discipline.

Brainhack will last 3.5 days, with the first night being dedicated to registration, a brief introduction of participants, and a poster session / cocktail hour. Each of the next two days will begin with an “Ignite Session” in which distinguished neuroscience researchers will give 10 minute talks that will address wide questions in neuroscience that would benefit from open, interdisciplinary collaborations. The “Ignite Session” will be followed by a dynamic set of talks organized by attendees. This session will be scheduled on-site, and aims to reflect participants' interests as they evolve over the course of the workshop. Each afternoon and evening will then include a brainhack session, in which participants will be encouraged to work together in small groups on relevant neuroscience projects. The workshop will culminate on the last day, when participants will have the opportunity to present a brief overview of their project.

We aim for Brainhack to be a highly dynamic event. As such, participants are encouraged to come prepared to discuss their research interests and work in ways that they may be able to contribute to the unconference portion of the workshop. In addition, there will be an opportunity for participants to present posters on Saturday night. If you are interested in doing so, please indicate this on the registration form so that we can be sure to have poster space allocated.

In order to maximize the productivity of the hackathon portion of Brainhack, we encourage participants to come with potential (or established) collaborators and projects in mind, as well as the data and tools required for the project. Participants are encouraged to advertise projects, or shop for a team of collaborators at thebrainhack.org web site prior to the conference. We will have preprocessed copies of the ADHD200 competition dataset, as well as other datasets publicly released through the International Neuroimaging Data-sharing Initiative (structural, resting state fMRI, and DTI) available onsite. Participants will be encouraged to make results from their Brainhack experience openly available on a resource such as NITRC or github.

To maximize collaborative opportunities between participants all meals will be provided onsite (cost included in registration).

Important Dates

Registration Deadline: 30 July 2012
Payment Deadline: 7 August 2012
Final Program: 30 August 2012

Program

Click here to view the current schedule.

While the schedule provides the basic structure, the content will be primary determined by the participants onsite.

Confirmed Attendees

F. Xavier Castellanos, Helen Mayberg, Michael P. Milham, Tal Yarkoni, Arno Villringer...

Organizing Committee

Brainhack.org and the Brainhack workshop are initiates of The Neuro Bureau.

• Pierre Bellec (Centre de recherche de l’institut de gériatrie de Montréal, Université de Montréal, Canada)
• Cameron Craddock (Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, USA)
• Daniel Margulies (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, DE)
• Donald McLaren (Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA).
• Maarten Mennes (Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, The Netherlands)

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

HHMI Investigator National Competition

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) seeks to appoint up to 30 new biomedical researchers through a national open competition. The initiative represents an investment of approximately $200 million in basic biomedical research by the Institute.

This HHMI investigator competition is open to scientists at more than 200 eligible institutions who study significant biological problems in all of the biomedical disciplines, as well as in adjacent fields such as biophysics, chemical biology, biomedical engineering, and computational biology. Plant scientists, experimental evolutionary biologists, and patient-oriented researchers are welcome to apply. Those selected in this competition will receive a five-year appointment to HHMI, which is renewable pending favorable scientific review.

http://www.hhmi.org/news/HHMI20120315.html

32th MaxEnt 2012

 

the 32th Workshop on Bayesian Inference and
Maximum Entropy methods in science and engineering
at the Max-Planck-Institute for Plasmaphysics in Garching/Munich (15.July-20.July 2012)
welcomes the submission of abstracts for oral and poster presentations.

Abstracts (limited to one page) of proposed contributions
should be submitted following the guidelines provided on the
website

http://www.ipp.mpg.de/maxent2012

by ***  May, 01, 2012. ***

Especially encouraged are
papers whose content is novel, either conceptually or as innovative application of Bayesian Inference.
Abstracts are designated for either platform or poster sessions; awards are presented to the best poster.
Notification of the decision of the program committee will be
by May 15, 2012.

The workshop includes tutorials, state-of-the-art lectures, poster presentations and contributed papers. Selected papers will be edited and published in a book.
Topics addressed include

     * Bayesian graphical models
     * Experimental design
     * ICA/Blind source separation
     * Image reconstruction
     * Machine Learning
     * Markov chain Monte Carlo Methods
     * Neural nets
     * Quantum mechanics
     * Philosophy of science
     * Real world applications in various fields of science (e.g.
       astrophysics, plasma physics, material science, metrology,
       meteorology, biology, robotics,...)

On behalf of the organizing committee
Udo von Toussaint

Neural interactions and affect: basic & clinical perspectives Conference

Neural interactions and affect: basic & clinical perspectives
Conference at the University of Reading, United Kingdom
16-17th April, 2012

The last decade has seen an unprecedented expansion in research on the
neural basis of human emotions and affective disorders. Distinct brain
regions have been linked to reward, motivation, threat and aversion,
largely through neuroimaging studies building on knowledge gained from
studies of other animals. Changes in the functioning of these regions
have been linked to a number of mood and affective disorders.
Recently, scientists have become interested in how the dynamic
interactions between multiple neural systems give rise to our
emotions, and motivate and modulate our behaviours and decisions. Such
time-dependent processes occur on scales ranging from milliseconds in
the case of neuronal interactions, through seconds in learning,
conditioning and habituation, through to years in the case of the
lifetime development and decline.

This symposium brings together basic and clinical scientists from a
variety of fields who approach the topic from different perspectives.
The objective is to provide a richly interactive environment for
scientific interchange between biological, medical, psychological and
physical scientists interested in new perspectives and techniques to
push forward research in the field.

Over the two days, a mix of keynote lectures, workshops and poster
sessions will encourage interaction between senior and junior
researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds. A large amount of
time dedicated to discussion will be a feature of all the symposium
sessions.

Confirmed Invited Speakers
Sonia Bishop, UC Berkeley/ University of Oxford
Gilles Pourtois, Ghent University, Belgium
Rudi de Raedt, Ghent University, Belgium
Henrik Walter, Medical University Charité, Berlin, Germany
Martin Walter, Medical University Magdeburg, Germany
Paul Whalen, Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA

News of further speakers will be forthcoming.

Registration
Registration is free for research staff and postgraduate students of
non-profit/academic research institutions
To register, please send an email with the subject line "April Neural
Interactions Conference" to CINN@reading.ac.uk with the following
information:

Name
Affiliation
Position (PhD, Postdoc, Ass. Prof. etc)
Topic of Research

In addition, there will be a poster session and a limited number of
places for spoken presentations. If you wish to present either a
poster or a talk, please include a title, authors, preference for
poster or talk, and 250 word abstract. Those who request a talk who
can't be accommodated will be allocated to a poster session.

Travel and accommodation will need to be arranged by attendees.
Reading is well served by train (25 minutes from central London, 35
minutes from Oxford) and is a 35 minute bus ride from Heathrow
Airport. Reading has a variety of hotel accommodation available - more
information will be circulated in the coming days. The University
campus is a short taxi ride from the centre of town. Regular buses
also serve the university, or for those who enjoy some exercise, it is
a pleasant 40 minute walk.

This conference is made possible with the support of the EPSRC, BBSRC & CINN.

11th Brain Connectivity Workshop (BCW’2012)

  

The 11th Brain Connectivity Workshop (BCW’2012) will be held on June 6-8, 2012, in Chengdu, China. It will be hosted by LIAMA Center for Computational Medicine at CASIA (Institute of Automation, the Chinese Academy of Sciences) and the School of Life Science and Technology ( the '111' project on NeuroInformation) at the University of Electronic Technology and Science of China. It will be held just before the Organization of Human Brain Mapping Meeting in Beijing, June 10-14, 2012. The BCW’2012 will consist of a two day main workshop, featuring talks by leading international experts and a one day educational course designed to bring participants up to speed in cutting edge issues of Brain Connectivity. The main topics of this year will be as follows:

Structural Connectivity: From Micro to Macro
Foundations of Brain Connectivity Methods
Brainnetome Meets Genome
Clinical Applications of Brain Connectivity

BCW has been going for 10 years now (http://www.brain-connectivity-workshop.org/), and is the major forum to discuss the broad and complex issues relating to brain connectivity. A unique character of the workshop is the format that emphasizes discussion over extensive presentations. Following the tradition of this workshop series, each of the invited speakers in the main workshop is requested to limit their presentation to 15 minutes and then lead a 30 minutes discussion focused on that topic. This format has been successful since the meeting's inception, and has always resulted in extensive and invigorating debate. Moreover, this year, each session chair of the main workshop will be asked to deliver a 15 minutes presentation to outline the scope and main challenges that they see of relevance to that session.

As an essential part of BCW’2012, the one day educational course will also occur: Eight leading experts in this field will deliver introductory lectures in different fields of Brain Connectivity. In fact, in previous years most of the registrants of the main workshop also attend and contribute to questions in the educational course.

We look forward to seeing you at BCW’2012!

OrganizersTianzi Jiang (Chair) Pedro Valdes-Sosa Michael Breakspear Dezhong Yao

Contact UsLIAMA Center for Computational Medicine Institute of Automation The Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100190 Email: brainnetome@nlpr.ia.ac.cn Phone: +86-10-6262 9189

Symposium for Neuroimaging Advances in Paediatrics (SNAP)

Title:        Symposium for Neuroimaging Advances in Paediatrics (SNAP)
Date:       Friday 4th May 
Venue:     Ella Latham Theatre,  Royal Children’s Hospital, Flemington
Rd, Parkville

Registrations open Monday 20th February  www.trybooking.com/20955 
Numbers strictly limited.
For more information contact 2012snap@gmail.com 

You are invited to take this rare opportunity to learn from
internationally renowned speakers and to network with others in the
field. This one-day symposium will equip you with 10 Things you should
know about... atlas construction, voxel based morphometry, fMRI and
resting state data analysis, diffusion weighted imaging, perfusion
imaging, and more! The symposium will also cover applications of
paediatric neuroimaging, including 10 things neuroimaging has told us
about... neurodevelopment, premature birth and childhood head injury.

Guest speakers include:  
-        Marko Wilke (Children’s Hospital, University of Tübingen) 
-        Gareth Barker (Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College, London)
-        Mark Jenkinson (FMRIB Centre, University of Oxford)
-        Clare Kelly (New York University)
-        Derek Jones (Cardiff University)
-        Fernando Calamante (Brain Research Institute)
-        Rhoshel Lenroot (University of New South Wales)
-        Vicki Anderson (Murdoch Childrens Research Institute)

HIVE Workshop Berlin 2012 on Brain Stimulation

 

Hyper-Interaction Viability Experiments Workshop

http://hive-eu.org/hive2012/home

Could computers someday interact directly with the human brain? This is the motto of the HIVE project. The goal of the workshop is to present research toward developing a new generation of powerful and controllable non-invasive brain stimulation technologies.

We hereby invite contributions to this second public HIVE workshop,  to be held in Berlin on April 27-28th, 2012. Submission deadline for Abstracts is 11th March.

Contributions must be of a high scientific level, and typically would describe, attempt to understand, or engineer brain stimulation phenomena as well as clinical applications. Submission page instructions are here: http://hive-eu.org/node/317

Researchers with new results working in any the following research areas are encouraged to submit abstracts:

-Biophysical models of current flow in the brain
-Neuron-current interaction models
-Inverse modeling of neural activity
-Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) for communication
-tDCS, tACS, TMS experimental results
-Neurofeedback and neuromodulation
-Real-time EEG monitoring
-EEG-fMRI relationships
-Brain stimulation for therapy (sleep, improved consciousness)
-New technologies (hardware, software, algorithms) for hyper-interaction or CBI

Submitted papers will be rated by the scientific committee on quality and relevance to the goals of HIVE. The best papers will be awarded with an oral presentation, and the remaining papers may be presented as posters and will be discussed during breaks or at the end of the day. We look forward to an exciting conference with most stimulating discussions.  Best abstracts and presentations will be selected for publication in a Special Issue of the journal "Physiological Measurement": http://iopscience.iop.org/0967-3334/

2nd International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in NeuroImaging (PRNI 2012)

CALL FOR PAPERS

2nd International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in NeuroImaging (PRNI 2012)


Multivariate and predictive analysis of neuroimaging data has gained ground
very rapidly in the community over the past few years, leading to impressive
results in cognitive, affective, and clinical neurosciences. Innovations in
machine learning, such as mixed-norm regularisation, multiple kernel learning,
and online learning have been incorporated swiftly, and novel methods are 
emerging which are specifically tuned to the constraints of neuroimaging data,
prompting advances in areas such as structured sparsity or covariate
modelling. Pattern recognition and machine learning conferences now typically
feature a neuroimaging workshop, while neuroscience and brain imaging
meetings dedicate sessions and track to "brain decoding" and multivariate
predictive methods. Thus, a rich two-way flow has been established between
disciplines.

After Istanbul (Workshop on Brain Decoding 2010) and Seoul
(PRNI 2011), it is the intention of the 2nd International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in NeuroImaging to continue facilitating exchange of ideas between scientific communities, with a particular interest in the link between mass-univariate, post-hoc modelling and multivariate predictive models.

** Topics of interest
PRNI welcomes original papers on multivariate predictive models of
neuroimaging data, using e.g. fMRI, sMRI, EEG, MEG, ECoG modalities,
including but not limited to the following topics:

* Learning from neuroimaging data
Online, incremental, and adaptive learning
Modality combinations
Optimisation and regularisation
Graph-based techniques and graphical models

* Interpretability of models and results
High-dimensional data visualisation
Multivariate and multiple hypothesis testing
Links between brain structure and function
Summarisation / presentation of inference results

* Applications
Disease diagnosis and prognosis
Real-time fMRI
Resting-state modelling
Cognitive neurosciences


** Submission Guidelines and Proceedings
Authors should prepare full papers with a maximum length of 4 pages (double-column, IEEE style, PDF) for review. Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Science Society in electronic format. They will be permanently available on the IEEExplore and IEEE CS Digital Library online repositories, and indexed in IET INSPEC, EI Compendex (Elsevier), Thomson ISI, and others. Participants will receive a CDROM. The workshop website has all the details:

http://www.mlnl.cs.ucl.ac.uk/prni2012/

** Important Dates
Paper submission deadline: 1st of April, 2012
Acceptance notification: 7th of May, 2012
Workshop: July 2-4, 2012

Advanced Scientific Programming in Python

 
a Summer School by the G-Node and the Institute of Experimental and

Applied Physics, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

Scientists spend more and more time writing, maintaining, and
debugging software. While techniques for doing this efficiently have
evolved, only few scientists actually use them. As a result, instead
of doing their research, they spend far too much time writing
deficient code and reinventing the wheel. In this course we will
present a selection of advanced programming techniques,
incorporating theoretical lectures and practical exercises tailored
to the needs of a programming scientist. New skills will be tested
in a real programming project: we will team up to develop an
entertaining scientific computer game.

We use the Python programming language for the entire course. Python
works as a simple programming language for beginners, but more
importantly, it also works great in scientific simulations and data
analysis. We show how clean language design, ease of extensibility,
and the great wealth of open source libraries for scientific
computing and data visualization are driving Python to become a
standard tool for the programming scientist.

This school is targeted at Master or PhD students and Post-docs from
all areas of science. Competence in Python or in another language
such as Java, C/C++, MATLAB, or Mathematica is absolutely required.
Basic knowledge of Python is assumed. Participants without any prior
experience with Python should work through the proposed introductory
materials before the course. 

Date and Location
=================
September 2—7, 2012. Kiel, Germany.

Preliminary Program
===================
Day 0 (Sun Sept 2) — Best Programming Practices
  - Best Practices, Development Methodologies and the Zen of Python
  - Version control with git
  - Object-oriented programming & design patterns
Day 1 (Mon Sept 3) — Software Carpentry
  - Test-driven development, unit testing & quality assurance
  - Debugging, profiling and benchmarking techniques
  - Best practices in data visualization
  - Programming in teams
Day 2 (Tue Sept 4) — Scientific Tools for Python
  - Advanced NumPy
  - The Quest for Speed (intro): Interfacing to C with Cython
  - Advanced Python I: idioms, useful built-in data structures, 
    generators
Day 3 (Wed Sept 5) — The Quest for Speed
  - Writing parallel applications in Python
  - Programming project
Day 4 (Thu Sept 6) — Efficient Memory Management
  - When parallelization does not help:
    the starving CPUs problem
  - Advanced Python II: decorators and context managers
  - Programming project
Day 5 (Fri Sept 7) — Practical Software Development
  - Programming project
  - The Pelita Tournament

Every evening we will have the tutors' consultation hour: Tutors
will answer your questions and give suggestions for your own
projects.

Applications
============
You can apply on-line at http://python.g-node.org

Applications must be submitted before 23:59 UTC, May 1, 2012.
Notifications of acceptance will be sent by June 1, 2012.

No fee is charged but participants should take care of travel,
living, and accommodation expenses.  Candidates will be selected on
the basis of their profile. Places are limited: acceptance rate last
time was around 20%.  Prerequisites: You are supposed to know the
basics of Python to participate in the lectures. You are encouraged
to go through the introductory material available on the website.

Faculty
=======
  - Francesc Alted, Continuum Analytics Inc., USA
  - Pietro Berkes, Enthought Inc., UK
  - Valentin Haenel,  Blue Brain Project, École Polytechnique
    Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
  - Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek, Faculty of Physics, University of
    Warsaw, Poland
  - Eilif Muller, Blue Brain Project, École Polytechnique Fédérale
    de Lausanne, Switzerland
  - Emanuele Olivetti, NeuroInformatics Laboratory, Fondazione Bruno
    Kessler and University of Trento, Italy
  - Rike-Benjamin Schuppner,  Technologit GbR, Germany
  - Bartosz Teleńczuk, Unité de Neurosciences Information et
    Complexité, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
  - Stéfan van der Walt, Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute,
    University of California Berkeley, USA
  - Bastian Venthur, Berlin Institute of Technology and Bernstein
    Focus Neurotechnology, Germany
  - Niko Wilbert, TNG Technology Consulting GmbH, Germany
  - Tiziano Zito, Institute for Theoretical Biology,
    Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

Organized by Christian T. Steigies and Christian Drews of the
Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics,
Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel , and by Zbigniew
Jędrzejewski-Szmek and Tiziano Zito for the German Neuroinformatics
Node of the INCF. 

Website:  http://python.g-node.org
Contact:  python-info@g-node.org

Python Training for Scientists and Engineers

Learn NumPy and Much More
=========================

Scientists like Python. If you would like to learn more about
important libraries for scientific applications, you might be
interested in these courses.

The course in Germany covers:

- Overview of libraries
- NumPy
- Data storage with text files, Excel, netCDF and HDF5
- matplotlib
- Object oriented programming for scientists
- Problem solving session

The course in the USA covers all this plus:

- Extending Python in other languages
- Version control
- Unit testing


More details below.

If you have any questions about the courses, please contact me.

Mike


Python for Scientists and Engineers (Germany)
---------------------------------------------

A three-day course covering all the basic tools scientists and engineers need.
This course requires basic Python knowledge.

Date: 19.01.-21.01.2012
Location: Leipzig, Germany
Trainer: Mike Müller
Course Language: English
Link: http://www.python-academy.com/courses/python_course_scientists.html


Python for Scientists and Engineers (USA)
-----------------------------------------

This is an extend version of our well-received course for
scientists and engineers. Five days of intensive training
will give you a solid basis for using Python for scientific
an technical problems.

The course is hosted by David Beazley (http://www.dabeaz.com).

Date: 27.02.-02.03.2012
Location: Chicago, IL, USA
Trainer: Mike Müller
Course Language: English
Link: http://www.dabeaz.com/chicago/science.html

The 3rd UHF User Meeting

Minneapolis, MN // October 16-18, 2011

The 3rd UHF User Meeting  

• Welcome
• Register
• Agenda
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• Directions and Destination Information

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

SCO2012 and PyHPC2011: Python in science

ESCO 2012 - European Seminar on Coupled Problems
=================================================

ESCO2012 http://esco2012.femhub.com/ is the 3rd event in a series of
interdisciplineary meetings dedicated to computational science challenges
in multi-physics and PDEs.

I was invited as ESCO last year. It was an aboslute pleasure, because it
is a small conference that is very focused on discussions. I learned a
lot and could sit down with people who code top notch PDE libraries such
as FEniCS and have technical discussions. Besides, it is hosted in the
historical brewery where the Pilsner was invented. Plenty of great beer.

Application areas
------------------

Theoretical results as well as applications are welcome. Application
areas include, but are not limited to: Computational electromagnetics,
Civil engineering, Nuclear engineering, Mechanical engineering,
Computational fluid dynamics, Computational geophysics, Geomechanics and
rock mechanics, Computational hydrology, Subsurface modeling,
Biomechanics, Computational chemistry, Climate and weather modeling, Wave
propagation, Acoustics, Stochastic differential equations, and
Uncertainty quantification.

Minisymposia
* Multiphysics and Multiscale Problems in Civil Engineering
* Modern Numerical Methods for ODE
* Porous Media Hydrodynamics
* Nuclear Fuel Recycling Simulations
* Adaptive Methods for Eigenproblems
* Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Electromagnetics
* Undergraduate Projects in Technical Computing

Software afternoon
-------------------

Important part of each ESCO conference is a software afternoon featuring
software projects by participants. Presented can be any computational
software that has reached certain level of maturity, i.e., it is used
outside of the author's institution, and it has a web page and a user
documentation. 

Proceedings
-----------

For each ESCO we strive to reserve a special issue of an international
journal with impact factor. Proceedings of ESCO 2008 appeared in Math.
Comput. Simul., proceedings of ESCO 2010 in CiCP and Appl. Math. Comput.
Proceedings of ESCO 2012 will appear in Computing.

Important Dates
* December 15, 2011: Abstract submission deadline.
* December 15, 2011: Minisymposia proposals.
* January 15, 2012: Notification of acceptance.

PyHPC: Python for High performance computing
--------------------------------------------

If you are doing super computing, SC11, (
http://sc11.supercomputing.org/) the Super Computing conference is the
reference conference. This year there will a workshop on high performance
computing with Python: PyHPC
(http://www.dlr.de/sc/desktopdefault.aspx/tabid-1183/1638_read-31733/).

At the scipy conference, I was having a discussion with some of the
attendees on how people often still do process management and I/O with
Fortran in the big computing environment. This is counter productive.
However, has success stories of supercomputing folks using high-level
languages are not advertized, this is bound to stay. Come and tell us
how you use Python for high performance computing!

Topics
* Python-based scientific applications and libraries
* High performance computing
* Parallel Python-based programming languages
* Scientific visualization
* Scientific computing education
* Python performance and language issues
* Problem solving environments with Python
* Performance analysis tools for Python application

Papers

We invite you to submit a paper of up to 10 pages via the submission
site. Authors are encouraged to use IEEE two column format.

Important Dates
* Full paper submission: September 19, 2011
* Notification of acceptance: October 7, 2011
* Camera-ready papers: October 31, 2011

Hull York Medical School - Chair in Neuroscience

The Hull York Medical School is seeking candidates for a full
Professorship in Neuroscience

full details can be obtained from
http://www.hyms.ac.uk/jobs/leading_researchers.aspx

This post is part of a strategic plan to develop a research portfolio
within the newly formed HYMS Centre for Neuroscience, one of five
interactive and dynamic centres within the Medical School. The
successful candidate for this post will have an outstanding research
record demonstrating their commitment to research, innovative
leadership, teaching and learning. He or she will be expected to exploit
the considerable opportunities for collaborative research with
colleagues and existing research teams in the Universities of Hull and York.

The individual will have a specific remit to complement and enhance the
research activities of the Wellcome-Wolfson Centre for Hyperpolarisation
in MRI. The Centre is a new facility being developed within the
University of York. It has been formed to take a major advance in
molecular imaging from the bench to the bedside. The facility will house
state-of-the-art preclinical scanning facilities, NMR, DNP and extensive
synthetic and analytical chemistry capabilities, that support the
development of the use of nuclear spin hyperpolarisation in a wide range
of biomolecules, models of disease processes and eventually, in clinical
practice.

Candidates with expertise in the study of molecular or imaging
neuroscience are particularly encouraged to apply, although any research
programme that extends our current strengths of neuroscience, imaging
and chemistry would be considered. In addition to the development of a
research programme, the post holders will contribute to the teaching of
neuroscience and imaging science to undergraduate students studying
medicine and biomedical science.

Enquiries should be directed to Prof Tony Kendrick, Dean of HYMS,
email:Tony.Kendrick@hyms.ac.uk, Prof. Simon Duckett (Hyperpolarisation)
email sbd3@york.ac.uk, Prof Gary Green (Imaging) email
Gary.Green@york.ac.uk, or Prof Tony Morland (Neurosciences)
Antony.Morland@.york.ac.uk, can be approached with specific enquiries
about the current research environment.

Further details, including an outline Job description and Person
specification, are available in the briefing document.
http://www.hyms.ac.uk/jobs/HYMS_candidate_brief.pdf

How to Apply
If you are ambitious, and have the drive and ability to help us to
continue to develop as a top 10 medical school, we would be delighted to
hear from you. Applicants must have a higher degree (MD/PhD) in a
relevant subject as well as

    * Have significant experience of teaching and research in a higher
education setting;
    * Have a strong record of peer reviewed publications;
    * Have a strong record of successful competitive applications for
externally funded research including as Principal/Chief Investigator.


Salary will depend on the level of appointment, and whether clinical or
non-clinical.

The closing date for applications is 10 October 2011.

-- Gary Green

York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Innovation Way
Heslington
York
YO10 5DG


http://www.ynic.york.ac.uk
https://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/about-us/people/ggrg

tel. +44 (0) 1904 435349
PA - Claire Fox :  +44 (0) 1904 435329  or Claire.Fox@ynic.york.ac.uk

fax  +44 (0) 1904 435356
mobile +44 (0) 788 191 3004

2011 MICCAI Workshop on
Multi-Atlas Labeling and Statistical Fusion (MALSF'11)

Thursday, September 22th, 2011, 8am to 12pm 
Westin Harbour Castle, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Website: https://masi.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/workshop/
Paper submission deadline: June 3rd, 2011

CALL FOR PAPERS

Characterization of anatomical structure through segmentation has become essential for morphological assessment and localizing quantitative measures. Yet, determining consistent and valid segmentations remains a challenging technical and research objective. Manual labeling paradigms are time consuming and limited by inter- and intra-expert variability, while, appearance modeling approaches are difficult to generalize and susceptible to variations in image acquisition parameters and the artifacts.

Segmentation through registration and atlas label transfer has proven to be a flexible and fruitful approach as efficient, non-rigid image registration methods have become prevalent. Label transfer segmentation using multiple atlases has helped to bring statistical fusion, shape modeling, and meta-analysis techniques to the forefront of segmentation research. New innovations at each stage of analysis, from atlas creation, atlas selection/rejection, registration, fusion, modeling, and meta-analysis will be essential for continued success and translation into the clinic. The workshop will provide a snapshot of the current progress in the field.

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 methods 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

Papers accepted at the main conference may not be double-submitted to MALSF'11.

ORGANIZERS

Bennett Landman, Vanderbilt URL
Simon Warfield, Harvard URL

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Paul Aljabar, Imperial College London URL
Benoit Dawant, Vanderbilt URL
Dzung Pham, Henry M. Jackson Foundation URL
Jerry Prince, Johns Hopkins URL
Torsten Rohlfing, Stanford URL
Dinggang Shen UNC Chapel Hill URL
T. Robin Langerak, Utrecht URL
Paul Thompson URL
Paul Yushkevich, UPENN URL

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission 6/3/2011 11:59:00 PM PDT
Review Deadline 7/1/2011 5:00:00 PM
Author Notification 7/8/2011 5:00:00 PM
Camera Ready Proof 7/13/2011 5:00:00 PM
Workshop 9/22/2011 AM Session

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Papers submitted to the workshop should conform to the MICCAI formatting instructions, with few minor modifications explained below:
* Papers should be in the LNCS style
* Suggested length is 8 pages, maximum length is 12 pages
* Submitted in PDF format
* Color illustrations in the PDF are not subject to fees
* Details of the online submission system will be announced shortly on the workshop webpage
* https://masi.vuse.vanderbilt.edu/workshop

We look forward to seeing you in Toronto!
MALSF'11 organizers

Python in Neuroscience satellite 2011 
Paris, Ecole Normale Supérieure, August 29-30 2011 (after Euroscipy) 
The “Python in Neuroscience” workshop aims at gathering researchers who
develop or use software tools in different branches of neuroscience in
order to share ideas, concepts, tools and to foster collaborative
projects based on the Python language. 

Main Topics 
============

* tools for neural simulation, 
* electrophysiology data analysis, 
* data management and databasing in neuroimaging and neuroscience, 
* stimulus generation 
* neuroimaging data processing 
* workflows and pipelines for data processing 
* massive computation facilities for simulation and data analysis in 
  neuroscience 
* visualization tools in neuroscience and neuroimaging 

Call for Contributions 
========================

We are soliciting contributions that deal with the above topics using
Python tools, including research projects and software presentations,
with the hope of interesting a broader community, including e.g.
neuroscience and neuroimaging. 

Important dates
================

Abstract submission deadline: June 1st, 2011 
Final program: June 30th, 2011 
Workshop: August 28-20, 2011 
Submission guidelines 
* We solicit talk proposals in the form of a one-page long abstract. 
* The condition for acceptance is that the abstract fits well with the 
  workshop theme. 
* Oral and poster presentations will be allocated depending on the number of 
  contributions. 

Website 
http://pythonneuro.sciencesconf.org/ 
Contact: bertrand.thirion@inria.fr 

Chairs 
* Bertrand Thirion (INRIA Saclay) 
* Romain Brette (ENS Paris) 
Program committee 
* Eilif Müller, Blue Brain Project, EPFL Laussane 
* Gaël Varoquaux, INSERM U992, Saclay 
* Raphaël Ritz, INCF, Stockholm, Sweden 
* Laurent Perrinet, INCM, Marseille 
* Andrew Davison, UNIC, CNRS, Gif

Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Stanford University Functional Imaging in Neuropsychiatric Disorders (FIND) Lab

Stanford FIND Lab (http://findlab.stanford.edu), under the direction of Michael Greicius, is seeking to hire a postdoctoral fellow for a minimum two-year position. The fellowship will focus on (1) developing a deeper understanding of the genetic basis of functional brain networks in humans and (2) developing brain network imaging measures for the study of neuropsychiatric disorders. The fellow will work closely with Dr. Greicius in developing novel approaches to the analysis of functional brain networks through the study of several datasets including the Allen Institute Human Brain Atlas (http://human.brain-map.org), the ADNI dataset (http://adni.loni.ucla.edu), and several FIND Lab datasets. The ideal candidate will have a strong methods background in imaging genetics or related fields (neurogenetics, imaging, computational neuroscience) coupled with excellent writing skills. Extensive programming experience and/or expertise in classification algorithms would constitute additional advantages and could compensate for less experience in imaging genetics. MDs, PhDs, or MD/PhDs are all encouraged to apply. Interested candidates should email Dr. Greicius directly, greicius@stanford.edu , with a cover letter and CV. Qualified candidates will be asked to have 3 letters of reference forwarded to Dr. Greicius. The position can begin as early as May 1, 2011.

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.