2014 NSF Workshop on Noninvasive Imaging of Brain Function

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23-July TENTATIVE SCHEDULE  
8:00 - 8:20 am Breakfast  
8:20 - 8:40 am Welcome Remarks

Shashank Priya, Pramod Khargonekar, Samir El-Ghazaly, Grace Wang

8:40 - 8:50 am Introduction and Overview Thomas Bifano
  Technical Session 1: Imaging Modalities  
8:50 - 9:00 am Topic Introduction John Kitching
9:00 - 9:30 am New directions in noninvasive studies of brain function Yoshio Okada
9:30 - 10:00 am Dynamic imaging of multi-scale neural system John George
10:00 - 10:30 am Low-field MRI for Non-invasive imaging of brain function Matthew Rosen
10:30 -11:20 am Coffee Break and Poster Session (20-25 to bring posters)  
11:20 am - Noon Related Topic Guest Speaker - The depth and speed limitation of in vivo, non-invasive optical imaging of mouse brain Chris Xu
Noon - 1:10 Lunch  
  Technical Session 2 : Sensors and Nanoreceptors I  
1:10 - 1:20 pm Topic Introduction Mikhail Shapiro
1:20 - 1:50 pm Noninvasive imaging of brain function Ð think quantum Ronald Walsworth
1:50 - 2:20 pm Nanofabricated magnetoelectric sensor arrays for room temperature magnetoencephalogyaphy Nian Sun
2:20 - 2:50 pm Molecular engineering for noninvasive imaging of brain function Mikhail Shapiro
2:50 -3:30 pm Coffee Break and Poster Session  
3:30 - 5:00 pm Breakout sessions and debrief Session Leaders
  Imaging Modalities John Kitching
  Sensors and Nanoreceptors Mikhail Shapiro
  Algorithms and Computational Approaches Srikantan Nagarajan
5:30 - 7:30 pm Dinner Talk: Technologies for controlling neural circuit dynamics Xue Han
24-July    
8:00 - 8:30 am Breakfast  
8:30 - 8:40 am Summary of Day 1, Goals for Day 2 Thomas Bifano
  Technical Session 3: Sensors and Nanoreceptors II  
8:40 - 9:10 am Towards noninvasive high-resolution and whole-brain neuroimaging: can it include constituents not native to the brain? Cort Johnson
9:10 - 9:40 am Microfabricated atomic magnetometers for next-generation brain imaging Svenja Knappe
9:40 - 10:10 am Sub-femtotesla scalar atomic magnetometers for magnetoencephalography Michael Romalis
10:10 -10:30 am Coffee Break  
10:30 am - Noon Government Panel

Moderator: Read Montague, Panel: George Haddad (NSF), Sohi Rastegar (NSF), Shashank Priya (NSF), Richard Conroy (NIH), Steven Grant (NIH)

Noon - 1:10 Lunch  
1:10 - 1:50 pm Related Topic Guest Speaker - Mechanisms of mild traumatic brain injury and chronic traumatic encephalopathy Lee Goldstein
  Technical Session 4: Algorithms and Computational Approaches  
1:50 - 2:00 pm Topic Introduction Srikantan Nagarajan
2:00 - 2:30 pm Beyond Voxels: Direct imaging of functional networks Eric Wong
2:30 - 3:00 pm High temporal, spatial and algorithmically explicit representation of the human brain: When, where and what of visual recognition Aude Oliva
3:00 - 3:30 pm Machine learning algorithms for next generation MEG and EEG systems Srikantan Nagarajan
3:30 -3:50 pm Coffee Break  
3:50 - 4:30 pm Summary and Workshop Outcomes Discussion  

Workshop point of contact: Thomas Bifano, 617-353-8908, tgb@bu.edu

 

 

 

 

 

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