Professor Wardlaw awarded CBE - Winning entry from SINAPSE in IOP video competition - RSE funding awarded for SINAPSE research collaboration with Taiwan - RSE-MoST Joint Project scheme - Image of the Month - SINAPSE Member Profile - 2016 SINAPSE ASM
Scottish Imaging Network: A Platform for Scientific Excellence
Happy New Year and best wishes for 2016!
Professor Wardlaw awarded CBE
Congratulations to Professor Joanna Wardlaw, who has been awarded a CBE for services to neuroimaging and clinical science in the Queen’s New Year Honours list 2016. More details...
Winning entry from SINAPSE in IOP video competition
In the winning entry from SINAPSE in the International Year of Light video competition held by the Institute of Physics (IOP) in Scotland, Dr James Cameron explains how light is used in his retinal imaging research. More details (and video!)...
RSE funding awarded for SINAPSE research collaboration with Taiwan
Dr Gordon Waiter and Dr David Dickie have been awarded International Exchange Grants by the Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) to to travel to Taiwan for an international research collaboration on diffusion MRI data analysis. More details...
RSE-MoST Joint Project scheme: Call for applications
A call for joint projects in fields relevant to SINAPSE research has been issued for bilateral exchanges between Scotland and Taiwan. The funding scheme runs for two years and covers travel, subsistence and research expenses. More details...
Image of the Month: Retinal imaging displacement field
Our January Image of the Month, courtesy of Dr Adria Perez Rovira and Prof Emanuele Trucco, shows false-colour visualization of the quality of an automatic registration for retinal angiographic images from an OPTOS scanning laser ophthalmoscope.
More submissions needed! Please help us continue to publicise Scottish imaging research by e-mailing your interesting and impressive images to kristin.flegal@glasgow.ac.uk, including an image credit and short descriptive caption for each one (and optionally a link to your research webpage).
SINAPSE Member Profile: DrMagdalenaIetswaart
Magdalena Ietswaart is a neuropsychologist and cognitive neuroscientist in Psychology at the University of Stirling. Beside MRI, research questions in her lab are answered using brain stimulation (TMS and tDCS) and (mobile) EEG as well as behavioural techniques such as eye-movements and movement kinematics and behavioural lesion studies in neurological patients. Basic science in her lab centres primarily around perception and action ranging from visuomotor function to social neuroscience. Her applied work is on motor rehabilitation and more recently on brain injury diagnostics too. She works collaboratively towards mobile neuroimaging solutions to investigate more real-world cognition. She is interested in brain plasticity both with regards to cognitive architecture and changes of function in stroke, traumatic brain injury, and abnormal development such as autism. Due to the increasing societal challenge of dementia she wants to contribute to mobilising the neuroscience community to answer perhaps by clarifying the role of plasticity in delaying dementia onset. She is very interested in collaborating in particular on understanding the normal brain through the study of people with brain damage and work towards evidence-based changes in practice. For details on research activity see https://sites.google.com/site/magdalenaietswaart/home
2016 SINAPSE ASM
Date for your diary: the 2016 SINAPSE Annual Scientific Meeting will be held at the University of Stirling on Friday, 17 June 2016. More details to follow.
