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2016 SINAPSE ASM: Register now!
Register now to book your place for the 2016 SINAPSE Annual Scientific Meeting. The programme is now available, featuring a keynote presentation by Dr Jon Simons from the University of Cambridge and stimulating presentations from SINAPSE members in short talks and poster sessions. Programme and more details...
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Postdoctoral and Early Career Research Exchanges
SINAPSE funds are available for early career researchers using medical imaging technologies to spend at least one month with partner organisations in Europe, North America, India or China, in academic year 2015-16 or 2016-17.
Apply by 31 May 2016 for awards of up to £7,500 which can be used to provide research training and development opportunities while at the same time building experience of international collaboration with academia and/or industry.
Additionally, funds from the Pools Engagement in European Research (PEER) scheme are available for supporting SINAPSE members to participate in and compete for European funding. Informal enquiries can be directed to kristin.flegal@glasgow.ac.uk.
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Age-specific atlases of T1 brain MRI
The Brain Imaging of Normal Subjects (BRAINS) project at the University of Edinburgh has developed seven age-specific atlases of T1 brain MRI from 25 to 92 years, free to download through Edinburgh DataShare.
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BHF grant success for Adriana Tavares
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Dr Adriana Tavares was one of the first ever SINAPSE students and is now Head of Preclinical PET/CT at Edinburgh Preclinical Imaging. She has been awarded a British Heart Foundation project grant worth over £100K for a proposal titled 'Novel imaging biomarker for detecton of regional cardiovascular inflammation using Positron Emission Tomography (PET)'. Congratulations, Adriana!
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Public lecture by Tom MacGillivray available to watch online
Dr Tom MacGillivray from the University of Edinburgh was a keynote speaker last month in the InnovationNation public lecture series held at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre. His presentation on retinal imaging in clinical research, titled 'Eye Spy: Advances in Neuroimaging the Eye', is now available to watch online.
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Image of the Month: 7T fMRI cortical layers
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Our May Image of the Month, courtesy of Prof Lars Muckli, shows a surface reconstruction of human visual cortex overlaid with grid lines depicting cortical depths from superficial (red) to deep (purple) layers. Using high-field, high-resolution fMRI at 7 Tesla, Prof Muckli’s group showed for the first time that the brain’s internal representations of the world are fed back to superficial layers of sensory cortex.
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SINAPSE Member Profile: Dr David Alexander Dickie
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David Alexander Dickie is a postdoctoral researcher predominantly based in Glasgow but employed by the Brain Research Imaging Centre, Edinburgh and SINAPSE. Working under the direction of Prof Joanna M. Wardlaw CBE, David is interested in modifiable targets for neurodegeneration, e.g., lipids and lifestyle choices. Mainly using structural MRI, David designs processing pipelines for extracting the brain features associated with neurodegeneration, e.g., white matter hyperintensities. He is currently working on projects aimed at stratified diagnoses of vascular versus Alzheimer's dementia, understanding age-related brain changes and cognition (Lothian Birth Cohorts), and building reference standards for assessment of brain MRI (BRAINS Bank). As well as his academic interests, David is a director of Data Driven Analytics (http://www.dd-analytics.com/) a company specialising in customised brain image processing pipelines.
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Upcoming Events
2016 UK PET Chemistry meeting
4 May 2016 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
Scottish Radiological Society Spring Meeting
20 May 2016 from 9:00 AM to 4:15 PM
Kingsknowes Hotel, Galashiels, The Scottish Borders
Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA) Annual Gathering
25 May 2016 from 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM
Technology Innovation Centre, Glasgow
Translational Medicine student CDT conference
31 May - 1 June 2016
John McIntyre Conference Centre, Edinburgh
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