Seminars & Training

2024 Seminars

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Oct 14, 2024: Marianna E. Schmidt

Marianna E. Schmidt

Selective Functional Connectivity between Ocular Dominance Columns in Humans

PhD Candidate, Department of Neurophysics, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences Max Planck School of Cognition | Leipzig, Germany


Host: Essa Yacoub 
Monday October 14, 2024, 12:00PM 

Aug 8, 2024: Jonathan Polimeni

Jonathan Polimeni, PhD

Have we reached the resolution limits in human fMRI? Investigating microvascular influences in high-resolution fMRI data

Associate Professor, Department of Radiology, Magnetic Resonance Physics & Instrumentation Group, Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Harvard Medical School


Host: Luca Vizioli

Thursday August 8, 2024, 1:30PM

Aug 6, 2024: Jiaen Liu

Jiaen Liu, PhD

Advanced MRI towards in-vivo histology

Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology. Advanced Imaging Research Center, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center


Host: Xiaoping Wu

Tuesday August 6, 2024, 12:00PM

Jul 29, 2024: Dean F. Darnell & Olivia J. Dickinson

Dean F. Darnell, PhD

Scalable Wireless MRI Design for High-Channel Count RF Coil Arrays

Assistant Professor, Departments of Radiology and Electrical & Computer Engineering, Associate Director for Hardware Development, Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, Director of Graduate Studies, Duke Medical Physics Graduate Program, Duke University


Olivia J. Dickinson

Wireless MR Image Data Transfer over Cellular Networks using an Integrated/radio-frequency Wireless Spiral Coil for Low-Field Portable MR Scanners

PhD Candidate, Medical Physics Program, MS Candidate, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Brain Imaging and Analysis Center, Duke University


Host: Gregor Adriany
Monday July 29, 2024, 12:00PM

May 20, 2024: Farhad Jafari

Farhad Jafari, PhD, DABR

MR and Sums of Exponentials

Professor, Physicist, Medical Physics Division, Department of Radiology, University of Minnesota Medical School


Monday May 20, 2024, 12:00PM 
Host: Kamil Ugurbil

Feb 5, 2024: Walter Schneider

Walter Schneider, Ph.D.

Why Millimeter Connectome Mapping is Near Chance and How to Potentially Make Accurate Connectome Maps

Professor of Psychology, Bioengineering, Neurosurgery, & Radiology University of Pittsburgh & University of Pittsburgh Medical Center 


Monday February 5, 2024, 12:00PM 

Host: Kamil Ugurbil 

Jan 29, 2024: Natalie Schön

Natalie Schön, M.Sc. 
The Impact of Respiratory Motion on Electromagnetic Fields at Ultra-high Field Cardiac MRI 
PhD Candidate in Physics, Otto von Guericke Universität, Magdeburg, Germany Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (National Metrology Institute)


Monday January 29, 2024, 12:00PM 
Host: Greg Metzger 
 

Previous Seminars

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2023 Seminars

January 23, 2023, Noon, Hybrid, Jeffrey Min-In Yau - Baylor College of Medicine
Bimanual Touch and Cue Integration in the Somatosensory Cortical System
 

January 30, 2023, Noon, Hybrid, Renee Frontiera - University of Minnesota
Super-Resolution and Chemically-Specific Raman Imaging
 

February 20, 2023, Noon, Hybrid, Chen Guo - University of Minnesota
The Development of Novel Hydrogels for Trans-Arterial Embolization
 

March 06, 2023, 1:30pm, Hybrid, Rianne A. van der Heijden - University of Wisconsin-Madison
Advanced Quantitative Imaging for Musculoskeletal Pain, with a Special Focus on DCE
 

March 20, 2023, Noon, Hybrid, Hye Yoon Park - University of Minnesota
Imaging Engram Dynamics in a Live Mouse Brain
 

April 24, 2023, Noon, Hybrid, Yongsoo Kim - Penn State University
Brain-Wide Organization of the Cerebrovascular Network and Related Neuronal Cell Types in Young and Aged Mouse Brains
 

May 15, 2023, Noon, Hybrid, Jeff Tithof - University of Minnesota
In-Vivo Measurements of Cerebrospinal Fluid Flow: Novel Insights into Neurological Disorders 

2022 Seminars

April 18, 2022, Noon, Zoom, Hai-Ling Margaret Cheng - Institute of Biomedical Engineering
New MR Contrast Agents and Contrast Mechanisms for Tracking Biomaterials and Cells
 

May 23, 2022, Noon, Zoom, Zuzan Cayci - University of Minnesota
Clinical Use of 7T in Neurological Diseases
 

July 28, 2022, 10:00am, Zoom, Ana Dos Santos Silva - Maastricht University
Investigating the Effects of Neurodevelopmental Copy Number Variants (CNVs) on Brain
 

August 01, 2022, Noon, Zoom, Christoph Schildknecht ? Institute for Biomedical Engineering, ETH Zurich and University of Zurich
Wireless Prospective Head Motion Correction with Short-Wave Radiofrequency
 

November 14, 2022, Noon, Hybrid, Hybrid, Vaughan G. Macefield - Baker Department of Cardiometabolic Health, University of Melbourne
Functional Identification of Human Brainstem Nuclei Involved in the Control of Blood Pressure and the Processing of Pain
 

December 19, 2022, Noon, Hybrid, Brett Levac - University of Texas at Austin
Robust MRI Reconstruction using Deep Generative Models

2021 Seminars

February 08, 2021, 1:30PM, Zoom, Pramod Pisharady
Development of Computational Methods for White Matter Characterization and Neurodegenerative Diseases
 

March 08, 2021, 1:00pm, Zoom, Taner Akkin - University of Minnesota
Label-Free Optical Imaging for Mapping the Brain
 

March 29, 2021, 1:00pm, Zoom, Melissa Terpstra - University of Minnesota
Biochemistry Underlying the Human Connectome
 

April 12, 2021, 1:00pm, Zoom, Igor Nestrasil - University of Minnesota
Quantitative Tracking of the Disease Progression in Adrenoleukodystrophy
 

May 03, 2021, 1:00pm, Zoom, Kathryn Cullen - University of Minnesota
Functional MRI in Depression and Self-Injury in Adolescents
 

November 01, 2021, 1:00pm, Zoom, Hossein Nazari - University of Minnesota
Retina as a Window to the Brain: A Noninvasive Optical Imaging Approach to Study

2020 Seminars

January 06, 2020, Noon, Zoom, Gulin Oz - University of Minnesota
A Journey in Translation
 

January 13, 2020, Noon, Zoom, Laura Lewis - Boston University
Fast Multimodal Imaging of Neural and Physiological Dynamics Across Sleep and
 

March 13, 2020, Noon, Seminar Room 2-102, Audrey Sederberg, PhD - Emory University
Complex function without complex structure: constraining models in the era of big data
 

March 16, 2020, Noon, Seminar Room 2-102, Risto A. Kauppinen, M.D., Ph.D. - University of Bristol, UK
Angular Dependence of T1 in White Matter: Potential Mechanisms?
 

March 30, 2020, 1:30PM, Zoom, Isaac Adanyeguh - University of Minnesota
Biomarkers Identification in Spinocerebellar Ataxias & Infections Disease and Bats
 

April 06, 2020, 1:30pm, Zoom, Ivan Tkac - University of Minnesota
Mouse Model of Chronic Exposures to Ultra-High Magnetic Fields
 

April 13, 2020, 1:30PM, Zoom, Gosia Marjanska - University of Minnesota
The First in vivo Detection of Cystathionine: Novel Signature of Glioma Genetics
 

April 20, 2020, 1:30pm, Zoom, Yigitcan Eryman - University of Minnesota
Improving RF Safety in MRI
 

April 27, 2020, 1:30pm, Zoom, Dinesh Deelchand - University of Minnesota
Prospective Motion and B0 Shim Correction in MRS
 

May 11, 2020, Noon, Zoom, Kenneth Latimer, Post Doctoral Researcher, University of Chicago
Linking data to theory in the primate parietal cortex with statistical models
 

May 18, 2020, Noon Zoom, Joseph Monaco - Johns Hopkins University
Computational approaches to the neural dynamics of time, memory, and behavior
 

June 22, 2020, Noon Zoom, Thomas Naselaris - Medical University of South Carolina
Bring the noise: Exploring the structure and meaning of stimulus-independent brain activity
 

June 29, 2020, 1:30PM, Zoom, Kendrick Kay - University of Minnesota
The Natural Scenes Dataset (NSD): Massive High-Quality Whole-Brain 7T MRI during
 

July 12, 2020, 1:30PM Zoom, Burhaneddin Yaman
Learning to Reconstruct without Ground Truth Data
 

August 03, 2020, 1:30PM Zoom, Hamza Farooq
Network Curvature as Hallmark of Brain Structural Connectivity
 

November 02, 2020, Noon, Zoom, Yatang Li, PhD - CalTech
Synaptic Computation and Population Coding for Visual Processing
 

November 20, 2020, 1PM, Zoom, David Hildebrand, Rockefeller University
Developing calcium imaging approaches for the characterization of marmoset face patches
 

November 23, 2020, Noon, Zoom, Assaf Tal - Weizmann Institute of Science
From Function to Cognition: New Spectroscopic Tools for Studying Brain Neurochemistry In-Vivo