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Past and Upcoming
Events and Guest Speakers
(listed in reverse chronological order)
                    2008.4.1
 Amishi Jha
University of Pennsylvania

East Hall-Room 4448, 4th Floor

Colloquium Room

3:30-5:00 p.m.
                  2008.3.11
 Silvia Bunge
University of California at Berkeley

East Hall-Room 4448, 4th Floor

Colloquium Room

3:30-5:00 p.m.
                     2008.2.19
 Peter A. Bandettini
NIMH (National Institute of Mental Health)

East Hall-Room 4448, 4th Floor

Colloquium Room

3:30-5:00 p.m.
                    2007.10.23
 Stephen LaConte
Baylor College of Medicine at Houston

East Hall-Room 4448, 4th Floor

Colloquium Room

3:30-5:00 p.m.
2007.09.29 - 30 2007 Regional Symposium on MRI
September 28 - 29, 2007
Holiday Inn
3600 Plymouth Road • Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Agenda
2007.3.13

Charan Ranganath

University of California at Davis

East Hall-Room 4448, 4th Floor

Colloquium Room

3:30-5:00 p.m.
2007.2.13

Julien Doyon

University of Montreal

East Hall-Room 4448, 4th Floor

Colloquium Room

3:30-5 p.m.

2006.11.8

Peter Van Zijl

The John Hopkins University

East Hall-Room 4448, 4th Floor

Colloquium Room

3:30-5 p.m.

2006.09.22

Functional MRI Fall Symposium 2006

Johnson Rooms B&C, 3rd Floor

Robert H. Lurie Engineering Center (LEC)

1:00-1:30 

Susan Bowyer-Henry Ford Hospital
"MEG the other functional imaging technique"

1:30-2:00 

Rachael Seidler-UM
"Motor Generalization Differs From Motor Acquisition"

2:00-2:15 Break

2:15-2:45 

Scott Peltier-UM
"Changes in Rest: Investigations in Functional Connectivity"


2:45-3:15 

Oliver Schultheiss-UM
"Effects of Implicit Power Motivation on Brain Activation Patterns in
Response to Perceived Facial Expressions: An fMRI Study"

3:15-3:30 Break

3:30-4:00 

Luis Hernandez-UM
"Footprints of Causality"

4:00-4:30

Richard Harris-UM
"Functional Imaging in Fibromyalgia: a tale of three modalities"
2006.03.14
 3:30-5:00 p.m.
John Gore
Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science
East Hall, room 4448, Colloquium Room, 4th Floor
2006.02.14
 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Daniel Rowe
Medical College of Wisconsin
East Hall, room 4448, Colloquium Room, 4th Floor
2006.01.10
 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Julie Fiez
University of Pittsburgh
East Hall, room 4448, Colloquium Room, 4th Floor
2005.12.08
 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Angus MacDonald, III
University of Minnesota
East Hall, room 4448, Colloquium Room, 4th Floor
2005.09.30
 Functional MRI Fall Symposium 2005
East Hall, room 4448, Colloquium Room, 4th Floor
 
 
    9:45-10:00  
    Introductions

   10:00-10:30     
    “Connectivity”
    Robert Welsh, University of Michigan
 
   10:30-11:00     
    “Three-dimensional Tailored RF Pulses for Recovering BOLD  fMRI Signal Dropouts”
    Chun-Yu Yip, University of Michigan

   11:00-11:15     
    Break, light refreshments

    11:15-11:45     
    “Identifying Prognostic MRI Biomarkers for Diabetic Retinopathy and its Drug Treatment Response”
    Bruce Berkowitz, Wayne State University School of Medicine
 
    11:45-12:15     
    “Psychophysical and fMRI Studies of Fibromyalgia”
    Richard H. Gracely, University of Michigan Health System, VAMC

    12:15-1:45       
    Lunch Buffet, 3rd Floor Terrace
 
    1:45-2:15         
    “Statistical Signal Processing for fMRI:  A Review and a Preview”
    Victor Solo, University of Michigan
 
    2:15-2:45         
    “Mapping Individual Slices to a Volume:  Corrections for Motion Artifacts in fMRI”
    Boklye Kim, University of Michigan
 
    2:45-3:00         
    Break, light refreshments
 
    3:00-3:30         
    “Imaging the Placebo Response to Pain”
    Laura Symonds, Michigan State University
 
    3:30-4:00         
    “fMRI Investigation of Vulnerability Factors for Substance Abuse in Children and Adolescents”
    Mary Heitzeg, University of Michigan
 
    4:00-4:30         
    “Exploring Theories of Depression Using fMRI: Top-Down or Bottom-up Dysfunction?”
    Scott Langenecker, University of Michigan
 
    4:30-4:45         
    Closing Remarks
2005.03.22
 Steven Yantis
Johns Hopkins University
3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
East Hall, Room 4448, 4th Floor
Colloquium Room
2005.02.15
 David Alsop
Harvard Medical School
3:30 – 5:00 p.m.
East Hall, Room 4448, 4th Floor
Colloquium Room
2005.01.18
 Todd Braver
Washington University, St. Louis
1/18/05, Tuesday
East Hall, Room 4448, 4th Floor
Colloquium Room
2004.12.16
 Marsel Mesulam
Northwestern University
Co-Hosted by Neuroscience, Neurology and the Functional MRI Lab
Time, location TBA
2004.11.10
 Elizabeth Kensinger
Harvard University
4:15 – 5:45 p.m.
East Hall, Room 4448

2004.10.01
Functional MRI Fall Symposium 2004
East Hall, room 4448
9:30-9:45    Continental Breakfast, 3rd Floor Terrace

9:45-10:00    Introductions

10:00-10:30    "Nature and Nurture in the Neural Organization of High-level Vision"
Thad Polk, University of Michigan

10:30-11:00    "Explaining the Timing and Magnitude of the Amygdalar BOLD Response in Specific Phobia"
Christine Larson, Michigan State University

11:00-11:15    Break, light refreshments

11:15-11:45    "Current Problems in Diffusion Tensor Imaging"
Robert Welsh, University of Michigan

11:45-12:15    "Conjunction Inference Problems and New Solutions"
Thomas Nichols, University of Michigan

12:15-1:45    Lunch Buffet, 3rd Floor Terrace

1:45-2:15     "Brain Aging:  Individual Differences and Modifiers"
Naftali Raz, Wayne State University

2:15-2:45    "Artifact Free fMRI of Inferior Brain Structures - Corrections for Magnetic Susceptibility Artifacts"
Douglas Noll, University of Michigan

2:45-3:00    Break, light refreshments

3:00-3:30    "Turbo ASL:  Mapping CBF Changes With Increased Sensitivity and Temporal Resolution"

Gregory Lee, University of Michigan

3:30-3:45    "Robust and Local Nonsphericity Modeling for Second Level PET and fMRI Analysis"
Jeanette Mumford, University of Michigan

4:00-4:15    Closing Remarks
2004.03.09 3:30-5:00 pm
“Exploring the Physiology of Brain Activation with fMRI”
Richard Buxton, Ph.D., Professor of Radiology. Director, Center for Functional MRI, University of California, San Diego
2004.02.10 3:30-5:00 p.m.
"Neuronal Correlates of the Subjective Experience of Pain"
Robert Coghill, Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy, Wake Forest University, School of Medicine
2004.01.13 3:30-5:00 p.m.
"How Accurately Does fMRI Detect Neural Activity"
Seong-Gi Kim, Professor of Neurobiology , Department of Neurobiology, University of Pittsburgh
2003.12.09 3:30-5:00 p.m.
"fMRI of Human Reward Processing"
Brian Knutson, PH.D., Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Stanford University
2003.11.18 3:30-5:00 p.m.
"Structure and Functon of the Human Auditory Cortex: Music and Speech"
Robert Zatorre, Ph.D., Professor Department of Neuropsychology, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University
2003.10.14 3:30-5:00 p.m.
"What's so Special About Human Tool Use"
Scott H. Johnson-Frey, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Dartmouth College
2003.09.26

Functional MRI Fall Symposium 2003
Robert H. Lurie Engineering Center, Johnson Rooms

9:45-10:00
Introductions

10:00-10:30
"Age, Performance and Working Memory"
Patricia Reuter-Lorenz

10:30-11:00
"Working Memory in Sentence Comprehension: New fMRI Data on Classic
Psycholinguistic Phenomena"
Richard Lewis

11:00-11:15
Break

11:15-11:45
"Modeling the BOLD Response including Dependency on Basal CBF"
Alberto Vazquez

11:45-12:15
"Iterative Image Reconstruction for fMRI"
Bradley Sutton

12:15-1:45
Lunch
1:45-2:15
"Meta-analysis of Functional Neuroimaging Data"
Tor Wager

2:15-2:45
"Aging and the Neural Correlates of Successful Picture Encoding"
Angela Gutchess

2:45-3:00
Break

3:00-3:30
"Improving Validity and Power of Cluster Size Inference"
Satoru Hayasaka

3:30-4:00
"Thalamic and Cortical Responses During Pain: Time Series Analysis"
Luis Hernandez

4:00-4:15
Closing Remarks
2003.04.08 3:30-5:00 p.m.
"The Human Amygdala and Episodic Memory"
Elizabeth Phelps, Ph.D., Associate Professor, New York University
2003.03.11 3:30-5:00 p.m.
"Broca's Area Revisited: Selection, Language, and the Inferior Frontal Gyrus"
Sharon L. Thompson-Schill, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neurology, University of Pennsylvania
2003.02.11
 3:30-5:00 p.m.
"Cingulate Cortex Cognition, Emotion, and So Much More"
George Bush, M.D., M.M.Sc., Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Research Fellow in Radiology, Director, Cingulate Cortex Research Lab., Assistant Director, Psychiatric Neuroimaging Research, Harvard Medical School and Massachuesetts General Hospital
003.01.14
3:30-5:00 p.m.
"On the Role of Context in Shaping Neural Processing during Language Comprehension"
Steven Small, Associate Professor of Neurology, Radiology, Psychology, College Member, Committees on Neurobiology and Computational Neuroscience, Co-Director, Brain Research Imaging Center, The University of Chicago
2002.12.10
 3:30-5:00 p.m.
"Disrupting the Brain to Understand and Improve Behavior"
Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Associate Professor of Neurology and Cognitive Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, and Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
2002.11.12
 3:30-5:00 p.m.
"Magnetic Resonance Susceptability Weighted Imaging (SWI)"
Mark Haacke, Ph.D., Professor of Radiology, Director of the MR Center at Harper Hospital, Wayne State University, and Director of the MRI Institute for Biomedical Research, Detroit, MI
2002.10.08
 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Functional Neuroimaging of Cognition and Emotion Using Real-Time fMRI"
Stefan Posse, Assistant Professor, Deaprtment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences, Wayne State University
2002.09.27




Functional MRI Fall Symposium 2002
East Hall, Room 4448
8:00-8:45
Continental Breakfast, 4th Floor Terrace

8:45-9:00
Introductions, Colloquium Room, 4448 East Hall

9:00-9:30
“The Effects of Experience on Cognitive Brain Organization”
Thad Polk, University of Michigan

9:30-10:00
“Separating Motor Learning From Performance Change:  An fMRI Investigation“
Rachael Seidler, University of Michigan

10:00-10:30
“Testing the Resting:  Low-frequency Functional Connectivity in fMRI”
Scott Peltier, University of Michigan

10:30-10:45
Break

10:45-11:15
“Age-related Differences and Age-related Changes in Brain Structure:
Implications for Cognitive Aging”
Naftali Raz, Wayne State University

11:15-11:45
“Age Differences in Neural Mechanisms Associated with Maintenance of
Pictures in Working Memory”
Denise Park, University of Illinois at Urbana -Champaign

11:45-12:15
“On the Functional Anatomy of Language:  Turning a Listener-speaker into a
Reader”
Thomas Carr, Michigan State University
12:15-1:15
Lunch, 4th Floor Terrace

1:15-1:45
“Multiple Perspectives on the Multiple Comparisons Problem:  New Methods for
Thresholding Statistic Images”
Thomas Nichols, University of Michigan

1:45-2:15
“What is Diffusion Tensor Imaging, and Why Do It?”
Robert Welsh, University of Michigan

2:15-2:45
“The Long Road Toward Perfusion Based Functional MRI”
Luis Hernandez, University of Michigan

2:45-3:00
Break3:00-3:30
“Switching Attention and Resolving Interference:  fMRI Measures of Executive Functions”
Ching-Yune Sylvester, University of Michigan

3:30-4:00
“Motivational Influence on Working Memory in Frontal and Parietal Areas”
Stephan Taylor, University of Michigan

4:00-4:30
“An Investigation of the Placebo Effect in fMRI”
Tor Wager, University of Michigan

4:30-6:00     Reception, 4th Floor Terrace
2002.04.09
 3:30-5:00
"Perfusion-Based Functional MRI"
Geoffrey Aguirre, Research Associate, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of  Pennsylvania
2002.03.12
 3:30-5:00 p.m.
"Amygdala, Ambiguity, and Anxiety"
Paul J. Whalen, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology, University of Wisconsin--Madison, W.M. Keck Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior
2002.03.07
 3:30-5:00 p.m.
"Keeping Pain Out of Mind-Neuroimaging Findingd into the Role of Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Human Pain Processing"
Juergen Lorenz, Associate Professor of Physiology, Institute of Physiology, University of Hamburg/Germany
2002.02.12
 3:30-5:00 p.m.
"Never Mind the BOLD, Here's the Session Effects: Generalisability in fMRI"
David McGonigle, Bioimaging Lab, Department of Radiology, University of California, San Francisco, UCSF
2002.01.22
 3:30-5:00 p.m.
"Cognitive Controls Deficits in Schizophrenia Behavioral and  Neuroimaging Investigations"
Deanna Barch, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, Departments of Psychology and Psiychiatry, Washington University
2001.12.11
 3:30-5:00 p.m.
"Functional Topography of the Neural System for Human Working Memory"
Susan M. Courtney, Assistant Professor, Departments of Pyschological and Brain Sciences and Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University
2001.11.06
 3:30-5:00 p.m.
"Neurocognitive Foundations of Memory"
Anthony Wagner, Associate Professor of Cognitive Science, and Center for Learning and Memory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology-MIT
2001.10.09
 3:30-5:00 p.m.
"How Attention and Learning Interact with Visual Perception"
Marvin M. Chun, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Center for Integrative and Cognitive Neuroscience, and Vision Research Center, Vanderbilt University
2001.09.28



Functional MRI Fall Symposium 2001
 4448 East Hall, Colloquium Room
8:30 – 9:00 a.m.    Continental Breakfast
    4th Floor Terrace

9:00 – 9:15 a.m.    Introductions
John Jonides, Professor of Psychology and Co-Director, Functional MRI Laboratory

9:15 – 9:30 a.m.    Remarks
Marvin Parnes
Associate Vice President and Executive Director for Research Administration, Division of Research Development and Administration

9:30 – 10:30 a.m.  
 “Functional MRI: Techniques, Challenges and Opportunities”
Gary Glover Professor of Radiology and Director, Radiological Sciences Laboratory, Stanford University School of Medicine

10:30 – 10:45 a.m.    Break

10:45 – 11:45 p.m.   
“The Brain At Rest”
Marcus Raichle Professor of Neurology, Co-Director of Radiology, Washington University,St. Louis, Missouri

11:45 – 1:30 p.m.    Lunch
 4th Floor Terrace

1:30 – 2:30 p.m.   
“Towards Understanding the Role of the Frontal Lobes in Cognition: Evidence from Functional MRI”
Mark D’Esposito, Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology and Director, Henry H. Wheeler, Jr. Brain Imaging Center, University of California, Berkeley

2:30 – 3:00 p.m.   
“Magnetic Susceptibility: Friend and Foe”
Doug Noll, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology and Co-Director, Functional MRI Laboratory

3:00 – 3:15 p.m.    Break

3:15 – 3:45 p.m.    “Modules of Executive Processing”
John Jonides

3:45 – 4:00 p.m.    Closing Remarks
Doug Noll

4:00 p.m.    Closing Reception
        4th Floor Terrace