Workshop “Brain Activity Modeling: From Fine to Coarse Scale”

August 17-22, 2009

Program

 

Monday, August 17, 2009

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245

08:30 - 09:00
Registration
Room 5343


Meeting room : 6214

09:00 - 10:30
Edith Hamel
(McGill University)
Mapping pathways and cellular interactions that lead to hemodynamic changes
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:00 - 12:00
Jean-Marc Lina
(École de Technologie Supérieure)
Wavelet based estimation of the hemodynamic response in diffuse optical imaging

12:00 - 13:30
Lunch on site
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

13:30 - 14:30
Srinivas Laxminarayan
(Northeastern University)
A dynamical systems approach to modeling habituation in evoked responses as observed in concurrent EEG / optical measurements in rats
14:30 - 15:00
Coffee break
Room 6245
15:00 - 16:00
Julien Cohen-Adad
(Harvard Medical School / Massachusetts General Hospital)
How to detect BOLD responses in spinal cord fMRI? Acquisition, pre-processing and statistical issues
16:00 - 17:00
TBA

 

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

09:00 - 10:30
Renaud Jolivet
(University Hospital Zurich)
Modeling in vivo neuron-astrocyte metabolic interactions
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:00 - 12:00
Mathieu Dehaes
(INSERM - Fac. de Médecine Pierre et Marie Curie - Pitié-Salpêtrière)
Investigation on the influence of the sinus tissue structure on measurements in diffuse optical imaging

12:00 - 13:30
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

13:30 - 15:00
David Boas
(Massachusetts General Hospital)
Microscopic Measurements and Modeling of Oxygen Delivery
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
15:30 - 16:30
Beau Ances
(Washington University in St. Louis)
HIV and Aging: A Strain on Brain Function
16:30 - 17:30
Réjean Plamondon
(École Polytechnique de Montréal)
The Kinematic Theory of rapid human movements: background and applications

 

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

09:00 - 10:30
Richard B. Buxton
(University of California San Diego)
Quantitative fMRI: Modeling the Physiological Changes Associated with Brain Activation
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:00 - 12:00
Amir Shmuel
(Montreal Neurological Institute and Hospital)
TBA

12:00 - 13:30
Lunch on site
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

13:30 - 15:00
Theodore J. Huppert
(University of Pittsburgh Medical Center)
Investigating a neurovascular basis for multimodal fusion
15:00 - 15:30
Coffee break
Room 6245
15:30 - 16:30
TBA
16:30 - 17:30
TBA

17:30
Wine-and-cheese reception
Room 6245

 

Thursday, August 20, 2009

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

09:00 - 10:30
Ying Zheng
(The University of Sheffield)
Modelling haemodynamic response to activation: a demonstration of the importance of biophysical constraints
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:00 - 12:00
Hélène Girouard
(Université de Montréal)
Neurovascular coupling in health and disease

12:00 - 13:30
Lunch break


Meeting room : 6214

13:30 - 14:30
Richard Hoge
(Université de Montréal)
A review of MRI calibration methods
14:30 - 15:00
Coffee break
Room 6245
15:00 - 16:00
TBA
16:00 - 17:00
TBA

 

Friday, August 21, 2009

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room 6245


Meeting room : 6214

09:00 - 10:30
Jorge Riera
(Tohoku University)
The most important neuronal signatures in neuroimaging: a view of the mesoscale
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee break
Room 6245
11:00 - 12:00
TBA

12:00
Closure of the workshop