McConnell Brain Imaging Centre - News

Dana Small becomes Canada Excellence Research Chair in Metabolism and the Brain

ɬ�﷬ — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 18:23:50 +0000

We are delighted to announce that our colleague, Dana Small, is officially the recipient of the Canada Excellence Research Chair in Metabolism and the Brain.

Q&A with Dana Small, Canada Excellence Research Chair in Metabolism and the Brain - ɬ�﷬ Reporter

BIC researchers among the world's most cited

ɬ�﷬ — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 18:18:16 +0000

We are pleased to announce that this year Alan (cross-field), Bratislav (cross-field), Doug (cross-field), Danilo (cross-field), and Nathan (Neuroscience and Behavior), have been selected as Highly Cited Researchers for exceptional cross-field performance that are frequently cited by other researchers:

https://reporter.mcgill.ca/sixteen-mcgill-researchers-are-among-the-worlds-most-cited/

Video presentation for Helmholtz International BigBrain Analytics Learning Laboratory

ɬ�﷬ — Tue, 04 May 2021 15:05:56 +0000

The BIC is pleased to share this video presentation from Helmholtz International BigBrain Analytics Learning Laboratory, supported by HBHL.

PET modeler and Physicist

ɬ�﷬ — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 14:44:46 +0000

PET modeler and Physicist - job postings

The Research Imaging Centre (RIC) at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) in Toronto has two fulltime permanent positions, a PET physicist and a kinetic modeler. We are looking for motivated candidates to join the Image Methodology group within the RIC to develop methods, and provide strong scientific support, for both the pre-clinical and clinical PET programs in CAMH.

Please review the attached PDF for details.

Alan Evans' interview: Canada’s Excellence in Neuroscience Research

ɬ�﷬ — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 17:09:55 +0000

Each year, five distinguished Canadian scholars are awarded the Killam Prize for their outstanding research across engineering, the humanities, social sciences, health sciences and natural sciences.

In celebration of these winners’ contribution to Canada’s society and economy, TheFutureEconomy.ca interviewed each of the five outstanding researchers to share their discoveries with Canadians.

Drs. David Rudko and Christine Tardif join the BIC as new faculty members, MR specialists.

ɬ�﷬ — Tue, 02 May 2017 14:36:35 +0000

We are truly happy and fortunate to welcome Drs. Christine Tardif and David Rudko as new BIC core Faculty members, effective May 01, 2017. They join the BIC team and platform as MR specialists, in particular at ultra-high fields for small-animal and human imaging.

BIC awarded $3.9M Platform Support Grant from Brain Canada Foundation

ɬ�﷬ — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 14:38:30 +0000

It is our great pleasure to announce that our centre has been awarded a Brain Canada Platform Support Grant of $3.9M. We are thankful to the MNI and the Webster Family Foundation for providing the matching funds that have been key to secure this funding. The PSG grant is to add capacity for data acquisition, management, analytics, dissemination, with an emphasis on open-access sharing, expanding capacity for all imaging modalities featured at the BIC, and training of staff, highly-qualified personnel and platform users over 3 years.

BIC deep-learning educational workshop

ɬ�﷬ — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 19:58:42 +0000

The BIC hosted a series of Deep Learning workshops organized by Santiago Paiva (Hoge lab) and Dr. Robert Brown (Arnold lab) on January 19th and 26th.

Dr. Stephan Binder and Mr. Chris Hsiao join the BIC PET Unit

ɬ�﷬ — Mon, 06 Feb 2017 18:26:33 +0000

We are pleased to welcome Dr. Stephan Blinder as the new BIC PET physicist on staff.
Stephan completed his PhD in Astrophysics (U de Bordeaux I, France) and later shifted his interest towards biomedical imaging research. He worked for 4 years with the MIRG group led by Dr. Anna Celler (U of British Columbia, Vancouver) on SPECT imaging, focusing on 3D and 4D image reconstruction techniques.

Ted Strauss joins BIC staff as Manager, Data Resources

ɬ�﷬ — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 14:54:51 +0000

Truly happy to see Ted join our core staff as Manager, Data Resources. Ted has 12+ years experience as a programmer, database administrator and technology generalist in the industry and academia. He will assist in creating a strategy and enabling the tools for short- and long-term data management over all modalities used at our Centre, all in coordination with the developments of the MNI's open-science infrastructure.
Ted will draw from several years supporting open source, open data, and open science through policy and organizing.

Dr. Boris Bernhardt joins the BIC as new Principal Investigator

ɬ�﷬ — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 16:15:23 +0000

We are fortunate to welcome Dr. Boris Bernhardt as BIC core Faculty Member as of August 1, 2016. Boris is a new Assistant Professor in the Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery at ɬ�﷬ and a member of the Epilepsy research group at the MNI. He obtained his PhD in Neuroscience at ɬ�﷬ in 2011 and carried out postdoctoral studies at the Max-Planck Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany. Boris heads the newly-founded Multimodal Imaging and Connectome Analysis Lab at the BIC.

We're hiring! 1 Application Specialist/Developer - 1 Manager, Data Resources

ɬ�﷬ — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 19:11:40 +0000

Two exciting core staff job opportunities at the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre/Montreal Neurological Institute (ɬ�﷬, Montreal):

1 Scientific Developer/Application Specialist (MEG & EEG)
1 Manager, Data Resources

Full job descriptions and details on how to apply.

Looking forward to hiring new talents, with the strongest motivation to work and make a difference in an open, collaborative and multidisciplinary environment.

Multiple Science Prizes Received by Raphael Hotter, with Mentoring from Head of Cyclotron Unit at BIC

ɬ�﷬ — Mon, 09 May 2016 16:29:54 +0000

Congratulation to teenage sensation Raphael Hotter for winning the Montreal Neurological Institute Award, the Order of Chemistry Award, and the Highest Distinction Award at a Montreal regional science fair, with a PET-Radiochemistry project mentored with Dr. Gassan Massarweh, Head of Cyclotron at the BIC. This was one of fifteen projects chosen to represent Montreal at the upcoming provincial fair this Spring.

Job Opening: MSc/PhD Research Assistant, PET Imaging

ɬ�﷬ — Fri, 29 Apr 2016 18:43:55 +0000

The Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Unit of the McConnell Brain Imaging Centre (BIC) at the Montreal Neurological Institute (MNI, ɬ�﷬) is looking to fill the position of a full‐time Research Assistant. We are seeking to hire a PET specialist to make a difference in an outstanding scientific environment, at the crossroads between cellular and molecular biology, radiochemistry, brain imaging physics, biophysical modelling and neuroscience.

"PET from A to Z" Comprehensive Training: Register Now!

ɬ�﷬ — Mon, 21 Mar 2016 22:21:15 +0000

Announcing the 1st edition of the "PET from A to Z" Comprehensive Training Workshop, which will take place at the MNI’s McConnell Brain Imaging Centre, May 30 – June 2, 2016. The program features four very distinctive days: two days of lectures, and two more interactive days, which include tours of PET/Cyclotron facilities and hands-on training opportunities.

Dr. Bratislav Misic joins the BIC as new Principal Investigator

ɬ�﷬ — Tue, 15 Mar 2016 13:27:21 +0000

We have the greatest pleasure to announce that as of March 1st 2016, Dr. Bratislav Misic has joined ‪our Centre as Assistant Professor of Neurology & Neurosurgery, and new core BIC Principal Investigator.

The BIC is key partner of the MNI's Open-Science Initiative

ɬ�﷬ — Thu, 21 Jan 2016 22:45:10 +0000

It is now official, as announced in today's issue of Science magazine: the MNI is becoming the first ever Open-Science academic institution. The BIC has already been active in multiple data-sharing and open-source software initiatives.

Dr. David Rudko in charge of the BIC's small-bore 7-T MRI scanner

ɬ�﷬ — Sat, 16 Jan 2016 23:15:49 +0000

We are happy to announce that Dr. David Rudko is joining the BIC’s MRI Unit as the Research Assistant (part-time) in charge of the 7-T small animal MRI operations. If you are interested in accessing the scanner, please contact David david.rudko [at] mcgill.ca (directly).

David is also a Postdoctoral Fellow with Drs. Arnold and Narayanan, funded by a fellowship from the Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada and the CIHR Neuroinflammation Training Program.

New position at the BIC: Assistant Professor in MR Physics

ɬ�﷬ — Mon, 07 Dec 2015 23:35:23 +0000

We are very pleased to announce that the BIC continues to grow, with the recruitment of an MRI Physicist at the Assistant Professor level. Please refer to the recruitment ad for details.

4500 Days of Beaming at the BIC's Cyclotron Unit

ɬ�﷬ — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 15:53:38 +0000

Today marks the 4500th day of faithful beaming in our IBA Cyclotron, Serial Number 000.

The cyclotron is the pivotal instrument for producing isotopes used in radionuclides for PET and SPECT research at the Neuro.

BIC Team Releases First High-Resolution Open-Access Dataset of Hippocampal Subfields

ɬ�﷬ — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 16:15:41 +0000

The hippocampus has been a focus of neuroscience research for decades for its role in cognitive processes, as well as being a hallmark of prevalent neurological and psychiatric conditions, such as epilepsy, Alzheimer’s disease, depression, and schizophrenia. Identification of hippocampal subregions in vivo is thus essential for precise localization of function and pathology.

The BIC Cyclotron/PET Unit receives support from the L&A Edwards Foundation and key users

ɬ�﷬ — Mon, 27 Jul 2015 21:54:37 +0000

We are glad to announce that the Louise and Alan Edwards Foundation is now providing generous support to the BIC PET and Cyclotron Unit, through a grant obtained by long-time BIC user and affiliated member Dr. Petra Schweinhardt, Assistant Professor at ɬ�﷬'s Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain. This grant goes towards supporting the highly-qualified personnel of our Cyclotron/PET Unit.

Course open for registration: Topics in Radionuclide Imaging

ɬ�﷬ — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 18:21:10 +0000

BIC Prof. Alexey Kostikov offers course on PET radiochemistry in the fall of 2015

Dr. Dagher receives major Foundation grant from CIHR

ɬ�﷬ — Thu, 16 Jul 2015 17:23:45 +0000

BIC Principal investigator Dr. Alain Dagher receives $2.1M in Foundation grant from CIHR to study the brain's dopamine systems with brain imaging.

Functional Neuroimaging of dopamine systems: application to Parkinson's Disease, addiction and obesity.

The main goal is to understand the function of brain systems involved in reward, motivation, learning and decision-making.

The BIC 'Colin27' brain makes history and enters museum in Europe

ɬ�﷬ — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 18:57:09 +0000

The Museum of Natural Sciences of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences has just opened a new permanent exhibition in Brussels: 'The gallery of Humankind'. The Museum has asked Dr. D. Louis Collins whether they could produce a 3-D print of the historical Colin27 brain. This brain is that of a human volunteer scanned 27 times in an MRI, back in 1998.

Big imaging data in action: large-scale analysis of 10,000 MRI volumes reveals fluctuations in brain size depending on time of the day

ɬ�﷬ — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 21:52:15 +0000

Diurnal fluctuations in brain volume

The brain shrinks over the course of the day, ending up smaller in the evening – before returning to its full size the next morning. That’s according to a new study from BIC Principal Investigators Arnold and Collins and collaborators, based on an analysis of about 10,000 MRI scans.

Dr. Baillet and collaborator wins ɬ�﷬'s first Biomedical Engineering Collaborative Research Project competition

ɬ�﷬ — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 21:33:27 +0000

Professors Sylvain Baillet (BIC Principal investigator) and Matt Kinsella (Dept of Bioengineering) have won the first Biomedical Engineering Collaborative Research Project competition held by ɬ�﷬’s Department of Biomedical Engineering, for their project titled:

Millisecond in vivo imaging of nanoparticle circulation and uptake in brain cancer therapy.

Major CQDM funding awarded to Drs Collins, Massarweh and Soucy

ɬ�﷬ — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 15:39:16 +0000

CQDM, Brain Canada Foundation and the Ontario Brain Institute made the announcement at the annual conference of the Canadian Association for Neuroscience. “The Government of Canada is dedicated to helping increase our understanding of how the human brain works and how to best protect it and treat disorders of the brain and nervous system using innovative and unique solutions,” said the Honourable Rona Ambrose, Minister of Health.

New grant to support imaging research against Multiple Sclerosis

ɬ�﷬ — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 15:37:13 +0000

Congratulations to the BIC's Dr. Sridar Narayanan, on his new grant awarded by the ‪MS‬ Society of ‪‎Canada‬ for his project:

Spatial Assessment of Cortical Demyelination in Multiple Sclerosis.

Prof D. Louis Collins awarded new NSERC Discovery Grant

ɬ�﷬ — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 15:22:30 +0000

Apr 15, 2015 - Congrats to Prof D. Louis Collins on his new Discovery grant and accelerator awarded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) (2015-2020): Framework for multi-feature registration of medical images.

More information on the $27M alllocated by NSERC to ɬ�﷬ this year.