A Look Inside the Human Brain using Modern Imaging Technologies
Dimitrios Pantazis, Director of MEG Lab
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Modern imaging technologies at MIT and MGH provide exciting new ways to understand the structure and function of the human brain. We will provide guided tours of our imaging facilities and show how we use these tools to look inside the brain. Our recently installed MEG system, capable of measuring magnetic fields a billionth of the magnetic field of earth, can record the simultaneous firing of thousands of cortical neurons as they form dynamic networks. Our MRI scanners provide high resolution images of the human brain as subjects perform a wide range of perceptual and cognitive tasks. Our PET scanners can identify and localize specific molecules in the brain, revealing pathologies that may underlie many different brain disorders. TMS is a noninvasive method that uses electromagnetic induction to create weak electric currents and cause depolarization or hyperpolarization in the neurons of the brain. NIRS uses infrared light to illuminate tissue and infer brain activity through the diffusion and scattering of this light. tCS is a neurostimulation technique that uses low current delivered to the brain using electrodes on the scalp. We will introduce these technologies, offer lab tours and demonstrate data collection, and discuss their contribution to neuroscience.
Contact: Dimitrios Pantazis, 46-5147, 617 324-6292, PANTAZIS@MIT.EDU
| Jan/20 | Wed | 02:00PM-03:00PM | MIT bldg46, rm3015 |
Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) instrumentation, principles of light scattering and absorption, imaging of oxygenated hemoglobin, NIRS applications.
Juliette Selb - Instructor
| Jan/20 | Wed | 03:00PM-04:30PM | MIT bldg46, rm3015 |
Topics include MRI instrumentation, magnetic fields, safety, functional imaging with BOLD response, diffusion imaging, and others.
Anastasia Yendiki - Assistant Professor, Atsushi Takahashi - Assistant Director, MR Physicist
| Jan/20 | Wed | 04:30PM-05:30PM | MIT bldg46, rm1171 |
A tour at the MRI lab. Demo scan (finger tapping) and data analysis.
MRI Lab: http://mcgovern.mit.edu/technology/martinos-imaging-center/technical-resources
Steven P Shannon - Operations Manager and MR Research Technologist, Sheeba Arnold Anteraper - MR Programmer, Atsushi Takahashi - Assistant Director, MR Physicist
| Jan/21 | Thu | 02:00PM-03:00PM | MIT bldg46, rm3015 |
Seminar on Positron Emission Technology. Introduction to PET technology and scanners at MGH; applications in tumor detection; brain metabolic activity; gene expression; neurological diseases, such as Alzheimer¿s and Parkinson's; pharmacology etc.
Quanzheng Li - Assistant Professor
| Jan/21 | Thu | 03:00PM-04:00PM | MIT bldg46, rm3015 |
Electrophysiological basis of MEG signals; instrumentation; modeling; cortical rhythms; brain networks; combining MEG with fMRI, studying the human visual system.
Dimitrios Pantazis - Director of MEG Lab
| Jan/21 | Thu | 04:00PM-05:00PM | MIT bldg46, rm1147 |
A tour at the MEG Lab, demo scan and data analysis of an MEG experiment
MEG Lab: http://mcgovern.mit.edu/technology/meg-lab
Dimitrios Pantazis - Director of MEG Lab, Yasaman Bagherzadeh - Postdoctoral Affiliate
| Jan/22 | Fri | 03:00PM-05:00PM | MGH CNY 149 - A, Location in Charlestown! |
Use of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation to depolarize and hyperpolarize neurons of the brain, applications to treat depression and examine basic mechanisms of post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety, among others. The seminar will include a demo of the MGH TMS system!
Aapo Nummenmaa - Instructor
| Jan/22 | Fri | Time TBD | Seminar Cancelled |
Introduction on transcranial current stimulation. Differences and applications of direct- and alternating-current stimulation (tDCS and tACS), instrumentation, modulation of ongoing rhythmic brain activity.
Dimitrios Pantazis - Director of MEG Lab
Are You In or Out? An Overview of the Material Transfer Process at MIT
Danielle Byrdsong, MTA Associate Officer
| Jan/21 | Thu | 01:30PM-03:00PM | 66-156 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/21
The transfer of materials into and out of MIT is steadily increasing each year. Moreover, the providers and recipients for these materials are diversifying.
Material Transfer Agreements (MTAs) are legal contracts that ensure all parties are permitted to send and receive biological materials, chemical compounds, and other materials. MTAs protect MIT’s intellectual property and freedom to publish, and MTAs record the terms and conditions for the use of the materials.
Come and join Danielle Byrdsongi to learn about MIT's Material Transfer process. Gain a better understanding of MTAs, MIT’s procedures and policies for MTAs, and how to get your materials expeditiously.
Please register by emailing kmkhalil@mit.edu
Sponsor(s): Technology Licensing Office
Contact: Katrina Khalil-Iannetti, NE18-501, 617 253-6966, kmkhalil@mit.edu
Bioinformatics for Beginners 2016
Howard Silver, Biological Engineering Librarian
| Jan/12 | Tue | 03:30PM-05:00PM | 14N-132 |
| Jan/15 | Fri | 10:30AM-12:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/15
Limited to 30 participants
Attendance: Repeating event, particpants welcome at any session
The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) Entrez family of databases is the foundation of knowledge for molecular level bioscience research. Class attendees will learn about the organization and interconnectedness of NCBI databases while focusing on several specific databases. The session is a hands-on practicum and an excellent starting point for people who are new to or curious about bioinformatics research tools. This session is offered twice covering the same material; participants welcome at either session.
Register: Tuesday, January 12, 3:30 - 5 pm
Register: Friday, January 15, 10:30 - 12 pm
Sponsor(s): Libraries, Biology
Contact: Howard Silver, 14S-134, 617 253-9319, HSILVER@MIT.EDU
Biotech Business Information for Engineers
Courtney Crummett, Biosciences Librarian
| Jan/20 | Wed | 04:00PM-05:00PM | 14N-132 (DIRC) |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
It's not brain surgery...it's market research. This session will introduce scientists and engineers to business information resources that cover biotechnology industries and markets. We will use realistic examples and hands-on exercises with key resources to demonstrate how to match your ideas and discoveries with the opportunities and realities of the marketplace. Please register for this event.
Sponsor(s): Libraries, Biology
Contact: Courtney Crummett, 14S-134, 617 324-8290, CRUMMETT@MIT.EDU
Get the most from your "omics" analysis: GeneGo MetaCore Software Training
Courtney Crummett, GeneGo Trainer
| Jan/26 | Tue | 04:00PM-06:00PM | 14N-132 (DIRC) |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/21
Limited to 30 participants
Attend this IAP session and learn how to use MetaCore, a bioinformatics software tool licensed by MIT Libraries. MetaCore provides a solution for using "omics" gene lists to generate and prioritize hypotheses for novel biomarkers, targets, and mechanisms of action. Learn how to work with different types of data such as genomics, proteomics, metabolomics and interaction data. Use this tool to upload, batch upload, store, share and check data properties and signal distribution; extract functional relevance by determining the most enriched processes across several ontologies; emphasize the role of expression data in your analysis; visually predict experimental results, associated disease and possible drug targets; and compare data sets and work with experiment intersections. A new feature, Key Pathway Advisor (KPA) which can be used to predict upstream regulators from differentially expressed genes and help identify key pathways that they participate in with be demoed. Please register. Need a GeneGo Account? Email ask-bioinfo@mit.edu
Sponsor(s): Libraries, Biology
Contact: Courtney Crummett, 14S-M48, x4-8290, crummett@mit.edu
Neuropsychiatry in Translation: The Next Generation
Maria Dauvermann, Postdoctoral Associate
Enrollment: Limited: First come, first served (no advance sign-up)
Limited to 15 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions
Prereq: None
It has been estimated that 18.5% of adults in the U.S. had a psychiatric disorder in 2013. The treatment success rates with traditional pharmacology among every psychiatric disorder are very low. This goes hand-in-hand with the limitations of currently available diagnostic and prognostic tools.
We know that the brain plays a major role in the development of these disorders. Therefore, technologies for potential diagnosis and treatment options have been developed that aim to change the function of the brain. These new technologies for diagnosis and invention approaches are in development but require thorough translational research before they can be safely used in patients.
The aim of the course is to teach about technologies and intervention approaches that move beyond pharmacology as the sole treatment option. Over the course of four sessions, you will learn how brain scientists from different disciplines (biologists, chemists, physicists, psychologists, informaticians, engineers) invent and develop techniques in multiple translational steps as diagnosis and treatment options for patients. You will design and present your own translational study at the end of the course.
Session 1: Currently available techniques and treatment options
Session 2: Promising technologies for diagnosis and treatment options in humans, monkeys and rodents
Session 3: Practical translational research steps across species
Session 4: Design, presentation and discussion of translational studies
Sponsor(s): Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Contact: Maria Dauvermann, 46-2171, 617-324-3599, mariad@mit.edu
| Jan/07 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 46-4062 |
| Jan/08 | Fri | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 46-4062 |
| Jan/14 | Thu | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 46-4062 |
| Jan/15 | Fri | 01:00PM-03:00PM | 46-4062 |
Maria Dauvermann - Postdoctoral Associate
Pre-med volunteering: spice up your resume and do something meaningful (and maybe even earn a paycheck!)
Alison Hynd, Director for Programs, Chiara Magini, Community Employment Administrator, Sarah Bouchard, Community Engagement Administrator, Meaghan Shea, Prehealth Advisor
| Jan/21 | Thu | 02:00PM-03:00PM | 4-149 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/20
Are you pre-med or considering a health career?
Do you want to do something meaningful to fulfill the med school application service requirement?
Are you interested in funded community service options?
Do you worry that your current activities won't stand out in a sea of similar applications?
Then this session is for you!
Staff from the Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center and Prehealth Advising will present options for meaningful health-related community service activities in the Boston area and beyond. You'll learn about cohort-based programs, individual volunteering resources, funding possibilities, and get help identifying the opportunity that works for you.
And we want to learn from you! Come ready to tell us what you want to do and how we can help.
Sponsor(s): Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center, Global Education and Career Development
Contact: Alison Hynd, W20-549, 617 258-0691, HYND@MIT.EDU
Protocols and Methods: Recipes for research
Howard Silver
| Jan/19 | Tue | 12:00PM-01:00PM | 14N-132 |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/15
Limited to 30 participants
Prereq: none
A couple hours in the Library can save you a couple of weeks in the lab. Need to know how to do Optogenetic manipulation of neural activity in freely moving Caenorhabditis elegans? Improve your efficiency by learning strategies for finding published research protocols and methods. This session is a hands-on practicum that introduces attendees to resources that support bioscience bench research.
Please register for this session.
Sponsor(s): Libraries
Contact: Howard Silver, 14S-134, 617 253-9319, HSILVER@MIT.EDU
(CANCELED) Reproducibility in Synthetic Organic Chemistry
Rick Danheiser, A C Cope Professor of Chemistry
| Jan/28 | Thu | 04:00PM-05:30PM | 6-120 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
A fundamental principle in the field of synthetic organic chemistry states that a synthetic chemist skilled in the art should be able to repeat a synthetic transformation with the same results as those described in published work from another laboratory. Unfortunately, all too often this is not the case. Why do many procedures prove not to be reproducible? Why do even experienced researchers encounter problems when attempting to repeat reactions described in the literature? This talk will focus on the most common causes of problems involving reproducibility in organic synthesis. The specific examples discussed will be based on experiences from my own laboratory, examples taken from the literature, and examples from procedures submitted to Organic Syntheses that I am familiar with from my service as Editor in Chief of that journal.
Sponsor(s): Chemistry
Contact: Rick Danheiser, 18-298, 617 253-1842, danheisr@mit.edu
The Doctor Is In: Medical Information at MIT Libraries
Courtney Crummett, Biosciences Librarian
| Jan/22 | Fri | 11:00AM-12:00PM | 14N-132 (DIRC) |
Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required
We may not have a medical school, but the Libraries is full of medical information to support your research. Need to find an efficacy study on a drug or treatment protocol? Need to understand the physiology of the nervous systems? Need to better understand the screening and prevention of a particular disease or disorder? This hands-on workshop will demonstrate how our collections can help you find these answers. Registration required.
Sponsor(s): Biology, Libraries
Contact: Courtney Crummett, 14S-134, 617 324-8290, CRUMMETT@MIT.EDU
The Next Step in Academic Science
Prof. Piyush Gupta, Assistant Professor of Biology, Member, Whitehead Institute
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
MIT Biology presents a selection of talks on the practice of science, naviagating academia, and balancing it all with a life outside the lab.
Sponsor(s): Biology
Contact: Piyush Gupta, WI-661C, 617-324-0086, pgupta@wi.mit.edu
| Jan/14 | Thu | 01:30PM-03:00PM | 68-181 |
The next step after graduate school - a post doc. It's not as intimidating as you think. What should you look for in a lab? Can you switch fields?How do you send out the first letter? Come meet post docs from academia and industry, and learn about how to get a post doc position!
Zainab Jagani - Industry post doc, Jill Goldstein - Academic post doc, Sandhya Sanduja - Head of post doc association
| Jan/19 | Tue | 01:30PM-03:00PM | 68-181 |
Are you planning to apply for an academic job? Are you considering a more teaching oriented career? Find out about career options at primarily undergraduate institutions, where professors dedicate much of their time to teaching yet also manage their own research programs and mentor students. Learn about this from a panel of faculty members at teaching colleges.
Joanne C. Pratt - Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Caroline Goutte - Professor of Biology, Jason Pellettieri - Associate Professor of Biology, Vanja Klepac-Ceraj - Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences
| Jan/20 | Wed | 01:30PM-03:00PM | 68-181 |
For those considering careers within academia, this panel will bring together speakers from a variety of research-oriented institutions.
Jeffrey Chuang - Associate Professor, Piyush Gupta - Assistant Professor of Biology, Megan C. King - Associate Professo of Cell Biology, Sallie Smith Schneider - DirectorBiospecimen Resource & Molecular Analysis Facility
The Science and Engineering of Intelligence: A bridge across Vassar Street
Andrea Tacchetti
| Jan/15 | Fri | 10:00AM-05:00PM | 46-3002 |
Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: None
Neuroscience has made huge advances in the last few years. We now know more about how the brain works than we have ever known before. Likewise, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence have made enormous steps forward and have become part of our every-day lives. The interaction between Neuroscience and Computer Science has inspired most recent advances in Artificial Intelligence and this interaction has become a critical stepping stone for the understanding of intelligence. We assembled a stellar list of speakers at the intersection of Neuroscience and AI from both sides of Vassar Street who will give an account of how this multi-disciplinary interaction affects their work. The tentative list of speakers includes:
Professor Ed Boyden
Professor Tomaso Poggio
Professor Nancy Kanwisher
Professor Feng Zhang
Professor Bill Freeman
Professor Joshua Tenenbaum
Schedule and other information about the event can be found here: http://cbmm.mit.edu/science-engineering-vassar
Sponsor(s): Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Contact: Andrea, Tacchetti, N/A, atacchet@MIT.EDU
Tutorial Series in Computational Topics related to Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Emily Mackevicius
Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions
Prereq: Geared towards BCS grad students & postdocs, others welcome
Each tutorial will consist of a short lecture, and then 'office hours' time to work through practice problems and discuss problems people want help with in their own research. The goal is to get people past the initial learning curve in particular computational topics relevant to BCS, and get people from across the department talking about common computational methods. Food will be provided.
Please sign up for tutorials here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/11yK-Xqc_1UU29qWAuQLqZjtMXyidLohxGVUIO9MjUjQ/viewform
Materials will be posted here (Currently this site has material for previous BCS computational tutorials. If you sign up, I'll email you when current materials are posted.): https://stellar.mit.edu/S/project/bcs-comp-tut/index.html
Sponsor(s): Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Contact: Emily Mackevicius, ELM@MIT.EDU
| Jan/12 | Tue | 04:00PM-06:00PM | 46-3310 |
Taught by: Satrajit Ghosh and Evan Remington
| Jan/19 | Tue | 04:00PM-06:00PM | 46-3310 |
Taught by: Emily Mackevicius and Greg Ciccarelli
| Jan/21 | Thu | 04:00PM-06:00PM | 46-3310 |
Taught by: Sam Norman-Haignere
| Jan/22 | Fri | 02:00PM-04:00PM | 46-3310 |
Taught by: Seth Egger
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