March 13       

Morning Course
07:00am – Dos and Don'ts of fMRI experimental design
                      Joana Balardin (UFABC – Brazil) 
07:30am – Dos and Don'ts of fMRI data analysis
                      Gilson Vieira (USP – Brazil)

Morning: Methods / Acquisition
08:00am – Opening    
08:30am – Using high magnetic fields to image brain anatomy and function
                      Afonso Silva (NINDS/NIH – USA)
09:20am – Functional and anatomical imaging of the human brain at 7 and 9.4T
                      Kamil Uludag (Univ. Maastricht – Netherlands)
10:10am – Coffee Break
10:40am – Translating multimodal brain research into health-care actions
                     Pedro Valdes-Sosa (CNEURO – Cuba)
11:30am – DTI / fMRI student presentations

 A J-PRESS 1H-MRS Study of Euthymic Bipolar I Disorder Patients
                      Soeiro-de-Souza, M.G. et al

 Motor readiness modulates resting state
                      Bazán, P.R. et al

 Enhancing Motor Network Activity using Real-time Functional MRI Neurofeedback of Left Premotor Cortex
                      Marins, T. et al

Somatosensory-Motor Circuit Associated With Self-Modulation of Manual Force
                      Luccas, C. et al


12:30pm – Inauguration Ceremony: MRI 7T core-facility

Afternoon: Methods / Analysis
02:00pm – Advanced fMRI: from spins to molecules, and vice-versa
                      Peter Morris (Univ. Nottingham – UK)
02:50pm – Computational modeling of functional brain imaging data
                      Barry Horwitz (NIDCD/NIH – USA)
03:40pm – Coffee Break
04:10pm – Studying spontaneous brain activity using multimodal imaging
                      Louis Lemieux (UCL – UK)
05:00pm – The graphical mining of large-scale neuroimaging datasets
                      John Darrell Van Horn (USC – USA)
05:50pm – Eye-tracking applications in acquiring and disseminating implicit knowledge in neuroimaging
                      Souvenir Zalla (USP - Brazil)

March 14

Morning Course
07:00am – Dos and Don'ts of EEG data acquisition and analysis
                      André Cravo (UFABC – Brazil) 
07:30am – Dos and Don'ts of diffusion imaging
                      Ellison Cardoso (USP – Brazil)

Morning: LABMAN Presents
08:00am-12:00pm - Brain Mapping in Latin American: Science
        08:00 - Argentina: Valeria Della Maggiori
        08:25 - Brazil: Fernanda Moll
        08:50 - Chile: Gonzalo Rojas
        09:25 - Cuba: Pedro Valdes-Sosa
        09:50 - Mexico: Erika Proal

10:10am – Coffee Break

        10:40 - Spain: Maria del Iglesia
        11:05 - More La countries: Edson Amaro
        11:20 - Town Hall Meeting: suggestions/questions/discussions - improving LABMAN agenda!
 
12:20pm  – Lunch Symposium sponsored by Siemens
                      7T MRI: A Game-Changer for Human Neuroscience
                      Robert Turner  (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences - Germany)

01:00pm LABMAN Board Work meeting
 
Afternoon: Applications
02:00pm – From in situ post-mortem imaging to 7T: a Latin American path to translational medicine
                      Helmut Heinsen (Univ. Würzburg/USP – Germany/Brazil)
02:50pm – MRI imaging in psychiatry – clinical tool or expensive toy?
                      Steve C. R. Williams (IoPPN/King’s College London – UK)
03:40pm – Coffee Break
04:10pm – Joint acquisition and analysis of imaging and electrophysiology: challenges and opportunities
                      Mark Cohen (Center for Cognitive Neuroscience /UCLA - USA)
05:00pm – EEG / sMRI student presentations    

Decreased centrality of cortical volume covariance networks in Autism Spectrum Disorders
                   Balardin, J. B. et al

Automatic Segmentation of Short Association Fibers Using an Atlas of The Fronto-Parietal and Insula Brain Connections                      Guevara, M. et al

 Design of 8-channel receive-only phased array COILs for mri/fmri of marmosets at 7T
                   Papoti, D. et al

 Simple and Reproducible Quantitative Imaging of The Cerebrovascular Function
                   Tancredi, F.B.  et al

Evening: 
06:00pm – Brain Bee meeting with Brain Mapping Experts : Q&A
                      Brain Bee Winners announcement
07:00pm – Farewell Cocktail

Please send any doubts about poster and oral presentations to contact@labman.org.

We hope to see you in São Paulo!

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