Thursday October 19th  —  Doubletree Hotel

12:55pm — Welcome  Paul Gamlin

1:00-2:30pm  — fMRI Techniques 

Chair, Paul Gamlin

Ravi Menon, Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario

Transceive coil array for ultra-high field fMRI

Timothy Duong, Emory University

Layer-specific structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging of the retina

Guy Orban, K.U. Leuven

A functional map of monkey Intraparietal Sulcus

3:00-5:00pm  — Novel Methods 

Chair, Timothy Gawne

Seong-Gi Kim, University of Pittsburgh

Mapping Iso-orientation Columns with fMRI

Jeff Duyn, NIH

MRI of cortical substructure

Essa Yacoub, University of Minnesota

Recent advancements in the development of robust high resolution fMRI methods for human applications

Donald Twieg, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Distortion-free Quantitative fMRI

6:00-7:00pm Keynote

Leslie Ungerleider, NIH

Mechanisms of Perceptual Decision-making in the Human Brain.

Friday October 20th

9:00-10:30am — Optical Techniques 

Chair, Kent Keyser

Anna Roe, Vanderbilt University

Illusions and the brain: Insights through an optical window

Vivien Casagrande, Vanderbilt University

A different slant on orientation bias and perception revealed by optical imaging of intrinsic signals

Prakash Kara, Medical University of South Carolina

Two-photon calcium imaging of spatially precise microcircuits in the visual cortex

11:00-noon, 1:30-2:30pm — Spectroscopy 

Chair, TBA

Kevin Behar, Yale

Measurements of Glutamate/GABA-Glutamine Neurotransmitter Cycling and Neuronal Energetics in Rodents using NMR Spectroscopy

Hoby Hetherington, Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Spectroscopic Imaging of Human Epilepsy

Steve Blackband, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory

MR Microscopy of Neural Tissue Using Microcoils

Thian Ng, University of Alabama at Birmingham

TBA

3:00-5:00pm — fMRI Techniques 

Chair, Donald Twieg

Paul Gamlin, University of Alabama at Birmingham

fMRI and electrophysiological studies of eye movements and target motion in three dimensional space.

Limin Chen,  Vanderbilt University

High field fMRI for submillimeter mapping of somatosensory cortices in non-human primates

Stefan Everling, Robarts Research Institute, University of Western Ontario

Functional Imaging of the Saccadic Eye System in Monkeys

Roger Tootell,  Athinoula A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, MGH

Functional organization of face and object selectivity in awake behaving macaques