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Cookie Collab
Atrium
Contact name: Mollie Stevens
Contact email: mollie@illinois.edu
Contact phone: 12172442603
Join members of the Beckman community for coffee and cookies in the Beckman Atrium. The Cookie Collab is scheduled for 3 p.m. on the third Thursday of each month.
Gather in the Garden
Beckman Institute Center Atrium
Contact name: Mollie Stevens
Contact email: mollie@illinois.edu
Contact phone: 217-244-2603
Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the atrium!
Yoga at Beckman
Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower
Contact name: Elena Romanova
Contact email: romanova@illinois.edu
Join us at noon on Wednesdays for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!
Gather in the Garden
Beckman Institute Center Atrium
Contact name: Mollie Stevens
Contact email: mollie@illinois.edu
Contact phone: 217-244-2603
Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the atrium!
Yoga at Beckman
Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower
Contact name: Elena Romanova
Contact email: romanova@illinois.edu
Join us at noon on Wednesdays for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!
New-to-Beckman tour
MRI Exhibit
Contact name: Lexie Kesler
Contact email: lkesler@illinois.edu
Come find out more about the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology! Learn about the barrier-busting interdisciplinary research facility and community of innovation. Tours will be offered the first Thursday of the month from 10-10:30 a.m. Register here.
Director's Coffee Hour with Steve Maren
Contact name: Stacy Olson
Contact email: srolson@illinois.edu
Beckman Director Steve Maren will be hosting a weekly Director’s Coffee Hour at 9 a.m. on Fridays at one of the nearby coffee shops (the Daily Byte or Espresso Royale) until the Beckman Café reopens. It's a great opportunity to get to know your new director and for him to get to know you and your research. Steve's buying!
Carle Illinois Advancing Imaging Seminar: Dr. Jon-Fredrik Nielsen
Beckman Institute Room 5602
Contact name: Aaron Anderson
Contact email: aandrsn3@illinois.edu
Dr. Jon-Fredrik Nielsen, Research Associate Professor in the fMRI laboratory at University of Michigan, will lecture on, "Harmonizing MRI data acquisition with Pulseq: Why, how, and current state of the field."
Abstract: A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) experiment is fundamentally very simple: It consists of radiofrequency (RF) and quasi-static magnetic fields that vary in time according to a desired schedule. The hardware to make that happen is ubiquitous and available from several commercial vendors, with nearly identical performance specifications across vendors. Unfortunately, the high degree of harmonization that exists on the hardware side is not matched on the software side: The programming interfaces that allow the sequence designer to control the time-varying magnetic fields are unique to each vendor and difficult to learn, which has (1) resulted in MRI protocols (pulse sequences) that cannot be ported between vendor platforms or even described accurately to a third party, (2) slowed down new pulse sequence development by creating “siloed” developer communities with a high barrier to entry, and (3) made it difficult to know if any observed differences in MRI measurements between sites is due to true biological variation or differences in sequence implementation. Pulseq is both an open file specification for MRI pulse sequences and an associated ecosystem of programming tools and vendor-specific interpreters (drivers) that overcome these barriers. Pulseq has seen significant growth within the pulse sequence developer community in the last 1-2 years, and interpreters for all major MRI vendors are, or will likely soon be, available. In this talk I will describe our role in the Pulseq project including our experience developing a Pulseq interpreter for one of the vendor platforms (GE), and our ongoing efforts to develop and evaluate a Pulseq functional MRI protocol that we hope will enable robust, truly harmonized multi-site and longitudinal functional studies.
Bio: Dr. Jon-Fredrik Nielsen is Research Associate Professor in the fMRI laboratory at University of Michigan, specializing in MRI sequence design and implementation. He created and manages the Pulseq interpreter for GE scanners, and is co-PI of the HarmonizedMRI project that seeks to implement and disseminate vendor-agnostic functional and quantitative neuroimaging protocols for more reproducible MRI research.
Gather in the Garden
Beckman Institute Center Atrium
Contact name: Mollie Stevens
Contact email: mollie@illinois.edu
Contact phone: 217-244-2603
Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the atrium!
Yoga at Beckman
Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower
Contact name: Elena Romanova
Contact email: romanova@illinois.edu
Join us at noon on Wednesdays for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!
Carle Illinois Advancing Imaging Seminar: Jon-Fredrik Nielsen
Beckman Institute Room 5602
Contact name: Aaron Anderson
Contact email: aandrsn3@illinois.edu
Jon-Fredrik Nielsen, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan
Fall 2024 Beckman Institute Town Hall
Beckman Institute, Room 5602
Contact name: Stacy Olson
Contact email: srolson@illinois.edu
Contact phone: 217-244-8373
Director Maren will provide updates on planning for a spring showcase, strategic planning, new Beckman faculty and staff, and more. After the town hall, stay for an hour of conversation and treats!
Have a question for the director? Submit it in advance here.
Cookie Collab
Beckman Insitute, 5602
Contact name: Mollie Stevens
Contact email: mollie@illinois.edu
Contact phone: 12172442603
Join members of the Beckman community at 3 pm for coffee and cookies in Beckman Institute,
5602.
Come early at 2 pm for the Fall 2024 Beckman Town Hall. Director Maren will provide updates on planning for a spring showcase, strategic planning, new Beckman faculty and staff, and more. Question for the director?
Director's Coffee Hour with Steve Maren
Contact name: Stacy Olson
Contact email: srolson@illinois.edu
Beckman Director Steve Maren will be hosting a weekly Director’s Coffee Hour at 9 a.m. on Fridays at one of the nearby coffee shops (the Daily Byte or Espresso Royale) until the Beckman Café reopens. It's a great opportunity to get to know your new director and for him to get to know you and your research. Steve's buying!
Gather in the Garden
Beckman Institute Center Atrium
Contact name: Mollie Stevens
Contact email: mollie@illinois.edu
Contact phone: 217-244-2603
Join members of the Beckman community for informal conversation and coffee in the atrium!
Yoga at Beckman
Beckman Institute Room 5269-5th Floor Tower
Contact name: Elena Romanova
Contact email: romanova@illinois.edu
Join us at noon on Wednesdays for yoga with a view! All sessions are free and will be held in Beckman's fifth-floor tower room. All are welcome to bring their own mat!