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= Orlando, FL: October 16-17, 2014 =
MEG connectivity conference and Brainstorm full-day training session.

== General information ==
'''Where:''' <<BR>>Creation Conference Center, Ground Floor Ginsburg Tower<<BR>>Florida Hospital for Children<<BR>>601 East Rollins Street<<BR>>Orlando, FL 32803

'''When:'''<<BR>>Thursday, October 16, 8am-4pm<<BR>>Friday, October 17, 8am-5pm

'''Organizers:'''<<BR>>Eduardo Martinez Castillo, Florida Hospital for Children ( Eduardo.MartinezCastillo@flhosp.org )

'''Instructors:''' <<BR>>Francois Tadel, Elizabeth Bock (Montreal Neurological Institute / McGill University)

'''Target audience:'''<<BR>>MEG/EEG community.<<BR>>Professionals in clinical and translational Neurosciences interested in advanced neuroimaging.<<BR>>Researchers/students interested in clinical and cognitive neurosciences.

'''Participation fees:''' <<BR>>100 USD for professionals (2-day event: MEG conference/Brainstorm course)<<BR>>50 USD for college students (student ID is required)

'''Forms of payment:'''

 * Before September 30: You can send '''a check payable to''':  Florida Hospital for Children<<BR>><<BR>>Send it to this address:<<BR>>MEG Lab<<BR>>Suite 139, North Tower<<BR>>2501 North Orange Avenue<<BR>>Orlando, FL 32804
 * Or you can pay cash or with a credit card at the venue front desk.

'''Maximum attendance:''' 80

== MEG conference program (Day 1) ==
<<BR>>
||<style="border:none;padding:5px;">'''07:45-08:30''' ||<style="border:none;padding:5px;">'''Breakfast and registration ''' ||
||<style="border:none;padding:5px;">'''8:30-8:45''' ||<style="border:none;padding:5px;">'''Welcome and opening remarks (Marla Siliman, Eduardo Castillo)''' ||
||<style="border:none;padding:5px;">'''8:45-9:30''' ||<style="border:none;padding:5px;">'''Talk 1''': MEG and multimodal imaging in epilepsy evaluation.<<BR>>Speaker: Dr Kihyeong Lee (Director FH Epilepsy Program) ||
||<style="border:none;padding:5px;">'''9:30-10:15''' ||<style="border:none;padding:5px;">'''Talk 2''': MEG-guided tractography.<<BR>>Speaker: Dr. Eduardo M. Castillo (Director MEG Lab at FH) ||
||<style="border:none;padding:5px;"> ||<style="border:none;padding:5px;">'''''__Coffee break__, 15 min''''' ||
||<style="border:none;padding:5px;">'''10:30-11:15''' ||<style="border:none;padding:5px;">'''Talk 3''': Brain networks in aging and memory decline.<<BR>>Speaker: Dr. Fernando Maestu (Professor and Director MEG Madrid, UCM, Spain) ||
||<style="border:none;padding:5px;">'''11:15-12:00''' ||<style="border:none;padding:5px;">'''Talk 4''': MEG studies of language function.<<BR>>Speaker: Dr. Andrew C  Papanicolaou (Chair, Division of Clinical Neurosciences, UT-Memphis) ||
||<style="border:none;padding:5px;"> ||<style="border:none;padding:5px;">''__'''Lunch break'''__  (lunch provided by the conference organizers)'' ||
||<style="border:none;padding:5px;">'''1:30pm-2:15''' ||<style="border:none;padding:5px;">'''Talk 5''': Functional connectivity of the resting and active brain.<<BR>>Speaker: Dr. Sylvain Baillet (Associate Professor and Director, MEG  Research, Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, CA) ||
||<style="border:none;padding:5px;">'''2:15-3:00''' ||<style="border:none;padding:5px;">'''Talk 6''': Connecting your brain to a robotic arm: state of the  art of brain-computer interfaces.<<BR>>Speaker: Dr. Wei Wang (Assistant  Professor, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation & Bioengineering,  University of Pittsburgh, USA) ||
||<style="border:none;padding:5px;">'''3:00-3:45''' ||<style="border:none;padding:5px;">'''Talk 7''': The Brain Mapping Initiative: new techniques to understand brain  networks.<<BR>>Speaker: Dr. Darcy Peterka (Columbia University, NY, USA) ||




== Brainstorm workshop (Day 2) ==
=== Requirements ===
The  participants are required to <<HTML(<FONT color=red>)>>'''bring a laptop'''<<HTML(</FONT>)>> (an external mouse will add to your comfort). In order to make the session as efficient as possible, we ask  all the attendees to  <<HTML(<FONT color=red>)>>'''download, install and test'''<<HTML(</FONT>)>> the software and sample  dataset on their  laptops prior to the workshop.

Please read carefully the following  instructions:<<BR>>[[WorkshopOrlando2014Install|How to prepare your laptop for the training]]<<BR>><<BR>>

=== Workshop program ===
'''Instructors:''' Francois Tadel, Sylvain Baillet, Elizabeth Bock (Montreal Neurological Institute / McGill)

'''08:00-08:30:''' ''' Breakfast ''''''and laptop clinic'''

 * Come early for assistance in installing the material for the training session

'''08:30-9:30''': '''Brainstorm overview'''

 * Software architecture
 * Typical data workflow

'''9:30-10:15: Hands-on training '''

 * Database explorer
 * Importing MRI volumes, surfaces and atlases
 * Introduction to anatomical atlases

'''10:15-10:30: Coffee break'''

'''10:30-12:00: Hands-on training'''

 * Co-registration MEG/MRI
 * Reviewing continuous recordings
 * Artifact  detection and correction
 * Filtering and epoching
 * Averaging, observation of a typical  somatosensory evoked response

__'''12:00-13:30: Lunch break'''__

'''13:30-17:00: Hands-on training '''

 * Head modeling and cortical source reconstruction
 * Definition of   ROIs, tracking the processing of the information at the cortex level
 * Time-frequency analysis
 * Functional connectivity

 * Group   analysis and statistics
 * Other topics can be discussed  depending on the audience specific requests

== Registration ==
<<HTML(<A HREF="WorkshopOrlando2014Reg">View list of registered participants </A>)>>