I am pleased to invite you to attend the MiNDS Colloquium TODAY Thursday January 16th at 3:00 in HSC 4E20. Bring your coffee cup for coffee and cookies before the talk at 2:45.

Dr. Stefan Everling obtained his Dr.rer.nat. in 1995 at the University of Bremen in Germany. In 1996, he moved to Canada for postdoctoral training with Douglas Munoz at Queen's University. After 3 years of postdoctoral training, he started as a research scientist at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit in Cambridge and in the Department of Experimental Psychology in Oxford with John Duncan and David Gaffan. In 2000, Stefan joined the faculty in the Departments of Physiology & Pharmacology and Psychology at Western University where he is now a Full Professor. His research focuses on neural correlates of executive control using electrophysiology, functional magnetic resonance imaging, and behavioural experiments. In Dr Everling's talk, he will discuss how blood-oxygenation-level dependent (BOLD) based functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has revolutionized the way neuroscientists study the human brain. The technique allows large-scale functional mapping of cortical and subcortical brain areas during sensory, motor, and cognitive tasks. While task-based BOLD fMRI is tremendously successful in human brain studies, its application has been technically challenging in awake, behaving macaque monkeys, which have been used extensively as surrogates for human brain function in electrophysiological recording, pharmacological, lesion, and neuroanatomical studies for over 50 years.  

Stefan will present the results from several studies in which they have successfully utilized resting-state fMRI to investigate the organization of brain networks in macaque monkeys. The results show that functional connectivity measures based on the low-frequency fluctuations of the BOLD signal are largely determined by the underlying anatomical architecture, but also display dynamic fluctuations that have been previously ignored.  He will show that resting-state fMRI  in nonhuman primates can be used for comparative mapping of human and macaque brain networks, the parcellation of cortical areas, and for the investigation of the neural basis of resting-state fMRI.  

We look forward to seeing you all at the talk today.

Regards

Kathy

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Kathryn M Murphy PhD

Hamilton ON L8S 4K1