Imaging Interest Group Seminar
Upcoming Seminars
| 9 Jun, 9am–5pm | Tercentenary & Knowledge Exchange, Level L2, TBSI | Discovery and New Frontiers Trinity Neuroscience Research Day 2026 | ||
| 10 Jun, 11am | LB11 | Prof. Stefanie Höhl | Institute for Psychology of Development and Education, University of Vienna | A Developmental Framework of Interpersonal Synchrony |
Previous Seminars
| 5th May 2026 | Alannah Smyth | Whelan Lab, School of Psychology and Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience | EEG as a neurophysiological marker to aid diagnosis and to monitor treatment response |
| 27 Mar 2026 | Qing Qi | Naci Lab, School of Psychology and Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience | Sex differences in the associations between risk and protective factors with cognition and the brain in cognitively healthy mid-life individuals at risk for late-life dementia |
| 18 Mar 2026 | Dr. Nicholas Senn | School of Medicine, Medical Sciences and Nutrition, The University of Aberdeen | Developing new applications for emerging MRI technologies: First results from Field-Cycling Imaging of ageing brain and Low-field MRI of free-breathing lung. |
| 13 Mar 2026 | Dr Maria-Eleni Dounavi | Department of Psychiatry, University of Cambridge | Neuroimaging in relation to dementia risk factors at midlife: findings from the PREVENT-Dementia study |
| 3 Mar 2026 | Áine T. Dineen | Cusack Lab, School of Psychology and Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience | A Window into the Infant’s Visual World: Through a NeuroAI Lens |
| 2 Mar 2026 | Dr Tessa Dekker | Experimental Psychology and Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London | Neuroplasticity in visual development, deprivation, and sight-rescue |
| 12 Feb 2026 | Prof. Mona Garvert | University of Wuerzburg | Cognitive maps guiding generalisation across appetitive and aversive contexts |
| 29 Jan 2026 | Prof. Peter Kok | Department of Imaging Neuroscience, University College London | The neural circuit underlying perceptual predictions |
| 28 Jan 2026 | Kevin Campion | Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience | TCIN fMRI drop-in |
| 11 Dec 2025 | Dr. Sean Froudist Walsh | Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience | Macroscale gradients of cortical organisation shape distributed cognitive computations |
| 16 Jun 2025 | Dr Michael Connaughton | Royal College of Surgeons Ireland | Workshop on using ExploreDTI for dMRI analyses |
| 10 Jun 2025 | Dr Param Ahir & Dr Zi Ye | The Cusack Lab, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience | Evaluation of Quality and Application of New Motion Tracker | 4 Jun 2025 | Early to Late Life Trinity Neuroscience Research Day 2025 |
| 21 May 2025 | Cerca Magnetics Limited | An overview of TCIN’s new OPM-MEG facility | |
| 1 May 2025 | Harvey McCone | The O'Connell Lab, School of Psychology and Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience | Time is of the Essence: The Dynamic Interplay Between Timing and Evidence Accumulation in Perceptual Decision Making |
| 13 Mar 2025 | Dr Danny Dilks | Psychology Department Emory University and Emory Eye Centre, Emory Healthcare | Development of cortical place processing, from childhood to adulthood |
| 17 Feb 2025 | Graham King | The Cusack Lab, School of Psychology and Trinity College Institute of | Functional MRI in Asleep and Awake Infants – New Frontiers |
| 16 Jan 2025 | Dr. Markus Werkle-Bergner | Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin | Memory Development and Brain Maturation in Early Life |
| 20 Nov 2024 | Dr Brooke Tornifoglio | Mechanical, Manufacturing & Biomedical Engineering, Trinity College Dublin | 7T Scanning: Upcoming Research at Biomedical Imaging and Biomechanics Lab |
| 1 Nov 2024 | Clíona O’Doherty | The Cusack Lab, School of Psychology and Trinity College Institute of | Bridging Perception and Conceptual Understanding in Infant Minds and Machines |
| 9 Oct 2024 | Dr Friedrich Wetterling | Electronic & Electrical Engineering, Trinity College Dublin | Journal Club: Motion Artifacts in MRI: A ComplexProblem With Many Partial Solutions (Zaitsev, Maclaren, and Herbst, 2015) |
| 19t Sept 2024 | Dr Matthew Brett | London Interdisciplinary School | How should we teach brain imaging? |
| 12 July 2024 | Prof. Moritz Köster | University of Regensburg | How infants learn about their physical, social, and cultural world |
| 27 June 2024 | Dr Halie Olson | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language in the Developing Brain |
| 26th June 2024 | Dr Friedrich Wetterling & Dr Brooke Tornifoglio | Trinity College Dublin | Evaluation of the maximum possible spatial and temporal resolution for anatomical Magnetic resonance Imaging of excised cerebral tissue of the mouse and rat at 7T |
| 20 Mar 2024 | Andrew Breen and Daniel Mc Loone | Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience | Awake rat MRI scanning - a contribution to the AwakeRodent multi-center, multi-species, multi-modality study |
| 5 Mar 2024 | Molecules to Mind Trinity Neuroscience Research Day 2024 | ||
| 26 Feb 2024 | Dr Christopher Smyser | St. Louis Children's Hospital & Washington University in St. Louis | From Connectome to the Home: Early Life Adversity and the Developing Brain |
| 7 Feb 2024 | Prof. Rob Whelan and Yihe Weng | Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience | Application of a computational model to stop-signal task data improves neuroimaging predictions |
| 26 Oct 2023 | Prof. Rik Henson | MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge | Relating Age, Brain and Cognition: results from the Cambridge Centre for Ageing & Neuroscience (CamCAN) |
Lifespan MRI Meeting, The Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. 19th October 2023
| 9.00 | Registration and coffee | ||
| 9.30 | Welcome | Rhodri Cusack and Lorina Naci, Trinity College Dublin | |
| Fetal and Infant MRI | Chaired by Hilary Richardson, University of Edinburgh | ||
| 9.35 | Cameron Ellis, Stanford University | The potential of awake infant fMRI | |
| 9.50 | Eleanor Molloy, Crumlin Children’s Hospital | Improving the early diagnosis of cerebral palsy and neurodevelopmental delay using MRI and blood biomarkers | |
| 10.05 | Rhodri Cusack, Trinity College Dublin | Characterising the foundations of cognition with awake infant fMRI and computational modelling | 10.20 | Roxane Licandro, Medical University of Vienna | Discovering structural and functional development of the fetal and infant brain with machine learning |
| 10.35 | Coffee | ||
| Ultra-high Field Infant MRI | Chaired by Arun Bokde, Trinity College Dublin | ||
| 11.05 | Clare Kelly, Trinity College Dublin | Bridging the translational divide: longitudinal imaging of brain development in rodents | 11.20 | Tom Arichi, King’s College London | Ultra-high field high resolution functional imaging of the developing brain |
| Infant Keynote | Chaired by Rhodri Cusack, Trinity College Dublin | ||
| 11.40 | Ellen Grant, Boston Children’s Hospital | The First 1000 Days: Insights From Imaging | |
| 12.25 | Posters and Lunch | ||
| Industry Collaborations | Chaired by Rhodri Cusack, Trinity College Dublin | ||
| 1.55 | MR Collaborations Manager | Siemens Healthineers | |
| MRI in Later Life | Chaired by Brian Lawlor, Trinity College Dublin | ||
| 2.10 | Maria-Eleni Dounavi, University of Cambridge | Neuroimaging alterations at midlife in relation to dementia risk factors: results from the PREVENT-Dementia study | |
| 2.25 | Rob Whelan, Trinity College Dublin | The brain-cognition relationship in older adults: insights from neuroimaging | |
| 2.40 | Lorina Naci, Trinity College Dublin | Longitudinal deep phenotyping in healthy individuals at risk for future dementia | |
| 2.55 | Coffee | ||
| 3.10 | Daniel Mitchell, MRC CBU, Cambridge | Neural contributions to reduced fluid intelligence across the adult lifespan | |
| 3.40 | Christina Dintica, University of California San Francisco | Modifiable factors associated with midlife brain health | |
| Later-life Keynote | Chaired by Lorina Naci, Trinity College Dublin | ||
| 3.55 | Celine De Looze, Trinity College Dublin | The TILDA Study | |
| 4.45 | Adjourn for a drink | ||
| Thank you to our sponsors, Siemens Healthineers | |||
| 3 Oct 2023 | Prof. Jörn Diedriczhsen | Brain and Mind Institute, University of Western Ontario | What is the function of the human cerebellum across cognitive domains? | 16 Jan 2023 | Huiqing Hu | Naci Lab, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience and Global Brain Health Institute, Trinity College Dublin | Typical and disrupted brain network complexity in human neonates | 19 Dec 2022 | Dr Eva Jimenez-Mateos | Assistant Professor in the Department of Physiology, Trinity College Dublin | Analysing the effects of birth asphyxia in brain development and neurological outcomes | 8 Dec 2022 | Dr Melanie Ganz | Neurobiology Research Unit (NRU) at Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital | How can you avoid to put children in general anesthesia while they are in a brain scanner? – The MoCo project at Rigshospitalet | 8 Dec 2022 | Dr Kathrine Skak Madsen | Danish Research Centre for Magnetic Resonance at Copenhagen University Hospital Hvidovre | Individual differences in brain maturational trajectories and associations with developing response inhibition performance. Insights from the 12-wave HUBU cohort | 5 Dec 2022 | Dr Allyson Mackey | Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania | Environmental influences on brain development and plasticity | 26 Sept 2022 | Brooke Tornifoglio | Lally Lab, Department of Mechanical, Manufacturing and Biomedical Engineering, Trinity College Dublin | QSM for plaque vulnerability diagnosis |
| 12 Apr 2022 | Enzo Tagliazucchi | Whelan Lab, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience | Computational models of whole-brain activity: from data to mechanism, with applications to brain health |
| 11 Apr 2022 | Yihe Weng | Whelan Lab, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience | Connectome-based predictive modeling of stop-signal-task performance across adolescence |
| 28 Mar 2022 | Hyab Mehari Abraha | Conway Lab, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland and Trinity College Dublin | Realistic 3D Reconstruction of the Human Heart |
| 28 Mar 2022 | Mélanie Garcia | IMMALab, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience | Examples of Interpretable Deep Learning on MRI data: trying to open the “black box” to build biologically and clinically consistent models. |
| 28 Feb 2022 | Michael Connaughton | Whelan Lab, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience | Longitudinal structural connectivity of the limbic lobe in ADHD |
| 14 Feb 2022 | Sarah McElroy | Siemens Scientist at Trinity College Dublin | Cardiac MR perfusion imaging with high spatial resolution and coverage using simultaneous multi-slice and compressed sensing reconstruction |
| 31 Jan 2022 | Áine T. Dineen | Cusack Lab, Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience | Robust Motion Correction for MRI using DNNs |
| 18 Jan 2022 | Joanes Grandjean | Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine amd Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Donders Institute, Radboud University Medical Centre | Standardizing rodent functional imaging across research centres |
| 18 Jan 2022 | Clare Kelly | Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience | Piloting a standardised consortium fMRI data collection sequence for rats at TCIN |
| 23 Nov 2021 | Chen Qin | Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, University of Edinburgh | The Development of Deep Learning Approaches for MRI Reconstruction and Analysis |
| 9 Nov 2021 | Eleanor Kennedy | Liggins Institute, University of Auckland | Using MRI to further our understanding of neurodevelopmental issues following preterm birth |
| 26 Oct 2021 | Hugh Kearney | Neurology, St James’s Hospital | Evaluating the diagnosis of MS – a research proposal |
| 26 Oct 2021 | Eimear McGlinchey | School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin | PREVENT DEMENTIA- DS: Early biomarkers of AD in people with Down syndrome |
| 12 Oct 2021 | Shane O'Mara and Seamas Donnelly | Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience and School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin | Brain Fog and Long Covid |
| 12 Oct 2021 | Brooke Tornifoglio and Caitríona Lally | Department of Mechanical, Manufacturing and Biomedical Engineering, Trinity College Dublin | Investigation of DTI and QSM as quantitative markers for tissue engineering |
| 10 Oct 2019 | Laura Finnegan | The School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Trinity College Dublin | Manganese-enhanced MRI to asses optic nerve integrity in a mouse model of retinal degeneration. |
| 4 Jul 2019 | Judit Carrusta | Centre for the Developing Brain, Kings' College London | Early development of the brain functional architecture |
| 6 Jun 2019 | Oliviero Gobbo | The School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Trinity College Dublin | Development of a mouse model of glioblastoma for the study of local treatments, post-resection |
| 23 May 2019 | Vyacheslav (Slava) Karolis | FMRIB, Oxford | Structural and functional architectures in brain development and ageing. |
13 May 2019 |
Jonathan Smallwood | Psychology, The University of York | The neural basis of on-going conscious experience |
| 9 May 2019 | John Butler | School of Mathematical Sciences, TU Dublin | Contradicting Neural Unreliability Thesis in Autism: Embracing the Null Hypothesis with Confidence |
| 7 May 2019 | Johann Kruschwitz | Volition and Cognitive Control, Dresden University of Technology | Graph theoretical modeling of brain connectivity: Concepts and workflow of brain connectivity analysis using graph theory. |
| 28 Mar 2019 | Dara Cannon | Medicine, NUI Galway | Psychiatry and the Human Connectome: Diffusion MRI Research Advances |
| 14 Mar 2019 | Alan Stone | Biomedical Engineering, Trinity College Dublin | Progressing quantitative MRI towards the clinic: Application of novel methods for insight into atherosclerosis, stroke, tumor and traumatic brain injury |
| 28 Feb 2019 (joint with below) | Evie Regan | MEng Biomedical Engineering, University College Dublin | Investigating the Deformation of the Masseter Muscle during Teeth Clenching and Grinding" and Dr. Catherine Jordan, a GBHI and Atlantic Fellow at TCD will be presenting: 'An fMRI pilot study exploring the influence of personally meaningful music on mild Alzheimer's Disease |
| 28 Feb 2019 | Catherine Jordan | GBHI and Atlantic Fellow at Trinity College Dublin | An fMRI pilot study exploring the influence of personally meaningful music on mild Alzheimer's Disease |
| 31 Jan 2019 | Erik O'Hanlon | Trinity College Dublin and RCSI | Imaging. What have you done for me lately?? What can your data do for you? |