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Imaging Interest Group Seminars

The Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience Imaging Interest Group is excited to return for 2024. Seminars are held fortnightly in the TCIN Boardroom. All are welcome!

Previous Seminars

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 Jörn Diedrichsen 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
TCIN Third FloorSeminar Room (joint with NeuroSoc)

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?