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Venue: B10 Seminar Room, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square, London, WC1N 3AR
Please see map at: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/images/map_arounducl_l.jpg
Supported by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation
PROGRAMME
[45 minute talks plus 15 minutes for discussion]
Sunday 26 February |
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18.00 - 20.00 |
Welcome Drinks |
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4th Floor, Alexandra House, 17 Queen Square |
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Monday 27 February |
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10.00 - 10.30 |
Tea, coffee and Welcome (Peter Dayan and Bob Turner) |
Session 1 |
Neuronal functional biochemistry |
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Chaired by Bob Turner |
10.30 – 11.30 |
David Attwell – The cellular distribution of energy use in the CNS and the matching of blood supply to energy usage |
11.30– 12.30 |
Karl Kasischke – NADH as a functional imaging signal |
12.30 – 13.30 |
Lunch |
13.30– 14.30 |
Richard Buxton – The thermodynamics of thinking: Is CBF regulation maintaining the ratio [O2]/[CO2] in cells? |
Session 2: |
Neural activity, oxygen delivery and cerebral blood flow |
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Chaired by Jason Berwick |
14.30– 15.30 |
Martin Lauritzen – Possible neurophysiological mechanisms for positive and negative BOLD contrast signals explored in rat sensory and cerebellar cortex |
| 15.30 - 16.00 | Tea and Coffee |
16.00 – 17.00 |
Roger Springett – Mitochondrial oxygenation in the brain |
17.00 – 18.00 |
John Mayhew – OIS and MRI measurements: towards a biophysical model of the relationship between neural activity and the BOLD signal |
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Tuesday 28 February |
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Session 3: |
What kind of neural activity does BOLD signal indicate? |
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Chaired by Martin Lauritzen |
9.15-10.15 |
Fahmeed Hyder – Energetics of neural populations by fMRI: Towards quantitative neuroimaging |
10.15-11.15 |
Ralf Galuske – Hemodynamic signals and local neuronal processing |
11.15-11.45 |
Tea and Coffee |
11.45-12.45 |
Amir Shmuel – Neuronal correlates of negative BOLD responses in monkey visual cortex |
12.45 – 14.30 |
Lunch |
14.30 – 15.30 |
Geraint Rees - How much information can be extracted from the BOLD signal? |
Session 4: |
Oxygen extraction |
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Chaired by Risto Kauppinen |
15.30 – 16.30 |
Peter van Zijl – Coupling of flow and oxygen metabolism as studied by BOLD fMRI. What can we measure and what not? |
16.30 – 17.00 |
Tea and Coffee |
17.00- 18.00 |
Bruce Pike – Sensitivity of the BOLD fMRI activation response to global vasodilation |
20.00 - finish |
Dinner - Trattoria Verdi Restaurant, 110 Southampton Row, London, WC1 4BL |
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Wednesday 1 March |
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Session 5: |
Spatial and temporal aspects of fMRI signal |
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Chaired by Roger Ordidge |
9.30 – 10.30 |
Afonso Silva – Spatial and temporal characteristics of the functional hemodynamic response: insights from fMRI and two-photon microscopy |
10.30- 11.30 |
Arno Villringer - Adding meaning to the fMRI signal |
11.30 – 12.00 |
Tea and Coffee |
12.00 – 13.00 |
Robert Turner – How the brain is fed and drained: cerebral vascular geometry and its implications for BOLD spatial and temporal resolution |
13.00 – 14.00 |
Lunch |
14.00 – 15.00 |
General discussion (available) |
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