Conference Program

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  • 8:00 - 8:15
    Arthur Toga


  • 8:15 - 8:30
    Neda Jahanshad


  • 8:30 - 8:40
    Alan Evans / session chair


  • 8:45 - 9:30
    Terry Jernigan
    The ABCD Study: Focusing on the Early Observations


  • 9:30 - 10:15
    Rebecca Knickmeyer Santelli
    Genetic and Environmental Influences on Infant Brain Development


  • 10:15 - 11:00
    Catherine Lebel
    Typical and atypical structural brain development in early childhood


  • 11:15 - 12:00
    Panel Discussion


  • 12:00-2:30 : Lunch (on own)


  • 2:30-5:30
    Speaker series with breaks (chaired by Terry O'Brien / Meng Law)

    Theme -- Disruption and variability in brain trajectories throughout the lifespan
    PechaKucha style: Short (6 minutes 40 seconds) talks by researchers of all career stages

    1. Bianca Jupp : Neuroimaging correlates of behavioural traits predicting addiction vulnerability

    2. Richelle Mychasiuk : Examining changes in glymphatic function following traumatic brain injury

    3. David Wright : Pre-clinical biomarkers and the animal model in TBI and Concussion

    4. Sandy Shultz : MRI and blood Biomarkers of Concussion in Australian Rules Footballers

    5. Eileen Luders : Pronounced Changes in the Maternal Brain after Giving Birth

    6. Scott Kolbe : Clinical monitoring of axonal loss in multiple sclerosis using advanced diffusion MRI

    7. Lucy Vivash : PET imaging in Neurological Diseases

    8. Ben Sinclair : Neuroimaging for the prediction of surgical outcome in Epilepsy

    9. Clare Palmer : Exploring neural correlates of cognitive and intellectual development in the ABCD cohort

    10. Ian Harding : Neuroimaging of Brain Inflammation in Neurodegenerative Diseases

    11. Sharna Jamadar : Within-subject functional connectivity using high temporal resolution simultaneous FDG-PET/BOLD-fMRI

    12. Shivam Kalhan: Neural Correlates of Accelerated Perceptual Awareness: A 7T-fMRI Study



  • 5:30 - 7:30
    Poster Session and Welcome Reception


  • 8:00 - 8:10
    Gary Egan / session chair


  • 8:10 - 8:45
    David Glahn
    Modeling Genetic Influence on Neurocognitive and Neuroanatomic Maturation


  • 8:45 - 9:30
    Xi-Nian Zuo
    Moving to Developmental Population Neuroscience - Measurements, Cohorts and Theory


  • 9:30 - 9:40
    Break


  • 9:40 - 10:25
    Liana Apostolova
    Understanding AD Heterogeneity: a Path towards Precision Medicine


  • 10:25 - 11:10
    Anqi Qiu
    Nature and Nurture: Evidence from Pediatric NeuroImaging and Genetics


  • 11:15 - 12:00
    Panel Discussion


  • 12:00-5:00 : Lunch (on own)


  • 5:00 - 6:00
    Poster Awards & Talks PechaKucha Style



  • 6:00 - 9:00
    Banquet


  • 8:30 - 8:40
    Hassy Cohen / session chair


  • 8:45 - 9:30
    Tracy Melzer
    Tracking Parkinson's disease progression over 10 years with MRI


  • 9:30 - 10:15
    Hieab Adams
    A precision epidemiology approach to neurodegenerative diseases


  • 10:15 - 11:00
    Emily Rogalski
    SuperAging: A model for studying mechanisms of resilience and resistance


  • 11:10 - 11:50
    Panel Discussion


  • 11:50 - 12:00
    Gary Egan, closing remarks


  • 12:00-2:00: Lunch (on own)


  • 2:00 - 4:00
    Hands-on Workshop

    Peter Kochunov : Modeling lifespan curves, heterosketasticity, and vulnerbility indices