We are pleased to announce the *2017 HCP Course: "Exploring the Human Connectome"* https://store.humanconnectome.org/courses/2017/exploring-the-human-connectome.php, to be held *June 19 – 23, 2017* at the University of British Columbia (UBC) http://ubcconferences.com/, in Vancouver, BC, Canada. This is the week before the Organization of Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) annual meeting http://www.humanbrainmapping.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageID=3734 to be held in downtown Vancouver (about 8 miles away from UBC) June 25-29. This 5-day intensive course will provide training in acquisition, processing, analysis and visualization of whole brain imaging and behavioral data using methods and informatics tools developed by the WU-Minn-Oxford Human Connectome Project (HCP) consortium.
The course is designed for investigators who are interested in:
- using data collected and distributed from the HCP young adult study - acquiring and analyzing HCP-style imaging and behavioral data at your own institution - processing your own non-HCP data using HCP pipelines and methods - using Connectome Workbench https://www.humanconnectome.org/software/connectome-workbench.html tools and sharing data using the BALSA https://balsa.wustl.edu/ imaging database - learning HCP multimodal neuroimaging analysis methods, including those that combine MEG and MRI data - exploring the HCP MMP 1.0 http://humanconnectome.org/about/pressroom/nature-article-cortical-brain-maps-at-the-highest-resolution-to-date/ multimodal parcellation brain map and learning about how it can be used in your analyses - positioning yourself to capitalize on HCP-style data being distributed by the Connectome Coordinating Facility (CCF) from forthcoming large-scale projects (e.g., Lifespan HCP development and aging and Connectomes Related to Human Disease projects)
Participants will learn how to acquire, analyze, visualize, and interpret data from four major MR modalities (structural MR, resting-state fMRI, diffusion imaging, task-evoked fMRI) plus magnetoencephalography (MEG) and extensive behavioral data. Lectures and labs will provide grounding in neurobiological as well as methodological issues involved in interpreting multimodal data, and will span the range from single-voxel/vertex to brain network analysis approaches.
The course is open to students, postdocs, faculty, and industry participants. The course is aimed at both new and current users of HCP data, methods, and tools, and will cover both basic and advanced topics. Prior experience in human neuroimaging or in computational analysis of brain networks is desirable, preferably including some familiarity with FSL https://fsl.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fsl/fslwiki and Freesurfer https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/ software.
For more info and to register visit the HCP Course 2017 website https://store.humanconnectome.org/courses/2017/exploring-the-human-connectome.php. If you have any questions, please contact us at: hcpcourse@humanconnectome. org
We look forward to seeing you in Vancouver!
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