Highlighted Research Topics

• Small-World Brain Networks - A symposium at the Human Brain Mapping Conference.  San Francisco, California June 21, 2009.
• A presentation by Dr. Ann Peiffer at the ORI Research Conference on Research Integrity.  Niagara Falls, New York May 15-17, 2009.
• Brain and Music - Dr. Jonathan Burdette will talk as part of the Brain Awareness Week at Salem College.  Winston-Salem, North Carolina March 2009
• A poster presentation by Dr. Satoru Hayasaka at the Internation Imaging Genetics Conference.  Irvine, California January 19-20, 2009.
  

News

• March 2009 - Dr. Ann Peiffer won the National Postdoctoral Association Travel Award and presented a talk titled "Incorporating Professional Development Opportunities into RCR Education."  Dr. Peiffer also won the Nation Postdoctoral Association Most Innovative Postdoctoral Program Award in 2008.
• February 2009 - Huan Tan's paper titled "A Fast, Effective Filtering Method for Improving Clinical Pulsed Arterial Spin Labeling MRI" has been accepted in Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
• January 2009 - The ANSIR Lab's fully automated processing pipeline, WFU_Pipeline, is now publicly available.  Details are described in a recent paper in Neuroinformatics titled "Fully automated processing of fMRI data in SPM: from MRI scanner to PACS" by Dr. Joseph Maldjian.
• December 2008 - Jen Mozolic won the 2008 George Sacher Student Award from the Gerontological Society of America (GSA).
• December 2008 - Merideth Adicott's paper titled "The effect of daily caffeine use on cerebral bloof flow: How much caffeine can we tolerate?" has been accepted in Human Brain Mapping.
• November 2008 - Dr. Ann Peiffer's letter titled "Fostering a Culture of Responsible Lab Conduct" was published in Science (2008) 322:1186.
• September 2008 - Dr. Satoru Hayasaka was awarded an R21 grant by NINDS for developing a power calculation tool for neuroimaging studies.