List of Educational Workshops

Monday, June 29th, 2008 (time tbc)
Ischaemia Models		Functional Brain Imaging
co-chairs: Mhairi Macrae, Roland Auer		co-chairs: Bojana Stefanovic, Kazuto Masamoto, Beau Ances
	Mhairi Macrae, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK "Introduction to ischaemia models"		Optical Imaging: Principles and Methods
			Karl Kasischke, University of Rochester, Rochester, USA “In vivo imaging of cellular metabolic states”
	David Howells, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia "Benefits and pitfalls of modelling stroke in rodents"
			Katsuya Yamada, Hirosaki University, Aomori, Japan “Cellular imaging of metabolic communications”
	Roland Auer, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada "What can go wrong (and right) in infarct modelling"
			Kazuto Masamoto, Molecular Imaging Center, Chiba, Japan “In vivo imaging of cerebrovascular reactivity”
	Malcolm Macleod, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK "Improving the internal validity of experiments in focal ischaemia"
			Naoum Issa, The University of Chicago, Chicago, USA “Accuracy of functional maps: Metabolic vs. Hemodynamic signals”

			Neurovascular Coupling: Multi-Modal Methods
			Ryota Homma, Yale University, New Haven, USA "Imaging neuronal activity with voltage- and calcium- sensitive dyes"

Anesthesia in Stroke			Christopher Schaffer, Cornell University, New York, USA "Imaging animal models of small stroke using two-photon excited fluorescence microscopy"
co-chairs: Stephanie Murphy, Ansgar Brambrink
	Stephanie Murphy, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, USA "Introduction to anesthesia in stroke"		David Boas, Harvard MGH, Cambridge, USA “Imaging cerebral hemodynamics via optical imaging”

	Eberhard Kochs, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany "Anesthetic mechanisms in brain"		Bojana Stefanovic, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada “The physiological correlates of BOLD”

	William L. Young, University of California, San Francisco, USA "Anesthesia in clinical stroke"		Calibrated fMRI: Methods and Practice
			Rick Hoge, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada “Principles of calibrated fMRI”
	Ansgar Brambrink, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, USA "Anesthetics: Neuroprotectants, confounders, or neurotoxins?"
			Fahmeed Hyder, Yale University, New Haven, USA “Dynamic calibrated BOLD”
	Ira Kass, State University of New York, Brooklyn, USA "Metabotropic preconditioning effects of anesthetics"

Proteomics in Brain Damage			John Detre, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA “Quantitative fMRI with ASL: Methods and Applications”
co-chairs: Eng Lo, Mingming Ning
	MingMing Ning, Harvard MGH, Boston, USA "Introduction to proteomics for the brain"		Beau Ances, Washington University in St. Louis, USA "Calibrated fMRI in HIV and aging”

	Mary Lopez, BRIMS Center, Cambridge, USA "State-of-the-art mass spectrometry techniques and applications"
		Experimental Design to Publication
	Lennart Martens, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, London, UK "What to do with all that data?!"	chair: Ulrich Dirnagl
			Program
	Michalis Papadakis, Oxford University, UK "Proteomics for experimental stroke models"		1. Principles of experimental design
			2. Good scientific practice: A state of mind
	Sherry Chou, Harvard BWH, Boston, USA "Challenges for proteomic/biomarker studies in the neurocritical care setting"		3. Statistics: Why most published research findings are false
			4. At the finish line: Convincing the reviewer, editor, and reader
Behavioral Analysis
co-chairs: Matthias Endres, Timothy Schallert
	Timothy Schallert, University of Texas, Austin, USA "Measuring behaviour and assessing protection and recovery after stroke in rodents"

	Gretchen Neigh, Emory University, Atlanta, USA "Cognitive function in animal models of ischemia"

	Matthias Endres, Charité Berlin, Germany "Emotional disturbances in animal models of ischemia"

Reception

Ischaemia Models

Functional Brain Imaging

Optical Imaging: Principles and Methods

Neurovascular Coupling: Multi-Modal Methods

Anesthesia in Stroke

Calibrated fMRI: Methods and Practice

Proteomics in Brain Damage

Experimental Design to Publication

Behavioral Analysis