monthlyMeetingMinutes

Meetings occur every 4th friday of the month from 1:00pm-2:00pm in room L335 PBDB.

2020 July

• Meeting Cancelled.

2020 June

• Meeting Cancelled.

2020 May

• Meeting Cancelled.

2020 April

• Meeting Cancelled. Suggested participants register for neuromatch academy

2020 March

• Meeting Cancelled. Suggested participants checkout "your missing semester of CS education"

2020 February

• Tien Tong gave a tutorial on incorporating a custom atlas into xcpEngine.

2020 January

• Joel Bruss gave a talk on creating a whole brain parcellation (cortex, cerebellum, striatum, hippocampus, amygala) using a winner take all strategy

2019 December

• No Meeting (encouraged people to sign up for the datascience institute courses)

2019 November

• Dillan Cellier gave a great presentation on psychopy: how to install/how to use/tips-tricks for fMRI/EEG analyses
• VIDEO HERE
• MRI CODE HERE
• EEG CODE HERE

2019 October

• Dr. Vincent Magnotta gave a presentation on Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) and listed available software to analyze the data.
• powerpoint slides

2019 September

• James Kent gave a presentation on NiBetaSeries
• VIDEO HERE (sorry the audio recording failed)

2019 August

• James Kent gave an overview on building a Dockerfile for GE_dcm_to_nii
• VIDEO HERE

2019 July

• Flywheel representatives came down and gave a presentation on their services during the brainhack.
• VIDEO HERE

2019 June

• James Kent covered brainiak and part of the rsa tutorial
• VIDEO HERE

2019 May

• No Meeting, but a link was sent out to cover the brainiak tutorials

2019 April

• James Kent gave a tutorial on xcpEngine that was largely based on the tutorial already provided in the xcpEngine documentation

2019 March

• No Meeting
• Sent survey for people to fill out for dates for brainhack

2019 February

• James Kent documents his adventures with CPAC (will be updated).

2019 January

• James Kent recently attended CoastalCoding. A brief overview of the training materials were presented along with a more in-depth walkthrough on GiraffeTools, a visual tool to create nipype workflows.

2018 December

• No Meeting (Happy Holidays!)

2018 November

• James Kent talked about workflows and nipype and used Michael Notter's quick-start to nipype for demonstration.

2018 October

• Mark Bowren delivered an explanation of LESYMAP and associated tutorial (to be uploaded) to try it out for yourself.

2018 September

• No meeting, but we distributed a paper about good spreadsheet organizational practices and encouraged people to sign up for the uiowa hackathon

2018 August

• Dr. Merry Mani graciously gave a diffusion imaging tutorial using FSL

2018 July

• cron tutorial (James Kent)

2018 June

• Dr. Tim Koscik gave a great tutorial about doing some basic neuroimaging analysis using R. (loading data in/performing basic modelling, etc) Note: you need to download the html file and open it with your browser to see the contents

2018 May

• Brief remarks about the brainhack and brainstorming about other training opportunities (Jatin has a cool idea!)
• Pro/Cons of having a central repository (probably on Github) to place shareable scripts at uiowa (like the T1rho analysis scripts?)
• See what we would like to learn about over the summer (e.g. if other people would like to lead discussion and teach us about something they are working on)

2018 April

• introductions (if there are new people)
• fmriprep preprint is out
• honorable mention
• reproin intro
• xnat_downloader demo
• Can we use/improve dcm2niix to support more BIDS fields or should we focus on our own tools?

2018 March

• introduction: name/department/something you want out of this meeting
• change meeting time
  • switch to 2:00 pm. (pending Hans Johnson's approval)
• talked about adopting BIDS into the XNAT naming conventions