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Overview
The 2021听Bernice Grafstein Lecture in Neuroscience will be held virtually on Thursday, October 28, at 3 PM, Eastern Time. The IPN was pleased to welcome听 Dr. Lawrence Wald听as the keynote speaker. Dr.听Wald is听currently a Professor听of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and Affiliated Faculty of the Harvard-MIT Division Health Sciences Technology.听His听work has explored the benefits and challenges of highly parallel MRI and its听application to highly accelerated image encoding and parallel excitation and ultra-high field MRI (7 Tesla) methodology for brain imaging including听improved methods for matrix shimming and gradient coil design. His lab also听focuses on motion mitigation methods, portable MRI technology, and is听developing a prototype functional Magnetic Particle Imaging scanner.
The Bernice Grafstein Lecture in Neuroscience is an opportunity to discover and learn about cutting-edge neuroscience from a world-renowned invited speaker. The lecture is generously supported by Dr. Bernice Grafstein, herself a pioneer of neuroscience.听
This lecture is open to the public.听
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"Addressing barriers in high field fMRI acquisitions"
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Lawrence L. Wald, Ph.D.,
Lawrence L. Wald, Ph.D., is currently a Professor of Radiology at Harvard Medical School and Affiliated Faculty of the Harvard-MIT Division Health Sciences Technology. He received a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California at Berkeley in 1992 under the direction of Prof. E.L. Hahn with a thesis related to optical detection of NMR. He obtained further (postdoctoral) training in Physics at Berkeley and Radiology and MRI at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF). He began his academic career as an Instructor at the Harvard Medical School at McLean Hospital and since 1998 has been at the Massachusetts General Hospital Dept. of Radiology in the NMR Center (now the A.A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging). His work has explored the benefits and challenges of highly parallel MRI and its application to highly accelerated image encoding and parallel excitation and ultra-high field MRI (7 Tesla) methodology for brain imaging. This has included improved methods for RF coil arrays, parallel transmit methods, acquisition sequences, matrix shimming, peripheral nerve modeling and gradient coil design. His lab also focuses on motion mitigation methods, portable MRI technology, and is developing a prototype functional Magnetic Particle Imaging scanner.
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Dr. Bernice Grafstein
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Dr. Bernice Grafstein received her B.A. in physiology at the University of Toronto and her Ph.D. in neurophysiology at 91社区 in Montreal. As a graduate student she trained as an electrophysiologist, working on structure-function correlations in the cerebral cortex. Her thesis work was on the mechanism of cortical spreading depolarization, which has been recognized as playing an important role in migraine, stroke and other cortical pathology. Her contributions established the role of the extracellular movement of potassium ions in propagation of spreading depolarization, and her work has become a classic in its field. She subsequently became interested in nervous system development and regeneration, and is known for her work on intracellular transport of protein in normal and regenerating neurons, as well as other forms of molecular signaling among various cell types in the brain. She has been President of the Society for Neuroscience and is currently a Trustee and Vice-President of the Grass Foundation, which supports training and research in neuroscience. She now serves as Professor of Physiology & Biophysics and the Vincent & Brooke Astor Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City. She has recently been appointed a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.