Mbirn:SpringConference2007

Morphometry BIRN All Hands Meeting - 2007

Location: Boston, MA
Date: March 21-23, 2007
Venue: Radisson Boston

Room rates are $159/night, please call the hotel directly at 617-482-1800 and let reservations know that you are with the "mBIRN Spring Meeting 2007" block.

There will be a Programmer's Day on 3/20 for those people needing extra working time outside of the two meeting days. Contact Karl Helmer (helmer@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu) for more information.

We will be kicking off the meeting on 3/21 with a cocktail party social starting at 5:00 pm followed by a dinner at 7:00 pm, both are at the Radisson.

There is also a group dinner planned on 3/22 at Maggiano's Little Italy (across the street from the hotel).

Sessions for AHM:

Wednesday (3/21) Note: this session takes place at 1249 Boylston Street
The conference room is on the second floor, room 245, and the phone number there is 617-525-6224. Once you arrive downstairs call extension 56224 and someone can come and let you in.

• Morning
  

Breakfast: 8AM
Start: 8:30 AM
Topic 1: Where are we and where are we going?
Introduction / Goals of the Meeting - Randy Gollub
Data Repository Update - Chris Fennema-Notestine
(5 minute presentations + time for discussion/questions)
Portal Update - Jeff Grethe, Mark James
Applications Update: Steve Pieper (Slicer 3); Nick Schmansky (Query Tool Front End to FreeSurfer)
Workflows Update: R. Jagadeeswaran (LONI); Shawn Murphy/Mike Mendis (MGH)
Databases Update - Dan Marcus (XNAT)

Discussion of the agenda for Wednesday and Thursday
Move to Breakout Groups

Lunch (12-1:00PM)

• Afternoon (1-4PM)
  

Database/Application Integration Working Session (Dan Marcus, Steve Pieper, Doug Greve, Tim Olsen)
mBIRN workflows group (Anthony Kolasny, Tim OBrien, Shawn Murphy, Mike Mendis, Ramil Manansala, Neil Jones)

• Evening (at Radisson)
  

Cocktail Reception (@5:30 PM)
Site Update Presentations (@6:00PM)
Dinner (@7:00 PM)

Thursday (3/22)

• Morning
  

Breakfast 7:30-8:30
Introduction – Bruce Rosen

Chris Fennema-Notestine – update from Data Repository Director

Specific sessions for the following TBD by discussion on Wednesday's Programmer Day:
Workflows Working Group-demonstrations of the LDDMM and LONI pipelines
XCEDE Group (Dan Marcus, Jeff Grethe, Tim O'Brien, Dave Keator,..., includes provenance group)
Upload Working Group
Visualization and Analysis Working Group

A parallel DTI Working Session (Susumu Mori, Allen Song, Jonathan Farrell, Bennet Landman, Jim Fallon, Berj Gimi, Anders Dale, Karl Helmer) will run throughout Thursday.
DTI session will begin with 5 minute updates from each participating site

Lunch 12-2PM
Operations Committee Lunch 12-1 PM

• Afternoon (2-5PM)
  

DTI Working Session
Workflows Working Session
XCEDE /Query Atlas groups (includes provenance group) Upload Working Session
Databases Working Session

• Evening
  

6:30 pm - Dinner at Maggiano's Little Italy (4 Columbus Ave, Boston, MA (617) 542-3456; across the street from the hotel)

Friday (3/23)

• Morning
  

Breakfast (7:30-8:30)
Opening Remarks - Greg Farber
Opening Remarks II - Bruce Rosen
Overview for each Working Group
Introduction to the BIRN Data Repository - Christine Fennema-Notestine
Introduction of the Clinical Collaborators - Representatives
Roundtable discussion with mBIRN clinical collaborators: National Database for Autism Research (NDAR), Specialized Program of Translational Research in Acute Stroke (SPOTRIAS), Framingham Heart Study, NIMH Pediatric Neuroimaging Group.

Lunch (12-1:30PM)

• Afternoon (1:30-4PM)
  

Wrap up Session – Discussion of what Morphometry can deliver in the one and two year timeframes. Incorporation of feedback and needs of the clinical collaborators.
Action Items
Finish @ 4pm

ATTENDEES

MGH: B. Rosen, R. Gollub, K. Helmer, S.Murphy
BWH: N. Aucoin, K. Hayes, S. Pieper, R. Kikinis
MIT: P.Golland
WashU: D. Marcus, T.Olsen, M. Ramaratnam, K. Archie
JHU: T. Brown, J.Hennesey, A. Kolasny
Duke: A. Song, B. Boyd, J. MacFall, K. Zhao
UCLA: A. Toga
UCSD: A. Dale, C. Fennema-Notestine
UCI: S. Potkin, J.Turner, Dingying Wei
BIRN CC: M. James
NIH: E.Collier
NA-MIC:
Other Collaborators: