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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 3/21 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 (4 Columbus Ave, Boston, MA (617) 542-3456; 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. There will be someone at the door to let you in as the door is secured.

  • 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) slides; Nick Schmansky (QDEC: a Freesurfer group-analysis GUI tool)
Workflows Update: R. Jagadeeswaran (LONI) slides; Shawn Murphy/Mike Mendis (MGH)
Databases Update - Dan Marcus (XNAT)

Lunch (12-1:00PM)

  • Afternoon (1-4PM)

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

XNAT + FreeSurfer/QDEC
Workflow Workbench / Eclipse plug-in

  • Evening (at Radisson)

Cocktail Reception (@5:30 PM)
Site Update Presentations (@6:00PM) slides about the BWH environment
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, D. Greve, D. Kennedy, M. Mendis, R. Buckner, N.Schmansky, S. Wallace, B. Fischl, G. Hoffman
BWH: N. Aucoin, K. Hayes, S. Pieper, R. Kikinis, W. Plesniak
MIT: P.Golland
WashU: D. Marcus, T.Olsen, M. Ramaratnam, K. Archie
JHU: T. Brown, J.Hennesey, A. Kolasny, M. Miller, S. Mori, J. Farrell, B. Landman, A. Qui
Duke: A. Song, J. MacFall, B. Boyd, K. Zhao
UCLA: A. Toga, R. Jagadeeswaran
UCSD: A. Dale, C. Fennema-Notestine
UCI: J. Ames, S. Potkin, J.Turner, D. Wei, D. Keator, J. Fallon, A. Preda
BIRN CC: M. James, J. Grethe, V. Astakhov, R. Manansala, N. Jones
NIH: E.Collier
Other Collaborators: B. Gimi (Children's)
NIH CIT: M. McAulliffe, E. McCreedy

Friday’s clinical collaborator round table discussion:
M. McAulliffe (NDAR)
G. Harris, O. Wu (SPOTRIAS)
P. Wolfe, R. Killany, ++ (Framingham Heart Study)
F. LaLonde (NIMH)