Talk title: Making sense of time in the human mind.

Talk title: MEG in Frontotemporal dementia: from understanding disease to supporting experimental medicine.

Talk title:  Optimising the clinical potential of MEG. 

Talk title: Mathematical modelling of large-scale brain dynamics.

Chair: Olaf Hauk

9.20  Welcome

9.30 Keynote lecture: “Mathematical modelling of large-scale brain dynamics”  
Stephen Coombes – University of Nottingham, UK

10.30  “Multimodal dynamic causal modelling of MEG and fMRI”  
Amirhossein Jafarian – University of Cambridge, UK

10.45 “Testing predictive coding using MEG: from macro to micro-scale”
Dimitrios Pinotsis – MIT & City, University of London, UK

11.00 “Multidimensional Pattern Connectivity, a novel functional connectivity metric for EEG/MEG research”
Setareh Rahimi – MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, UK

11.15 “MEG cortical microstates: spatiotemporal characteristics, dynamic functional connectivity and stimulus-evoked responses”
Luke Tait- University of Birmingham, UK

11.30-11.45 Break

11.45 “Bayesian inference of population prevalence “
Robin Ince – University of Glasgow, UK

12.00 “Automatic ICA denoising in MEG using pyFIX”
Mats van Es – University of Oxford, UK

12.15 “Mechanistic insights into the spontaneous emergence of metastable oscillatory brain modes”
Francesca Castaldo – University College London, UK

12.30 “BIDS: The Brain Imaging Data Structure – A data standard to support the neuroimaging community”
Guiomar Niso – Indiana University, USA

12.45-14.00 Lunch break & poster session 1
Link to poster session

Chair: Thomas Cope

14.00 Keynote lecture: “MEG in Frontotemporal  dementia: from understanding disease to supporting experimental medicine”  
James Rowe – University of Cambridge, UK

14.45  “The structural, functional and neurophysiological connectome of mild traumatic brain injury: a DTI, fMRI and MEG data fusion study”  
Benjamin Dunkley – The hospital for Sick Children, Canada

15.00 “Alterations in resting-state activity and functional connectivity in children at high genetic risk of neurodevelopmental disorders“
Joanne Doherty – University of Cardiff, UK 

15.15 “OP-MEG in epilepsy with a whole-head, 62-channel system“
Stephanie Mellor – University College London, UK

15.30 “Semantic predictions as a compensation strategy in dyslexic readers: old theory, new evidence“
Anastasia Kimovich-Gray – Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language, Spain

15.45-16.00 Break

16.00 “Oscillatory changes with GABA-ergic and non-GABA-ergic sedation drug mechanism “finger-printing” with MEG“
Neeraj Saxena – University of Cardiff, UK

16.15 “Transient pan-spectral bursts in mild traumatic brain injury”
Lukas Rier – University of Nottingham, UK

16.30 “Hidden Markow Modelling of the Interictal Brain”
Zelekha Seedat – University of Nottingham, UK

16.45 “The neurophysiological effects of the NMDA-R antagonist Memantine in frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD) is conditional on baseline GABA”
Alistair Perry – University of Cambridge, UK

17.00 End of day 1

Chair: Alessandro Tomassini

9.30 Keynote lecture: “Simultaneity, coincidence detection, & perception”  
Virginie van Wassenhove – Neurospin, France

10.30  “Predicted visual contents reverse the feedforward representation of the actual stimulus to facilitate its categorization”  
Yuening Yan – University of Glasgow, UK

10.45 “Traveling waves within beta bursts in the human motor cortex“
Catharina Zich – University College London, UK

11.00 “Mapping BCI task imagery brain responses using MEG beta power desynchrony effects“
Sujit Roy – University of Manchester, UK

11.15 “Coupling of pupil and neuronal population dynamics reveals diverse influence of arousan on cortical processing“
Christian Keitel – University of Stirling, UK

11.30-11.45 Break

11.45 “Individual facial movements evoked differential dynamic brain activities for valence and arousal”
Meng Liu – University of Glasgow, UK

12.00 “Segmenting and predicting phrase structure exploits neural gain modulation and phase precession”
Xiangbin Teng – The Free University of Berlin, Germany

12.15 “Rhythmic interactions between the mediodorsal thalamus and prefrontal cortex precede human visual perception”
Benjamin Griffiths – Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Germany

12.30-13.30 Lunch break & poster session 2
Link to poster session

Chair: Diandra Brkic

13.30 Keynote lecture: “Optimising the clinical potential of MEG”  
Caroline Witton – Aston University, UK

14.30  “MEG functional connectivity associated with intraindividual variability and mind-wandering”  
Marcus Daghlian -University of Cardiff, UK

14.45 “Individual variability in multimodal connectome“
Esin Karahan – University of Cardiff , UK

15.00 “Brain networks dynamically represent and transfer behaviourally-relevant face and object features but quickly reduce them when they are behaviourally irrelevant“
Yaocong Duan – University of Glasgow, UK

15.15 “Effects of fMRI acoustic noise on resting brain networks’ connectivity, a MEG study“
Anna-Lisa Schuler -San Camillo Hospital, Italy

15.30 “Tracking information exchange in the multiple demand network in space and time using fMRI-MEG fusion“
Hamid Karimi-Rouzbahani – MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, UK

15.45-16.00 Break

Chair: Rik Henson

16.00 “Optimisation of the OPM sensor design for MEG realistic conditions”
Yulia Bezsudnova – University of Birmingham, UK

16.15 “Naturalistic hyperscanning with OPM-MEG”
Niall Holmes – University of Nottingham, UK

16.30 “Improved spatiotemporal resolution and modular sensor development for optically-pumped magnetometer MEG”
Aikaterini Gialopsu – University of Sussex, UK

16.45 ” Measuring high-frequency signals with zero-field Magnetometers”
Tim Tierney – University College London, UK

17.00 ” Using OPMs to measure neural activity in standing, mobile participants”
Robert Seymour – University College London, UK

17.15 Prizes & Goodbye

13.00 “OPM-MEG: opportunities and challenges”  
Matthew Brookes, University of Nottingham

13.30 Development and testing of a resilient nonlinear optically pumped magnetometer for MEG applications  
Ania Kowalczyk, University of Birmingham

13.50 “Magneto-Spinoencephalography (MSEG)“
 Sven Bestmann, University College London

14.10 “A modular OPM sensor“
 Peter Kruger, University of Sussex

14.30 Short break

15.00 “Optimisation of SERF magnetometry for MEG using machine learning”
Stuart Ingleby, Carolyn O’Dwyer, Strathclyde

15.20 “Contactless measurements of retinal activity using OPMs”
Britta Westner, University of Aarhus & Donders

15.40 “Towards fetal MEG with OPMs”
Sarang Dalal, University of Aarhus

16.00 “Challenges in the development of an OPM array for magnetoencephalography”
Allison Nugent, NIH

16.20 “Development of high resolution MEG using OPMs”
Christoph Pfeffer, Aalto