Journal Club is usually hosted on the last Monday of the month. To avoid conflicting with any events that might take place the day before National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (September 30), we’ve moved September’s Journal Club to the following week.
Speaker: Thomas Oldreive (left) (Rescheduled to October 27)
Paper: Utility of cerebrovascular imaging biomarkers to detect cerebral amyloidosis
Learning Objectives:
Cerebrovascular imaging biomarkers can aid in predicting cerebral amyloid load, over basic demographic data
The mechanisms connecting cerebrovascular disease and AD are complex and multi-facetted
Multi-modal prediction offers a unique opportunity to understand the relationships between diseases
About the speaker: Thomas is entering the second year of his MSc in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Calgary, studying under Dr. Philip A. Barber and Dr. M. Ethan MacDonald. His research looks to combine multimodal biomarkers, including MR imaging, blood tests, genotyping, and demographic data, with machine learning to predict late life cognitive decline in stroke patients. Before his master’s Thomas was a chemical engineering working in the energy industry for over three years.
Speaker: Yasaman Shafaee (right)
Paper: Vascular reactivity in small cerebral perforating arteries with 7 T phase contrast MRI– A proof of concept study
About the speaker: Yasaman completed a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Physics at Sharif University of Technology in Tehran. Currently training at Carelton University, the scope of Yasaman’s PhD thesis aims to make measurements of oxygen metabolism (i.e., CMRO2) using calibrated fMRI more reliable during transient periods of brain activity, such as shortly after a stimulus is turned on/off or in the resting state.