<div dir="ltr"><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,serif,EmojiFont">We are pleased to announce the </span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri,serif,EmojiFont;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px;outline:0px"><a href="http://store.humanconnectome.org/courses/2018/exploring-the-human-connectome.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="gmail-LPlnk957330" class="gmail-x_OWAAutoLink"></a><a href="https://store.humanconnectome.org/courses/2019/exploring-the-human-connectome.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="gmail-x_OWAAutoLink" id="gmail-LPlnk267491"><span style="font-size:10pt">2019 HCP Course: "Exploring the Human Connectome"</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,serif,EmojiFont">, to be held </span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri,serif,EmojiFont;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;margin:0px;padding:0px;border-width:0px;outline:0px"><span style="font-size:10pt">July 8 – 12, 2019</span></span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt">at the </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif,EmojiFont"><a href="https://www.uplacehotel.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="gmail-LPlnk421882" class="gmail-x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://www.uplacehotel.com/
Cmd+Click or tap to follow the link"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,serif,EmojiFont">University Place Hotel and Conference Center</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt"> at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, USA. </span></span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:Calibri,serif,EmojiFont"></span></div></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,Helvetica,EmojiFont,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji",NotoColorEmoji,"Segoe UI Symbol","Android Emoji",EmojiSymbols;font-size:14.6667px"></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri"></span><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt"><font size="2" face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt">This 5-day intensive course will provide training i</span></font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">n</span></font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt">acquisition, processing, analysis</span></font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">and</span></font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt">visualization</span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="gmail-x_x_m_8552991463082703120m_8684758165107726470gmail-x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="gmail-x_x_m_8552991463082703120m_8684758165107726470gmail-x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt">of</span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">whole brain imaging</span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt">and behavioral data using</span></font></span></font></span></font><span style="font-size:10pt"> methods and tools developed by the WU-Minn-Oxford </span><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="gmail-x_x_m_8552991463082703120m_8684758165107726470gmail-x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="gmail-x_x_m_8552991463082703120m_8684758165107726470gmail-x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt">Human Connectome Project</span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></font></span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt">(HCP)</span></font></span></font><span style="font-size:10pt"> consortium.</span></div><div><div style="margin:0px"><font face="Calibri"><br></font></div><div style="margin:0px"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt">Th</span></font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">e</span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt">course is designed for those interested in:</span></font></div><ul style="margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:0px"><li style="margin:0px"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt">using HCP-style data currently available from the young adult HCP and </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri,serif,EmojiFont">HCP Lifespan (Development and Aging) projects</span></font></li><li style="margin:0px"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt">acquiring and analyzing HCP-style imaging and behavioral data at your own institution</span></font></li><li style="margin:0px"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt">processing your own non-HCP data (including legacy data) using HCP pipelines and methods</span></font></li><li style="margin:0px"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">using</span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></font><a href="https://www.humanconnectome.org/software/connectome-workbench.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="gmail-LPlnk591519" class="gmail-x_OWAAutoLink"><font face="Cambria"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt">Connectome Workbench</span></font></font></a><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt">tools and shar</span></font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">ing</span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt">data using the</span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></font><a href="https://balsa.wustl.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="gmail-LPlnk44593" class="gmail-x_OWAAutoLink"><font face="Cambria"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt">BALSA</span></font></font></a><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt">imaging database</span></font></li><li style="margin:0px"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt">learning HCP multi-modal neuroimaging analysis methods, including those that combine MEG and MRI dat</span></font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">a</span></font></li><li style="margin:0px"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt">positioning yourself to capitalize on HCP-style data </span></font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="gmail-x_x_m_8552991463082703120m_8684758165107726470gmail-x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt">forthcoming</span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt"> from </span></font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="gmail-x_x_m_8552991463082703120m_8684758165107726470gmail-x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt">large-scale projects</span></font></span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt"> currently collecting data </span></font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span id="gmail-x_x_m_8552991463082703120m_8684758165107726470gmail-x_x_divtagdefaultwrapper"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt">(e.g., Lifespan HCP development and aging longitudinal data and Connectomes Related to Human Disease projects)</span></font></span></font></span></font></li><li style="margin:0px"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt">learning </span><span style="font-size:10pt">how to obtain data from the NIMH Data Archive (NDA) and setup processing in an Amazon Web Services (AWS) environment</span></font></font></font></li></ul></div><br><div style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt">Participants will learn how to acquire, analyze, visualize, and interpret data from four major MR modalities (structural MR, resting-state fMRI, diffusion imaging, task-evoked fMRI) plus magnetoencephalography (MEG) and extensive behavioral data. Lectures and labs will provide grounding in neurobiological as well as methodological issues involved in interpreting multimodal data, and will span the range from single-voxel/vertex to brain network analysis approaches. </span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></font></div><font face="Calibri"><br></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt">The course is open to students, postdocs, faculty, non-profit and industry participants. The course is aimed at both new and current users of HCP data, methods, and tools, and will cover both basic and advanced topics. Prior experience in human neuroimaging or in computational analysis of brain networks is desirable, preferably including some familiarity with</span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></font><a href="https://fsl.fmrib.ox.ac.uk/fsl/fslwiki" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="gmail-LPlnk695137" class="gmail-x_OWAAutoLink"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt">FSL</span></font></a><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt">and</span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></font><a href="https://surfer.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="gmail-LPlnk594149" class="gmail-x_OWAAutoLink"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt">Freesurfer</span></font></a><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:10pt">software.</span></font><font face="Calibri"><br></font><font face="Calibri"><br></font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">For more info and to register visit the</span></font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></font><a href="https://store.humanconnectome.org/courses/2017/exploring-the-human-connectome.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="gmail-LPlnk794540" class="gmail-x_OWAAutoLink"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"></font></a><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><a href="http://store.humanconnectome.org/courses/2019%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20/exploring-the-human-connectome.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="gmail-LPlnk491592" class="gmail-x_OWAAutoLink"><span style="font-size:10pt">HCP Course 2019 website</span></a></font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">. </span></font></font><span style="font-size:10pt">If you have any questions, please contact us at:</span><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt"><a href="mailto:hcpcourse@humanconnectome.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="gmail-LPlnk358635" class="gmail-x_OWAAutoLink" style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">hcpcourse@humanconnectome.org</a></span></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont;margin-top:14pt;margin-bottom:14pt"><font size="2" face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">We look forward to seeing you in Portland!</span></font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">Best,</span></font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font><font face="Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">2019 HCP Course Organizers</span></font></font></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font size="2">
<a name="SignatureSanitizer_SafeHtmlFilter_m_3117236303102322056_m_-7758682956017073915__MailAutoSig"><span><span>Jennifer Elam, Ph.D.</span><br>
<span>Scientific Outreach, Human Connectome Project</span><br>
<span>Washington University School of Medicine</span><br>
<span>Department of Neuroscience, Box 8108</span><br>
<span>660 South Euclid Avenue</span><br>
<span>St. Louis, MO 63110</span><br>
<span></span></span></a><a href="tel:314-362-9387" target="_blank"><span><span style="color:blue">314-362-9387</span></span><span></span></a><span><span><br>
</span></span><a href="mailto:elam@wustl.edu" target="_blank"><span><span style="color:blue">elam@wustl.edu</span></span><span></span></a><span><span><br>
</span></span><a href="http://www.humanconnectome.org/" target="_blank"><span><span style="color:blue">www.humanconnectome.org</span></span></a></font></div></div></div>