Webinar Series - ReproNim

Upcoming Webinars

Friday, January 3, 2025 ~ No Webinar ~ Happy New Year!
Webinar Presentations to Date
- Friday, December 6, 2024 at 2pm EST
  - Our featured speaker this month is ReproNim/INCF Fellowship alum Johanna Bayer who joins us from the Predictive Clinical Neuroscience Group,(Donders Institute and RadboudUMC, Netherlands). Johanna discusses normative modelling of neuroimaging data using the Predictive Clinical Neuroscience toolkit (pcntoolkit), in her presentation: "Normative modelling using the pcntoolkit – the what when and why.”
  - Video Presentation and Slides are now available
- Friday, November 1, 2024 at 2pm EDT
  - We welcome Stefano Moia and colleagues Inês Esteves (Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa - Lisbon), Rebecca Clemens (Northwestern University - Chicago), Mary Miedema (McGill University - Montreal), and Marie-Eve Picard (Université de Montréal - Montreal) for a special introduction to the PhysioPy project: "The physiopy Community: working towards accessible and reproducible physiological data integration in neuroimaging studies"
  - Video Presentation is now available
- Friday, October 4, 2024 at 2pm EDT
  - Special guest speaker Mike Milham (Child Mind Institute) discusses some of his very recent work with a presentation on "Moving beyond processing- and analysis-related variation in resting-state functional brain imaging."
  - Video Presentation is now available
- Friday, September 6, 2024 at 2pm EDT
  - We are excited to kick off the new academic year with special guest speaker Chris Mungall ! Chris joins us from Berkeley National Lab & Univ. California, where he leads the Biosystems Data Science group. Chris has very considerable expertise in large systems-level computation modeling, systems biology, data science, reusable and interoperable software, machine learning and knowledge graphs, and shares his remarkable perspective with a presentation on "Creating AI-ready datasets using LinkML and biomedical ontologies."
  - Video Presentation is now available
- ~ Summer Hiatus ~ July-August 2024
- Friday, June 7, 2024
- Friday, May 3, 2024
- Friday, April 5, 2024
- Friday, March 1, 2024
- Friday, February 2, 2024
- Friday, January 5, 2024 - Cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances
- Friday, December 1, 2023
  - Daniel Asay joins us from the Harvard University Center for Brain Science. He discusses his work with Tim O'Keefe and colleagues on open-source quality control pipelines (XNAT 1.8+ plugins), particularly for diffusion weighted imaging, in his presentation: DWIQC: Diffusion Imaging Quality Control Pipeline
  - Video Presentation and Slides are now available.
- Friday, November 3, 2023
- Friday, October 6, 2023
  - Rudolph Pienaar joins us (Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital) as guest speaker to kickoff our fall season! He shares his expertise and insights on the development and applications of an open source platform for computational research and medicine (ChRIS), with a presentation on "The Challenges of Medical Computing in the Age of AI and Clouds – how ChRIS can help."
  - Video Presentation and Slides are now available.
- July-September, 2023 ~ Summer Hiatus
- Friday, June 2, 2023 at 2pm EDT
  - Arno Klein is our special guest speaker, joining us from the Child Mind Institute to share some of his intriguing and innovative technological developments aimed at better understanding of and treatment for childhood mental health disorders: MindLogger platform for configurable data collection and interventions in research and clinical practice
  - Video Presentation and Slides are now available.
- Friday, May 5, 2023
  - We're excited to have Angie Laird, from the Neuroinformatics and Brain Connectivity group at Florida International University as our featured guest speaker. Angie shares her wisdom and very experienced perspective with a presentation on "Large, Open Datasets for Neuroimaging Research: Considerations for Reproducible and Responsible Data Use."
  - Video Presentation and Slides are now available.
- Friday, April 7, 2023
  - We welcome ReproNim Fellowship graduate Sook-Lei Liew for a presentation on her pioneering work in reproducibility education for researchers in the medical rehabilitation community: "ReproRehab: Building a reproducible rehabilitation research education program for the medical rehabilitation community."
  - Video Presentation and Slides are now available.
- Friday, March 3, 2023
  - Special guest speaker Pradeep Raamana joins us from the University of Pittsburgh to share his expertise in the development of automated QA tools for MRI protocol compliance, including open datasets, in Neuroimaging Quality Control (niQC): critical yet overlooked part of neuroscience."
  - Video presention is now available. Slides will be posted as soon as possible.
- Thursday, February 2, 2023 (live) and Friday, February 3 (re-broadcast)
  - Special guest speaker Steffen Bollmann joins us from University of Queensland with a presentation on Neurodesk: An accessible, flexible, and portable data analysis environment for reproducible neuroimaging.
  - Video presention is now available.
- Friday, January 6, 2023 at 2pm EDT
  - Our own David Kennedy (ReproNim PI, UMass Chan Medical School) and members of the ReproNim Team discuss The State of the ReproNim: An Update on Center Activities
  - Video presentation and Slides are now available.
- Friday, December 2, 2022 at 2pm EST
  - Special guest Keith Bush shares his wisdom and experience in implementing best practices and tools for enhancing the rigor and reproducibility of neuroimaging throughout the Brain Imaging Research Center at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences with a presentation on Transitioning a Neuroimaging Research Center to Open and Reproducible Science: A Case Study. See his recent publication on lessons learned!
  - Video Presentation and Slides are now available.
- Friday, November 4, 2022 at 2pm EDT
  - ReproNim Collaborator Mike Yassa, along with ReproNim faculty David Keator, join us from UCI for a discussion of Early life adversity and brain development: A case study in imaging insights and challenges.
  - Video Presentation is now available.
- Friday, October 7, 2022 at 2pm EDT
  - We kick off the new academic year with a special presentation by ReproNim faculty member Maryann Martone (UCSD, INCF), Reflections on progress in open and FAIR neuroscience. Maryann discusses the 'hows and whys' for the current sea change in neuroscience towards an an open and FAIR approach to all aspects of research, and the implications and importance of this movement for neuroscience going forward.
  - Video Presentation is now available.
- Summer Hiatus, Friday July 1 - Friday September 2, 2022
- Friday, June 3, 2022 at 2pm EDT
  - Special guest speaker Ted Satterthwaite joins us from UPenn's Lifespan Informatics and Neuroimaging Center, with a presentation on Reproducible Image Curation and Processing for Large-scale Studies of Brain Development.
  - Video Presentation is now available.
- Friday, May 6, 2022 at 2pm EDT
  - We welcome guest speaker Eugenio Iglesias from MGH, for a presentation on Synth*: Domain Randomization for out-of-the-box Brain Analysis with Enhanced Reproducibility.
  - Video Presentation is now available.
- Friday, April 1, 2022 at 2pm EDT
  - Tim Errington joins us from the Center for Open Science, with a presentation on Reproducibility in Preclinical Cancer Research - Lessons from the Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology. This project underscores valuable insights and perspective on reproducibility that translate widely across scientific disciplines.
  - Video Presentation and Slides are now available.
- Friday, March 4, 2022 at 2pm EST
  - Guest speaker and ReproNim Affiliate Peer Herholz discusses the topic of machine/deep learning with a presentation on "Everything Matters...also in Machine Learning: Some Pointers from ReproNim."
  - Video Presentation is now available. Slides will be made available as soon as possible.
- Friday, February 4, 2022 at 2pm EST
  - Sebastian Urchs joins us from McGill to discuss linked data principles and how they can be used to integrate data via metadata, with an illuminating presentation on Annotation 101: Linked Data 101 and the Semantic Web.
  - Video Presentation and Slides are now available.
- Friday, January 7, 2022 at 2pm EST
  - Special guest speaker Dorit Kliemann discusses Opportunities and Challenges of a preregistration: Functional Connectivity of the Amygdala in Autism.
  - Video Presentation Slides are now available.
- Friday, December 3, 2021 at 2pm EST
  - We welcome guest speaker Neda Jahanshad from the ENIGMA consortium for a presentation on The Evolving Landscape of Structured Multisite Neuroimaging Analyses: Observations and Opportunities from the ENIGMA Consortium.
  - Video Presentation and Slides are now available.
- Friday, November 5, 2021 at 2pm EDT
  - Guest speaker and ReproNim-INCF Fellow Chris Rorden joins us, with a presentation on Advanced Neuroimaging Visualization for Cloud Computing Ecosystems.
  - Video Presentation and Slides are available.
- Friday, October 1, 2021 at 2pm EDT
  - We kick off our fall schedule with special guest speakers David Van Essen and Matt Glasser on the topic of Reproducibility in Human Neuroimaging: Lessons from the Human Connectome Project.
  - Video Presentation and Slides are available.
- Friday, July 2, 2021 at 2pm EDT
  - ReproNim collaborators Michael O'Shea and the ELGAN team discuss Neuroimaging Studies of Consequences of Extremely Premature Birth in partnership with our own David Kennedy for related discussion of ReproNim-enabled Diffusion Imaging Analyses
  - Video is now available, as are both Mike O'Shea's Slides and David Kennedy's Slides
- Friday, June 4, 2021 at 2pm EDT
  - Guest speaker Kristina Rapuano joins us from Yale, with a presentation on “Large-scale restriction spectrum imaging and applications to pediatric obesity.”
  - Video and Slides are now available.
- Friday, May 7, 2021 at 2pm EDT
  - Guest speaker Ross Markello joins us from McGill, with a presentation on "Investigating Variability in Biological Analyses of Brain Maps."
  - Video and Slides are now available.
- Friday, April 2, 2021 at 2pm EDT
  - ReproNim collaborator Anna Manelis and ReproNim investigator Yaroslav Halchenko consider "The interplay between depression and obesity: using the ReproNim technologies to study public health problems."
  - Video Presentation and Slides are now available.
- Friday, March 5, 2021 at 2pm EST
  - Our own David Kennedy discusses the ReproPub, with a presentation on "IQ in Typical Development: Using ReproNim Technologies to Create a Re-executable Mega-Analysis of the Historical Literature."
  - Video Presentation and Slides are now available.
- Friday, February 5, 2021 at 2pm EST
  - ReproNim investigators Jeffrey Grethe, David Keator, and Albert Crowley discuss how to create and utilize local metadata storage in "How to Build Your Own ReproPond," including various aspects of setup, local installation of BlazeGraph, and usage pointers.
  - Video Presentation and Slides are available.
- Friday, January 8, 2021 at 2pm EST
  - ReproNim collaborator Remi Gau discusses his computational approach to best practices in data analysis and sharing (COBIDAS), combining eCOBIDAS with the use of ReproSchema to promote e-capture of experimental methods, in "eCOBIDAS: Because Methods Writing is Too Important (and Boring) to Let Humans Do It."
  - Video Presentation and Slides are now available.
- Friday, December 4, 2020 at 2pm EST
  - ReproNim investigator Yaroslav Halchenko and his team focus on "Reproducible Execution of Data Collection/Processing."
  - Video Presentation and Slides are now available.
- Friday, November 6, 2020 at 2pm EST
  - Special presentation! Our collaborators from the COINSTAC team, Vince Calhoun and Theo van Erp provide "An Overview of COINSTAC, with a Practical Application to Analysis."
  - Video Presentation and Slide Set 1 (Calhoun) and Slide Set 2 (van Erp) are now available.
- Friday, October 2, 2020 at 2pm EDT
  - ReproNim investigators and members of the ReproNim training team, JB Poline, Peer Herholz and David Kennedy discuss "How Would ReproNim do That? An introduction to the ReproNim 'How Would' Documents."
  - Video Presentation and Slides are now available.
- Friday, September 4, 2020 at 2pm EDT
  - ReproNim investigator Jeff Grethe presents "Drowning in data? Learn how to swim in ReproNim's data ponds and lakes."
  - Video Presentation and Slides are now available.
- Friday, August 7, 2020 at 2pm EDT
  - ReproNim investigator Satra Ghosh addresses the topic of "Harmonizing clinical and behavioral data collection through ReproSchema."
  - Video Presentation and Slides are now available.
- Friday, July 3, 2020 ~~No Meeting~~ Happy Summer!
- Friday, June 5, 2020 at 2pm EDT
  - ReproNim investigator Yaroslav Halchenko presents "Version control your data and computation using containers, DataLad and ReproMan, and reproducible they be!"
  - Both the Video Presentation and Slides are now available
- Friday, May 1, 2020 at 2pm EDT
  - Guest speaker Franco Pestilli (Associate Professor, University of Indiana), discusses "brainlife.io A free cloud platform for secure, reproducible neuroscience data management, analysis and visualization."
  - Video Presentation is now available
- Friday, April 3, 2020 at 2pm EDT
  - ReproNim investigator David Keator introduces "Tools and Techniques for BIDS Semantic Annotation and Query Across Datasets with NIDM"
  - Both the Video Presentation, and Slides are now available
- Friday, March 6, 2020 at 2pm EST
  - ReproNim investigator JB Poline discusses "How Do I Teach or Learn Reproducible Neuroimaging?"
  - Both the Video Presentation , and Slides are now available
- Friday February 7, 2020 at 2pm EST
  - ReproNIm investigator Jeff Grethe introduces InterLex in his presentation "Damn it Jim, I am a researcher not an ontologist: Exploring and using terminologies"
  - Both the Video Presentation, and Slides are available
- Friday, January 3, 2020 at 2pm EST
  - ReproNim investigator Dorota Jarecka presents "Testing scientific workflows with Testkraken"
  - Both the Video Presentation and Slides are available
- Friday, December 6, at 2pm EST
  - ReproNim investigator Yaroslav Halchenko and colleagues present "Taking Control of your DICOM Data: ReproIn/Heudiconv Tools"
  - Both the Video Presentation and Slides are available
- Friday, November 1, at 2pm EDT
  - Our own David Kennedy presents "State of the ReproNim: A High-Level Overview to Reproducibility in Neuroimaging Research"
  - Both the Video Presentation and Slides are available

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