Meetings occur every 4th friday of the month from 1:00pm-2:00pm in room L335 PBDB.

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• Meeting Cancelled. Suggested participants register for neuromatch academy

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• Tien Tong gave a tutorial on incorporating a custom atlas into xcpEngine.

• Joel Bruss gave a talk on creating a whole brain parcellation (cortex, cerebellum, striatum, hippocampus, amygala) using a winner take all strategy

• No Meeting (encouraged people to sign up for the datascience institute courses)

• Dillan Cellier gave a great presentation on psychopy: how to install/how to use/tips-tricks for fMRI/EEG analyses
• VIDEO HERE
• MRI CODE HERE
• EEG CODE HERE

• Dr. Vincent Magnotta gave a presentation on Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) and listed available software to analyze the data.
• powerpoint slides

• James Kent gave a presentation on NiBetaSeries
• VIDEO HERE (sorry the audio recording failed)

• James Kent gave an overview on building a Dockerfile for GE_dcm_to_nii
• VIDEO HERE

• Flywheel representatives came down and gave a presentation on their services during the brainhack.
• VIDEO HERE

• James Kent covered brainiak and part of the rsa tutorial
• VIDEO HERE

• No Meeting, but a link was sent out to cover the brainiak tutorials

• James Kent gave a tutorial on xcpEngine that was largely based on the tutorial already provided in the xcpEngine documentation

• No Meeting
• Sent survey for people to fill out for dates for brainhack

• James Kent documents his adventures with CPAC (will be updated).

• James Kent recently attended CoastalCoding. A brief overview of the training materials were presented along with a more in-depth walkthrough on GiraffeTools, a visual tool to create nipype workflows.

• No Meeting (Happy Holidays!)

• James Kent talked about workflows and nipype and used Michael Notter's quick-start to nipype for demonstration.

• Mark Bowren delivered an explanation of LESYMAP and associated tutorial (to be uploaded) to try it out for yourself.

• No meeting, but we distributed a paper about good spreadsheet organizational practices and encouraged people to sign up for the uiowa hackathon

• Dr. Merry Mani graciously gave a diffusion imaging tutorial using FSL

• cron tutorial (James Kent)

• Dr. Tim Koscik gave a great tutorial about doing some basic neuroimaging analysis using R. (loading data in/performing basic modelling, etc) Note: you need to download the html file and open it with your browser to see the contents

• Brief remarks about the brainhack and brainstorming about other training opportunities (Jatin has a cool idea!)
• Pro/Cons of having a central repository (probably on Github) to place shareable scripts at uiowa (like the T1rho analysis scripts?)
• See what we would like to learn about over the summer (e.g. if other people would like to lead discussion and teach us about something they are working on)

• introductions (if there are new people)
• fmriprep preprint is out
• honorable mention
• reproin intro
• xnat_downloader demo
• Can we use/improve dcm2niix to support more BIDS fields or should we focus on our own tools?

• introduction: name/department/something you want out of this meeting
• change meeting time
  • switch to 2:00 pm. (pending Hans Johnson's approval)
• talked about adopting BIDS into the XNAT naming conventions