UCLA/Semel NeuroImaging Training Program Advanced fMRI Summer Course

The UCLA Neuroimaging Training Program Summer Course is designed for advanced users, from graduate students to tenured faculty, who have significant experience in research using functional imaging, especially functional MRI. This year's program, which will be held in Los Angeles from 2014 July 21 through 2014 August 1, will cover a broad range of topics including data acquisition, experimental design, fMRI data processing, anatomical imaging, machine learning and others. The draft course schedule is available now.

Each year, the emphasis of the course differs. For the 2014 program we will be paying special attention to ways in which cutting-edge applications of functional MRI, and its related methods, can help answer big questions in neuroscience. Our goal in so doing is to help gain perspective on fMRI's role.

As always, we will include extraordinary international faculty, who will present didactics in slides and talks, and who will interact one–on–one with the course attendees. Attendees will design, run and analyze experimental studies directed at unresolved questions in neuroimaging, using the extraordinary research facilities available to the UCLA NeuroImaging Training Program.

Admission is highly competitive. Successful applicants show that they have experience in neuroimaging using MRI and have above average productivity in terms of publications and presentations for their current academic rank and training (i.e., we anticipate that tenured faculty have published more than post–docs). In the past, most of the attendees have published one or more papers in the field, though this is not a requirement.

The generous sponsorship that we receive from the United States Narional Institutes of Health allows us to offer the two week program tuition free. The course also will cover lodging in UCLA on-campus housing. Food and transportation costs are the responsibility of the attendees. We are not able to offer any additional support grants. This course is open to applicants worldwide.

Please apply using the ONLINE SUMMER COURSE APPLICATION FORM. Applications close on March 31; all files must be complete at that time.

The UCLA Neuroimaging Training Program is funded by generous awards from the National Institutes of Health, grant numbers R90 DA022768 and T90 DA023422