Happy New Year from the OHBM Communications Committee!

Here’s what’s new in the OHBM community:

• Registration is open for OHBM 2024 in Seoul, Korea!
• Exhibitor & Sponsorship Prospectus – First-on-the-Scene pricing ends February 1.
• 3 new episodes of the Neurosalience podcast featuring Alex Huth, Shella Keilholz, and Evan Gordon.
• New Sustainability Award from the Sustainability and Environmental Action SIG.
• BrainArt SIG opens their Call for Artists for the OHBM 2024 exhibition.
• Ongoing blog series highlighting 2023 OHBM award winners.
• An editorial on multiband fMRI acquisition sequences published in Aperture Neuro.

With the 2024 calendar newly hung on the wall, the countdown is on for OHBM 2024!

Sincerely,
Kevin Sitek & Alfie Wearn
Communications Chair & Chair-Elect
on behalf of the OHBM Communications Committee

Join us in registering for OHBM 2024 in Seoul, Korea!

• Not an OHBM member? Sign up or renew your membership today to receive discounted pricing on Annual Meeting and Educational Course Registration.
• Want more benefits? Membership+ includes all of the perks of a full membership, in addition to, a 1-year subscription to Dropbox.
• For more information and to register, click here.

The 2024 Prospectus [PDF] was reimagined by our Partnership Engagement and Operations Manager and is full of new and exciting sponsorship packages.

• First-on-the-Scene pricing ends February 1.
• Reach out to Katie Million at kmillion@humanbrainmapping.org if you have any questions or have specific contacts in the community you wish to share.

We saw three new episodes of Neurosalience—hosted by Peter Bandettini—this month.

• Episode 5: Alex Huth, assistant professor of computer science and neuroscience at the University of Texas–Austin, shares insights on the value of naturalistic stimuli on fMRI research and updates us on our current capabilities to decode brain activity. During this conversation Alex highlights an amazing tool to view semantic maps in the brain.
• Episode 6: Shella Keilholz, professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University, talks about her career as well as about how whole brain networks that dominate much of the resting state signal mesh with the current landscape of diverse features of resting state fMRI that continue to be found.
• Episode 7: Evan Gordon, assistant professor at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, explores the implementation, benefits, and potential of “deep sampling” of fMRI data.

• Sustainability and Environmental Action (SEA–) SIG’s new Sustainability Award
  • SEA–SIG has been working to promote sustainable neuroimaging research practices in the OHBM community for the last four years. The number of researchers adopting environmentally conscious research practices is expected to grow further and such behavior should be encouraged. We therefore proudly present the Sustainability Award.
  • This was established to acknowledge the efforts an individual or team have taken to adopt sustainable practices in their research, to develop tools that help others work more sustainably, or to help educate people on environmental issues.
  • You are welcome to check the Award Criteria [PDF] and nominate a person or team by February 2 that has been successfully employing sustainable practices in their research.
• BrainArt SIG opened the Call for Artists for the art exhibition "Beyond Borders" at OHBM 2024. More info at https://ohbm-brainart.github.io/exhibit.html

Are you passionate about effective communication and eager to contribute your skills to the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM)? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!

We invite all OHBM members to submit applications to join the OHBM Communications Committee (ComCom). Our mission is to provide accessible, actionable information to the brain mapping community through various channels, such as the OHBM Blog, Neurosalience podcast and our ‘OHBMonthly’ digest.

Learn more about ComCom here. To apply, please fill out this short form.

Each year at the Annual Meeting, the Organization for Human Brain Mapping recognizes members of the field of human brain imaging for their outstanding contributions to the field. The Communications Committee is showcasing the 2023 awardees’ contributions to the field through a series of blog posts:

• So far, we’ve heard from Early Career Investigator Awardee Catie Chang, Education in Neuroimaging Awardee Janaina Mourao-Miranda, Karl Zilles Awardee Justine Hansen, and Human Brain Mapping‘s Editors’ Choice Awardee Lanxin Ji.
• Read a broad audience summary of Justine Hansen’s work on connectivity and molecular vulnerability here.
• Click here for more information about all the winners!

Keep an eye on the OHBM Blog for upcoming interviews: ohbmbrainmappingblog.com

• A new editorial published in Aperture Neuro sounds a note of caution about the widespread adoption of HCP-like multiband sequences. Read it here: Wall (2023). Multiband acquisition sequences for fMRI: Proceed with caution
• Aperture Neuro is committed to contributing to a positive transformation in the publishing landscape by expanding our range of research objects beyond traditional PDFs to include data sets, code, notebooks, and videos.
• Click here for more info about the OHBM-affiliated journal.

Many neuroimaging jobs were added to the OHBM job board in the last month! Here are some recent spotlight positions:

• Canada Research Chair (CRC) Tier II in Quantitative Imaging Biomarker Development at Concordia University in Montréal.
• The National Institute on Aging is seeking exceptional candidates for Full-Time Remote eligible position of Senior Program Advisor for Development and Testing of Interventions Targeting Aging Mechanisms.
• The San Diego State University MRI Center is hiring an MRI Staff Imaging Physicist.

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