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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">It is our pleasure to announce the NIH MEG North America workshop, to be held November 1<sup>st</sup> and 2<sup>nd</sup> at the NIH campus in Bethesda, MD.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">A call for abstracts is currently open</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">! We are soliciting abstracts based on the four themes
for discussion below, as well as for a general scientific session. Visit <a href="http://megworkshop.nih.gov">
http://megworkshop.nih.gov</a> for more details. Abstracts are due by September 1<sup>st</sup>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">At this meeting, we plan to address the following four themes:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#244061;letter-spacing:.4pt">What does MEG add to the field of neuroscience above and beyond other existing techniques?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#244061;letter-spacing:.4pt">How can we support the evolution of MEG acquisition and methods, through both software and hardware?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#244061;letter-spacing:.4pt">How can we develop and support infrastructure to share data and facilitate big science?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#244061;letter-spacing:.4pt">How could an MEG-North America consortium work to address these issues?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Keynote Speakers:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.mcgill.ca/neuro/research/researchers/baillet">Sylvain Baillet, PhD</a>, Director, MEG Core McGill University, McConnell Brain Imaging Center<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://mcgovern.mit.edu/technology/meg-lab/people/dimitrios-pantazis">Dimitrios Pantazis, PhD</a>, Director of MEG Lab, Martinos Imaging Center<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.chop.edu/clinical-staff/roberts-timothy-p">Timothy P. Roberts, PhD,</a> Vice Chair of Research, Department of Radiology, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.mrn.org/people/julia-m-stephen/principal-investigators">Julia M. Stephen, PhD</a>, Director, MEG/EEG Core, The Mind Research Network<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">For more details, visit
<a href="http://megworkshop.nih.gov">http://megworkshop.nih.gov</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Registration to this NIH sponsored event is free of charge.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#365F91">We hope to see you in Bethesda in November!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:coppolar@mail.nih.gov">Dr. Richard Coppola</a>, Director, NIMH MEG Core
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="mailto:nugenta@mail.nih.gov">Dr. Allison C Nugent</a>, Director of Neuroimaging Research, Experimental Therapeutics and Pathophysiology Branch, NIMH<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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