Beauchamp:ShortCourse2010

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AFNI Short Course: October 4-8, 2010

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The AFNI BootCamp is a week-long hands-on course on AFNI, a widely-used software package for fMRI data analysis. For more details on AFNI, see http://afni.nimh.nih.gov/afni The course will be taught by the developers of AFNI, including Robert Cox, Ziad Saad, Rick Reynolds and Gang Chen, and will take place at the University of Texas Medical School, 6431 Fannin St, Houston, TX.

Click here to download a PDF of the tentative course schedule.

Click here to download a PDF of the course poster.

For a free hard copy of the poster or more information about the course, please e-mail the course organizer at Michael.S.Beauchamp@uth.tmc.edu..


More Information

The course runs each day from 9 am until 6 pm. Participants must commit to attending the entire course to make the best use of the instructors and other participants time. Registration fees for the short course are as follows:$150 (graduate students) $200 (all others). Early registration (which ended on July 1st) was $100 (graduate students), $150 (all others).

Please make checks payable to Rice University (no purchase orders or credit cards) and mail to 

 Beauchamp Lab, UTHealth Neurobiology and Anatomy, 6431 Fannin Street Suite G.550G, Houston TX 77030.

Participants are not confirmed until the registration fee is received. Receipts will be provided for all payments. No CME credits can be provided. All registration fees are non-refundable but registration is freely transferable between participants. A registration form is not required, but if you would like a registration form (even though it is not required) you can download one here: Click here to download the optional Registration Form

Sponsors: The first ten participants from (defined as "primary affiliation with") each sponsoring department are no charge. The sponsoring departments are the UT Department of Psychiatry, UT Department of Neurosurgery and Rice Department of Psychology.

What should I bring? All participants should bring their own laptop computer with AFNI and SUMA already installed. For instructions on setting up a computer for the AFNI class, please see http://afni.nimh.nih.gov/pub/dist/HOWTO/howto/ht00_inst/html/class_setup.shtml . If you have problems, please post a question to the AFNI message board at http://afni.nimh.nih.gov/afni/community/board/list.php?f=1 IMPORTANT: Installing AFNI can be difficult and time-consuming. No time in the course is scheduled for software installation, so this must be completed BEFORE the beginning of the course.

Where should I stay? There are special course rates for participants at the Hotel ZaZa, located near the Texas Medical Center (5701 Main Street Houston, Texas 77005 Toll Free 888-880-3244 Local phone 713-526-1991). To make a reservation, visit http://www.hotelzazahouston.com/ . In the lower right hand section of the hotel home page, there is a reservations section. Enter the dates and select "Group/Block Code" from the pull-down menu labeled "Promo Code"; enter "UTMS". The course rate is $118/nt.

Confirmed Participants

The following is a list of all confirmed participants and their affiliations. There is limited seating in the classroom (UT MSB B.645; 66 seats total - 5 seats for instructors = 61 seats for students), and there is no additional space available for a remote or video overflow room.


  1. Liangsuo Ma (postdoctoral fellow, UT Psychiatry)
  2. Chris Conner (graduate student, UT Neurosurgery)
  3. Nobuhide Kobori (assistant professor, UT Neurosurgery)
  4. Himachandra Chebrolu (postdoctoral fellow, UT Neurosurgery)
  5. Timothy Ellmore (assistant professor, UT Neurosurgery)
  6. Faraz Kursheed (research assistant, UT Neurosurgery)
  7. Giri Kalamangalam (assistant professor, UT Neurology)
  8. Mark Ettinger (postdoctoral fellow, UT Neurosurgery)
  9. Jeff Nelson (medical student, UT Medical School)
  10. Tom Pieters (research assistant, UT Neurosurgery)
  11. Nitin Tandon (associate professor, UT Neurosurgery)
  12. Corinne Allen (graduate student, Rice Psychology)
  13. Sara Haber Halcomb (graduate student, Rice Psychology)
  14. Yi Guo (graduate student, Rice Psychology)
  15. Denise Harvey (graduate student, Rice Psychology)
  16. Anna Stupina (graduate student, Rice Psychology)
  17. Becky Lundwall (graduate student, Rice Psychology)
  18. Jeff Zemla (graduate student, Rice Psychology)
  19. Ashley Meyer (graduate student, Rice Psychology)
  20. Cris Hamilton (research associate, Rice Psychology)
  21. Jennifer Chen (graduate student, Rice Psychology)
  22. Denise Chen (assistant professor, Rice Psychology)
  23. Tao Wei (graduate student, Rice Psychology)
  24. Siavash Pasalar (postdoctoral fellow, Beauchamp Lab)
  25. Audrey Nath (graduate student, Beauchamp Lab)
  26. Sarah Baum (graduate student, Beauchamp Lab)
  27. Eswen Fava (graduate student, Beauchamp Lab)
  28. Mary Newsome (assistant professor, Baylor College of Medicine PM&R)
  29. Zahra Kadivar (postdoctoral fellow, Baylor College of Medicine PM&R)
  30. Jason Crowther (postdoctoral fellow, Baylor College of Medicine PM&R)
  31. Dorina Papageorgiou (postdoctoral fellow, Baylor College of Medicine)
  32. Randall Scheibel (associate professor, Baylor College of Medicine PM&R)
  33. Jeffrey Katz (associate professor, Auburn University Psychology)
  34. John Magnotti (graduate student, Auburn University Psychology)
  35. Callie McGrath (graduate student, Emory University Neuroscience Program)
  36. D. Reese McKay (graduate student, Research Imaging Institute, UTHSC-San Antonio)
  37. Alexandre Franco (postdoctoral fellow, Emory University Department of Psychiatry)
  38. Vladimir Ivkovic (graduate student, University of Houston)
  39. Anita Cservenka (graduate student, Oregon Health and Science University)
  40. Ramiro Salas (instructor, Baylor College of Medicine)
  41. Dana Moser (postdoctoral fellow, Baylor College of Medicine PM&R)
  42. Phil Baldwin (instructor, BCM HNL)
  43. M. Amanda Colby (postdoctoral fellow, UT Dallas/Center for Brain Health)
  44. Richard Frye (assistant professor, UT Pediatrics)
  45. Benjamin Malmberg (research associate, UT Pediatrics)
  46. Miranda Brenneman (graduate student, Rice Psychology, pending payment)
  47. Jeffrey Engelmann (postdoctoral fellow, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center)
  48. Traci Sandoval (research assistant, UT Dallas/Center for Brain Health)
  49. Hsueh-Sheng Chiang (graduate student, UT Dallas/Center for Brain Health)
  50. Jeremy Strain (graduate student, UT Dallas)
  51. Megan Herting (OHSU)
  52. Anita Cservenka (UCSD)


In Limbo Participants

The following have registered but have not yet submitted a registration fee. In Limbo list members may be downgraded to the Wait-List.

  1. Xinmiao Peng (research associate, Baylor College of Medicine; pending payment)
  2. Dharol Tankersley (postdoctoral fellow, Baylor College of Medicine; pending payment)
  3. Cyrus Eierud (Baylor College of Medicine; pending payment)
  4. Cameron Craddock (Baylor College of Medicine; pending payment)
  5. Jonathan Lisinski (Baylor College of Medicine; pending payment)
  6. George Christopolous (Baylor College of Medicine; pending payment)
  7. Andrew Fischer (Baylor College of Medicine; pending payment)
  8. Anthony Passaro (graduate student, UT Neurobiology and Anatomy; pending payment)
  9. Nuray Yozbatiran (postdoctoral fellow, UT PM&R; pending payment)
  10. Ting Xiang (graduate student, BCM; pending payment)
  11. Mingbo Cai (graduate student, BCM; pending payment)
  12. Yingying Tan (graduate student, Rice Psychology; pending payment)
  13. Lauren Moran (fellow, Univ. of Maryland Psychiatry; pending payment)
  14. Caitlin Elmore (graduate student, UT Neurobiology and Anatomy; pending payment)
  15. Jinchen Yang (postdoctoral fellow, UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain, pending payment)

Wait-List Participants

Wait-list participants may be upgraded to registered participants if their registration fee is received before the course begins and if space if available.

  1. Yufang Sun (Indiana University)
  2. Mehereen Wadiwalla (University of Toronto)
  3. Chandramallika Basak (Rice University)
  4. Yu-Hsuan Chang (Rice University)
  5. Debshila Basu Mallick (Rice University)
  6. Neena Rao (graduate student, UT Dallas/Center for Brain Health)
  7. Ilana Bennett (postdoctoral fellow, UT Dallas/Center for Brain Health)
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