UFBI, 20 years as a research center

Umeå center for Functional Brain Imaging celebrates 20 years as a research center with a day in the Biology buildning at Umeå University. 

08.30 - 08.45  Introduction - UFBI President Katrine Riklund

08.45 - 09.30  Key-note speaker I: Agneta Nordberg (KI): "PET: past, present, and future”

09.30 - 10.00  Coffee break

10.00 - 11.00  UFBI Theme I - Change

- Robin Pedersen: Functional brain networks and their structural underpinnings in the aging brain

- Sara Stillesjö: Insights from educational neuroscience: Learning by actively engaging the brain promotes superior long-term memory

- Alireza Salami: Bi-phasic patterns of age-related differences in dopamine D1 receptors across the adult lifespan

11.00 - 12.00  UFBI Theme II - Higher-order cognition

- Linus Andersson: In search of savage similarity, and the site of the rational mind

- Olympia Karampela: The effects of altered arousal levels on conscious and non-conscious visuospatial processing

- Filip Grill: Dopamine release promotes reversal learning: a hybrid PET-MR study

12.00 - 13.00  Lunch & posters

13.00 - 14.15  Panel discussion – "The next 20 years of UFBI activities" 
On the panel: Karin Markenroth Bloch (Lund), Johan Lundström (KI), Anders Eklund (Umeå), Katrine Riklund (Umeå), Lars Nyberg (Umeå)

14.15 - 14.30  Break

14.30 - 15.15  Key-note speaker II: Kenneth Hugdahl, (Univ. Bergen): “MRI: past, present, and future”

15.15 - 15.45  Coffee break

15.45 - 16.45  UFBI Theme III - Brain blood flow

- Lars Stiernman: Simultaneous fPET/fMRI to test theories relating to neurovascular coupling

- Cecilia Björnfot: Measuring cerebral arterial stiffness with 4D flow MRI

- Tomas Vikner: Quantifying subtle blood-brain barrier leakages using dynamic contrast enhanced MRI

- Petter Holmlund: Computational Fluid Dynamic simulations for cerebral perfusion prediction - application towards carotid endarterectomy and aortic arch surgery

16.45 - 17.30  Key-note speaker III: Maiken Nedergaard (Univ. Rochester and Univ. Copenhagen): “The glymphatic system: current knowledge and future challenges”

17.30                Closing words - UFBI Director Lars Nyberg 

UFBI website: www.umu.se/en/ufbi