Lunch with Mentors
This event is typically held in-person at the annual OHBM conference where we invite 10 - 20 mentors along with a group of 6 - 12 mentees (per mentor) to share lunch (provided courtesy of the Student Postdoc SIG), tips, and tricks on navigating all aspects of an academic career. This event is very popular so make sure to sign up for a chance to attend!
Typical Schedule
May:
Expressions of Interest (EOIs) for mentees to attend the Lunch with Mentors programme open for two weeks. As we receive typically twice as many EOIs than available mentee positions, we have an EOI process which does not guarantee a spot in Lunch with Mentors, but aims to ensure equitable opportunity to access this event.
EOIs close, lottery takes place (managed by the OHBM SP SIG), and invitations to RSVP for Lunch with Mentors are sent out.
June:
Mentors are announced and bios are published on the OHBM SP SIG website.
Lunch with Mentors takes place during the annual OHBM conference
OHBM 2024 Seoul
Mentors
Josefina Cruzat Grand
BrainLat Institute, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez (Chile)
Josefina Cruzat, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the BrainLat Institute, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez. She holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience, complemented by two MSc degrees in Neuropsychology and Behavioral Neurology, and Brain and Cognition. With a focus on understanding the brain's functional organization, Josefina's research explores the principles governing intrinsic brain states and higher cognitive functions, both in health and disease. She employs a multidisciplinary approach, integrating behavioral and neuroimaging data analysis with in silico generative mathematical modeling. Her work aims to elucidate the dynamics of large-scale cortical network interactions and their role in supporting cognitive functions. By identifying biomarkers for diagnosis and potential therapeutic interventions, Josefina's research holds promise for addressing dysfunctional mental states.
Eduardo A. Garza-Villarreal
Institute of Neurobiology, UNAM campus Juriquilla, Querétaro, Mexico.
Dr Eduardo Garza-Villarreal is medical doctor and assistant professor of neurobiology at the Institute of Neurobiology (INB) Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico in Querétaro, Mexico. He leads the Translational Neuropsychiatry and Neurotoxicology Lab where he studies substance use and addiction and neuropsychiatric disorders, identification of neuroimaging biomarkers in humans and animal models, and neuromodulation methods. He is also a promoter and user of Open Science and Open Access initiatives.
Seong-Gi Kim
Institute for Basic Science/Sungkyunkwan University
Seong-Gi Kim, Ph.D., is the Director of Neuroscience Imaging Research Center in the Institute for Basic Science in Korea. He did his graduate works on in vivo NMR spectroscopy (1984-88) at Washington University. In 1991, he joined the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research in the University of Minnesota, actively participating in one of the first human fMRI studies. He moved to the University of Pittsburgh in 2002. In 2014, He returned to Korea to establish a new neuroimaging center. His major research focus is to develop MRI techniques for measuring brain physiology and function and to elucidate the underlying physiology.
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LgkGJToAAAAJ
Andrew Zalesky
University of Melbourne, Psychiatry and Biomedical Engineering
Professor Andrew Zalesky is a researcher at the University of Melbourne, supported by the Rebecca L. Cooper Foundation. He holds a joint appointment between the Faculties of Engineering and Medicine. Dr Zalesky co-leads the Systems Lab (www.sysneuro.org). He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers and is ranked among the top-1% of researchers worldwide according to citations to his work (Highly Cited Researcher 2018-2022, Clarivate Analytics). He is currently Editor-in-Chief of Neuroimage Clinical and serves as an Associate Editor for Network Neuroscience and Brain Topography.
Website: https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/24599-andrew-zalesky
Alex Fornito
School of Psychological Sciences, Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, and Monash Biomedical Imaging, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Alex Fornito completed his Clinical Masters (Neuropsychology) and PhD in 2007 in the Departments of Psychiatry and Psychology at The University of Melbourne before undertaking Post-Doctoral training in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Cambridge, UK, under the auspices of an NHMRC Training Fellowship. He is currently a Laureate Fellow of the Australian Research Council, Professor in the School of Psychological Sciences, and Head of the Brain Mapping and Modelling Research Program and Neural Systems and Behaviour Lab at the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, Monash University.
Alex's research develops new approaches to mapping and modelling the human brain in health and disease. In particular, his work focuses on understanding foundational principles of brain organization and their genetic basis, characterizing brain disturbances in psychiatric disorders, and understanding how individual variability in brain structure and function relate to behaviour.
Nils Muhlert
Faculty of Biology, Medicine & Health, University of Manchester UK
Dr. Nils Muhlert's works focus on structural and functional connectivity relating to cognition, including how they are affected in clinical disorders, such as epilepsy and multiple sclerosis. I have previously served as Chair of the Communication Committee and am current Chair of the Open Science SIG at OHBM.
Hyang Woon Lee
Professor of Neurology, Director of Epilepsy & Sleep Center, Ewha Medical Center, Computational Medicine, System Health Science & Engineering Graduate Programs, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
Dr. Lee is a neurologist and clinical neuroscientist specializing in epilepsy and sleep disorders. She received her MD from Ewha Womans University (Neurology) and PhD from Korea University (Neurophysiology). Dr. Lee completed postdoctoral fellowships at Johns Hopkins University and NINDS and received postdoctoral fellowship awards from NINDS and the American Epilepsy Society. Her research focuses on neural network connectivity in neurological diseases using multimodal neuroimaging and electrophysiology. Dr. Lee's leadership extends to former member of the Diversity & Inclusion Committee, Chair-elect of OHBM's Women Faculty SIG, and current Chair of the International Committee of OHBM Korean Chapter.
To stay informed, please follow us on our social media (BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/ohbmtrainees.bsky.social Twitter/X:https://twitter.com/OHBM_Trainees) as that is where we will announce the opening of sign-ups and any other updates!
Past Lunch with Mentors
We would like to sincerely thank all the past mentors who have generously given up their time to participate in our event!
2023 - OHBM Montréal: List of Mentors
Dr Alex Fornito
Dr Chandan Vaidya
Dr Charlotte Stagg
Dr Eduardo Garza-Villarreal
Dr Emily Jacobs
Dr Helen Zhou
Dr Jessica Damoiseaux
Dr Mallar Chakravarty
Dr Marc Seal
Dr Nathan Spreng
Dr Randy Gollub
Dr Sofie Valk
Dr Stephanie Forkel
Dr Takafumi Minamimoto
Dr Valentina Pacella
Dr Xujun Duan
2022 - OHBM Glasgow: List of Mentors
Dr Andrew Zalesky
Dr Aina Puce
Dr Robert Zatorre
Dr Natasha Rajah
Dr Lucina Uddin
Dr Jessica Damoiseaux
Dr Christian Windischberger
Dr Michael Chee
Dr Daniele Marinazzo
Dr Anastasia Yendiki
Dr Helen Zhou
Dr Victor Ekuta
2021 - OHBM Online - Link with Mentors
Dr Alex Fornito
Dr Amy Kuceyeski
Dr Anqi Qiu
Dr Danielle Bassett
Dr Chris Gorgolewski
Dr Charlotte Stagg
Dr Helen Zhou
Dr Janis Reinelt
Dr Johan van der Meer
Dr Lucina Uddin
Dr Mac Shine
Dr Marta Garrido
Dr Michel Thiebaut de Schotten
Dr Pierre Bellec
Dr Svenja Caspers
2020 - OHBM Online - Link with Mentors
Dr Alex Fornito
Dr Amy Kuceyeski
Dr Deanna Barch
Dr Erin Barker
Dr Lara Boyd
Dr Lucina Uddin
Dr Michael Breakspear
Dr Patrick Britz
Dr Ted Satterthwaite
Dr Terry Jernigan
Dr Thomas Yeo
Dr Todd Constable
Dr Xavier Castellanos
Nicola Palomero-Gallagher
Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Centre Jülich
C & O Vogt Institute for Brain Research, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Nicola Palomero-Gallagher obtained her Master’s degree in Biology from the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid, Spain. She is a Senior Researcher and Leader of the "Receptors" research group at the Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-1), Research Centre Jülich, Germany, and an Associate Professor at the C. & O. VogtBrain Research Institute of Düsseldorf University, Germany. She also serves as a senior editor of Brain Structure and Function. Her research aims to shed light on the relationship between the structural (cyto- and fiber-architecture), molecular (receptorarchitecture) and functional organizational principles of the brain.
Wani (Choong-Wan) Woo
Sungkyunkwan University/ Insitute for Basic Science
Choong-Wan (Wani) Woo is the director of the Computational Cognitive Affective Neuroscience lab (Cocoan lab). His research focuses on understanding how the human brain represents, processes, and regulates pain and emotions using fMRI, machine learning, and computational models. He received his dual PhD in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience and the Institute of Cognitive Sciences from the University of Colorado Boulder, an MA in Clinical Psychology, and a BS in Biology from Seoul National University. Currently, he is an associate director of the IBS Center for Neuroscience Imaging Research and an associate professor in Biomedical Engineering at Sungkyunkwan University.
Emily S. Finn
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
Emily Finn is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Dartmouth College, where she directs the Functional Imaging and Naturalistic Neuroscience (FINN) Lab. Emily has pioneered techniques such as functional connectome fingerprinting and connectome-based predictive modeling for predicting individual behaviors from functional brain connectivity. Her current work is focused on how within- and between-individual variability in brain activity relates to appraisal of ambiguous information under naturalistic conditions such as watching movies or listening to stories. She was named a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science and has also received the NIMH Director’s Award for Scientific Contributions.
James Cole
University College London
James Cole is Professor of Neuroimage Computing at the Centre for Medical Imaging Computer (CMIC) and Dementia Research Centre (DRC) at University College London (UCL). His research interests include brain ageing, neurological and psychiatric diseases, with a particular focus on ageing, neurodegeneration and dementia. His work uses machine learning, deep learning and related statistical methods with the goal of developing clinically useful neuroimaging tools. He is Principal Investigator of the MANIFOLD Lab.
Xujun Duan
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Dr. Xujun Duan is a professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China. Her long-term research goal is to address how brain anatomy, function and connectivity are altered in autism spectrum, and how they vary across the population, by using multi-modal brain imaging techniques and computational methods. She is the PI of 5 research projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, including the Outstanding Youth Fund. She was one of the Keynote speakers of the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM).
Hiromasa Takemura
Professor, Division of Sensory and Cognitive Brain Mapping, Department of System Neuroscience, National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Okazaki, Japan
Professor, Graduate Institute for Advanced Studies, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Hayama, Japan
Senior Researcher, Center for Information and Neural Networks (CiNet), Advanced ICT Research Institute, National Institute for Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Suita, Japan
Hiromasa Takemura earned a PhD from the University of Tokyo in psychophysical studies on visual motion perception in March 2012. He then completed three years of postdoctoral training at Stanford University, where he used diffusion MRI and tractography to study the human visual system. From 2015 to 2021, he continued this research at NICT CiNet in Osaka. In September 2021, Takemura became a full professor at the National Institute for Physiological Sciences in Okazaki. He received the Early Career Investigator Award from OHBM in 2022 and is currently a council member of OHBM.
Nathan Spreng
James McGill Professor, Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Nathan Spreng is a James McGill Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery at McGill University, Group Leader of the Cognitive Neuroscience Unit, and Director of the Laboratory of Brain and Cognition at the Montreal Neurological Institute. His research examines large-scale brain network dynamics and their role in complex cognition across the lifespan in health and disease. He is also actively involved in the development and implementation of multivariate and network-based statistical approaches to assess brain structure and function. Dr. Spreng is a member of the Royal Society of Canada and has received the designation of ‘Highly Cited Researcher’ by the Web of Science since 2019. His research is funded by the Canadian and US Institutes of Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, Fonds de recherche du Québec, and the Alzheimer’s Association.