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Jenna Merenstein, PhD, wins Postdoctoral Award for Professional Development!
Congratulations to Jenna Merenstein, PhD, for winning a Postdoctoral Award for Professional Development from the Office of Postdoctoral Services! This award provides reimbursement for activities that support postdocs' professional growth and development. Jenna will be using her award to complete workshops and courses at the Society for Neuroscience International conference.
Hollie Mullin awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship!
Hollie Mullin, a former clinical research intern and BIAC postbacc in the Madden Lab, was just awarded a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship. Hollie is currently a graduate student in the Ph.D. program in clinical neuropsychology at Penn State. In her fellowship project she will be investigating age-related differences in the reliability of resting-state functional connectivity network properties.
Congrats to Spencer Lynch for defending his Master’s scholarship project!
Congratulations to Spencer Lynch, MS, for defending his Master’s scholarship project! Spencer contributed to the development of a method to synchronize ultrasound, MRI, and video data acquired in the same subject, so that they can be used with a machine learning algorithm to generate synthetic MR images.
Congrats to Beth Reed for defending her Master’s scholarship project!
Congratulations to Beth Reed, MS, for defending her Master’s scholarship project! Beth contributed to the development of an integrated radio-frequency/shim breast coil array that can perform MR imaging and localized B0 shimming, resulting in reduced B0 inhomogeneities and image distortions in breast imaging.
Jenna Merenstein, Ph.D. receives the Duke/UNC Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) Research Education Component (REC) Scholar award!
Congratulations to Jenna Merenstein, Ph.D. for receiving the Duke/UNC Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC) Research Education Component (REC) Scholar award!
Accelerated Brain Atrophy, Microstructural Decline and Connectopathy in Age-Related Macular Degeneration
Congratulations to current and former BIAC faculty and affiliates for their recent publication. Authors include: Jacques A. Stout , Ali Mahzarnia, Rui Dai, Robert J. Anderson, Scott Cousins, Jie Zhuang, Eleonora M. Lad, Diane B. Whitaker, David J. Madden, Guy G. Potter, Heather E. Whitson, and Alexandra Badea.
Traumatic Stress Associated With Smaller Brain Region
BIAC researcher Dr. Raj Morey and former postdoc Ashley Huggins, Ph.D., were recently highlighted in Duke Today for their findings on traumatic stress associated with a smaller brain region.
Depth- and curvature-based quantitative susceptibility mapping analyses of cortical iron in Alzheimer’s disease.
BIAC researchers led by Jenna Merenstein and David Madden conducted column-based QSM analyses of cortical iron in patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), and healthy controls. Iron increased for AD patients in topographically heterogenous manner across the cortical mantle, which may help explain the qualitative difference in the cognitive decline in AD as compared to healthy aging.
Quantitative susceptibility mapping of brain iron in healthy aging and cognition
BIAC researchers David Madden and Jenna Merenstein have published a review of studies that use quantitative susceptibility mapping (QSM) to estimate age-related differences in brain iron deposition and the relation to cognition.
Seminar Presentation to Duke University Medical Physics Graduate Program
Devon Overson presented his research projects related to using diffusion MRI methods and Alzheimer's disease to current Master’s degree students in the Duke University Medical Physics Graduate Program.