MEG North America Workshop

Purpose

The MEG community worldwide is a small one, with around 150 MEG laboratories. While there is a bi-annual conference, BIOMAG, there is no associated professional society, and no dedicated journal. Although there are smaller professional groups for clinical MEG, there is no broader group encompassing the entirety of MEG research. The MEG North America workshop was initiated in 2016 to provide an opportunity for North American research and clinical MEG labs to gather in the hopes of fostering collaboration.

The inaugural meeting sought to answer these questions:

 1. What does MEG add to the field of neuroscience above and beyond other existing techniques?
 2. How can we support the evolution of MEG acquisition and methods, through both software and hardware?
 3. How can we develop and support infrastructure to share data and facilitate big science?
 4. How could an MEG-North America consortium work to address these issues?

Subsequent meetings have continued to explore these topics, with the addition of a Hackathon to focus on MEG analysis methods that will benefit the community at large.

Upcoming Meetings

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Previous Meetings

2023 Conference Attendees

2023 MEG North America Workshop and Hackathon

• The 2023 MEG North America Workshop was held November 8 and 9, 2023, in Bethesda, MD.

Keynote Speakers	Tal Kenet, PhD Associate Professor, Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital; Researcher, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Elizabeth Davenport, PhD Assistant Professor, Radiology, UT Southwestern Medical Center; Technical Director, Magnetoencephalography Center of Excellence, UT Southwestern Medical Center
Symposium Chairs	Allison Nugent, PhD (Director, MEG Core Facility, NIMH, NIH) Jonathan Z. Simon, PhD (Co-director, KIT-Maryland Magnetoencephalography Center; Co-director, Computational Sensorimotor Systems Laboratory (CSSL))
Steering Committee	Sylvain Baillet, PhD, McGill University, McConnell Brain Imaging Center Dimitrios Pantazis, PhD, Martinos Imaging Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Timothy P. Roberts, PhD The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Julia M. Stephen, PhD The Mind Research Network

2019 Conference Attendees

2019 MEG North America Workshop and Hackathon

The 2019 MEG North America Workshop was held over November 7th and 8th, 2019, in Bethesda, MD.

The full 2019 program can be accessed here.

Keynote Speakers	Stephanie Jones, Associate Professor of Neuroscience, Brown University Svenja Knappe, Associate Research Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder
Symposium Chairs	Allison Nugent, PhD (Director, MEG Core Facility, NIMH, NIH) Chris Baker, PhD (Chief, Section on Learning and Plasticity, NIMH, NIH)
Steering Committee	Sylvain Baillet, PhD, McGill University, McConnell Brain Imaging Center Dimitrios Pantazis, PhD, Martinos Imaging Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Timothy P. Roberts, PhD The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Julia M. Stephen, PhD The Mind Research Network

MEG North America Symposium at BIOMAG 2018

The 2018 half-day symposium was held as a satellite meeting of BIOMAG 2018, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on August 26, 2018.

Keynote Speaker	Krish Singh, PhD Professor, Head of Human Electrophysiology, School of Psychology, Cardiff University
Symposium Chairs	Allison Nugent, PhD Director, MEG Core Facility, NIMH, NIH Julia M. Stephen, PhD The Mind Research Network Paul Ferrari, PhD Dell Children's

2017 MEG North America workshop

The second NIH MEG North America workshop was held November 8-9, 2017 at the NIH campus in Bethesda, MD.

Steering Committee	Sylvain Baillet, PhD, McGill University, McConnell Brain Imaging Center Dimitrios Pantazis, PhD, Martinos Imaging Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Timothy P. Roberts, PhD The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Julia M. Stephen, PhD The Mind Research Network
Symposium Chairs	Allison Nugent, PhD MEG Core Facility, NIMH, NIH Richard Coppola, MEG Core Facility, NIMH, NIH

2016 MEG North America workshop

The first NIH MEG North America workshop was held November 1-2, 2016 at the NIH campus in Bethesda, MD.

Keynote Speakers

Sylvain Baillet, PhD, McGill University, McConnell Brain Imaging Center Dimitrios Pantazis, PhD, Martinos Imaging Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Timothy P. Roberts, PhD The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Julia M. Stephen, PhD The Mind Research Network

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