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Saturday 27 August
17:00 – 22.00 | WOPM registration and dinner |
Sunday 28 August
09.00 – 17.00 | Satellite meetings, Edgbaston Park Hotel (see here for details) |
17.00 – 18.30 | Opening Ceremony and reception, Great Hall (in-person only) Welcome Address: Paul Furlong, Emeritus Professor of Clinical Neuroimaging, President, Association of Neurophysiological Scientists, Institute of Health and Neurodevelopment, Aston University |
Monday 29 August
09.00 | In-person registration, exhibition, and poster viewing – Green Heart Marquee (hybrid) WOPM sessions – Great Hall | ||
11.00 – 11.15 | Welcome address – Great Hall (hybrid) Professor Ed Wilding, Head of the School of Psychology, College of Life & Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, and Prof. Ole Jensen, Centre for Human Brain Health, University of Birmingham and Biomag 2022 Chair | ||
11.15 – 12.15 | Keynote: – Great Hall | ||
12.15 – 13.15 | Poster session (virtual) and Oral poster presentations – Great Hall (hybrid) | ||
13.15 – 14.15 | Lunch and exhibition viewing – Green Heart Marquee (hybrid) | ||
14.15 – 16.15 | Symposium 1: Great Hall Advances and applications in the field of dynamic functional connectivity | Symposium 2: C-Block LT Biomagnetic Imaging in Dementia | Symposium 3: Bramall Optically Pumped Magnetometers for Magnetoencephalography |
16.15 – 17.30 17:00 – 18.00 | Poster session with refreshments (in person only – Green Heart Marquee) and Virtual exhibition viewing Data analysis competitions: results and discussion – C-block LT |
Tuesday 30 August
8.15 | Morning refreshments – Green Heart Marquee | ||
08.45 – 10.45 | Symposium 4: Great Hall – Rhythms in Auditory, Visual, and Audiovisual Speech Processing: Multisensory representations in unisensory cortices and beyond | Symposium 5: Bramall – Recent advances in biomagnetic applications of optically pumped magnetometers beyond MEG | Early Career Researcher Award Finalist Presentations – C-block LT |
10.45 – 11.30 | Refreshment break, exhibition and poster viewing – Green Heart Marquee (hybrid) | ||
11.30 | Keynote: Great Hall –
Stan Dehaene, Professor, Experiential Cognitive Psychology, College De France Chair: Dr Hyojin Park, Assistant Professor, Centre for Human Brain Health (CHBH), University of Birmingham | ||
12.30 | Poster session (virtual only) and Oral presentations – Great Hall (hybrid) | ||
13.30 | Lunch, exhibition viewing and poster viewing – Green Heart Marquee (hybrid) | ||
14.30 | Poster session (in person only – Green Heart Marquee) and exhibition viewing (virtual only) | ||
15.30 | Refreshment break, exhibition and poster viewing – Green Heart Marquee (hybrid) | ||
16:00 – 18:00 | Symposium 6: Bramall – How can we study social cognition in the MEG lab? The tug-of-war between experimental control and ecological validity | Symposium 7: C-Block LT – Magnetocardiography | Symposium 8: Great Hall – New insights from animal and human studies into the functional role of sensorimotor beta burst dynamics |
19.00 – 22.00 | Aston University social event – band night |
Wednesday 31 August
8.15 | Morning refreshments – Green Heart Marquee | ||
08.45 – 10.45 | Symposium 9: Great Hall – Time-resolved cortico-subcortical connectivity in patients with deep brain recordings | Symposium 10: Bramall – Multivariate methods to disclose brain networks in multiple functional neuroimaging modalities | Symposium 11: C-block LT – Applications of MEG in Psychiatry: The Past, Present and the Future |
10.45 – 11.30 | Refreshment break, exhibition and poster viewing – Green Heart Marquee (hybrid) | ||
11.30 – 12.30 | Keynote: Great Hall – Dr Margot Taylor, Professor of
Medical Imaging, Director of Functional Neuroimaging, Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto Chair: Professor Matthew Brookes, Professor of Physics, University of Nottingham | ||
12.30 – 13.30 | Poster session (virtual only) and Oral presentations – Great Hall (hybrid) | ||
13.30 | Lunch, exhibition viewing and poster viewing – Green Heart Marquee (hybrid) | ||
14.30 | Poster session (in person only – Green Heart Marquee) and exhibition viewing (virtual only) | ||
15:30 | Refreshment break, exhibition and poster viewing – Green Heart Marquee (hybrid) | ||
16:00 – 18.00 | Symposium 12: Great Hall – Infant MEG: Examining normal and abnormal brain development | Symposium 13: Bramall – Oscillations and memory: From local to large-scale synchronization, from working memory to long-term memory, from correlation to causation | Symposium 14: C-block LT – Contribution of MEG, EEG and TES to the presurgical diagnosis and treatment of epilepsy |
19.00 – 23.00 | Conference social event at the Custard Factory |
Thursday 1 September
8.15 | Morning refreshments – Green Heart Marquee | ||
08.45 – 10.45 | Symposium 15:Great Hall – The pathophysiology of mild Traumatic Brain Injury | Symposium 16: Bramall – Insights into the laminar basis of neural oscillations: multimodal and multi-species approaches | Symposium 17: C-block LT – Tracking neural development of cognitive functions |
10.45 | Refreshment break, exhibition and poster viewing – Green Heart Marquee (hybrid) | ||
11.30 | Town Hall – Great Hall (hybrid) | ||
12.30 – 13:30 | Keynote: Great Hall – Mark Woolrich, Professor of
Computational Neuroscience, Oxford centre for Human Brain Activity (OHBA), Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging (WIN) Chair: Dr Caroline Witton, Scientific Lead for MEG, Aston Institute of Health and Neurodevelopment, Aston University | ||
13.30 – 14.15 | Lunch and exhibition viewing – Green Heart Marquee (hybrid – exhibition closes after lunch) | ||
14.15 | Symposium 18: Great Hall – Open source and the MEG community: advancing science together | Symposium 19: Bramall – Predicting clinical endpoints from M/EEG: Challenges and opportunities of large-scale data analysis | |
16.00 | Closing remarks – Great Hall (hybrid) | ||
16.30 | Conference closes |