The Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging Annual Research Conference Program
May 1 – May 3, 2022
Asilomar Hotel and Conference Grounds
Sunday, May 1st
10:00am - 1:00pm: Whale Watching
3:00 - 3:30 pm: Arrival
Hotel Room Check-in after 4 PM
3:30 – 4:30 pm: Welcome & Faculty Presentations (moderators: Eugene Ozhinsky & Renuka Sriram)
3:30 - 4:00 pm: Overview of Department Research Enterprise - Chris Hess
4:00 - 4:30 pm: Senior Faculty Reflections - Nola Hylton
4:30 - 4:40 pm: Break
4:40 – 5:55 pm: Power Pitch Session (moderators: Jeremy Gordon & Javier Caravaca)
Tanner Nickles, Abhejit Rajagopal, Misung Han, Xiao Gao, Wen Li, Natsuko Yamashita, Shalini Chopra, Kisoo Kim, Hecong Qin, Peng Wen Tan, Niranjan Meher, Kondapa Naidu Bobba, Anil Bidkar, Pierre Nedelec, Alex Beltran, Pooja Prabhu, Jeannette Mathiey, Reza Eghbali, Yijing Gao, Benjamin Sipes, Corby Dale, Keerthi Valluru, Alireza Sojoudi
6:00 - 7:00 pm: Dinner
7:15 - 8:15 pm: PhD Faculty Meeting #1: Department Survey
7:45 - 9:45 pm: Bonfire (S’mores; BBQ Area) & Reception (Wine and Cheese; Chapel)
8:30 - 9:30 pm: Speed-dating (moderators: Jeremy Gordon & Renuka Sriram)
Monday, May 2nd
7:00 - 8:00 am: Early morning Outdoor activities
Walking/hiking/running and Scavenger Hunt (Melanie Morrison)
7:30 - 8:45 am: Breakfast
9:00 - 10:15 am: RIG/SRG Overview Session (moderators: Tracy Luks & Pavithra Viswanath)
9:00 - 9:15 am: Overview: Chris Hess
9:15 - 9:25 am: Cardiac and Vascular Imaging: David Saloner 9:25 - 9:35 am - Body Imaging: Peder Larson
9:35 - 9:45 am: Neuroimaging: Sri Nagarajan
9:45 - 9:55 am: Chemistry, Probes & Molecular Therapy: David Wilson
9:55 - 10:05 am: Intelligent Imaging: Sharmila Majumdar
10:05 - 10:15 am: Advanced Imaging Technology: Dan Vigneron
10:15 - 10:30 am: Break
10:30 am - 12:00 pm: Team Science Discussion (moderators - David Wilson & Peder Larson)
12:00 - 1:00 pm: Lunch
1:30 - 4:00 pm: Outdoor Activities
- Walking/hiking (Eugene Ozhinsky)
- Running (Kisoo Kim)
- Beach volleyball (Renuka Sriram)
- Shooting pool (Jeremy Gordon)
- Kayaking (Javier Caravaca)
4:00 - 4:15 pm: Poster Session Setup
4:15 - 5:55 pm: Career Development Panel Discussion (moderator: Nola Hylton)
Duan Xu, Melanie Morrison, Corby Dale, Janine Lupo, Galateia Kazakia, Srikantan Nagarajan, Pingni Wang (GE Healthcare), and Laura Bell (Genentech)
6:00 - 7:00 pm: Dinner
7:15 - 8:00 pm: Keynote Speaker: Matthew Lungren (moderator: Sharmila Majumdar)
Imaging AI translation and overcoming the ‘day 2problem’
8:00 - 9:00 pm: Bingo (moderators: Tracy Luks & Melanie Morrison)
9:00 -10:00 pm: Poster Session
Tuesday, May 3rd
Hotel Room Check out by 11 AM
7:00 - 8:00 am: Early morning Outdoor activities
Walking/hiking/running and Scavenger Hunt (Melanie Morrison)
7:30 - 9:00 am: Breakfast Buffet
8:00 - 9:00 am: PhD Faculty Meeting #2: Flywheel
9:15 - 10:45 am: Hot Topics (moderators: Pavithra Viswanath & Huiming Dong) 9:15 - 9:30 am Matt Amans (Cardiac and Vascular Imaging)
Improved Guidance for Neurovascular Treatment: Insights from Non-invasive Imaging
9:30 - 9:45 am: Renuka Sriram (Body Imaging)
Co-Clinical Quantitative Imaging of Small Cell Neuroendocrine Prostate Cancer Using Hyperpolarized (HP) 13C MRI
9:45 - 10:00 am: Kamalini Ranasinghe (Neuroimaging)
Electrophysiological Biomarkers of Neurodegenerative Diseases
10:00 - 10:15 am: Henry VanBrocklin (Chemistry, Probes & Molecular Therapy)
Searching for the Reservoir: Imaging HIV infection
10:15 - 10:30 am: Duygu Tosun-Turgut (Intelligent Imaging)
Autopsy-informed Integrated Clinical and Imaging Models for Prediction of Comorbid non-AD Pathology in AD: Enriching Clinical Trials in Sporadic AD For ClinicalProgression
10:30 - 10:45 am: An Vu (Advanced Imaging Technology)
7T MRI Developments
10:45 - 11:00 am: Break
11:00 - 11:45 am: Impact of COVID-19 (moderators: Renuka Sriram & Jingwen Yao)
11:00-11:30 am: Scientific Contribution – David Wilson
11:30-11:45 am: Wellbeing - Andrew Parker (zoom)
11:45 am - 12:00 pm: Awards Announcement and Closing Remarks: Yan Li & Jing Liu
12:00 - 1:00 pm: Lunch Buffet
1:00 pm: Poster Takedown & Departure
1:00 - 4:00 pm: Point Lobos National Reserve
2022 Poster Session Winners
| 1st place power pitch - Pierre Nedelec | "Automated Fetal Brain Volumetry on Clinical Fetal MRI Using Deep Learning" |
| 2nd place power pitch - Abhejit Rajagopal | "Federated Learning with Research Prototypes for MRI-based Detection of Prostate Cancer with Diverse Histopathology" |
| 1st place poster - Tanner Nickles | "Spatiotemporal Denoising to Improve Image Quality in Large Coverage Abdominal Hyperpolarized [1-13C]Pyruvate Studies" |
| 2nd place poster - Hecong Qin | "Deuterium Metabolic Imaging of Bacterial Infection" |
| Bingo Award - Umama Ali | Scavenger Hunt - Marisa LaFontaine |
Past Retreat
Research Retreat 2021
May 10-14, 2021
Day 1 - May 10, 2021
| Time Slot | Activity | Presenter(s) |
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| 2:00 - 2:10 |
Welcome/Instructions |
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| 2:10 - 2:40 |
Strategic Overview (Team Science & Moonshots) and Research Infrastructure Restructuring |
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| 2:40 - 2:55 | Break (slideshow with music) | MB Team |
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Scientific Session: Imaging |
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| 2:55 - 3:15 | MR-Guided Ultrasound Hyperthermia and Ablation | Dr. Eugene Ozhinsky |
| 3:15 - 3:35 | Development of an Astroglial Glutamate Excitatory Amino Acid Transporter 2 (EAAT2) Neurological PET Imaging Agent | Dr. Henry van Brocklin |
| 3:35 - 3:55 | HR-pQCT Imaging New Generation and Applications | Dr. Galateia Kazakia and Dr. Andrew Burghardt |
| 3:55 - 4:15 | Updates on radiopharmaceutical development projects from the Evans lab | Dr. Mike Evans |
| 4:15 - 4:35 | Break (slideshow with music) | MB Team |
| 4:35 - 6:00 |
Poster Session I |
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Day 2 - May 11, 2021
| Time Slot | Activity | Presenter(s) |
|---|---|---|
| 1:00 - 1:10 |
Today's Agenda + Montage |
Dr. Ashish Raj |
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RIG/SRG Overview Session (Recap of Accomplishments and Upcoming Plans to include Moonshots) |
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| 1:10 - 1:25 |
Welcome and Overview: Dr. Chris Hess, MD, PhD |
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| 1:25 - 1:40 | Cardiac and Vascular Imaging | Dr. David Saloner |
| 1:40 - 1:55 | Body Imaging | Dr. Peder Larson & Dr. John Kurhanewicz |
| 1:55 - 2:10 | Break (Slides + Music) | MB Team |
| 2:10 - 2:25 | Neuro Imaging | Dr. Sri Nagarajan & Dr. Sabrina Ronen |
| 2:25 - 2:40 | CPMT | Dr. David Wilson |
| 2:40 - 2:55 | Intelligent Imaging | Dr. Sharmila Majumdar |
| 2:55 - 3:10 | Advanced Imaging Technology | Dr. Dan Vigneron |
| 3:10 - 3:25 | Break (Slides + Music) | MB Team |
| 3:25 - 4:25 |
Computational Core |
Dr. Jason Crane |
| 3:25 - 3:35 | CRC Data Sharing and DEID Support | Comp. Core Team |
| 3:35 - 3:45 | AIR | Comp. Core Team |
| 3:45 - 4:05 | Scientific Computing Services - services and SCS solicitation "winners" | Comp. Core Team |
| 4:05 - 4:25 | ci2 Computational Core - services, current projects and "winners" of intake solicitation | Comp. Core Team |
| 4:25 - 4:35 | 3DLab | Comp. Core Team |
| 4:35 - 4:50 | Break (Slides + Music) | MB Team |
| 4:50 - 5:50 | Happy Hour | Jenny and Corey Rosen |
Day 3 - May 12, 2021
| Time Slot | Activity | Presenter(s) | |
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| 1:00 - 1:10 | Today's Agenda + Instructions for Breakout Sessions (discuss team science & moonshots) Dr. Yan Li |
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| RIG Team Science Session #1 Session Moderator: Dr. Yan Li |
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| 1:10 - 2:10 | Body Imaging | Dr. Peder Larson | 2:20PM-2:50PM: Concurrent Wellness Session Emma Bahroos and Kathryn Wold-Murphy |
| 2:10 - 2:20 | Break (Slides + Music) | MB Team | |
| 2:20 - 3:20 | Cardiac and Vascular Imaging | Dr. David Saloner | |
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SRG Team Science Session #2 |
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| 3:20 - 4:20 | Intelligent Imaging | Dr. Sharmila Majumdar | 3:00PM-4:30PM: Indoor Recess Jenny and Corey Rosen |
| 4:20 - 4:30 | Break (Slides + Music) | MB Team | |
| 4:30 - 5:30 |
Poster Session #2 |
Various | |
| 5:30 - 6:00 |
New Faculty Talk - Cardiovascular Imaging & Clinical Translation: 2, 5, 10 Years Out |
Dr. Dimitrios Mitsouras | |
Day 4 - May 13, 2021
| Time Slot | Activity | Presenter(s) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1:00 - 1:10 | Today's Agenda + Check-In | Dr.Yan Li | |
| RIG Team Science Session #2 Session Moderators: 1:10-2:10PM: Dr. Yan Li 2:10-5:15PM: Dr. Ashish Raj |
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| 1:10 - 2:10 | Neuro Imaging | Dr. Sri Nagarajan | |
| 2:10 - 2:20 | Break (Slides + Music) | MB Team | |
| 2:20 - 3:20 | CPMT | Dr. David Wilson | 2:10PM - 2:40PM Concurrent Session: Scavenger Hunt Tracy Luks, Emma Bahroos, Melanie Morrison |
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SRG Team Science Session #2 |
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| 3:20 - 4:20 | Advanced Imaging Technology | Dr. Dan Vigneron | |
| 4:20 - 4:30 | Break (Slides + Music) | MB Team | |
| 4:30 - 5:15 |
Keynote Speaker: Dr. William Jagust Moderator: Dr. Ashish Raj |
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| 5:15 - 6:00 |
10 Things Everybody Should Know About Wine |
Coach and Cork | |
Day 5 - Friday, May 14, 2021
| Time Slot | Activity | Presenter(s) |
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| 2:00 - 2:10 | Today's Agenda | Dr. Melanie Morrison |
| 2:10 - 3:10 |
Diversity Session |
Darius White & Deonna Smith |
| 3:10 - 3:20 | Break (Slides + Music) | MB Team |
| 3:20 - 3:30 |
Industrial Partner (Nvidia) project: GPU-accelerated dMRI Tractography |
Dr. Pablo Damasceno |
| 3:30 - 3:40 |
Fast MRI |
Dr. Valentina Pedoia |
| 3:40 - 3:50 |
Team Data Repositories TownHall: ADNI, HCP, ABCS, CanTab, … |
Dr. Sri Nagarajan and Dr. Ashish Raj |
| 3:50 - 4:00 | Break (Slides + Music) | MB Team |
| 4:00 - 4:20 |
Reflections from a Senior Faculty |
Dr. Sabrina Ronen with Dr. Pavithra Viswanath and Dr. Janine Lupo |
| 4:20 - 4:40 |
Townhall about the Department Mentoring Program |
Dr. Sri Nagarajan |
| 4:40 - 5:00 |
Closing Ceremony, Awards & Closing Remarks |
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| 5:00 - 6:00 | Social: Gather.town | Dr. Pablo Damasceno |
Poster Session Winners:
Melanie Morrison
Leighton Hinkley
Aniket Tolpadi
2022 RAD Research Conference Committee
- Renuka Sriram, PhD
- Kisoo Kim, PhD
- Pavithra Viswanath, PhD
- Melanie Morrison, PhD
- Jingwen Yao, PhD
- Tracy Luks, PhD
- Huiming Dong, PhD
- Jeremy Gordon, PhD
- Javier Caravaca, PhD
- Eugene Ozhinsky, PhD
- Pierre Nedelec, MS, MTM
- David Wilson, MD, PhD
