We are very glad to welcome Md Soumik Farhan, who has just joined the lab as a new MSc Student in the BME Program. For more details about Soumik’s background and interests, please go to http://www.figleylab.ca/people/

Although we will miss him dearly, we all wish Nasir the best of luck as he departs Winnipeg for a new position as an Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester (Department of Neurology). Congratulations Nasir – safe travels!

Congratulations to Nasir, whose follow-up work (to his other recent paper in NMR in Biomedicine) has just been published in Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Outstanding work Nasir, keep the papers coming!

Congratulations to Sohail, whose recent submission to the The Journal of Medical and Biological Engineering has been accepted. The paper represents the first (and largest) half of Sohail’s MSc thesis work and is entitled “Development, Implementation and Validation of an Automatic Centerline Extraction Algorithm for Complex 3D Objects”. It is already available online ahead of print, and should be released soon as part of an upcoming special issue in the journal. Great job Sohail!

Congratulations to Shatil and the rest of the team on the acceptance of our most recent paper in Frontiers in Medicine. The paper represents the second half of Shatil’s MSc thesis work and is entitled “Quantitative Ex Vivo MRI Changes due to Progressive Formalin Fixation in Whole Human Brain Specimens: Longitudinal Characterization of Diffusion, Relaxometry, and Myelin Water Fraction Measurements at 3T”. Congratulations Shatil!

Congratulations to Nasir and the rest of the team on the acceptance of our most recent paper in NMR in Biomedicine. The paper, which is now available online (ahead of print), is entitled “Can T1w/T2w ratio be used as a myelin-specific measure in subcortical structures? Comparisons between FSE-based T1w/T2w ratios, GRASE-based T1w/T2w ratios, and multi-echo GRASE-based myelin water fractions”. Nice work Nasir!

Although Tiffany, Jenifer and I have known about this all summer, we were asked not to publicly disclose anything until NSERC released their official 2017 Scholarships and Fellowships Competition Results (which finally happened this morning and can be found here for anyone who might be interested). Therefore, after bottling this up for months, I would like to congratulate Tiffany for being awarded one of the ultra-competitive 3-year Alexander Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarships. Well done Tiffany…very well deserved!

Our latest functionally-defined white matter atlas paper has just been published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (and in only a few days, has already been viewed over 850 times!). Way to go team! If anyone would like to download the article, it is freely available at: http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2017.00306/full.

We are very pleased to announce that the Version 2.0 of the UManitoba-JHU Functionally-Defined Human White Matter Atlas is now freely available. Please see the NITRC website if you are interested in downloading it: http://www.nitrc.org/projects/uofm_jhu_atlas.