Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Surprising Magnetic Resonance: New Paths to Polarization
Discussion Leader: Mikhail Shapiro (California Institute of Technology, USA)
7:40 pm - 8:20 pm
Ronald Walsworth (Harvard University, USA)
"Diamonds in the Rough: The Many Uses of NV Diamond for Imaging and Physics"
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:15 pm
Wilson Miller (University of Virginia, USA)
"Polarized Nuclear Imaging"
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Challenging Assumptions in Data Acquisition and Image Reconstruction: Software
Discussion Leader: Leslie Ying (University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA)
9:00 am - 9:40 am
Anthony Christodoulou (Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA)
"MR in New Dimensions"
9:40 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 am
Michael Lustig (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
"How Sparsity Has Changed Our Minds"
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm
Shanshan Wang (Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
"Learning Image Reconstruction: Artificial Intelligence Changes the Game"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Power Hour
The GRC Power Hour is an optional informal gathering open to all meeting participants. It is designed to help address the challenges women face in science and support the professional growth of women in our communities by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring.
Organizers: Cornelia Laule (University of British Columbia, Canada) and Gillian Haemer (NYU Langone Health, USA)
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Challenging Assumptions in Data Acquisition and Image Reconstruction: Hardware
Discussion Leader: Elena Kaye (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA)
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm
Orlando Simonetti (The Ohio State University, USA)
"Revisiting Low-Field MRI"
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm
Bruno Madore (Brigham and Women's Hospital / Harvard Medical School, USA)
"The Instrumented Scanner"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Group Photo
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Challenging Assumptions in Data Interpretation: The Microstructure Revolution
Discussion Leader: Jennifer McNab (Stanford University, USA)
9:00 am - 9:40 am
Dmitry Novikov (New York University School of Medicine, USA)
"The Mesoscopic Physics of Diffusion MRI"
9:40 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 am
Daniel Topgaard (Lund University, Sweden)
"New Acquisitions for New Microstructural Information"
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm
Daniel Nunes (Champalimaud Research, Portugal)
"A Biologist's Perspective on Neuronal Microstructure"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Challenging Assumptions in Data Interpretation: Artificial Intelligence Unleashed
Discussion Leader: Matthew Rosen (Massachusetts General Hospital / Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, USA)
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm
Jure Zbontar (Facebook, USA)
"AI and Images: New Horizons"
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm
Yvonne Lui (New York University School of Medicine, USA)
"The New Era of Machine Learning in MR"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Building Networks Across Scales and Disciplines: Cells, Brains and Populations / Late-Breaking Topics
Discussion Leaders: Pratik Mukherjee (University of California, San Francisco, USA) and Cornelia Laule (University of British Columbia, Canada)
9:00 am - 9:40 am
Elizabeth Hillman (Columbia University, USA)
"Crossing Temporal Scales: Imaging the Neural Correlates of Brain Hemodynamics"
9:40 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 am
Karla Miller (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
"Crossing Spatial Scales: Neuroimaging Meets Big Data"
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 11:40 am
Ashvin Bashyam (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
"Portable, Single-Sided Magnetic Resonance Sensors for Multi-Component T2 Relaxometry: Identification and Quantification of Fluid Depletion in Mouse and Human Models"
11:40 am - 11:45 am
Discussion
11:45 am - 11:55 am
Jana Hutter (King's College London, United Kingdom)
"Joint Efficient Diffusion-Relaxometry Acquisitions Using ZEBRA"
11:55 am - 12:00 pm
Discussion
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm
Poster Previews
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Seeing Differently: Emerging Contrast Agents and Mechanisms
Discussion Leader: Zaver Bhujwalla (John Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA)
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm
Alan Jasanoff (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
"Molecular fMRI, and a Few of My Favorite Agents"
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm
Lucio Frydman (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
"New Contrasts at Ultra-High Field Strength"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Changing the Value Proposition of Magnetic Resonance
Discussion Leader: James Pipe (Mayo Clinic, USA)
9:00 am - 9:40 am
Christopher Hess (University of California, San Francisco, USA)
"The Changing Value Proposition in Neuro MR"
9:40 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:30 am
Coffee Break
10:30 am - 11:10 am
Elizabeth Morris (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA)
"The Changing Value Proposition in Breast MR"
11:10 am - 11:30 am
Discussion
11:30 am - 12:10 pm
Vikas Gulani (Case Western Reserve University / University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, USA)
"The Changing Value Proposition in Body MR"
12:10 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Free Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Leveraging MR Information for Therapy: Image Informed Intervention
Discussion Leader: Craig Meyer (University of Virginia, USA)
7:30 pm - 8:10 pm
Kim Butts Pauly (Stanford University, USA)
"The MR-Guided Focused Ultrasound Renaissance"
8:10 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 9:10 pm
Rob Tijssen (UMC Utrecht, The Netherlands)
"Informing Radiation Delivery Without Radiation: MR-Guided Radiotherapy"
9:10 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure