The MRI-INT Center is organizing its annual scientific day on Friday, October 4 at Cerimed.

This year’s theme is :
'Developmental Neuroimaging from fetal to adolescent stages (MRI in human and nonhuman primate)'
It will feature talks by international, national, and local experts in the field.

Program : 

• 9h : Welcome
• 9h15 : Presentation of the MRI-INT Center & introduction
  
  
• Morning session : Ontogeny of Non-human Primates (NHP)
  • 9h30 : Keynote : Pier Francesco Ferrari (ISC Marc Jeannerod, Lyon, France) : The Lasting Effects of Early Social Life on Rhesus Monkey Brain Structure and Activity
  • 10h30 : Coffee break & Posters session
  • Projects carried out at the MRI-INT Center
    • 11h : Yannick Becker (Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig) : Primate brain development: The age of communication
      
    • 11h30 : Olivier Coulon & Guillaume Auzias (Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone, Marseille) : Fetal brain MRI in humans and baboons to better understand normal and pathological brain maturation
      
      
• 12h : Lunch break & Posters session
  
  
• Afternoon session : Ontogeny of Human Primates
  
  • 14h : Keynote : Petra Hüppi (Geneva University Neurocenter, Switzerland) : Imaging the developing brain: neuroscience of the preterm infant
  • 15h : Olga Kepinska (University of Vienna, Austria) : Intergenerational transmission of the structure of the auditory cortex and reading skills
  • 15h30 : Florence Bouhali (Centre de Recherche en Psychologie et Neurosciences, Marseille) : Structural constraints and functional plasticity in the developing reading brain
    
    
• 16h : Cocktail