MRI Research Day 2025
We are delighted to announce the MRI Research Day 2025 will be held on June 3, 2025 at Campus Biotech Geneva.
The one-day event gathers MRI experts from the Lemanic region and serves as a platform for reviewing ongoing MRI projects, sharing experiences and challenges, as well as facilitating exchanges among physicists, physicians, and neuroscientists.
See highlights from the 2024 edition here:
PROGRAMME
8h30 Registration and Poster Setup
9h00 Session 1 | Chaired by Patrik Vuilleumier (UNIGE)
- Learning to control the visual cortex and regulating visual attention via fMRI-based neurofeedback
Riccardo Galli (PI: Patrik Vuilleumier, UNIGE) - Multiple types of prediction in human Pavlovian learning
Lavinia Wuensch (PI: Eva Pool / David Sander, UNIGE) - The brain integration of prosodic and semantic cues in non-literal forms of speech understanding
Adrien Wittmann (PI: Didier Grandjean, UNIGE) - In the object’s shoes: a novel ventro-temporal area for object-centered perception
Prosper Fiave (PI: Ilaria Sani, UNIGE)
10h20 Coffee Break
10h40 Session 2 | Chaired by Valentina Borghesani (UNIGE)
- A grid-like code of tactile perception
Mariana Babo Rebelo (PI: Olaf Blanke, EPFL) - Modulating the sense of agency in functional neurological disorder using real-time fMRI neurofeedback
Eliane Mueller (PI: Selma Aybek, UFribourg) - Dynamic neural transformation between egocentric and allocentric representations in VR spatial navigation
Jie Song (PI: Patrik Vuilleumier / Ilaria Sani, UNIGE) - Enhancing NIBS-induced corticospinal excitability and mapping spinal cord fMRI activation
Rebecca Jones/Ekansh Sareen (PI: Dimitri Van De Ville, EPFL UNIGE/Friedhelm Hummel, EPFL)
12h00 Lunch + Posters
14h00 Session 3 | Chaired by Dimitrios Karampinos (EPFL)
- Functional-Metabolic connectivity with functional magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (fMRSI)
André Döring (PI: Lijing Xin, EPFL) - Ultra-high field (7T) imaging in cerebral amyloid angiopathy
Felix Kurz (PI: Felix Kurz, HUG) - Free-breath 2D CINE MRI for cardiac function assessment
Anam Fatima (PI: Jean-Paul Vallée, HUG, UNIGE) - 7T MRI Quantitative Susceptibility Mapping (QSM)-Aided MRgHIFU Functional Neurosurgery
Rares Salomir (PI: Rares Salomir, HUG, UNIGE)
15h20 Tea Break
15h40 Session 4 | Chaired by Karl-Olof Lovblad (HUG)
- Investigating the response of dural venous sinus stenosis to subtractive lumbar puncture: preliminary experience
Andrea Rosi (PI: Andrea Rosi, HUG) - Resilience in brain networks after stroke
Elisabeth Dirren (PI: Emmanuel Carrera, HUG) - A Longitudinal and Reproducible Anti-coactivation Pattern Between the Cerebellum and the Ventral Tegmental Area Relates to Apathy in Schizophrenia
Jade Awada (PI: Indrit Bègue, UNIGE) - Imaging Vascular and Glymphatic Function in 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome: Contribution to Emergence of Psychosis
Alessandro Pascucci (PI: Stephan Eliez, UNIGE)