EVENT

2025 MRI

On June 3rd, 2025, the whole community gathered in the Campus Biotech auditorium for an overview of ongoing projects using the MRI infrastructures at Fondation Campus Biotech Geneva (FCBG), Brain Behavior Laboratory (BBL) and Center for Biomedical Imaging (CIBM).

The FCBG was particularly proud to see the results of the 7T related projects acquired on the new Siemens Healthineers 7T MAGNETOM Terra.X MRI scanner available to all at Campus Biotech.

8h30	Registration and Poster Setup
9h00	Session 1	chaired by Patrik Vuilleumier
	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
	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 break with Posters
14h00	Session 3	chaired by Dimitrios Karampinos
	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	Coffee Break
15h40	Session 4	chaired by Karl-Olof Lovblad
	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)