Presenters

Rene Labounek | Co-Presenter

rlaboune@umn.edu;
Rene Labounek, Ph.D., is a biomedical engineer in the Medical Imaging Lab (MILab) at the University of Minnesota. He has a strong expertise in biomedical and electrical engineering, mathematics, physics, signal and image processing (including deconvolution techniques and transfer function modeling), biosignal acquisition and analysis, medical imaging, medical image analysis, (clinical) neuroimaging (including magnetic resonance imaging – MRI, functional MRI – fMRI, diffusion MRI – dMRI), brain and spinal cord neuroanatomy, electroencephalography (EEG), simultaneous EEG-fMRI, (clinical) neuroscience, functional retina imaging, informatics, technical computing, computer programming, grid computations and administration, hardware and software solutions, univariate and multivariate (bio)statistics.

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Amy Paulson | Author, Co-Author

pauls860@umn.edu;
Amy Paulson is a PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota and member of the Medical Imagin Lab led by Dr. Igor Nestrasil.

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Bryon Mueller | Co-Author

muell093@umn.edu;
Bryon A. Mueller is an MRI physicist and Associate Professor of Psychiatry working at the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research (CMRR) and collaborating with Dr. Nestrasil's MILab.

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Christophe Lenglet | Co-Author

clenglet@umn.edu;
Christophe Lenglet, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the CMRR and an expert in diffusion MRI. He collaborates with Dr. Nestrasil's Medical Imaging Lab.

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Monica Bondy | Co-Author

bondy023@umn.edu;
Monica Bondy is a lab manager of the Medical Imaging Lab (MILab) led by Dr. Nestrasil.

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Lauren Haisley | Co-Author

haisl011@umn.edu;
Dr. Lauren Haisley, Ph.D., is a pediatric neuropsychologist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota.

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Meghan Swanson | Co-Author

swanson1@umn.edu;
Dr. Meghan Swanson, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Psychology at the Masonic Institute for the Developing Brain.

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Jed Elison | Co-Author

jtelison@umn.edu;
Dr. Jed Elison is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and Psycholoy, University of Minnesota.

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Erin Osterholm | Co-Author

oste0123@umn.edu;
Dr. Osterholm is Medical Director of the Newborn Intensive Care Unit at the University of Minnesota Medical School and a faculty member in the Division of Neonatology. She is interested in the clinical implications of CMV on neurodevelopment in both preterm and term infants.

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Mark R. Schleiss | Co-Author

schleiss@umn.edu ;
Dr. Schleiss is a Professor of Pediatrics and holds the American Legion and Auxiliary Endowed Research Chair at the University of Minnesota Medical School. His laboratory is supported by the NIH. He conducts research in small animal models testing vaccine strategies against congenital CMV infection. His laboratory is also engaged in the study of the epidemiology, pathogenesis and management of congenital and neonatal CMV infections.

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Igor Nestrasil | Primary Presenter

nestr007@umn.edu;
Igor Nestrasil, M.D., Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, USA. He is a neurologist by training (Czech Republic), and his lab (Medical Imaging Lab–MILab) focuses on research in quantitative neuroimaging (brain, spinal cord), retinal imaging, and signal processing. Dr. Nestrasil has conducted brain research on humans and canine and murine mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) models. In the NIH-funded U54 (Rare Diseases Clinical Research Network (RDCRN) – an initiative of the Office of Rare Diseases Research), he served as a director of the Neuroimaging Core of the Lysosomal Disease Network, LDN). His lab collaborates closely with many faculty members at the Center for Magnetic Resonance Research (CMRR), a world-leading facility in MRI research. Dr. Nestrasil has received several grants and research funding and participates in clinical studies and trials on neuroimaging in patients with MPS, ALD, and other rare and neurodegenerative disorders.