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Neuroinformatics Research Group
Neuroimaging Compute Facility Team
Neuroimaging Core
Randy Buckner
Director of Neuroimaging
office: NW 280.06
phone: 617-384-8230
email: Randy_Buckner [at] harvard [dot] edu
The Director oversees the research and administrative activities of the facility. He supports Harvard faculty and students by providing scientific leadership and advice, facilitating research projects, and encouraging interdisciplinary collaborations among faculty in diverse fields.
Mark Eldaief
Neuroimaging Staff Clinician
office: NW 231
phone: 617-496-9407
email: meldaief [at] partners [dot] org
office hours: Tue 3:00-5:00 (B4 computer room)
The Neuroimaging Staff Clinician provides medical supervision for studies that require M.D. oversight [e.g., repetitive trans-cranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS)]. He also serves as an educational resource for students, formally by conducting lectures and workshops, and informally by providing expertise in clinical imaging, neuroanatomy, cognition, behavior and psychopharmacology.
Ross Mair
Head of MR Physics
office: NW 231.10
phone: 617-496-2903
email: rmair [at] fas [dot] harvard [dot] edu
office hours: Tue 10:00-12:00
The Head of MR Physics ensures the proper functioning of the scanner and assists research groups in obtaining the best possible MR data and in trouble-shooting problems with data acquisition. His research activities involve the development, application and impact of novel brain imaging techniques that address emerging research requirements and enhance MR imaging capabilities. Areas of interest include development of non-Gaussian diffusion MRI methods, assessment of novel functional MRI acquisition and detection methods, and pulse sequence programming.
Stephanie McMains
Neuroimaging Staff Scientist
office: NW 231
phone: 617-496-9407
email: smcmains [at] fas [dot] harvard [dot] edu
office hours: Mon & Thu 3:00-5:00 (B4 computer room)
The Neuroimaging Staff Scientist provides assistance and instruction to facility users. Her areas of expertise range from experimental design to consenting and preparing subjects, operation of the scanner and other equipment, and archiving data to advanced data analysis methods. One of her primary roles is to consult, provide support and train investigators new to MRI research. She also assists in the daily operation of the facility.
Tammy Moran
Operations Director for Neuroimaging
office: NW B435.12
phone: 617-495-4706
email: tmoran [at] fas [dot] harvard [dot] edu
The Operations Director provides general day-to-day oversight of facility operations and functioning. She sets and implements policies for the use and operation of the scanner and ensures a safe environment. She conducts safety and operational training sessions and certification examinations and consults on safety issues. She is the first point-of-contact for problems with the scanner or other equipment and for questions regarding procedures.
W. Caroline West
Associate Director for Neuroimaging
office: NW 231.20
phone: 617-384-8239
email:wcwest [at] fas [dot] harvard [dot] edu
The Associate Director oversees and facilitates the operations, procedures, and research activities of the facility and manages its finances. She is the contact person for new investigators and students. She assists investigators in obtaining funding, IRB approval, and access to the facility. She coordinates training opportunities and educational programs in neuroimaging and advises students interested in neuroimaging research.
Neuroinformatics Research Group (NRG website)
The Neuroinformatics Research Group is responsible for the architecture, design, and implementation of the software and hardware computational framework. They are available to help users with XNAT/CBSCentral, DICOM file processing, NiFTI-1 file processing, Python, Perl, PHP, C/C++, shell scripting, time series analysis, client-server application development, hardware purchase/implementation questions as well as database design, implementation and usage. Their primary interests are in applied computer science and information technology that drive neuroscience and genetics.
Timothy O’Keefe
Neuroinformatics Software Developer
office: NW 295.09
phone: 617-496-6162
email: timothy_okeefe [at] harvard [dot] edu
vpetrov [at] nmr [dot] mgh [dot] harvard [dot] edu ( )
Harris Hoke
Site Reliability Engineer
office: NW 295.10
phone: 617-384-8214
email: hhoke [at] fas [dot] harvard [dot] edu
vpetrov [at] nmr [dot] mgh [dot] harvard [dot] edu ( )
Neuroimaging Compute Facility Team
The NCF team are members of FAS Research Computing. They provide support for all NCF computing, workstations, file storage and LSF queue management. They work in close collaboration with the Neuroimaging Core and Neuroinformatics Research Group to meet the technical needs of our investigators. During office hours the NCF Systems and Network Administrator provides one-on-one training and troubleshooting for NCF users.
Luis Silva
NCF Systems and Network Administrator
email: rchelp [at] fas [dot] harvard [dot] edu
office hours: Thu 2:00-4:00 (NW 280.09 - workstation area)
Brian White
NCF Project Manager
email: rchelp [at] fas [dot] harvard [dot] edu
AFFILIATED FACULTY
FAS Department of Psychology
FAS Department of Human Evolutionary Biology
Harvard Graduate School of Education
HMS/BIDMC
Alvaro Pascual-Leone
Mark Halko
HMS/Children's Hospital
Charles Nelson
HMS/McLean Hospital
Justin Baker
Daniel Dillon
HMS/MGH/Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging
Trey Hedden
Daphne Holt
Hesheng Liu
Jorge Sepulcre
Andre van der Koewe
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