Zaki Alasmar

Our Site Visit to Bordeaux! — OHBM Communications Authors: Emily Weber, Beth Slater Editors: Ashley Tyrer, Audrey Luo, Zaki Alasmar In preparation for the 2026 OHBM Annual Meeting, we recently had the pleasure of visiting Bordeaux, France, the…

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We are excited to launch The Data Quartet Challenge, recognizing student contributions to projects that integrate data from at least 2 of 4 FRQ supported Quebec Alzheimer’s and Aging cohorts (PREVENT-AD, CIMA-Q, NuAge, TRIAD), with 3 prizes of 5000$ tinyurl.com/3dy899xn

Honoured to have been awarded the Vanier Scholarship — pretty psyched about it. Big thanks to everyone who’s helped me get here!

Results for the #CIHR Spring 2025: Project Grants are in! 🏃‍♀️‍➡️

Thirteen HBHL-funded PIs will be supported by CIHR for seven projects, totalling an investment of over $6.7M at @mcgill.ca & @douglasresearch.bsky.social. Congratulations! 👏

🔬 Learn more: mcgill.ca/x/ieS

@mcgill-research.bsky.social

Very cool!

Huge congrats on getting it to this stage! Really grateful to have been part of this amazing project!

🧠 Tractography on Ultra-Low Field MRI!

Thrilled to share "Diffusion Tensor Imaging & Spherical-Deconvolution-Based Tractography Using an Ultra-Low Field, Portable MRI System", led by James Gholam

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Thanks to the Gates Foundation, Wellcome LEAP & Wellcome who supported this work!

Near-complete Middle Eastern genomes refine autozygosity and enhance disease-causing and population-specific variant discovery - Nature Genetics Generation and analysis of high-quality, genome assemblies from Middle Eastern trios demonstrate the utility of ancestry-matched data and assembly-based variation analysis.

This is incredible

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The May issue of @natgenet.nature.com is live!

Featuring:

✅Middle Eastern genomes
✅genetic determinants of infertility
✅multiomics in neuroblastoma
✅desmosome mutations in melanoma
✅peanut pangenome

And much more!

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📣 CIHR, NSERC, and SSHRC Scholarships and Fellowships Announced – 2025
Congratulations to our students!

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📣 Bourses de recherche et d’études des IRSC, du CRSH et du CRSNG – 2025
Félicitations à nos étudiant·e·s!

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Mark Carney poses for a photo with Nardwuar during an interview in Vancouver, British Columbia.

It’s not a campaign visit to Vancouver without a Hip Flip.

Thanks for the records and the trip down memory lane, @nardwuarserviette.bsky.social.

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Unraveling the mesoscale functional connectivity of the human primary visual cortex using high-resolution functional MRI. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.03.27.645795v1

📣 TOMORROW! Don't miss the CIC lecture by Anastasia Yendiki @2pm!
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📣 DEMAIN! Venez participer au séminaire du CIC avec Anastasia Yendiki @14h!
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The range of submissions at @apertureohbm.bsky.social is amazing — everything from original research to notebooks and descriptions of notebooks! Had a fantastic experience with their review process and critical feedback

Metz et al. report that a study combining MRI brain atrophy and clinical data using machine learning achieved 89% accuracy in classifying frontotemporal dementia subtypes. Please read at:https://buff.ly/uGmX2fg @DadarMahsa @YasharZeighami @sylv_villeneuve @sducharme66

Very happy to see this work on sex-specific microstructural and cardio-metabolic patterns in familial AD out now in Neurobiology of Aging!

Fonov and Collins investigate optimal sample sizes for creating representative average anatomical brain templates: doi.org/10.52294/001...

@fmri-today.bsky.social @mallarchak.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social

Excited for our next CIC lecture! Not to be missed!

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau chimed in online after Canada beat the United States in the 4 Nations Face-Off final.

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Patterns of Cerebellar–Cortical Structural Covariance Mirror Anatomical Connectivity of Sensorimotor and Cognitive Networks We tested the patterns of covariation of cerebellar volumes with cortical thickness and surface area and found differential distribution across sensorimotor and cognitive regions. Our results suggest....

... sensorimotor and cognitive networks that align with known anatomical associations, potentially influencing healthy development and function.

With @mallarchak.bsky.social, Virginia Penhune, and Christopher Steele.

Thrilled to see my undergrad work published in Human Brain Mapping and featured on this week’s Sensorimotor Superlab reading list (hopefully for good reasons! 😄).

We explored structural covariation between the cortex and cerebellum, revealing an overarching organizing principle of ...