Zaki Alasmar
@zklsmr.bsky.social
Vanier PhD Scholar in Neuroscience and Psychiatry at McGillU & Douglas Hospital | Imaging, psych, math, & philosophy | structure and function in ante- & post-mortem brains | Diffusion Physics and their models | 🇸🇾🇨🇦 | zklsmr.com
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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
The Data Quartet Challenge.pdf
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September 2, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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!
Twenty-three #McGill doctoral & postdoctoral researchers have earned Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships and Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships, recognizing excellence, leadership & research potential.
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July 24, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Honoured to have been awarded the Vanier Scholarship — pretty psyched about it. Big thanks to everyone who’s helped me get here!
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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
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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
July 23, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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
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
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🧠 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!
Thrilled to share "Diffusion Tensor Imaging & Spherical-Deconvolution-Based Tractography Using an Ultra-Low Field, Portable MRI System", led by James Gholam
lnkd.in/emDyp9gT
Thanks to the Gates Foundation, Wellcome LEAP & Wellcome who supported this work!
June 6, 2025 at 11:42 AM
🧠 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
lnkd.in/emDyp9gT
Thanks to the Gates Foundation, Wellcome LEAP & Wellcome who supported this work!
Thrilled to share "Diffusion Tensor Imaging & Spherical-Deconvolution-Based Tractography Using an Ultra-Low Field, Portable MRI System", led by James Gholam
lnkd.in/emDyp9gT
Thanks to the Gates Foundation, Wellcome LEAP & Wellcome who supported this work!
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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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www.nature.com/ng/volumes/5...
Featuring:
✅Middle Eastern genomes
✅genetic determinants of infertility
✅multiomics in neuroblastoma
✅desmosome mutations in melanoma
✅peanut pangenome
And much more!
⬇️
www.nature.com/ng/volumes/5...
May 19, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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!
⬇️
www.nature.com/ng/volumes/5...
Featuring:
✅Middle Eastern genomes
✅genetic determinants of infertility
✅multiomics in neuroblastoma
✅desmosome mutations in melanoma
✅peanut pangenome
And much more!
⬇️
www.nature.com/ng/volumes/5...
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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!
Learn more / En savoir plus :
douglas.research.mcgill.ca/news/cihr-ns...
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!
Learn more / En savoir plus :
douglas.research.mcgill.ca/news/cihr-ns...
May 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
📣 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!
Learn more / En savoir plus :
douglas.research.mcgill.ca/news/cihr-ns...
Congratulations to our students!
***
📣 Bourses de recherche et d’études des IRSC, du CRSH et du CRSNG – 2025
Félicitations à nos étudiant·e·s!
Learn more / En savoir plus :
douglas.research.mcgill.ca/news/cihr-ns...
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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.
youtu.be/TZmh_PNMImE?...
Thanks for the records and the trip down memory lane, @nardwuarserviette.bsky.social.
youtu.be/TZmh_PNMImE?...
April 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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.
youtu.be/TZmh_PNMImE?...
Thanks for the records and the trip down memory lane, @nardwuarserviette.bsky.social.
youtu.be/TZmh_PNMImE?...
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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
April 1, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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
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📣 TOMORROW! Don't miss the CIC lecture by Anastasia Yendiki @2pm!
douglas.research.mcgill.ca/event/anasta...
📣 DEMAIN! Venez participer au séminaire du CIC avec Anastasia Yendiki @14h!
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douglas.research.mcgill.ca/event/anasta...
📣 DEMAIN! Venez participer au séminaire du CIC avec Anastasia Yendiki @14h!
douglas.research.mcgill.ca/fr/event/ana...
March 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
📣 TOMORROW! Don't miss the CIC lecture by Anastasia Yendiki @2pm!
douglas.research.mcgill.ca/event/anasta...
📣 DEMAIN! Venez participer au séminaire du CIC avec Anastasia Yendiki @14h!
douglas.research.mcgill.ca/fr/event/ana...
douglas.research.mcgill.ca/event/anasta...
📣 DEMAIN! Venez participer au séminaire du CIC avec Anastasia Yendiki @14h!
douglas.research.mcgill.ca/fr/event/ana...
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
There's a stream of excellent papers in @apertureohbm.bsky.social being published!
Check them out: apertureneuro.org
Submit your own
+code
+data
+open science
+imaging studies+
Quick turnaround, a devoted ed board, and lowest APC around.
And you'll support @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
share pls!
Check them out: apertureneuro.org
Submit your own
+code
+data
+open science
+imaging studies+
Quick turnaround, a devoted ed board, and lowest APC around.
And you'll support @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
share pls!
March 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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
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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
March 22, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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!
I was privileged to collaborate with the brilliant Stéfanie Tremblay on her project, just published in Neurobiology of Aging:
Sex and APOE4-specific links between cardiometabolic risk factors and white matter alterations in individuals with a family history of Alzheimer's disease
bit.ly/3Rb3QWW
Sex and APOE4-specific links between cardiometabolic risk factors and white matter alterations in individuals with a family history of Alzheimer's disease
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Sex and APOE4-specific links between cardiometabolic risk factors and white matter alterations in individuals with a family history of Alzheimer's disease
Early detection of pathological changes in Alzheimer's disease (AD) has garnered significant attention in the last few decades as interventions aiming…
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March 18, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Very happy to see this work on sex-specific microstructural and cardio-metabolic patterns in familial AD out now in Neurobiology of Aging!
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Fonov and Collins investigate optimal sample sizes for creating representative average anatomical brain templates: doi.org/10.52294/001...
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March 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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
@fmri-today.bsky.social @mallarchak.bsky.social @ohbmofficial.bsky.social
Excited for our next CIC lecture! Not to be missed!
📣 Don't miss the CIC lecture by Nicola Palomero-Gallagher on March 5 @2pm!
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📣 Venez participer le 5 mars au séminaire du CIC avec Nicola Palomero-Gallagher @14h!
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📣 Venez participer le 5 mars au séminaire du CIC avec Nicola Palomero-Gallagher @14h!
buff.ly/41iWlC3
March 4, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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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February 21, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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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www.nytimes.com/athletic/liv...
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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 ...
We explored structural covariation between the cortex and cerebellum, revealing an overarching organizing principle of ...
January 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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 ...
We explored structural covariation between the cortex and cerebellum, revealing an overarching organizing principle of ...