Antoine Lutti

📣 PhD student opportunity at the Health & #Gender Unit #Unisanté for the Diverse Brains project aiming to study how sex/gender, race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and geography shape #brain #health over the life course.
⏰ Application deadline: 31st December 2025

@unil.bsky.social @snf-fns.ch

We just published a paper in PNAS, showing microstructural changes to the hippocampus in aging and presymptomatic Alzheimer's disease - in humans, in vivo.

We continue to show the value of structural MRI beyond simply measuring large-scale atrophy!

Read here: ow.ly/1NvV50XkXnX

New preprint! V4 responds to mid-level features that facilitate object recognition from fragments when visual information is sparse.
This study points to possible alternative stimulation sites for cortical prostheses to restore vision. @bogdandraganski.bsky.social @antoinelutti.bsky.social

‘Sick to My Stomach’: Trump Distorts Facts on Autism, Tylenol, and Vaccines, Scientists Say - KFF Health News The White House’s autism announcement exaggerates links to Tylenol, misleads on vaccines, and sets back the field by ignoring decades of research, scientists say.

Autism experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were neither consulted for the White House’s long-awaited autism announcement nor asked to review a draft of the findings and recommendations.

kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

The SNSF urges against cuts In its statement on "Relief Package 27", the SNSF speaks out against the proposed annual cuts of 10 percent.

The Federal Council wants to cut costs in the ERI sector despite widespread objections. Cuts of over 10 percent per year are planned for the SNSF over the next few years. Above all, this plan jeopardises the innovation potential and competitiveness of the Swiss economy. ⤵️ www.snf.ch/en/9a7Fhnojt...

Thanks @northernthrux.bsky.social! I'm very touched by the compliment

Many thanks to everyone involved, particularly Quentin Raynaud, but also Rita Oliveira, Nadège Corbin, Yael Balbastre, @ruudmri.bsky.social and @mfcallaghan.bsky.social

Note that an implementation of ISME in a 3D GRE sequence is available for download in the Teamplay C2P exchange platform of Siemens Healthineers

This approach is compatible with most sampling trajectories (linear, spiral, radial,..) and data acquisition strategies (e.g. GRE, EPTI,...).

We show that this new approach (ISME – ‘incoherent sampling of multi-echo data’) improves the reproducibility of R2* and QSM maps by 25%! The R2* maps are also visually sharper, particularly at high resolution.

The key idea is beautifully simple: data acquisition is reordered such that the multi-echo data is acquired at different phases of the cardiac cycle. Cardiac-induced noise is then effectively averaged-out in the estimation of R2* or magnetic susceptibility (QSM).

ISME—incoherent sampling of multi‐echo data to minimize cardiac‐induced noise in brain maps of R2*$$ {R}_2^{\ast } $$ and magnetic susceptibility Purpose Maps of the MRI parameters R2*$$ {\mathrm{R}}_2^{\ast } $$ and magnetic susceptibility (χ$$ \chi $$) enable the investigation of microscopic tissue changes in brain disease. However, cardiac...

To all #MRI officionados out there, we've just published a new paper in MRM to describe a new approach to mitigate the effects induced by cardiac pulsation in relaxometry data from the brain! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Research Assistant at UCL An academic position as a Research Assistant is being advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Click now to find more details and explore additional academic job opportunities.

We’re hiring! We’re looking for two RAs to work with @tessamdekker.bsky.social and @ronimaimon.bsky.social on visual neuroscience experiments with children and adults, both with and without eye disease using cutting-edge neuroimaging and behavioral methods. Apply by 16 Oct! t.ly/q3aYe #neurojobs

Please repost. The Centre for Functional and Metabolic Mapping is looking for a Preclinical MRI physicist (9.4T and 15.2T Bruker Advance Neo). You will join a team of 14 dedicated staff in Canada's National Ultra-high field MRI platform who also operate 3T and 7T human scanners in the same facility.

Energy?

"Energy"?

Are you fucking kidding me?

🚨 We’re hiring: Associate Professor/Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience

🧠 Lead pioneering imaging-informed cognitive neuroscience research
🌍 Open to international applicants | Visa sponsorship available
📍 Permanent, full-time, on-site
🔗 Apply now: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

We are recruiting a new PI at the FIL @imagingneuroucl.bsky.social, Associate or Full Professor. This is an amazing place to do cognitive neuroscience, in the heart of London. If you or someone you know might be interested, please pass it on. #neuroskyence

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

📣 Encouragement de projets

Les chercheuses et chercheurs déterminent librement le thème et le cadre de leur recherche. Ouverte à toutes les disciplines.

🗓 Délai de soumission : 01.10.2025, 17h00 heure suisse
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🤔 Interested in examining brain structure and function in unparalleled resolution?
🧠 🔬 The Mesoscopic Integrated Neuroimaging Data (MIND) Platform is searching for a postdoc to assist in the initiative that combines 15.2T MRI and light sheet microscopy.
👇 See the attachment below for details.

Thanks to @unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social and @snsf-ch.bsky.social for their support!

A big thank you to everyone involved, mainly Ana Rita Oliveira for her hard work but also Quentin Raynaud @ijelescu.bsky.social Evgeniya Kirilina and Valerij Kiselev!!

I am delighted with this work because it is an important step towards the use of MRI as a non-invasive tool to monitor microscopic brain change in neurological diseases. The assessment of iron distribution is of particular relevance for the study of e.g. #ParkinsonsDisease.

- In the substantia nigra, the estimates of volume fraction and intra-cellular iron concentration show a good match with those from histological studies.

- From the estimates of the model parameters that describe this signal behaviour, we attempt to characterize the microscopic distribution of the inclusions at the source of this effect.

- Using numerical simulations we show that in the substantia nigra (SN), iron-rich dopaminergic neurons can be at the source of this effect

- Thanks to extensive preliminary work to improve data quality, we show compelling evidence for the presence of non-exponential behaviour at short echo times, consistent with the effect of microscopic magnetic inclusions (e.g., blood vessels and iron-rich cells).

The group has just published a new scientific article on #MRI transverse relaxation decay in subcortical grey matter:
analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Reposting this - still looking for more participants! Especially if you (think you) have #aphantasia or #hyperphantasia, we are very interested in hearing from you... Also if you have experience of #prophantasia (cc @kerblooee.bsky.social)
#mentalimagery #visionscience #psychscisky

🚨 🚨 Abstract deadline EXTENDED!! 🚨 🚨

We are giving you a bit more time for the last touches to your abstracts... Or maybe to submit something new!

New deadline:
🎯 May 16th, 17:00 CEST

Submit your abstract 👉 buff.ly/GHbFWHc

Antoine Lutti MRI group - Job openings Two available PhD student positions Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the brain & heart Two PhD student positions are available in the Laboratory for Neuroimaging Research and the Translational MR Researc...

Application is by CV and motivation letter, including two referees' contact details, emailed to: antoine.lutti@chuv.ch and Jerome.Yerly@chuv.ch. The position will remain open until a suitable candidate is found.
More information available here: sites.google.com/view/antoine...