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October 30, 2025 (Thursday)

Session I - Cutting-edge techniques in advanced neuroimaging

Time

Program

Speakers

09:50 – 10:00

Welcome remarks

Sang-Hun Lee
Director of SNUBIC

Seoul National University, South Korea

10:00 – 11:00 

Brain tissue microstructure imaging with diffusion MRI
: the new frontier powered by Cima.X and AI

Gary Zhang 

University College London, UK

11:00 – 12:00 

Toward high resolution myelin imaging

Jongho Lee

Seoul National University, South Korea

12:00 – 13:30

Lunch

 

13:30 – 14:30 

Exploring Glymphatic Flow: Innovative MRI-Based Visualization Approaches

Seung hong Choi
Seoul National University, South Korea

14:30 – 15:30

Imaging Brain Microstructure and Function with Ultra-High-Field MRI

Masaki Fukunaga 

National Institute for Physiological Sciences, Japan

15:30 – 16:00

Break

 

16:00 – 17:00

Large Brain Models for Neuroscience

Jiook Cha
Seoul National University, South Korea

17:00 – 18:00

Exploring New Frontiers in MR Research with Cima.X

Benjamin Schmitt
Siemens Healthineers, Germany

October 31, 2025 (Friday)

Session II - Bridging Neuroimaging, Decision-Making, and Mental Health

Time

Program

Speakers

9:20 – 9:30

Welcome remarks

Sang-Hun Lee

Seoul National University, South Korea

9:30 – 10:30

Tracking changes in neural representations over time using intensive fMRI   

Eli Merriam

National Institutes of Health, USA

10:30 – 11:30

The nature and dynamics of working memory representation in the human visual cortex

Sang-Hun Lee

Seoul National University, South Korea

11:30 – 13:00

Lunch

 

13:00 – 14:00

SNU MRI Center Inauguration Ceremony

 

14:00 – 15:00

The brain as a mixture of experts: the neurocomputational basis of multiple parallel systems for learning and control

John O’Doherty

California Institute of Technology, USA

15:00 – 16:00

Naturalistic Paradigms and Real Rewards
for Unveiling Neurocognitive Mechanisms in Decision-Making and Addiction

Woo-Young Ahn

Seoul National University, South Korea

16:00 -16:20

 Break

 

16:20 – 17:20

Dopamine and glutamate hypotheses for treatment response
in schizophrenia 

Shinichiro Luke Nakajima

Keio University, Japan

17:20 – 18:20

Neuroimaging fingerprint for treatment-resistant schizophrenia

Euitae Kim

Seoul National University, South Korea