Program
Overview
The Annual Conference will be held in Baltimore, Maryland, at the Royal Sonesta Habor Court September 25-26, 2024. A significant proportion of the 2024 FIT’NG Conference is devoted to interactive events such as workshops and poster sessions to maximize engagement across our community.
Conference sessions this year are focused on fetal, infant, toddler, or longitudinal scientific content (covering the three developmental windows that are the focus of our society) and will be centered around key current themes in our field including: brain and behavioral states, brain network development, cognitive development, methods development, and social development.
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08:30 – 8:45
FIT’NG Welcome & Introduction
08:45 – 10:15
Session 1: Brain and Behavioral States
Chairs: Lindsey Powell, University of California, San Diego and Halie Olson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Developing the sensorimotor system in our sleep: Implications for typical and atypical development
Mark Blumberg, The University of Iowa
Normative EEG growth curves of infant visual neurodevelopment generalize across global cohorts and predict cognitive outcomes
Emma Margolis, Northeastern University and Chris Camp, Yale University
Multimodal techniques: synchronizing doppler ultrasound and fnirs to understand signals of fetal well-being
Xuejun Hao, Columbia University
Neuromonitoring Cortical Hemodynamics in Neonates During Cardiopulmonary Bypass Surgery Using High-Density Diffuse Optical Tomography
Adam Eggebrecht, Washington University
10:15 – 10:45
Break
10:45 – 12:15
Session 2: Early Cognitive Development
Chairs: Nadege Roche-Labarbe, University of Caen Normandy and Paige Nelson, University of Iowa
Dynamics of learning and prediction in the infant brain
Lauren Emberson, University of British Columbia
Neural Indicators of Visual Attention in Toddlers Born Prematurely
Haley Marie Laughlin, University of Houston
Foundations of emotion development: Neural and caregiver mechanisms supporting real-world emotion-perception and emotion-related interactions in the first 2 years of life
Ruohan Xia, University of California, Davis
Neural indices of auditory statistical learning in infancy associated with concurrent language skills at 24-months in a sample of South African infants
Sarah Mccormick, Northeastern University
12:15 – 13:45
Lunch on own
13:45 – 14:45
Keynote Presentation
Chair: Tomoki Arichi, King’s College London
Can Innovations in Imaging Enhance Perinatal Care?
Ellen Grant, Harvard Medical School
14:45 – 15:10
Flash Talks 1
Chairs: Nadege Roche-Labarbe, University of Caen Normandy and Paige Nelson, University of Iowa
Infants’ resting state functional connectivity and ERPs: A multimodal approach to investigating the neural basis of infant novelty detection
Courtney Filippi, New York University, Langone
Dorso-medial prefrontal cortex responses to social smiles predict sociability in infancy
Olivia Allison, University of Virginia
Larger than life: Cartoons drive infant visual cortex more than realistic movies
Tristan Yates, Columbia University
Intrinsic functional neurocircuitry of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis in early infancy
Yanbin Niu, Vanderbilt University
15:10 – 17:00
Poster Session 1
17:00 – 18:30
Panel Discussion: Large Cohorts in Fetal, Infant, and Toddler Neuroimaging Research
Chair: Brittany Howell, Virginia Tech and Emma Margolis, Northeastern University
Laurel Gabard-Durnam, Northeastern University College of Science
Ellen Grant, Harvard Medical School
Jonathan O’Muircheartaigh, King’s College London
Lindsay Powell, University of California, San Diego
Katherine Cole, National Institute on Drug Abuse
18:30 – 19:30
Presidential Reception
20:00 – Onwards
Trainee committee social event
08:30 – 10:00
Session 3: Methods Development
Chairs: Lilla Zöllei, Massachusetts General Hospital and Áine Dineen, Trinity College Dublin
Bedside, Dynamic and High Spatial Resolution Assessment of Neonatal Brain Connectivity Using Functional Ultrasound Imaging
Charlie Demene, Institute Physics for Medicine Paris
Surface-based Bayesian modeling improves individual-level functional network characterization during early brain development
Diego Derman, Indiana University
Normative fetal growth trajectories of eleven brain structures in the second trimester measured automatically from ultrasound volumes
Madeleine Wyburd, University Oxford
7T fMRI characterisation of depth dependent hemodynamics in the neonatal somatosensory cortex
Jucha Willers Moore, King’s College London
10:00 – 10:30
Break
10:30 – 12:00
Think Tank: Elephants in the Room
Join us for one of these small group discussions led by faculty in the field!
- Harmonizing FIT Cohorts Across Different Contexts to Conduct Larger Scale Analyses (Laurel Gabard-Durnam & Emma Margolis)
- Studying Language Development from Different Neuroimaging Perspectives (Kelly Vaughn & Halie Olson)
- Deep Learning as a Model of Brain Development (Laurie Bayet & Áine Travers Dineen)
- Using FIT Neuroimaging to Investigate Neurodevelopmental Disorders (Nadege Roche-Labarbe & Haerin Chung)
- Multimodal imaging in FIT: What Works and What Doesn’t? (Jerod Rasmussen & Juliette Champaud)
- Bridging the Gap: Translating Neuroimaging Insights into Medical Practice (Tomoki Arichi & Paige Nelson)
12:00 – 13:30
Lunch on own
13:30 – 15:00
Session 4: Early Network Development
Chairs: Dustin Scheinost, Yale University and Marta Korom, National Institute of Mental Health
Developmental connectome from fetal stage to toddlerhood
Minhui Ouyang, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Prenatal environment is associated with the pace of cortical network development over the first three years of life
Ursula Tooley, Washington University in St. Louis
Relationship between microstructural and functional connectivity during the preterm period
Andrea Gondova, Université Paris Cité
The building blocks of vision: Cortical and subcortical organization of the newborn visual system
Vladislav Ayzenberg, University of Pennsylvania
15:00 – 15:25
Flash Talks 2
Chairs: Tomoki Arichi, King’s College London and Juliette Champaud, King’s College London
Exploring the relationship between Brain Functional and Structural Changes in Prematurity: an EEG-MRI study (WIP)
Aline Gonzalez, INSERM
Ultra-high field quantitative susceptibility mapping of the neonatal brain
Chiara Casella, King’s College London
Aperiodic EEG activity in early childhood is associated with temperament, socioemotional functioning, and maternal psychopathology
Dashiell Sacks, Harvard Medical School/Boston Children’s Hospital
Improving precision with ultra-high field functional MRI in infants
Julia Moser, University of Minnesota
Is tactile sensory processing regulation in preterm neonates an early determinant of neurodevelopmental outcomes at age 2 years (WIP)
Victoria Dumont, University of Caen Normandy
15:25 – 17:00
Poster Session 2
17:00 – 18:30
Session 5: Adversity and Brain Development
Chairs: Ka I. Ip, University of Minnesota and Emma Margolis, Northeastern University
Assessing Stress and Adversity in Early Life
Kathryn Humphreys, Vanderbilt University
Abnormal fetal cortical areal expansion is predictive of 2-year neurodevelopmental outcome in Congenital Heart Disease
Sian Wilson, Harvard Medical School
Prenatal Exposure to Adversity and Neonatal Brain Connectivity Relate to Emerging Executive Function at Age 2 Years
Rachel Lean, Washington University
Maternal Childhood Adversity and its Association with Offspring Neonatal White Matter Development
Anna Constantino-Pettit, Washington University in St. Louis
18:30 – 18:45
FIT’NG Society Updates
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*Program may be subject to change