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E-mail:

<oliver@bic.mni.mcgill.ca>

Office phone:

(514) 398-6447

Office fax:

(514) 398-8948

I am a 33-year old British PhD student in my final year of studies with the laboratory of Dr Alan Evans.

I am looking for a post-doctoral position in which I can bring my knowledge of in brain imaging analysis methodology to a more clinical setting. Specifically, I have a developing interest in neuro-psychoanalysis and would be keen to work with a lab involved in the functional imaging of mood and anxiety disorders. This would bring my research career more into alignment with psychoanalytic training at the Montreal Psychoanalytic Association.

Research Background

• non-uniformity correction (new iterative algorithm)
• surface mesh fitting (hemisphere separation, local morphological correction)
• non-linear volumetric registration (template generation)
• non-linear surface registration (new process and new template generated)
• cortical segmentation (new algorithm)
• feature extraction (new pipeline)
• Also experimented extensively with different multivariate analysis strategies (PCA, ICA, unsupervised clustering, SVM classification, jack-knifing etc).
  
  
• Developing interest in rtFMRI and neuropsychoanalysis

Publications

• Lyttelton O, Evans AC. Multi-site single-subject t1-weighted phantom reveals how tissue-specific nonbiological intensity non-uniformity biases tissue segmentation in SPM5 and CIVET. In preparation.
• Ad-Dab.ANbbagh Y, Karama S, Leonard G, Lyttelton O, Lepage C, Botteron NK, Evans AC, And The Brain Development Cooperative Group. Gender-based differences in correlation of IQ to corticometric measures in healthy children. Cerebral Cortex, accepted.
• Lyttelton O, Karama S, Ad-dab'bagh Y, Carbonell F, Worsley K, Evans AC. Positional and Surface Area Asymmetry of the Human Cerebral Cortex explored through automated surface-based analysis. Neuroimage, Accepted.
• Karama S, Ad-Dab'bagh Y, Haier RJ , Deary IJ ,Lyttelton O, Lepage C, Evans AC. Positive association between cognitive ability and cortical thickness in a representative US sample of healthy 6 to 18 yearolds. Intelligence, Volume 37, Issue 2, Intelligence and the Brain, March-April 2009, Pages 145-155.
• Im K, Lee JM, Lyttelton O, Kim SH, Evans AC, Kim SI. Brain size effects on the cortical structure of human brains. Cerebral Cortex 2008 18(9):2181-2191.
• Boucher M, Lyttelton O, Whitesides S, Evans AC. A Discrete Differential Operator for Direction-Based Surface Morphometry, IEEE computer vision conference paper, ICCV 2007.
• Lyttelton O, Boucher M, Robbins S, Evans AC. An unbiased iterative group registration template for cortical surface analysis. Neuroimage. 2007 Feb 15;34(4):1535-44.

Awards

• OHBM 2007 & 2009 travel fellowship
• McGill Alma Mater Travel Grant OHBM conference 06
• Distinction MSc Computational Genetics & Bioinformatics

Conference Posters

• Lyttelton O, Evans AC. Multi-site single-subject t1-weighted phantom reveals how tissue-specific nonbiological intensity non-uniformity biases tissue segmentation in SPM5 and CIVET. OHBM, San Fransisco, June 2009.
• Lyttelton O, Dierker D, Van Essen D, Evans AC. Common cortical fold variants explored using PALS and CIVET surface registration techniques. OHBM, Melbourne, June 2008.
• Lyttelton O, Evans AC. Variance-Based Cortical Gray Matter Parcellation. OHBM, Chicago, June 2007.
• Lyttelton O, Ad-Dab'bagh Y, Evans AC. Fully Automatic Iterative Non-Linear Template Surfaces. OHBM, Florence, June 2006.
• Lyttelton O, Evans AC. Identification of stereotypical folding patterns via a variance decomposition of mean curvature maps. OHBM, Florence, June 2006.
• Lyttelton O, Ad-Dab'bagh Y, Evans AC. Gender, Cerebral Volume and Age: Effects on The Cortical Manifold. OHBM, Florence June 2006.
• Ad-Dab'bagh Y, Einarson D, Lyttelton O, Muehlboeck J-S, Mok K, Ivanov O, Vincent RD, Lepage C, Lerch J, Fombonne E, Evans AC. The CIVET Image-Processing Environment: A Fully Automated Comprehensive Pipeline for Anatomical Neuroimaging Research. OHBM, Florence, June 2006.
• Fahim C, Evans A, Muehlboeck J-S, Lyttelton O, Ad-Dab'bagh Y, Perusse D. The Neuroanatomy of Oppositional Defiant Disorder in 8 Years Old Children: A Voxel-Based Morphometry Preliminary Study. OHBM, Florence, June 2006.
• Ad-Dab'bagh Y, Singh V, Robbins S, Lerch J, Lyttelton O, Fombonne E, Evans AC. Native-Space Cortical Thickness Measurement And The Absence of Correlation to Cerebral Volume. OHBM, Toronto, June 2005.

Invited Presentations

• Lyttelton O, Evans AC. Multi-site single-subject t1-weighted phantom reveals how tissue-specific nonbiological intensity non-uniformity biases tissue segmentation in SPM5 and CIVET. OHBM, San Fransisco, June 2009.
• Lyttelton O. Group registration and variance-based clustering for surface analysis of cortical measurements. Presentation to INRIA, September 2007, Neurospin, France.
• Lyttelton O. Group registration and variance-based clustering for surface analysis of cortical measurements, FMRIB Seminar, September 2007, Oxford University, UK.
• Lyttelton O, Evans AC. Variance-Based Cortical Gray Matter Parcellation. OHBM, Chicago, June 2007

Review Activities

• Served as reviewer for the following journals: Journal of Anatomy, Neuroimage.

Interests and activities

• Dancing: Salsa, tango, swing and lindy-hop.
• Rugby: Captained the Honourable Artillery Company and McGill University 1st XV.
• Running: Completed 240km "Marathon des Sables" in 2001. Also London, Boston and Toronto Marathons, raising over 8,000 pounds for Hope for Children and Save the Rhino
• Military: Four years' service with the British Army Reserve Forces in the City of London.
• Massage Therapy: I am a qualified and practicing massage therapist in Montreal, Quebec.
• Other interests include gardening, photography, writing, theory of mind, and philosophy.

Links

• The BIC Home Page
• My Cortical Atlas work
• My Personal Blog