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Table of Contents Upcoming MCOS: Holiday Season Break 👩🏻‍🔬 People of MCWG - Dr Sala 🔊 New Opportunity Alert - Doctoral Candidate Position! 🌟 MCWG Event Alert - OHBM 2026 Highlights 🗄️ Dataset Alert!!🔊 🧠 New Studies Spotlight 📝Network-based disease fingerprinting with neuroinflammation PET - [Molecular Connectivity Newsletter: June 2026](https://molecularconnectivity.com/2026/06/molecular-connectivity-newsletter-june-2026/) - Molecular Connectivity Working Group Newsletter June 2026 Greetings from the MCWG! Thank you to everyone who joined us for April’s MCOS with Dr. Johannes Gnörich! Missed it? The recording is available here. Table of Contents Upcoming MCOS: Holiday Season Break 👩🏻‍🔬 People of MCWG - Dr Tang 🌟 MCWG Event Alert - OHBM 2026 Symposium - [Molecular Connectivity Newsletter: May 2026](https://molecularconnectivity.com/2026/05/molecular-connectivity-newsletter-may-2026/) - Molecular Connectivity Working Group Newsletter May 2026 Greetings from the MCWG! Thank you to everyone who joined us for April’s MCOS with Dr. Prashin Unadkat! Missed it? The recording is available here. Table of Contents Upcoming MCOS: Deciphering the biological correlate of metabolic connectivity in neurodegenerative diseases 👩🏻‍🔬 People of MCWG - Prof Dr Christian - [Molecular Connectivity Newsletter: April 2026](https://molecularconnectivity.com/2026/04/molecular-connectivity-newsletter-april-2026/) - Molecular Connectivity Working Group Newsletter April 2026 Greetings from the MCWG! Thank you to everyone who joined us for March’s MCOS with Penghui Du! Missed it? The recording is available here. Wishing our community a joyful Easter filled with renewal, inspiration, and continued progress in advancing brain molecular connectivity! Table of Contents Upcoming MCOS: Preoperative - [OHBM satellite symposium](https://molecularconnectivity.com/2026/03/ohbm-satellite-symposium/) - Molecular Connectivity: Best practices for data analysisBordeaux, June 19, 2026 We are excited to announce our second international symposium on Molecular Connectivity, entitled “Molecular connectivity: Best practices for data analysis”. The symposium will be held on June 19th 2026 at Bordeaux (France), at Neurocampus facilities immediately following the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) annual - [Molecular Connectivity Newsletter: March 2026](https://molecularconnectivity.com/2026/03/molecular-connectivity-newsletter-march-2026/) - Molecular Connectivity Working Group Newsletter March 2026 Greetings from the MCWG! Thank you to everyone who joined us for February’s MCOS with Dr. Paul Klauser and Dr. Federico Lucchetti! Missed it? The recording is available here. Table of Contents Upcoming MCOS: Human Cerebral Cortex Organization Characterized by Functional PET-FDG “Metabolic Connectivity” 👩🏻‍🔬 People of MCWG - [Molecular Connectivity Newsletter: February 2026](https://molecularconnectivity.com/2026/02/molecular-connectivity-newsletter-february-2026/) - Molecular Connectivity Working Group Newsletter February 2026 Greetings from the MCWG! Thank you to everyone who joined us for January’s MCOS with Dr. Sarah Genon! Missed it? The recording is available here. Table of Contents Upcoming MCOS: Constructing the human brain metabolic connectome with MR spectroscopic imaging reveals cerebral biochemical organization 👩🏻‍🔬 People of MCWG - [Molecular Connectivity Newsletter: January 2026](https://molecularconnectivity.com/2026/01/molecular-connectivity-newsletter-january-2026/) - Molecular Connectivity Working Group Newsletter January 2026 Greetings from the MCWG! Thank you to everyone who joined us for November’s Special Symposium edition! Missed it? The recording is available here. Cheers to 2026: stronger bonds, smarter connections, one united molecular network! Table of Contents Upcoming MCOS 👩🏻‍🔬 People of MCWG - Prof Dr Kristina Herfert - [Molecular Connectivity Newsletter: December 2025](https://molecularconnectivity.com/2025/12/molecular-connectivity-newsletter-december-2025/) - Molecular Connectivity Working Group Newsletter December 2025 Greetings from the MCWG! Thank you to everyone who joined us for November’s Special Symposium edition! Missed it? The recording is available here. Greetings to all! We would like to wish everyone a very happy holiday season and we send our wishes for a happy and healthy new - [Molecular Connectivity Newsletter: November 2025](https://molecularconnectivity.com/2025/11/molecular-connectivity-newsletter-november-2025/) - Molecular Connectivity Working Group Newsletter November 2025 Greetings from the MCWG! Thank you to everyone who joined us for October’s MCOS with Silvia Caminiti, PhD! Missed it? The recording is available here. More details and key announcements below!We hope you enjoy it! Table of Contents ✨ Upcoming MCOS - Special symposium edition! ✨ 👩🏻‍🔬 People - [Molecular Connectivity Newsletter: October 2025](https://molecularconnectivity.com/2025/10/molecular-connectivity-newsletter-october-2025/) - Molecular Connectivity Working Group Newsletter October 2025 Greetings from the MCWG! Thank you to everyone who joined us for September’s MCOS with Jingyuan Chen PhD! Missed it? The recording is available here. More details and key announcements below!We hope you enjoy it! Table of Contents Upcoming MCOS 🧠 New Studies Spotlight 📝 Building multivariate molecular - [Molecular Connectivity Newsletter: September 2025](https://molecularconnectivity.com/2025/09/molecular-connectivity-newsletter-september-2025/) - Molecular Connectivity Working Group Newsletter September 2025 Greetings from the MCWG! Wishing you a bright and restful summer! More details and key announcements below!We hope you enjoy it! Table of Contents Upcoming MCOS 🧠 New Studies Spotlight 📝 On the analysis of functional PET (fPET)-FDG: baseline mischaracterization can introduce artifactual metabolic (de)activations 📝 Stable brain - [Molecular Connectivity Newsletter: August 2025](https://molecularconnectivity.com/2025/08/molecular-connectivity-newsletter-august-2025/) - Molecular Connectivity Working Group Newsletter August 2025 Greetings from the MCWG! Wishing you a bright and restful summer! MCWG members were present at the Brain and Brain PET 2025 conference in Seoul and at the Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) 2025 conference in Brisbane. We’ve put together some highlights and - [Molecular Connectivity Newsletter: June 2025](https://molecularconnectivity.com/2025/06/molecular-connectivity-newsletter-june-2025/) - Molecular Connectivity Working Group Newsletter June 2025 Greetings from the MCWG!Thank you to everyone who joined us for May’s MCOS with Simon Eickhoff, PhD! Missed it? The recording is available here. 🧠 OHBM 2025 - Brisbane, Australia June 24-28, 2025 Heading to the Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping (OHBM) 2025 in - [Molecular Connectivity Newsletter: May 2025](https://molecularconnectivity.com/2025/05/molecular-connectivity-newsletter-may-2025/) - Molecular Connectivity Working Group Newsletter May 2025 Greetings from the MCWG!Thank you to everyone who joined us for April’s MCOS with Mattia Veronese PhD & Mario Severino! Missed it? The recording is available here. Please join us for the May MCOS featuring a talk by Simon Eickhoff PhD, Heinrich-Heine University. More details and key announcements - [Molecular Connectivity Newsletter: April 2025](https://molecularconnectivity.com/2025/03/molecular-connectivity-newsletter-april-2025/) - Molecular Connectivity Working Group Newsletter April 2025 Greetings to all!We wish to thank all who attended MCOS in March with Xin Di, PhD! The recording from his talk can be found here. Please join us for the April MCOS featuring a talk by Mattia Veronese, PhD & Mario Severino, University of Padua, please find more - [Molecular Connectivity Newsletter: March 2025](https://molecularconnectivity.com/2025/03/molecular-connectivity-newsletter-march-2025/) - Molecular Connectivity Working Group Newsletter March 2025 Greetings to all!We wish to thank all who attended MCOS in Feburary with Kristina Herfert, PhD! The recording from her talk can be found here. Please join us for the March MCOS featuring a talk by Xin Di, PhD, New Jersey Institute of Technology, please find more information - [Molecular Connectivity Newsletter: February 2025](https://molecularconnectivity.com/2025/02/molecular-connectivity-newsletter-february-2025/) - Molecular Connectivity Working Group Newsletter February 2025 Greetings to all!We wish to thank all who attended our January MCOS with Mary C. Catanese, PhD! Please join us for the February MCOS with Kristina Herfert, PhD, please find more information in the announcement below! A new open postdoctoral position is also featured below! Announcements We are - [Molecular Connectivity Newsletter: January 2025](https://molecularconnectivity.com/2025/01/molecular-connectivity-newsletter-january-2025/) - Molecular Connectivity Working Group Newsletter January 2025 Season’s Greetings, we would like to wish everyone a very happy and healthy new year! MCOS returns this month and we hope you will join us on Friday, January 17, 2025, 22:00 15:00 CEST, 9:00 EDT with Mary C. Catanese, PhD (Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard - [Molecular Connectivity Newsletter: December 2024](https://molecularconnectivity.com/2024/12/molecular-connectivity-newsletter-december-2024/) - Molecular Connectivity Working Group Newsletter December 2024 Greetings to all! We would like to wish everyone a very happy holiday season and we send our wishes for a happy and healthy new year! Thank you to everyone who attended our MCOS in November with Hamish Deery who discussed “Metabolic connectivity in ageing”. The recording from - [Molecular Connectivity Newsletter: November 2024](https://molecularconnectivity.com/2024/11/molecular-connectivity-newsletter-november-2024/) - Molecular Connectivity Working Group Newsletter November 2024 Greetings! Many thanks to all who participated in our Roundtable on Molecular Imaging of Brain Connectivity at EANM24 in Hamburg! We are grateful for the excellent feedback from all attendees and the many thought-provoking questions during the discussion! Thank you to everyone who attended our MCOS in October - [Molecular Connectivity Newsletter: October 2024](https://molecularconnectivity.com/2024/10/molecular-connectivity-newsletter-october-2024/) - Molecular Connectivity Working Group Newsletter October 2024 Hello! We are excited to begin our 2024-2025 Molecular Connectivity Online Series, MCOS… again! We are very sorry for any convenience that may have arisen last month as we had to move the first talk of the season to October! And so, without further ado, please join us - [OHBM symposia are online](https://molecularconnectivity.com/2024/09/ohbm-symposia-are-online/) - OHBM uploaded all MCWG symposia on YouTube. You can also find them here: - [OHBM educational courses are online](https://molecularconnectivity.com/2024/09/ohbm-educational-courses-are-online/) - You can now find MCWG's educational course Molecular Imaging: a Hands-on Tutorial based on Open Access Datasets presented during OHBM24 on YouTube and also here: - [Molecular Connectivity Newsletter: September 2024](https://molecularconnectivity.com/2024/09/molecular-connectivity-newsletter-september-2024/) - Molecular Connectivity Working Group Newsletter September 2024 Guess who’s back!!! We hope that you have had a safe and restful summer! We are excited to resume our monthly newsletter for the academic year! We are also resuming our Molecular Connectivity Online Series, MCOS! Thank you to everyone who attended the June MCOS with Tommaso Volpi, - [Molecular Connectivity Newsletter: June 2024](https://molecularconnectivity.com/2024/06/molecular-connectivity-newsletter-june-2024/) - Molecular Connectivity Working Group Newsletter June 2024 Hello! Many thanks to all who participated in our Molecular Connectivity Symposium, “What is brain connectivity?” ! We wish to thank our generous sponsors, DFG, Bruker (PMOD), Curium and Technical University of Munich! After the excellent talks and discussions at the Symposium, we have set a foundation for - [Molecular Connectivity Newsletter: May 2024](https://molecularconnectivity.com/2024/04/mcwg-molecular-connectivity-newsletter-may-2024/) - Molecular Connectivity Working Group Newsletter May 2024 Hello! We wish to remind everyone that registration for the Molecular Connectivity Symposium, “What is brain connectivity?” is still open for online participation with ten spots available! The registration link can be found here, with more information below! We wish to ensure that everyone who is interested in - [Molecular Connectivity Newsletter: April 2024](https://molecularconnectivity.com/2024/04/molecular-connectivity-newsletter-april-2024/) - Molecular Connectivity Working Group Newsletter April 2024 Greetings! Thanks to everyone in attendance at our MCOS in March with Vince Calhoun, PhD! Please find the recording here and the slides here. We welcome any feedback and hope to see you at our April MCOS seminar with Simon Eickhoff, PhD, next Friday 19 April! Time and - [Special announcement: travel bursary opportunities for PhD students or Post-docs](https://molecularconnectivity.com/2024/03/special-announcement-travel-bursary-opportunities-for-phd-students-or-post-docs/) - Molecular Connectivity Working Group 🚨 Special announcement 🚨 Travel bursary opportunities for PhD students or Post-docs We are pleased to announce that travel bursaries of up to 500€ will be awarded to eight early career researchers (three dedicated to MCWG members) to attend the MCWG annual event in person on 3 and 4 May 2024 - [Molecular Connectivity Newsletter: March 2024](https://molecularconnectivity.com/2024/03/molecular-connectivity-newsletter-march-2024/) - Molecular Connectivity Working Group Newsletter March 2024 Hello! We hope all is well! We wish to thank those who were able to attend our MCOS in February with Christian Habeck, PhD! Please find the recording here and the slides here. We welcome any feedback you may have and hope to see you at our March - [Molecular Connectivity Newsletter: January 2024](https://molecularconnectivity.com/2024/01/molecular-connectivity-newsletter-january-2024/) - Molecular Connectivity Working Group January 2024 Hello! Happy New Year! We are happy to share this inaugural newsletter from the Molecular Connectivity Working Group (MCWG)! We are reaching out to you as you have previously shown interest in the MCWG and we hope that this will be a welcome resource for keeping you informed about - [Molecular Connectivity Newsletter: February 2024](https://molecularconnectivity.com/2024/02/molecular-connectivity-newsletter-february-2024/) - Molecular Connectivity Working Group Newsletter February 2024 Hello! We hope that you enjoyed our inaugural newsletter and wish to thank those that attended our first MCOS in January with Arianna Sala, PhD. We think it was a rousing success and appreciate the participation of everyone who was able to join! We welcome any feedback you - [MCWG provides this month's cover image in Trends in Cognitive Sciences](https://molecularconnectivity.com/2023/03/mcwg-provides-this-months-cover-image-in-trends-in-cognitive-sciences/) - Have you seen April's cover image of Trends in Cognitive Sciences? The cover features our paper "Brain connectomics: time for a molecular imaging perspective?" arguing for the need to integrate molecular imaging into the framework of brain connectivity. As chemical synapses represent the predominant mode of signal transduction in the human brain, targeting the molecular - [New publication by Sala et al.: Brain connectomics: time for a molecular imaging perspective?](https://molecularconnectivity.com/2023/01/new-publication-by-sala-et-al-brain-connectomics-time-for-a-molecular-imaging-perspective/) - Members of our group have published a new article in Trends in Cognitive Sciences. Sala et al. share their thoughts on Brain connectomics: time for a molecular imaging perspective? Highlights The number of molecular imaging studies in the field of brain connectivity is steadily increasing. Molecular imaging is not yet widely used by the MRI-predominant - [Alavi-Mandell Award for Dr. Ripp](https://molecularconnectivity.com/2022/09/alavi-mandell-award-for-dr-ripp/) - We congratulate Dr. Isabelle Ripp most sincerely on receiving the Alavi-Mandell Award, which was presented by the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging for her publication entitled “Integrity of Neurocognitive Networks in Dementing Disorders as Measured with Simultaneous PET/Functional MRI”. 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