Dissemination
The Dissemination Core has three specific aims that are designed to facilitate and encourage the adoption of NA-MIC technology by the wider biomedical community. The first aim is to develop a collaboration methodology for NA-MIC that provides limited direct interactions with outside researchers including a focus on training those researchers to become self-sufficient users of NA-MIC software in their own research. This first aim involves extensive travel by dissemination personnel to collaborating laboratories, development of methods to integrate the investigator’s data with NA-MIC software, and joint publication of the results of the analysis. The second aim of the Dissemination Core is to support research communities through participation in scientific meetings and related exhibitions. Activities in this second aim have included the hosting of a hands-on annual event called the "NA-MIC Project Week", as well as the inception of the Open Source Workshop in conjunction with the annual MICCAI conference. The third aim is to reach an even broader community than can be supported by the face-to-face activities in the first two aims. Activities in the third aim include supporting and encouraging publication of NA-MIC technology in appropriate scientific journals, maintaining a web site of NA-MIC-related journal papers, and providing feedback mechanisms through which the research community can help us evaluate and direct the effectiveness of NA-MIC technology in addressing the needs of biomedical researchers.
A detailed list of past and future NA-MIC Events is available here.