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Hi everyone,

We are pleased to announce that we will be hosting our seventh official MRtrix3 workshop in June/July at The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

  • date & time: Monday 30 June till Thursday 3 July 2025, 9am – 5pm.
  • location: The University of Queensland (St Lucia Campus), Brisbane, Australia.
  • attendance: 40-60 delegates.
  • registration fee: AU $500 (student) / $750 (academic) / $1,500 (industry), approximately USD $300 / $500 / $950 respectively. The fee will include venue hire, coffee breaks, and lunches, but will exclude accommodation.

Registration: Please visit the workshop registration page to sign up for the workshop.

Note: student attendees will need to provide a letter from their supervisor confirming their student status. This can be done after registration, but will be required before attendance. Please send these letters to workshop@mrtrix.org.

We hope to see many of you there! Watch this space for further announcements. All the best,

The MRtrix3 team.

Programme

Day Time   Session
Monday     Introduction
AM 8am   Registration & welcome
  9am - 10am   Introduction to MRtrix & mrview
  10am - 11am   Coffee break & practice time
  11am - 12pm   The Spherical Deconvolutionist’s Guide to Diffusion MRI
      Lunch break
      Basic signal analysis and tractography
PM 2pm - 3pm   Voxel-level modelling (basics)
  3pm - 4pm   Coffee break & practice time
  4pm - 5pm   Fundamentals of tractography
Evening     Welcome dinner
       
Tuesday     Preparing the data
AM 9am - 10am   Pre-processing
  10am - 11am   Coffee break & practice time
  11am - 12pm   Motion and distortion correction using dwifslpreproc
      Lunch break
      Robust DWI modelling
PM 2pm - 3pm   Voxel-level modelling (advanced)
  3pm - 4pm   Coffee break & practice time
  4pm - 5pm   Towards quantitative voxel-level modelling
       
Wednesday     Quantitative connectomics
AM 9am - 10am   Quantitative tractography
  10am - 11am   Coffee break & practice time
  11am - 12pm   Connectome construction
      Lunch break
      Registration & template construction
PM 2pm - 3pm   Image registration
  3pm - 4pm   Coffee break & practice time
  4pm - 5pm   Group-level quantitative dMRI analysis
       
Thursday     Fixel-Based Analysis
AM 9am - 10am   Preparing data for Fixel-Based Analysis
  10am - 11am   Coffee break & practice time
  11am - 12pm   The General Linear Model & permutation testing
      Lunch break
      Statistics in FBA
PM 2pm - 3pm   Statistical inference using CFE
  3pm - 4pm   Coffee break & practice time
  4pm - 5pm   Visualisation and other useful tricks
  5pm   Adjournment

Practical information

Public Transport

Use https://translink.com.au/ or download the Translink App to check for the closest stop to your hotel. All public transport is currently $0.50 per trip.

Most public transport takes payment from your phone or card otherwise get yourself a GO card which can be purchased from most news agencies.

There is an airport train line that runs to the city from both the international and domestic terminals.

Buses from City to St Lucia

  • Route M2
  • Route 411
  • Route 412
  • Route P332

Buses from South Bank to St Lucia

  • Route M2

Train

  • Catch train from Brisbane City or South Bank to Toowong Station (Ipswich Line)
  • If catching from South Bank, you may need to change trains at Brisbane -Central or Roma Street to the Ipswich line
  • Catch either bus 412 or 402 to UQ campus from stop 14 (Benson Street, Toowong)

Ferry

You will get off at the UQ St Lucia ferry terminal

Ferries from Brisbane City to UQ, St Lucia

  • QUT Gardens Point Ferry Terminal
  • Riverside Ferry Terminal
  • Howard Smith Wharves ferry terminal
  • North Quay ferry terminal

Ferries from South Bank to UQ, St Lucia

  • South bank ferry terminal

Food and drink

Brisbane City

Restaurant/bar suggestions:

  • Brisbane Riverside has many dining and bar options
  • Howard Smith Wharves
  • Longwang Restaurant
  • Extensive list can be found here
  • New Star Casino precinct – Queens Wharf

Cafes:

  • Marco Polo
  • Coffee Anthology
  • Two Sons Coffee Co
  • Extensive list can be found here

South Bank

  • Extensive list can be found here
  • Rooftop dining and cocktails – Emporium Hotel

Parking at UQ, St Lucia

Download the CelloPark app, or use the Pay-by-Plate machines that are situated around campus near all street or multi-level carparks.

Click here for a PDF parking map

Click here gor information about parking zone and associated fees

Accommodation

There is unfortunately no accommodation available through the University. Please use other booking sites to find accommodation options near the St Lucia campus, where the workshop is due to take place.

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