Events

Brain Awareness Week aims to increase public awareness of and support for brain research. As part of this global campaign, the Queensland Brain Institute is hosting its third public session to inspire the community to learn more about their brain and how understanding this complex organ can help us improve our lives.

Dr Cirong Liu
Lab of Translational Brain Imaging
Institute of Neuroscience
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shanghai, P.R.China

​Host: Professor Pankaj Sah

Dr Andrew Harvey
The Queensland Emory Drug Discovery Initiative (QEDDI)

Host: Professor Peter Nestor

A/Professor Silvia Velasco
Murdoch Children's Research Institute
Melbourne

Host: Dr Nathalie Dehorter

Professor Bruno van Swinderen
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Host: Dr Drew Min Su Cylinder

Professor Laurent Groc
University of Bordeaux
CNRS, Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience
​​​​​​​France

Host: Professor Fred Meunier

Professor Jason Mattingley
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Host: Richard Ronayne

Professor Matthew Larkum
Humboldt University of Berlin
Germany

Host: Dr Clarissa Whitmire

A/Professor Summer Thyme
University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, USA

Host: Dr Jean Giacomotto

Professor Subhojit Roy
University of California, San Diego
USA

Host: Dr Ramón Martínez-Mármol

Assistant Professor Greg Seong-Bae Suh
NYU School of Medicine, USA
Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, South Korea

Host: Professor Barry Dickson

Professor Luis de Lecea
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Stanford Medicine
Stanford University
USA

Host: Professor Bruno van Swinderen

Dr Zsolt Lenkei
Research Director at INSERM
Institute of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Paris, France

Host: Professor Frederic Meunier

Professor John McGrath
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Host: Professor Thomas Burne

Professor Frank Bradke
German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Bonn, Germany

Host: Professor Barry Dickson

Join us for a free community information session and morning tea to meet other people living with brain injury, their carers and local experts.

Dr Melissa Sharpe
University of Sydney
NSW

Host: Professor Timothy Bredy

Supporting the Alastair Rushworth PhD Alzheimer’s Endowment Fund

Professor John McGrath, psychiatrist and conjoint Professor at the Queensland Brain Institute, will explore theories related to the origins of schizophrenia.

Professor Lior Appelbaum
The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences and the Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center
Bar Ilan University
Israel

Host: Dr Fabio Cortesi

Professor Matt Lambon-Ralph
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
University of Cambridge

Host: Professor Gail Robinson

Bringing together researchers, clinicians, advocates, and people with lived experience of stroke and traumatic brain injury.

Dr Amandeep Kaur
ARC DECRA Fellow in the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science
Monash University
VIC

Host: Dr Pranesh Padmanabhan

This is a Dementia fundraiser event, supporting the Alastair Rushworth Alzheimer’s Research Fund to continue the work of the Clem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Research at QBI. In 2024, the QBI Lexus Spring High Tea will be hosted in the Marquee at the Victoria Park Golf Club. The afternoon includes a delicious High Tea with free-flowing French champagne