Podcast

QBI’s Professor Fred Meunier advocated that The University of Queensland invest in super-resolution microscopy. In recent years, super-resolution microscopy has revolutionised how scientists view molecules aggregating, revealing new insight into brain diseases.

Professor Bruno van Swinderen began studying general anaesthesia using the tiny worm C.elegans in the 1990s. Now in his lab at UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute, Bruno and Dr Drew Cylinder are studying general anaesthesia reversal agents, which could shorten patients’ recovery time.

QBI's Professor Steven Zuryn and Tessa Onraet share their insight on the fascinating role of mitochondria and how it may help us understand more about the ageing brain and potential treatments for neurodegenerative diseases.

QBI's Associate Professor Tara Walker and Professor Jana Vukovic investigate how exercise enhances cognitive capacity from different angles, and the health benefits exercise has on our brains.

Virtual reality (VR) is changing how scientists study memory, and it involves exploring virtual mazes. QBI's Professor Jason Mattingley, PhD student Richard Ronayne, and research assistant Jayce Rushton take us behind the scenes of their VR experiments.

QBI's Professor Jason Mattingley, PhD student Richard Ronayne, and research assistant Jayce Rushton are using VR to immerse people in a world they can explore to test their navigational and spatial memory.  

QBI's Professor Massimo Hilliard and Dr Ramon Martinez-Marmol have been extending the limits of what is known about neuronal fusion and its exciting potential to one day revolutionise nerve injury repair.

In this special World Stroke Day edition, three remarkable women open up about stroke from every angle — surviving it, treating it, and fighting it in the lab.

QBI's Dr Margreet Ridder and Professor Pankaj Sah share their insight on the intricate science of gene therapy and how it can be used to fight motor neurone disease.

QBI's Heather Cruickshank and Susannah Tye discuss discuss the biology of mood disorders, the role of melatonin, oxidative stress and dopamine, and how personal experience can drive more effective treatments.