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Queensland Brain Institute researchers have helped discover an additional way for COVID-19 to enter cells, and also plays an important role in its transmissibility and infectiousness.

Genomic pioneer Professor Naomi Wray is one of 28 Fellows elected to the Australian Academy of Health and Medical Sciences in 2020.

QBI researchers have made an important step forward in linking changes in behaviour to the underlying development of brain circuitry.

Emeritus Professor Perry Bartlett has been recognised for his discoveries in neuroscience and his scientific leadership with an Order of Australia.

Professors Massimo Hilliard and Geoffrey Goodhill have received NHMRC Investigator grants to continue their research, helping shed light on brain and neurodevelopmental disorders.

Researchers revealed regional sex differences in the hippocampus - an area of the brain important for memory, learning and emotions.

Professor Justin Marshall has been welcomed as a new Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.

Researchers have uncovered how shifting light patterns help protect fish from predators on the Great Barrier Reef.

A small change in the timing of gene activity may have triggered the evolution of our brain’s corpus callosum - one of the most remarkable events in the evolution of mammalian brains.

Researchers have discovered how the highways connecting brain cells expand and retract to allow the flow of particles essential for neural survival.