Neuroscience seminars at the QBI play a major role in the advancement of neuroscience in the Asia-Pacific region. The primary goal of these seminars is to promote excellence in neuroscience through the exchange of ideas, establishing new collaborations and augmenting partnerships already in place.

Seminars in the QBI Auditorium are held on Wednesdays at 12-1pm, which are sometimes simulcast on Zoom (with approval from the speaker). We also occassionally hold seminars from international speakers via Zoom. The days and times of these seminars will vary depending on the time zone of the speaker. Please see each seminar listed below for details. 

 

Neuroscience Seminars archive 2005-2018

Contacts

Assoc. Prof. Steven Zuryn (seminar coordinator)
Liz Weissteiner (administrative assistance)

Synapse formation in the CNS - learning lessons from the neuromuscular junction

27 March 2024 12:00pm1:00pm
Speaker: Professor Stephan Kröger
Ludwig Maximilians University Munich
Germany

Host: Professor Fred Meunier

Genetic studies of schizophrenia in an Indian population

3 April 2024 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Bryan Mowry
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Host: Mr Sunil Srivastav

Motion vision in a small brain

10 April 2024 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Karin Nordström
Flinders Medical Centre
Flinders University
South Australia

Host: Professor Barry Dickson

Protein interactions gone awry in neurodegenerative disease

17 April 2024 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Danny M Hatters
The University of Melbourne

Host: Prof Jürgen Götz

Professor Ulrik Wisløff and Dr Atefe Rafiee Tari - Norwegian University of Science and Technology

24 April 2024 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Ulrik Wisløff and Dr Atefe Rafiee Tari
Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging
Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Host: Dr Tara Walker

Transthalamic pathways for perception

1 May 2024 12:00pm1:00pm
Speaker: Dr Christina Mo
The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Melbourne

Host: Dr Clarissa Whitmire

Shanley Longfield and Svetlina Vasileva

8 May 2024 12:00pm1:00pm
PhD Student Seminars
1. Shanley Longfield (Meunier Lab)
2. Svetlina Vasileva (Eyles Lab)

Chair: Sean Keating

Professor Peter Nestor - QBI and Mater Research, Brisbane

15 May 2024 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Peter Nestor
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Host: TBD

Professor Tim Bredy - QBI

29 May 2024 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Tim Bredy
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Host: TBD

Professor Ryan Lister - Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, Perth

5 June 2024 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Ryan Lister
Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research
Perth

Host: Professor Tim Bredy

Professor Damien Keating - Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute, Adelaide

12 June 2024 12:00pm1:00pm
Speaker: Professor Damien Keating
Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute
Adelaide

Host: Professor Frederic Meunier

Dr Jessica Kretzmann - The University of Western Australia, Perth

19 June 2024 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Jessica Kretzmann
The University of Western Australia
Perth

Host: TBD

Professor Jürgen Götz - QBI

26 June 2024 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Jürgen Götz
Queensland Brain Institue
University of Queensland

​Host: TBD

Professor Karen Thorpe

3 July 2024 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Karen Thorpe
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Host: TBD

Dr Tara Walker - QBI

10 July 2024 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Tara Walker
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Host: TBD

Available Slot

17 July 2024 12:00pm1:00pm

Professor Bruno van Swinderen - QBI

24 July 2024 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Bruno van Swinderen
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Host: TBD

Professor Gavan McNally - University of New South Wales, Sydney

31 July 2024 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Gavan McNally
University of New South Wales, Sydney

Host: Professor Timothy Bredy

Professor Massimo Hilliard

7 August 2024 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Massimo Hilliard
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Host: TBD

Professor Renae Ryan - The University of Sydney

21 August 2024 12:00pm1:00pm
Speaker: Professor Renae Ryan
School of Medical Sciences
The University of Sydney

Host: A/Professor Victor Anggono

Professor Geoff Faulkner - QBI and Mater Research, Brisbane

28 August 2024 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Geoff Faulkner
QBI and Mater Research
Brisbane

Host: TBD

Dr Eleanor Drummond - University of Sydney, NSW

4 September 2024 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Eleanor Dummond
University of Sydney
NSW

Host: Associate Professor Adam Walker

Professor Frederic Meunier

11 September 2024 12:00pm1:00pm
​Speaker: Professor Frederic Meunier
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Host: TBD

Associate Professor Fatima Nasrallah - QBI

18 September 2024 12:00pm1:00pm
Associate Professor Fatima Nasrallah
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Host: TBD

Available slot

25 September 2024 12:00pm1:00pm

Professor Jason Mattingley - QBI

2 October 2024 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Jason Mattingley
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Available slot

9 October 2024 12:00pm1:00pm

Professor Gail Robinson - QBI

16 October 2024 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Gail Robinson
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Available slot

23 October 2024 12:00pm1:00pm

Available slot

30 October 2024 12:00pm1:00pm

Dr Melissa Sharpe - University of Sydney, NSW

6 November 2024 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Melissa Sharpe
University of Sydney
NSW

Host: Professor Timothy Bredy

Available slot

13 November 2024 12:00pm1:00pm

Professor John McGrath - QBI

20 November 2024 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor John McGrath
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Host: TBD

Available slot

27 November 2024 12:00pm1:00pm

Glymphatic Clearance in Cerebral Amyloid Angiopathy

28 February 2024 10:00am11:00am
A/Professor Susanne Van Veluw
Massachusetts General Hospital
Harvard Medical School
USA.

Host: Dr Matilde Balbi

Pathological effects of glycine receptor autoantibodies

21 February 2024 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Carmen Villmann
Institute for Clinical Neurobiology
Julius-Maximilians-University Würzburg
Germany

Host: Dr Nela Durisic

Rare diseases and their complex pathomechanisms - how 3D neuronal tissue models help to solve the unknown

20 February 2024 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Natascha Schäfer
Institute for Clinical Neurobiology
Julius-Maximilians-University
Germany

Host: Dr Nela Durisic

Synaptic vesicle endocytosis: function and dysfunction at the presynapse

14 February 2024 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Mike Cousin
University of Edinburgh
UK

Host: Prof Frederic Meunier

Mechanisms of neural network aging: insights from C. elegans

7 February 2024 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Zhaoyu Li
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Host: Yi Rong

A/Professor John Tuthill - University of Washington, USA : "Sensorimotor control in walking fruit flies and snow flies"

13 December 2023 12:00pm1:00pm
A/Professor John Tuthill
University of Washington
USA

Host: Prof Barry Dickson

Professor Denis Jabaudon - Geneva University Neurocenter, Switzerland : "Self-organizing properties of cortical neurons"

8 December 2023 4:30pm5:30pm
Professor Denis Jabaudon
Geneva University Neurocenter
Switzerland

Host: Dr Nathalie Dehorter

Dr Ron Broide - Allergen Aesthetics - AbbVie, USA. : "Mechanisms & Pharmacology of Botulinum Neurotoxins"

29 November 2023 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Ron Broide
Allergen Aesthetics - AbbVie
USA

Host: Prof Frederic Meunier

Dr Matilde Balbi - QBI : "Effects of brain oscillations on recovery after stroke"

15 November 2023 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Matilde Balbi
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Host: Sven Storch

Sooraj Das : "Phosphorylation of the GluN2B subunit at Ser-1480 controls activity-induced degradation of NMDA receptors" and Valerio Tettamanti : "Novel methodologies for investigating the development of vision in a coral reef fish family (Pomacentridae)"

8 November 2023 12:00pm1:00pm
PhD Student Seminars:
1. Sooraj Das (Synaptic Neurobiology Group, Anggono Lab)
2. Valerio Tettamanti (Marine Sensory Ecology Group, Cortesi/Marshall Lab)

Chair: Sean Keating

Sean Keating and Matt Kenna

25 October 2023 12:00pm1:00pm
PhD Student Seminars
1. Sean Keating (Neurodegeneration Pathobiology Group, A. Walker Lab)
2. Matt Kenna (Synaptic Plasticity Group, Sah Lab)

Chair: Alison Carlisle

Professor Etienne Sibille - Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute, Canada : "GABA and Cognitive Deficits in Depression and Aging: Origins, Mechanisms and Therapeutics"

20 October 2023 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Etienne Sibille
Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute
Canada

Host: Dr Susannah Tye

A/Professor Jana Vukovic - QBI : "Demystifying the functional role of microglia in the injured brain"

18 October 2023 12:00pm1:00pm
A/Professor Jana Vukovic
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Host: Elise Kellet

Professor Xueji Zhang - Shenzhen University, China : “From intelligent sensors to Eternal life- Fact or Fiction”

4 October 2023 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Xueji Zhang
Shenzhen University
China

Host: Prof Fred Meunier

No Seminar

20 September 2023 12:00pm1:00pm

Dr Susannah Tye - QBI : ''Precision Medicine Pathways for Treatment Resistant Depression"

13 September 2023 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Susannah Tye
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Host: Heather Macpherson

A/Professor Jai Yu - University of Chicago, USA : "How experience shapes future problem solving."

6 September 2023 12:00pm1:00pm
A/Professor Jai Yu
University of Chicago
USA

Host: Prof Barry Dickson

No Seminar

30 August 2023 12:00pm1:00pm

Neurobiology of drosophila minisymposium

31 July 2023 9:00am12:00pm
Hosted by Barry Dickson. Morning tea and lunch provided.

Dr Miriam Matamales - University of New South Wales, Sydney : "The Striatal Binary Mosaic: a bipartite cellular system encoding behavioural change"

26 July 2023 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Miriam Matamales
University of New South Wales
Sydney

Host: A/Prof Victor Anggono

No Seminar

19 July 2023 12:00pm1:00pm

Dr Nigel Kee - School of Biomedical Sciences, UQ: "Derivation of Posterior Axial Assembloids (PAXAs) from human stem cells"

12 July 2023 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Nigel Kee
School of Biomedical Sciences
University of Queensland

Host: Dr Adam Walker

Dr Samantha Barton - The Florey, VIC : "Using Human iPSC-derived Organoids to Model Disease"

5 July 2023 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Samantha Barton
The Florey
VIC

Host: Dr Adam Walker

Professor Helen Cooper - QBI : "Deciphering the role of autism genes in cortical development: from stem cells to synapses"

21 June 2023 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Helen Cooper
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Host: Hilary Yong

Dr. Mohamad El Amki - University of Zurich, Switzerland : "Exploring the Brain Vascular function: from the pial vasculature to the delicate capillaries"

14 June 2023 12:00pm1:00pm
Please note this seminar has been moved to the AIBN Seminar Room

Dr. Mohamad El Amki
University of Zurich
Switzerland

Host: Dr Matilde Balbi

Dr Harrison Tudor Evans - New York University, USA : "Translational control in physiology and neurodegeneration"

7 June 2023 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Harrison Evans
New York University
USA

Host: Prof Jürgen Götz

Professor Darryl Eyles - QBI : "New experimental models to understand the role of dopamine in the transition from the “prodrome” to schizophrenia".

31 May 2023 12:00pm1:00pm
Please note this seminar has been moved to the AIBN Seminar Room

Professor Darryl Eyles
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Host: Zilong Du

A/Professor Victor Anggono - QBI : Activity-dependent Regulation of Glutamate Receptor Trafficking: The Ins and Outs of It.

10 May 2023 12:00pm1:00pm
A/Professor Victor Anggono
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Dr Melanie White - IMB : Quails across the scales: quantitative live imaging of neural tube formation

3 May 2023 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Melanie White
Institute for Molecular Biosciences
University of Queensland

Host: A/Prof Steven Zuryn

Available slot

26 April 2023 12:00pm1:00pm

Professor Benjamin Podbilewicz - Department of Biology, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel : "Neuronal fusion and sexual dimorphism of dendritic sculpting"

19 April 2023 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Benjamin Podbilewicz
Dept of Biology, Technion,
Israel Institute of Technology

Host: Prof. Massimo Hilliard

Professor Jose Polo - Adelaide Centre for Epigenetics, University of Adelaide, Adelaide : "Exploring the boundaries of human reprogramming"

12 April 2023 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Jose Polo
Adelaide Centre for Epigenetics, University of Adelaide
SA

Host: A/Prof Steven Zuryn

Professor Brett Collins - IMB: Structure of the endosomal Commander complex linked to X-linked intellectual disability and Ritscher-Schinzel syndrome. 

5 April 2023 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Brett Collins
Institute for Molecular Biosciences
University of Queensland

Host: Victor Anggono

Available slot

29 March 2023 12:00pm1:00pm

A/Professor Heather Rhodes - Denison University, USA : "Cephalopod Chemosensation"

22 March 2023 12:00pm1:00pm
A/Professor Heather Rhodes
Department of Biology
Denison University, USA

Host: Dr Fabio Cortesi and Dr Wen-Sung Chung

Professor Barry Dickson - QBI : "Stories about sex"

15 March 2023 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Barry Dickson
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Professor Tom Burne - QBI: "Reverse translation of cognitive tasks in rodents"

8 March 2023 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Tom Burne
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Host: Phoebe Mayne

Dr Itia Favre-Bulle - QBI: "Optogenetics, photoactivation and manipulation to study zebrafish sensory perceptions and cognitive functions”

1 March 2023 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Itia Favre-Bulle
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Host: Sean Keating

Neuroscience Seminars

28 February 2023 10:45am11:45am

Assistant Professor Benjamin Sivyer - Casey Eye Institute, Oregon Health & Science University, USA: "Retinal ganglion cells underlying non-image forming vision"

24 February 2023 12:00pm1:00pm
Assistant Professor Ben Sivyer
Casey Eye Institute, Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, Oregon, USA

Dr Nathalie Dehorter - QBI: "Control of the Interneuron Function during Brain Development"

1 February 2023 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Nathalie Dehorter
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Professor Richard Edden - John Hopkins Medical School, USA : "Edited Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy"

14 December 2022 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Richard Edden
Department of Radiology
John Hopkins Medical School, USA

Professor Ehsan Arabzadeh - Australian National University, ACT: "Deciphering the language of brain cells: what can we learn from neuronal representations?"

23 November 2022 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Ehsan Arabzadeh
Eccles Institute of Neuroscience
Australian National University, ACT

Dr Dhanisha Jhaveri - QBI: "Adult-born hippocampal neurons: Deciphering regulatory mechanisms for improving cognition and mood"

16 November 2022 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Dhanisha Jhaveri
Mater Research Institute & Queensland Brain Institute 
University of Queensland

Professor Alex Fornito - Monash University, Victoria : "Geometric constraints on human brain function"

9 November 2022 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Alex Fornito
Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health
Monash University, Clayton Campus, VIC

A/Professor Jan Kaslin - Monash University, Melbourne

Cancelled
26 October 2022 12:00pm1:00pm
A/Professor Jan Kaslin
Australian regenerative Medicine Institute
Monash University
Clayton VIC 3800

Professor Jennifer Cornish - Macquarie University, Sydney : "Understanding Methamphetamine Addiction: Implications for Novel Therapeutics"

19 October 2022 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Jennifer Cornish
Centre for Emotional Help (CEH)
Macquarie University, Sydney

Professor Glenda Halliday - University of Sydney, Sydney : "Adaptive structural changes in motor cortex in Parkinson’s disease"

5 October 2022 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Glenda Halliday
Faculty of Health and Medicine
University of Sydney, NSW

Dr Lena Oestreich - QBI : "Post-stroke depression: vulnerability, mechanisms, and novel treatment targets"

5 October 2022 10:00am11:00am
Dr Lena Oestreich
Centre for Clinical Research
University of Queensland

Dr Maureen Hagan - Monash University, Melbourne : "Untangling the mechanisms of neural communication"

28 September 2022 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Maureen Hagan
Department of Physiology
Monash University, VIC

Professor Gail Robinson - QBI : "Executive control functions in health and disease"

21 September 2022 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Gail Robinson
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Professor Bruno van Swinderen - QBI : "Synapse-specific trapping and whole-brain fragmentation: the complex road to general anaesthesia"

14 September 2022 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Bruno van Swinderen
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

A/Professor Irina Voineagu - The University of New South Wales, Sydney : "Gene expression regulation in the brain in health and disease"

7 September 2022 12:00pm1:00pm
A/Professor Irina Voineagu
School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences
The University of New South Wales,
Sydney NSW

Dr Arne Ittner - Flinders University, Adelaide : "Protein kinases, tau phosphorylation and Alzheimer’s disease"

24 August 2022 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Arne Ittner
Senior Research Fellow in Neuroscience
College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, South Australia

Professor Yasunori Hayashi - Kyoto University, Japan : "Online and offline synaptic plasticity during systems memory consolidation"

17 August 2022 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Yasunori Hayashi
Department of Pharmacology
Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine
Kyoto 606-8501 Japan

A/Professor Timothy Bredy - QBI : "RNA in Neuroscience"

3 August 2022 12:00pm1:00pm
A/Professor Timothy Bredy
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

A/Professor Saul Villeda - University of California San Francisco, USA : "Systemic Mechanisms of Brain Rejuvenation"

27 July 2022 12:00pm1:00pm
A/Professor Saul Villeda
School of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco

Professor Aileen McGonigal - Mater Hospital, Brisbane : "Epilepsy, Rhythms and Behaviour"

20 July 2022 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Aileen McGonigal
Director, Mater Epilepsy Unit
Mater Hospital, Brisbane QLD

Professor Geoff Faulkner - QBI : "Mobile DNA shuffles the regulatory landscape and somatic genome of PV interneurons"

6 July 2022 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Geoff Faulkner
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Drs Alize Ferrari and Damian Santomauro, QCMHR : "Estimating the Global Burden of Mental Disorders: Current Status and Future Directions"

22 June 2022 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Alize Ferrari
Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research
School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, UQ
AND
Dr Damien Santomauro
Queensland Centre for Mental Health Research
School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, UQ

A/Prof Markus Muttenthaler, UQ : "From Venoms to Neuropeptides – Molecular Tools for Neuroscience"

15 June 2022 12:00pm1:00pm
A/Prof Markus Muttenthaler
Institute for Molecular Bioscience,
University of Queensland

Dr Owen Marshall, TAS : "New states of mind: chromatin and epigenetic changes in brain development and disease"

8 June 2022 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Owen Marshall
Menzies Institute for Medical Research
University of Tasmania

Professor Christophe Bernard, France : “Whole brain modelling to help patients with neurological disorders”

1 June 2022 4:00pm5:00pm
Professor Christophe Bernard
INSERM and Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes
Aix-Marseille Université, France

Professor Christopher Dayas, NSW : "Subcortical control of motivated behaviour"

25 May 2022 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Christopher Dayas
School of Biomedical Science and Pharmacy
The University of Newcastle, NSW

Dr Lachlan Harris, QIMR : "Controlling stem cell quiescence for therapeutic gain in brain cancer"

18 May 2022 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Lachlan Harris
QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
300 Herston Road, Herston, QLD

Professor Massimo Hilliard, UQ : "Fusogen-mediated neuron-neuron fusion: impact on neuronal function, connectivity, and behaviour"

11 May 2022 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Massimo Hilliard
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Professor Elizabeth Coulson, UQ : “Degeneration of cholinergic basal forebrain neurons from hypoxia – implications for dementia”

4 May 2022 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Elizabeth Coulson
Head, School of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine
Professor of Neuroscience, Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

A/Professor Lucy M. Palmer, VIC : "Dynamic activity in cortical dendrites during learning"

27 April 2022 12:00pm1:00pm
A/Professor Lucy M. Palmer,
Viertel Senior Medical Research Fellow
Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne

Professor Barry Dickson, UQ : “Wired for sex: the neurobiology of Drosophila reproductive behaviours”

20 April 2022 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Barry Dickson
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Professor Gerry Rubin, USA : "Using connectomes to accelerate studies of neuronal control of behavior in Drosophila"

13 April 2022 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Gerry Rubin
Senior Group Leader, HHMI
Janelia Research Campus, Virginia, USA

Professor Sebastian Jessberger, Switzerland : "Molecular and functional properties of hippocampal stem cells"

30 March 2022 4:00pm5:00pm
Professor Sebastian Jessberger,
Laboratory of Neural Plasticity, Brain Research Institute
University of Zurich, Switzerland

Professor Aaron D Gitler, USA

16 March 2022 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Aaron D Gitler
Department of Genetics
Stanford University, USA

Professor Shiqing Cai, China : "The neural basis of age-related behavioral decline"

9 March 2022 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Shiqing Cai
Institute of Neuroscience (ION)
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shanghai, China

POSTPONED: Professor Sebastian Jessberger, Switzerland : "Molecular and functional properties of hippocampal stem cells"

2 March 2022 4:00pm5:00pm
POSTPONED:
Professor Sebastian Jessberger,
Laboratory of Neural Plasticity, Brain Research Institute
University of Zurich, Switzerland

Dr Sarah Gordon, VIC : "Presynaptic Dysfunction in Neurological Disease"

23 February 2022 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Sarah Gordon
Head, Presynaptic Physiology Laboratory
The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
The University of Melbourne

Dr. Carsen Stringer, USA : "Making sense of large-scale neural and behavioral data"

9 February 2022 10:00am11:00am
Dr. Carsen Stringer
HHMI Janelia Research Campus
Virginia, USA

Professor Anthony J Hannan, VIC : "Gene-environment interactions informing therapeutic approaches for cognitive and affective disorders"

2 February 2022 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Anthony J. Hannan
NHMRC Principal Research Fellow
Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
University of Melbourne

Professor Irina Vetter, UQ : "The pain-causing principles of stinging nettles are sodium channel-targeting peptides"

17 November 2021 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Irina Vetter,
Institute for Molecular Bioscience and School of Pharmacy
University of Queensland

Professor Kate Schroder, UQ : "Inflammasomes: from fundamental biology to new therapeutics"

3 November 2021 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Kate Schroder
Institute for Molecular Bioscience
The University of Queensland

Biological Psychiatry Australia Plenary Speaker, Professor John Cryan : “Gut Feelings: Microbiome as Key Regulator of Brain & Behaviour Across the Lifespan”

27 October 2021 4:00pm5:00pm
Professor John Cryan,
Department of Anatomy & Neuroscience,
University College Cork
Ireland

Professor S. Thomas Carmichael, USA : "Smart Mice to Smart Humans: 5 stories from discovery science to clinical trials in stroke recovery"

20 October 2021 9:00am10:00am
Professor S. Thomas Carmichael
Department of Neurology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

Nishita Bhembre, UQ : "Synaptic compensation following oligomeric Aβ induced-dendritic spine loss"

13 October 2021 12:00pm1:00pm
Nishita Bhembre
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Associate Professor Andy Shih, USA : "Optical dissection of brain capillary function"

29 September 2021 9:00am10:00am
Associate Professor Andy Shih
Seattle Children’s Research Institute, Center for Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

Dr Alexander Lim, ACT : “Problem solving in Psychiatry: Gaps in Guidelines”

22 September 2021 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Alexander Lim
ZedThree Specialist Centre
Deakin ACT 2600

Professor Ole Jensen, UK : "Three misconceptions about the human alpha rhythm: the inhibition hypothesis revised”

15 September 2021 4:00pm5:00pm
Professor Ole Jensen
School of Psychology
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK

Professor Kang Shen, USA : "Establishing and Maintaining Neuronal Polarity"

8 September 2021 10:00am11:00am
Professor Kang Shen
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator
Stanford University, USA

Professor Casper Hoogenraad, Genentech, USA : "Mechanisms of cargo trafficking: cytoskeleton organization and motor regulation"

1 September 2021 10:00am11:00am
Professor Casper Hoogenraad
Vice President (Neuroscience)
Genentech
South San Francisco, USA

Professor Warwick Bowen, UQ : "Quantum light allows image clarity beyond the limits of conventional technology"

18 August 2021 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Warwick Bowen
School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Queensland

Neurocience Seminar TBA:

4 August 2021 12:00pm1:00pm

Dr Erika Ross, USA : "An Integrated Remote Programming Platform for Neuromodulation Systems: From Identified Unmet Patient Need to First FDA Approval"

14 July 2021 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Erika Ross
Director of Research & Development
Applied Research
Abbott Neuromodulation, Austin, Texas, USA

Dr Jie Liu, Monash University, VIC: "Development of C. elegans Locomotion: Finding Balance in Imbalance"

7 July 2021 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Jie Liu
Sensory Perception and Ageing Laboratory
Biomedical Discovery Institute, Monash University, VIC

Professor Stephen Maren, USA : "Covert Capture and Attenuation of a Hippocampus-Dependent Fear Memory"

30 June 2021 9:00am10:00am
Professor Stephen Maren
Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences
Texas A&M University, USA

Professor Andrew Dillin, USA : “Orchestrating aging across a troubled soma”

23 June 2021 10:00am11:00am
Professor Andrew Dillin
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator
Dept of Molecular & Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley

A/Professor Anthony White, QIMR Berghofer, QLD : "Understanding and Harnessing Neuro-Immune Interactions to Improve Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases"

16 June 2021 12:00pm1:00pm
A/Professor Anthony White
Group Leader, Cellular and Molecular Neurodegeneration
QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute
Herston, QLD

Professor Erik Jorgensen, USA : “Forever young: neurons that refuse to grow up"

26 May 2021 9:00am10:00am
Professor Erik Jorgensen,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), University of Utah, USA

Professor Magdalena Götz, Germany : "Novel mechanisms of neurogenesis and neural repair"

19 May 2021 4:00pm5:00pm
Professor Magdalena Götz
Biomedical Center, University of Munich and Institute for Stem Cell Research, Helmholtz Center, Munich, Germany

Professor Yulong Li, China : "Spying on neuromodulation by constructing new genetically-encoded fluorescent sensors"

12 May 2021 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Yulong Li
Peking University/McGovern Institute for Brain Research
Beijing, China

Professor André van Zundert, RBWH : "Delivering a safe and effective clinical anaesthesia service"

5 May 2021 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor André van Zundert
Chair of The University of Queensland Centre of Excellence & Innovation in Anaesthesia
Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, Queensland

Professor Justin Marshall, UQ : “Are Neuroscientists Nero?”

28 April 2021 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Justin Marshall
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Dr Marlene Hao, VIC : "Development and plasticity of the enteric nervous system"

24 March 2021 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Marlene Hao
Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience,
The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC 3010

A/Professor Kai-Hsiang Chuang, UQ : "Understanding Resting State Networks of the Brain"

17 March 2021 12:00pm1:00pm
A/Professor Kai-Hsiang Chuang
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

A/Professor Evandro Fang, Norway : ‘Targeting on the NAD+ - mitophagy/autophagy axis for Alzheimer’s disease and healthy aging’

3 March 2021 4:00pm5:00pm
Associate Professor Evandro F. Fang
Department of Clinical Molecular Biology
University of Oslo and Akershus University Hospital, 1478 , Lørenskog, Norway

Dr Paul Marshall, UQ : "Dynamic DNA structure states and memory"

24 February 2021 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Paul Marshall
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

Neuroscience Seminar TBA

17 February 2021 12:00pm1:00pm

Neuroscience Seminar TBA

10 February 2021 12:00pm1:00pm

Professor Magdalena Götz, Germany : "Novel mechanisms of neurogenesis and neural repair"

3 February 2021 5:00pm6:00pm
Professor Magdalena Götz
Biomedical Center, University of Munich and Institute for Stem Cell Research, Helmholtz Center, Munich, Germany

Professor David Bredt, USA : "Getting a handle on neuropharmacology by targeting receptor-associated proteins"

16 December 2020 10:30am11:30am
Professor David Bredt
Johnson and Johnson San Diego R&D Site Leader Global Head Discovery Neuroscience
San Diego, California, United States

Dr Zhitao Hu : "Functional study of synaptotagmins in synaptic transmission"

4 November 2020 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Zhitao Hu
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Professor Peter Nestor, UQ : “How degenerative dementias affect the cortex in humans”

28 October 2020 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Peter Nestor
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Dr Steven Zuryn, UQ : "Mitochondrial genome mosaicism and resistance to damage"

7 October 2020 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Steven Zuryn
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Professor Jason Mattingley, UQ : "Understanding the role of prediction in sensory encoding"

16 September 2020 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Jason Mattingley
Queensland Brain Institute & School of Psychology
The University of Queensland

Professor Jozef Gecz, University of Adelaide : "Movement in the genetics of neurodevelopmental disabilities"

2 September 2020 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Jozef Gecz
Chair for the Prevention of Childhood Disability
NHMRC SPRF, The University of Adelaide

Dr Jess Taubert, National Institute of Mental Health, USA : "The neural basis of social intelligence in primates"

5 August 2020 11:00am12:00pm
Dr Jess Taubert
Laboratory of Brain & Cognition
National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, USA

Professor Ashley Bush, Melbourne Dementia Research Centre, The Florey Institute : "Ferroptosis, iron and neurodegenerative disease"

24 June 2020 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Ashley Bush
Director of the Melbourne Dementia Research Centre
The Florey Institute, Parkville VIC

A/Professor Paul Dawson, Mater Research Institute and UQ : “Sulfate deficiency and adverse neurodevelopment”

17 June 2020 12:00pm1:00pm
A/Professor Paul Dawson
Mater Research Institute and University of Queensland

A/Professor Sonja Hofer, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, London, UK : "Making sense of what you see: cortical and thalamic circuits for vision"

27 May 2020 5:00pm6:00pm
A/Professor Sonja Hofer
Group Leader, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour
London, UK

Professor David Hume, Mater Research Institute and UQ : "Life without microglia?"

13 May 2020 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor David Hume
Mater Research Institute and University of Queensland

Professor Larry Abbott, Dept of Neuroscience, Columbia University Medical Center : "Multi-layer network learning in an electric fish"

30 April 2020 9:30am10:30am
Professor Larry Abbott
Dept of Neuroscience, Columbia University Medical Center
Columbia University, New York

Professor Claudia Clopath, Imperial College London, UK : "Temporal backbone for rapid compressible learning in hippocampus"

22 April 2020 5:00pm6:00pm
Professor Claudia Clopath
Computational Neuroscience Laboratory
Bioengineering Department, Imperial College London, UK

A/Professor Tim Bredy, UQ : "Long Noncoding RNAs and Memory"

15 April 2020 12:00pm1:00pm
A/Professor Tim Bredy
Queensland Brain Institute,
University of Queensland

A/Professor Peter van Wijngaarden, Centre for Eye Research Australia : “The eye as a window to the brain: retinal imaging biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease"

4 March 2020 12:00pm1:00pm
Associate Professor Peter van Wijngaarden
Deputy Director and Principal Investigator
Centre for Eye Research Australia & University of Melbourne

Professor Subhojit Roy, University of California, San Diego : "Unusual trafficking Routes in Axonal Transport"

10 December 2019 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Subhojit Roy
Departments of Pathology and Neurosciences, University of California, San Diego
La Jolla CA92093-0626, USA

Assistant Professor Mazen Kheirbek, UCSF : “Encoding of emotionally relevant stimuli in hippocampal circuits”

6 December 2019 11:00am12:00pm
Assistant Professor Mazen Kheirbek
Center for Integrative Neuroscience
University of California, San Francisco

Professor Hollis Cline, Scripps Research Institute, USA : "Brain development and plasticity: using developmental plasticity mechanisms to rehabilitate the injured brain"

27 November 2019 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Hollis Cline
Hahn Professor of Neuroscience
Department of Neuroscience Co-Chair
Scripps Research Institute, California Campus, USA

Professor Oliver Hobert, Columbia University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, New York : “Homeoboxes build the C. elegans nervous system”

25 November 2019 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Oliver Hobert
Columbia University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, New York

Dr Adam Walker, UQ : "Mechanisms of neurodegeneration and neuroprotection in motor neuron disease and frontotemporal dementia"

20 November 2019 11:00am12:00pm
Dr Adam Walker
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

Professor Fred Meunier, UQ : "Dynamic nanoscale organisation of the neurotransmitter release machinery"

13 November 2019 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Fred Meunier
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

Dr Zhaoyu Li, UQ : "Functional Connectomics: understanding neural network integration in C. elegans"

6 November 2019 11:00am12:00pm
Dr Zhaoyu Li,
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

Professor Steven Petrou, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health : “Precision medicine in genetic epilepsies: Are we there yet?"

30 October 2019 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Steven Petrou
Director, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Parkville, VIC

Neuroscience Seminars

9 October 2019 2:15pm3:15pm

Professor Naomi Wray, UQ : "Progress in ALS genomics research from the Ice Bucket Challenge Grant"

9 October 2019 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Naomi Wray
Program in Complex Trait Genomics
Institute for Molecular Bioscience & Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland

Dr Asheeta Prasad, University of New South Wales : “Neural modulation of dopamine networks”

1 October 2019 11:30am12:30pm
Dr Asheeta Prasad
University of New South Wales, Sydney

Dr Victor Anggono, UQ : "Molecular Mechanisms of Glutamate Receptor Trafficking"

25 September 2019 11:00am12:00pm
Dr Victor Anggono,
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

Dr Rodrigo Suárez, UQ : "Clues from the past: marsupials reveal new principles of evolutionary, developmental and systems neuroscience"

18 September 2019 11:00am12:00pm
Dr Rodrigo Suárez
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Professor Warwick Bowen, UQ : "Quantum and precision sensing: advances and applications in the biosciences"

11 September 2019 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Warwick Bowen
School of Mathematics and Physics
The University of Queensland

Dr Eva Hoch, Germany: "Cannabis: Potential and Risks. A scientific analysis"

4 September 2019 11:00am12:00pm
Dr Eva Hoch
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Professor Gordon Fishell, Harvard University: "Making up your mind, the specification and integration of interneurons into the cortex"

2 September 2019 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Gordon Fishell
Professor of Neurobiology
Harvard Medical School and the Stanley Center at the Broad
220 Longwood Ave. MA 02115, USA

A/Professor Zachary Knight, USA : "The Neurobiology of Homeostasis"

28 August 2019 11:00am12:00pm
A/Professor Zachary Knight
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of California, San Francisco

Professor Geoff Goodhill, UQ : "The development of neural coding in zebrafish, and a new method for analysing calcium imaging data"

7 August 2019 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Geoff Goodhill
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

Professor Jürgen Götz, UQ : "From basic mechanisms to antibody- and ultrasound-based therapeutic interventions for Alzheimer's disease"

31 July 2019 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Jürgen Götz
Director of Clem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Research
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

Professor Amparo Acker-Palmer, Germany : "Neurovascular interactions during CNS development"

29 July 2019 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Amparo Acker-Palmer
Institute of Cell Biology and Neuroscience
Buchmann Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Goethe University, Frankfurt

Professor Alice Pebay, VIC: "Modelling neurodegeneration using patient induced pluripotent stem cells"

24 July 2019 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Alice Pebay
NHMRC Senior Research Fellow
Department of Surgery, Melbourne Medical School
Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience | School of Biomedical Sciences
The University of Melbourne, VIC

Professor Tod Kippin, USA: "There’s an Ap(tamer) for that! A generalizable biosensor platform for evolving pharmacological and neuroscience research"

28 June 2019 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Tod Kippin
Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences
University of California, Santa Barbara

Professor Helen Cooper, UQ : "Understanding the molecular origins of cortical malformations"

26 June 2019 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Helen Cooper
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

A/Professor Jared W. Young, USA : "Delineating potential mechanisms underlying bipolar disorder using cross-species testing"

19 June 2019 11:00am12:00pm
A/Professor Jared W. Young
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, USA

Dr Dimitri Perrin, QUT : "Whole-brain 3D imaging and quantitative analysis"

12 June 2019 11:00am12:00pm
Dr Dimitri Perrin
Senior Lecturer, Biomedical Data Science Group
Queensland University of Technology

Dr Albert Lee, NSW : "Application of proteomics to characterise mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases”

5 June 2019 11:00am12:00pm
Dr Albert Lee
Department of Biomedical Sciences, Macquarie University, New South Wales

Dr Tim O'Shea, USA : "Bioengineering neural repair in the central nervous system"

30 May 2019 2:00pm3:00pm
Dr Tim O'Shea
Departments of Neurobiology and Bioengineering,  David Geffen School of Medicine,
University of California, Los Angeles

Dr Michael Lazarou, VIC : "Culling Bad Mitochondria: The Molecular Mechanisms of PINK1/Parkin mitophagy"

29 May 2019 11:00am12:00pm
Dr Michael Lazarou
Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute
Monash University VIC

Professor Michael Hausser FRS, UK : "All-optical closed-loop manipulation of neural circuits in vivo"

23 May 2019 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Michael Hausser FRS
Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research, University College London, UK

International Leaders in Neuroscience Seminar : Professor Nancy Kanwisher, USA : "Functional Imaging of the Human Brain: A Window into the Architecture of the Mind"

22 May 2019 4:00pm5:00pm
Professor Nancy Kanwisher
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, McGovern Institute for Brain Research,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Dr Matilde Balbi, Canada : "Activity dependent neuroprotection in the acute phase after stroke"

13 May 2019 2:00pm3:00pm
Dr Matilde Balbi
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

A/Professor Tom Burne, UQ : " The role of vitamin D in the adult brain"

8 May 2019 11:00am12:00pm
A/Professor Tom Burne,
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

International Leaders in Neuroscience Seminar : Professor Elly Nedivi, USA : "Visualizing molecular events in synapse formation in vivo"

23 April 2019 4:00pm5:00pm
Professor Elly Nedivi
Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA 02139, USA

Professor Preben Bo Mortensen, Denmark : "iPSYCH: studying nature and nurture in mental disorders in Denmark"

10 April 2019 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Preben Bo Mortensen
National Centre for Register-based Research, Aarhus University, Denmark

Professor John Nurnberger, USA : “Emerging themes in the genetics of bipolar disorder”

27 March 2019 11:00am12:00pm
Professor John Nurnberger
Professor of Psychiatry
Indiana University School of Medicine, USA

Dr Graham Murray, UQ : "From dopamine to delusions: mechanisms of psychotic symptom formation"

20 March 2019 11:00am12:00pm
Dr Graham Murray
Visiting Academic 
Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland

Dr Dorit Kliemann, USA : "Functional brain networks in hemispherectomy"

14 March 2019 4:00pm5:00pm
Dr Dorit Kliemann
Postdoctoral Fellow in Professor Ralph Adolph’s Emotion and Social Cognition lab
Caltech

Professor Luis Puelles, Spain : "An introduction to the prosomeric model"

14 March 2019 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Luis Puelles
Department of Human Anatomy and Psychobiology
University of Murcia, Spain

Dr Laura Gumy, New Zealand : "MAP2-dependent regulation of axonal transport"

13 March 2019 11:00am12:00pm
Dr Laura Gumy,
School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Otago, New Zealand

A/Professor Naotsugu Tsuchiya, VIC : "Conscious perception and its neural substrate: integration and dynamics"

20 February 2019 11:00am12:00pm
A/Professor Naotsugu Tsuchiya
School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, VIC 3168

Dr Martin Smith, NSW : "Going beyond the basepair with nanopores"

12 February 2019 3:00pm4:00pm
Dr Martin Smith
Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Victoria Street, New South Wales

Kiaran Lawson, UQ : "From bugs to bots: examining insect flight behaviour for potential robotic applications"

30 January 2019 11:00am12:00pm
Kiaran Lawson (PhD Exit Seminar)
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

A/Professor Bruno van Swinderen, UQ : "Understanding general anaesthesia: why loss of consciousness is interesting"

23 January 2019 11:00am12:00pm
A/Professor Bruno van Swinderen
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

A/Professor Jeremy Dittmann, USA : “Molecular Control of Synaptic Vesicle Fusion”

16 January 2019 11:00am12:00pm
A/Professor Jeremy Dittmann
Cornell Medical School, New York, USA

Professor Valentin Nägerl, France : "Super-resolution microscopy for neuroscience: new methods & applications"

30 November 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Valentin Nägerl
The Institute for Interdisciplinary Neuroscience, University of Bordeaux

Dr Shankar Sachidhanandam, Switzerland : "Neural dynamics of sensory perception and decision making in the mouse posterior parietal cortex"

23 November 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Dr Shankar Sachidhanandam
Sensory Perception Group, Department of Physiology, University of Bern, Switzerland




International Leaders in Neuroscience Seminar : Professor Nicholas B. Turk-Browne, Yale : "Statistical learning in the hippocampus"

21 November 2018 4:00pm5:00pm
Professor Nicholas B. Turk-Browne
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven CT06520, USA

Professor Matthew Lambon-Ralph, UK: "Semantic representation and its disorders"

16 November 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Matthew Lambon-Ralph
Director, MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, UK

Professor Sylvain Baillet, Canada : "Perception as prediction: network architectures of brain perceptual inferences"

9 November 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Sylvain Baillet
Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Professor Peter Visscher FRS, UQ : "The genetics of educational attainment"

7 November 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Peter Visscher FRS
Program in Complex Trait Genomics
Institute for Molecular Bioscience and Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

Professor Geraint Rees FMedSci, UK : "The conscious phenotype"

1 November 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Geraint Rees FMedSci
Dean of the UCL Faculty of Life Sciences
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, UK

Professor Urs Meyer, Zurich : "Epigenetic and transgenerational mechanisms in immune-mediated neurodevelopmental disorders"

31 October 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Urs Meyer
Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology
University of Zurich – Vetsuisse Faculty
Zurich, Switzerland

Dr Susannah Tye, UQ : "Insulin Signalling Moderates the Rapid Antidepressant Actions of Ketamine in Treatment Resistant Depression"

24 October 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Dr Susannah Tye
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

Professor Darryl Eyles, UQ : “The troubled journey of a dopamine neuron towards psychosis”

17 October 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Darryl Eyles,
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

Professor Brandon Wainwright, UQ : "Diseases of the cerebellum – genomics drives new therapeutic paradigms”

3 October 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Brandon Wainwright
Director, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland

UQ Research Data Manager Presentation

26 September 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Ms Sandrine Kingston-Ducrot, UQRDM Project Manager
Dr Rebecca Deuble, UQRDM Project Officer

A/Professor Andrew Crowden, UQ : "Neuroethics: The ethics of neuroscience and the neuroscience of ethics"

19 September 2018 11:00am12:00pm
A/Professor Andrew Crowden
School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry, University of Queensland

Dr Yee Lian Chew, UK : "How a worm thinks: lessons from C. elegans neuropeptide signalling"

18 September 2018 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Yee Lian Chew
MRC Investigator Scientist
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK

Dr Frank Jacobs, The Netherlands : "Human-specific NOTCH2NL genes: Possible contributors to human's evolutionary increase in brain size"

12 September 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Dr Frank Jacobs
University of Amsterdam, Swammerdam Institute for Life Sciences (SILS)
Science Park 904, The Netherlands

Professor Jian Yang, UQ : Finding genetic and modifiable risk factors for common diseases

5 September 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Jian Yang
Queensland Brain Institute and Institute for Molecular Bioscience, University of Queensland

Professor Bryan Mowry, UQ: Genetic analyses of schizophrenia in Tamil Nadu, India

29 August 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Bryan Mowry
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

A/Professor Gail Robinson, UQ : "Frontal lobe functions in health and disease: evidence from neuropsychology"

22 August 2018 12:00pm1:00pm
A/Professor Gail Robinson
School of Psychology, University of Queensland

Dr Karly Turner, UK : "Shifting roles of the dorsal striatum in action sequence learning"

2 August 2018 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Karly Turner
CJ Martin Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, England.

Jessica McFadyen, UQ : “Shortcuts for fear, conscious perception, and surprise in hierarchical visual systems”

1 August 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Jessica McFadyen
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

Professor Margaret McCarthy, USA : "Microglia, Maleness and Marijuana: How Endocannabinoids Sculpt Brain Sex Differences"

18 July 2018 4:00pm5:00pm
Professor Margaret McCarthy
School of Medicine
University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA

Neuroscience Seminars

5 July 2018 9:45am10:45am

A/Professor Mathew Blurton-Jones, UCI : "Using Human iPSC-derived Microglia and Chimeric Mouse Models to Study Alzheimer’s Disease"

27 June 2018 11:00am12:00pm
A/Professor Mathew Blurton-Jones
Department of Neurobiology and Behaviour, Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, University of California, Irvine.

Professor Elizabeth Coulson, UQ : "The cholinergic basal forebrain and Alzheimer’s disease: from obstructive sleep apnoea to the p75 neurotrophin receptor"

20 June 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Elizabeth Coulson
School of Biomedical Sciences and Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

Professor Richard M. Gronostajski, USA : “NFI genes in CNS development”

19 June 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Richard M. Gronostajski
Department of Biochemistry, State University of New York at Buffalo

Dr Alessandra Martini, USA : "Amyloid-beta impairs interleukin-1β signaling: impact on Alzheimer’s Disease."

13 June 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Dr Alessandra Martini
Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders
University of California - Irvine (UCI)

Dr Michael Hodges-Langford, UQ : “WNT signalling in choroid plexus development”

6 June 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Dr Michael Hodges-Langford (PhD Exit Seminar)
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

Asad Amanat Ali, UQ : "Developmental vitamin D deficiency rat model of Autism Spectrum Disorder" 

30 May 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Asad Amanat Ali (PhD Exit Seminar)
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

Professor Anthony J Hannan, Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health : "Gene-environment interactions mediating experience-dependent plasticity in the healthy and diseased brain"

23 May 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Anthony J Hannan
NHMRC Principal Research Fellow
Florey Institute of Neuroscience and  Mental Health, University of Melbourne

Marge Maallo, UQ : "Neural correlates of visual function in agenesis of the corpus callosum"

15 May 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Marge Maallo (PhD Exit Seminar)
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

Professor Jonathon Howard, Yale : "Dendritic Branching Morphogenesis: Motors and Cytoskeleton"

11 May 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Jonathon Howard
Eugene Higgins Professor of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry Yale University, USA

Dr Tara Walker, Germany : "Cell death in adult hippocampal neurogenesis is ferroptotic and rescued by selenium"

19 April 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Dr Tara Walker
Senior Research Associate, Kempermann Group
Center for Regenerative Therapies, Dresden, Germany

Katie Drummond, VIC: "Influence of Psychological Stress on Fear Extinction during Development"

18 April 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Katie Drummond
The Florey Neuroscience Institute of Mental Health, Melbourne, VIC

A/Professor Adam Vogel, VIC : "Who cares about speech and what can it tell us?"

13 April 2018 2:30pm3:30pm
A/Professor Adam Vogel
Director
Centre for Neuroscience of Speech, The University of Melbourne, VIC

Dr Nathalie Dehorter, ANU : "Molecular Control of Interneuron Identity"

11 April 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Dr Nathalie Dehorter
Group Leader at the Eccles Institute for Neuroscience,
The John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra

YeJin Chai, UQ : "A highly Munc18-ocentric Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

4 April 2018 11:00am12:00pm
YeJin Chai (PhD Exit Seminar)
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

Adekunle Bademosi, UQ : "Lateral trapping of syntaxin1A in nanodomains: key to neuroexocytosis?"

28 March 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Adekunle Bademosi (PhD Exit Seminar)
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

International Leaders in Neuroscience Seminar : Professor Marcel Kool, German Cancer Research Center : "Molecular characterization of pediatric brain tumors and preclinical models"

20 March 2018 4:00pm5:00pm
Professor Marcel Kool
German Cancer Research Center, Division of Pediatric Neurooncology, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

A/Professor Ethan Scott, UQ : "Whole-brain imaging of sensory processing in larval zebrafish”

14 March 2018 11:00am12:00pm
A/Professor Ethan Scott
Head, Laboratory for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, School of Biomedical Sciences, The University of Queensland

Casey Linton, UQ : "Function and regulation of the fusogen EFF-1 during axonal repair"

7 March 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Casey Linton (PhD Exit Seminar)
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

A/Professor Sajikumar Sreedharan, National University of Singapore : "The p75 neurotrophin receptor is a necessary mediator of synaptic and behavioral changes induced by sleep deprivation"

28 February 2018 11:00am12:00pm
A/Professor Saji Kumar Sreedharan
Department of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117597

Shanzhi Yan, UQ : "NMDA Receptors in the Neural Circuit Underlying Fear Learning"

21 February 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Shanzhi Yan (PhD Exit Seminar)
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

International Leaders in Neuroscience Seminar : Professor Dame Linda Partridge, Max Planck Institute Germany and University College London : "The ageing fly nervous system"

14 February 2018 4:00pm5:00pm
Professor Dame Linda Partridge
Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne, Germany and Institute for Healthy Ageing, and GEE, University College London, UK

Dr Lin Kooi Ong, University of Newcastle : “Modulating the trajectory of brain recovery after stroke from bench to bedside"

7 February 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Dr Lin Kooi Ong
School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy
University of Newcastle

Professor Mike Cousin, Edinburgh University : “Activity-dependent bulk endocytosis: presynaptic function and dysfunction in Huntington’s Disease”  

23 January 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Mike Cousin
Chair of Neuronal Cell Biology, Centre for Integrative Physiology, Hugh Robson Building, University of Edinburgh,
Edinburgh,  Scotland

Professor Josh Kaplan, Harvard : "From compost to the clinic: using C. elegans to study psychiatric disorders"

18 January 2018 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Josh Kaplan
Department of Neurobiology Harvard Medical School Boston, MA 02115 USA

Dr Rachel Templin, UQ : "Circular polarization vision in stomatopod crustaceans"

10 January 2018 11:00am12:00pm
PhD Exit Seminar by Dr Rachel Templin, Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland
in the Physiology Lectures Theatres (Building 63), Room 358

Professor Mandayam A. Srinivasan, USA : "Haptics: Science, Technology, and Applications"

20 December 2017 11:00am12:00pm
Prof. Mandayam A. Srinivasan
Director
TouchLab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

Dr James Daniel, Germany : "Wrestling with SUMO at the synapse"

12 December 2017 11:00am12:00pm
Dr James Daniel
Molecular Neurobiology Group, Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine, Göttingen 37075, Germany

Professor Rena Li and Professor Yong Shen, China : "Sex-specific targets to Alzheimer’s disease" and "Why is a single molecule, BACE1, involved with multiple types of brain disorders?”

30 November 2017 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Rena Li, Beijing Institute of Brain Disorders, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China and
Professor Yong Shen, Neurodegenerative Disorder Research Center, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

Jenny Pavlides, UQ : "Integrating genome-wide association study data with gene expression to understand complex traits and common diseases"

30 November 2017 10:15am11:00am
MPhil Exit Seminar by Jenny Pavlides, Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland
in the IMB (Building 80), Level 3 Large Seminar Room (3.142)

Dr Melissa Sharpe, Princeton : "The contribution of dopamine to the model-based world"

29 November 2017 11:00am12:00pm
Dr Melissa Sharpe
Princeton Neuroscience Institute & National Institute on Drug Abuse
Princeton, New Jersey 

Professor Stephen Williams, UQ : "Cholinergic modulation is an essential component of neocortical circuit computations"

22 November 2017 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Stephen Williams
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

Dr Dhanisha Jhaveri, UQ : "Regulation and function of distinct neurogenic precursors in the adult brain"

15 November 2017 11:00am12:00pm
Dr Dhanisha Jhaveri
Mater Research Institute and Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland

Dr Melvyn Yap, UQ : "Electrophysiological Analyses of Sleep States in Drosophila"

8 November 2017 11:00am12:00pm
Dr Melvyn Yap (PhD Exit Seminar)
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

A/Professor Tim Bredy, UQ : "Evolving insights into the qualitative nature of RNA and its functional diversity in the brain"

1 November 2017 11:00am12:00pm
A/Professor Tim Bredy
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

Professor Pankaj Sah, UQ : "Anxiety and depression – the search for better therapeutics"

11 October 2017 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Pankaj Sah
Director, Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

Professor John McGrath, UQ : "Convergent evidence implicates vitamin D deficiency and voltage-gated calcium channel function in schizophrenia"

4 October 2017 11:00am12:00pm
Professor John McGrath
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Australia, and Niels Bohr Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark 

Dr Iris Wang, UQ: "Neuronal Trafficking - Linking mechanisms to functions in live neurons"

27 September 2017 11:00am12:00pm
Dr Iris Wang
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

Dr Justin Wong, U Sydney : "Intronic nonsense: Why we should stop ignoring them?"

20 September 2017 11:00am12:00pm
Dr Justin Wong
Head, Gene Regulation in Cancer Lab, Gene and Stem Cell Therapy Program, Centenary Institute of Cancer Medicine & Cell Biology, University of Sydney, NSW

Professor Barry Dickson, UQ and Janelia Farms : “The Neurobiology of Drosophila Mating Behaviour”

6 September 2017 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Barry Dickson
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland and Group Leader, Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Virginia, USA

A/Professor Frini Karayanidis, U Newcastle : "Age-related decline in cognitive control: Role of CV risk factors"

30 August 2017 11:00am12:00pm
A/Professor Frini Karayanidis
Director, Functional Neuroimaging Laboratory, School of Psychology, University of Newcastle, NSW 2308

Professor Alison Goate, Mount Sinai: "Rare and Common Genetic Variation implicates microglial function in Alzheimer’s disease risk"

24 August 2017 2:00pm3:00pm
Professor Alison Goate
Director, Ronald M. Loeb Center for Alzheimer's Disease, Dept of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Professor Aleksandra Filipovska, UWA. "The role of mitochondrial dysfunction in neurodegenerative diseases"

23 August 2017 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Aleksandra Filipovska, Laboratory Head, Mitochondrial Medicine and Biology, Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, Perth, WA

Professor Michael Milford, QUT : "Navigation, Neuroscience and Neural Networks: A Quest to Understand Intelligence and Build Better Robots"

9 August 2017 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Michael Milford
Science and Engineering Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, Garden Point Campus, Brisbane

Professor Christian Haass, LMU, Munich : "TREM2 in Alzheimer's disease – from microglial dysfunction to human patients"

2 August 2017 4:00pm5:00pm
Professor Christian Haass
Department of Biochemistry, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, Germany

Professor Sunil Gandhi, USA : "Rewiring the circuits of high acuity spatial vision"

24 July 2017 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Sunil Gandhi
Department of Neurobiology and Behaviour, School of Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine, USA

Professor David Tremethick, ANU : "What do reproduction and memory have in common? The epigenetic regulator H2A.B"

19 July 2017 11:00am12:00pm
Professor David Tremethick
Head of the Department of Genome Science, The John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Acton, ACT 2601 

Professor Loren Frank, UCSF : "Neural substrates of memories and decisions"

12 July 2017 4:00pm5:00pm
Professor Loren Frank
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco

Dr Jeehyun Kim, VIC : "Understanding the development of emotional memory to treat anxiety and addiction"

5 July 2017 11:00am12:00pm
Dr Jeehyun Kim,
Lab Head, Developmental Psychobiology Laboratory –Behavioural Neuroscience, The Florey Institute, Parkville VIC 3052

Anthony Harris, UQ : "The role of neural oscillations in human visual attention and awareness"

21 June 2017 11:00am12:00pm
Anthony Harris (PhD Exit Seminar)
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

Professor Michael Nilsson, Hunter Medical Research Institute : "Emerging avenues in stroke rehabilitation – focus on recovery and secondary neurodegeneration"

14 June 2017 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Michael Nilsson, MD, PhD
Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI), University of Newcastle and Hunter New England Health, Newcastle, Australia.

Dr Hari Subramanian, UQ : "The midbrain periaqueductal gray: A novel circuit for treatment of intractable neurogenic autonomic disease via neuromodulation"

13 June 2017 12:45pm1:30pm
Dr Hari Subramanian
Research Leader - Systems Neuroscience & Neuromodulation Laboratory, Asia-Pacific Centre for Neuromodulation, Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland

Dr Susannah Tye, USA: "Metabolic Deficits in Antidepressant Resistance are a Functional Target for Neuromodulation"

13 June 2017 11:30am12:15pm
Dr Susannah Tye
Director, Translational Neuroscience Laboratory, Mayo Clinic Depression Center, Rochester, MN, USA

Dr Jana Vukovic, UQ : "Understanding the role of microglia as regulators of adult neurogenesis in the intact and injured brain"

7 June 2017 11:00am12:00pm
Dr Jana Vukovic
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland and School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Queensland

Madhusoothanan Bhagavathi Perumal, UQ. "Organisation of a reverberating cell assembly in the basolateral amygdala"

31 May 2017 11:00am12:00pm
Madhusoothanan Bhagavathi Perumal (PhD Exit Seminar)
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

Professor Linda Richards, UQ : "Interhemispheric axonal plasticity in developmental brain disorders"

17 May 2017 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Linda Richards PhD FAA FAHMS
Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland

Professor George Augustine, Singapore. "Optogenetic mapping of novel cerebellar circuits"

10 May 2017 11:00am12:00pm
Professor George Augustine, Professor of Neuroscience and Mental Health, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Dr Vincent Daria, ANU : "Understanding brain circuits using nanotechnology and photonic tools" 

8 May 2017 11:00am12:00pm
Dr Vincent Daria
Group Leader (Neurophotonics Group)
ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment

Professor Geoff Faulkner, UQ. "Somatic L1 mosaicism: 'dark matter' in the mammalian brain"

3 May 2017 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Geoff Faulkner
Queensland Brain Institute and Mater Research Institute, University of Queensland

Professor Brenda Gannon, UQ. "Connecting health economics and brain research"

26 April 2017 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Brenda Gannon
Mater Research Institute Chair in Health Economics, Centre for Business and Economics of Health, University of Queensland

Professor Lars Ittner, UNSW : "On the molecular role of Tau in regulating post-synaptic toxicity"

19 April 2017 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Lars Ittner
School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales

Lacey Atkins, UQ : "An investigation of risk factors for Alzheimer's disease in obstructive sleep apnoea patients"

18 April 2017 10:00am11:00am
PhD Exit Seminar by Lacey Atkins, Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland
In the Ritchie Meeting Room (Building 64A)

Reuben Strydom, UQ. "Bio-inspired Strategies for Autonomous Aerial Navigation, Guidance and Interception"

12 April 2017 11:00am12:00pm
Reuben Strydom, Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

Dr Andrew Higginson, Exeter : "Learning to be ill? Adaptive decision-making systems with limited information may cause ill health"

6 April 2017 11:00am12:00pm
Dr Andrew Higginson, Senior Lecturer, Psychology Department, University of Exeter, UK.

Professor Scott Tyo, UNSW Canberra at ADFA : "Do You see What I See?  Exploiting advanced properties of light and mimicking biological vision systems to develop new imaging and sensing methods"

29 March 2017 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Scott Tyo, Head of the School of Engineering and IT, The University of New South Wales Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Northcott Drive, Canberra ACT 2600

TBA

22 March 2017 11:00am12:00pm

TBA

15 March 2017 11:00am12:00pm

Eco-Oncology: Applying principles of ecology to improve outcomes in oncology

7 March 2017 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Brent Reynolds, Lillian S Wells Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

Tong Wu, UQ : "Functional brain network study on wild type and DISC1 transgenic mice"

28 February 2017 3:30pm4:30pm
Tong Wu
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

Jing Zhao, UQ : "Role of EphA4 in regulating adult hippocampal neurogenesis and motor neuron disease"

22 February 2017 11:00am
Dr Jing Zhao
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

Investigating the disease mechanisms of MND and frontotemporal dementia related to TDP-43 pathology

17 February 2017 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Adam K. Walker, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Macquarie University, NSW

Somatic L1 mosaicism: 'dark matter' in mammalian genetics

15 February 2017 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Geoff Faulkner, Queensland Brain Institute and Mater Research Institute, University of Queensland

Innovative genetic and chemical genetics approaches to understand and treat motor neuron diseases

14 February 2017 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Jean Giacomotto, Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

TBA

3 February 2017 1:15pm2:15pm
 

Synaptic and circuit mechanisms of sensorimotor integration in C. elegans

31 January 2017 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Zhaoyu Li, Research Investigator, Life Science Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

Encoding and storing experience in hippocampal-cortical networks

30 January 2017 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Jai Yu, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco, USA

Using patterned neural activity to modify Alzheimer’s disease pathology

24 January 2017 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Li-Huei Tsai, Professor and Director - Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Dept of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

Deconstructing fear

23 January 2017 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Andrea Lüthi, Group Leader, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Maulbeerstrasse 66, 4058 Basel, Switzerland

Reverse replay during human problem solving

9 December 2016 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Peter Dayan, Director, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London, UK

Activation of a latent hippocampal precursor population

24 November 2016 12:00pm
Dr Tara L Walker, Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden, Germany

Epilepsy: from genes to cures for the sacred disease?

23 November 2016 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Samuel F Berkovic, Epilepsy Research Centre, University of Melbourne, Austin Health, Heidelberg VIC

Ilvana Dzafic (PhD Exit Seminar)

16 November 2016 12:00pm1:00pm
Ilvana Dzafic, QBI, University of Queensland

Slow down, Old-Timer! How ageing is making us rush

9 November 2016 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr J. Bertran-Gonzalez, DECRA Research Fellow, School of Psychology, UNSW

The role of neogenin in epithelial morphogenesis

2 November 2016 12:00pm1:00pm
Natalie Lee, QBI, University of Queensland