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Hand Heart Pocket Gala 2019
26 April 2019 6:30pm–10:30pm
Ross Maclean Fellowship Race Day 2019
24 August 2019 11:30am–5:00pm
Breakfast Series
Information session

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

27 March 2019 11:00am–12:00pm
 
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Professor John Nurnberger
Professor of Psychiatry
Indiana University School of Medicine, USA

2019 MND Breakfast

3 April 2019 7:00am–8:45am
 
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Join us for an informative breakfast session highlighting MND research at the Queensland Brain Institute.

Neuroscience Seminar TBA

3 April 2019 11:00am–12:00pm
 
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Professor Preben Bo Mortensen, Denmark

10 April 2019 11:00am–12:00pm
 
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Professor Preben Bo Mortensen
National Centre for Register-based Research, Aarhus University, Denmark

Neuroscience Seminar TBA

17 April 2019 11:00am–12:00pm
 
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International Leaders in Neuroscience Seminar : Professor Elly Nedivi, USA

23 April 2019 4:00pm–5:00pm
 
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Professor Elly Nedivi
Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA 02139, USA

Hand Heart Pocket Gala 2019

26 April 2019 6:30pm–10:30pm
 
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QBI and Dementia Australia are delighted to invite you to the fourth Hand Heart Pocket Gala event, to be held at Queensland Parliament House, on Friday 26th April.
Register

Neuroscience Seminar TBA

1 May 2019 11:00am–12:00pm
 
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A/Professor Tom Burne, UQ

8 May 2019 11:00am–12:00pm
 
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A/Professor Tom Burne,
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

Professor Helen Cooper, UQ

15 May 2019 11:00am–12:00pm
 
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Professor Helen Cooper
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

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

20 March 2019 11:00am–12:00pm
 
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Dr Graham Murray
Visiting Academic 
Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland

Neuroanatomy Workshop

15 March 2019 9:00am–4:00pm
 
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We have the honour of hosting Professors Luis Puelles and Charles Watson, both renowned international authorities in comparative neuroanatomy, for this year’s Advanced Neuroanatomy Workshop.

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

14 March 2019 4:00pm–5:00pm
 
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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 11:00am–12:00pm
 
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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 11:00am–12:00pm
 
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Dr Laura Gumy,
School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Otago, New Zealand

International Women's Day 2019

6 March 2019 11:00am–1:30pm
 
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Join us to hear Mrs Raynuha Sinnathamby, Managing Director of Springfield City Group speak as part of an International Women’s Day Panel Discussion and Lunch.

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

20 February 2019 11:00am–12:00pm
 
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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 3:00pm–4:00pm
 
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Dr Martin Smith
Garvan Institute of Medical Research
Victoria Street, New South Wales

Dr Alexandra Grubman, VIC : "Distinct microglial phenotypes in Alzheimer’s disease are controlled by amyloid plaque phagocytosis"

6 February 2019 11:00am–12:00pm
 
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Dr Alexandra Grubman,
Monash University, Clayton VIC 3800

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

30 January 2019 11:00am–12:00pm
 
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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 11:00am–12:00pm
 
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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 11:00am–12:00pm
 
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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 11:00am–12:00pm
 
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Professor Valentin Nägerl
The Institute for Interdisciplinary Neuroscience, University of Bordeaux

Adjunct Professor Pirta Hotulainen, Finland : "Vital role of the tropomyosin decorated actin filaments in the the structure and function of the axon initial segment"

26 November 2018 11:00am–12:00pm
 
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Adjunct Professor Pirta Hotulainen
University of Helsinki, Finland

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

23 November 2018 11:00am–12:00pm
 
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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 4:00pm–5:00pm
 
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Professor Nicholas B. Turk-Browne
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven CT06520, USA

2018 Churchie Cricket Luncheon

21 November 2018 11:30am–5:00pm
 
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Professor Matthew Lambon-Ralph, UK: "Semantic representation and its disorders"

16 November 2018 11:00am–12:00pm
 
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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 11:00am–12:00pm
 
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Professor Sylvain Baillet
Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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

7 November 2018 11:00am–12:00pm
 
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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 11:00am–12:00pm
 
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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 11:00am–12:00pm
 
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Professor Urs Meyer
Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology
University of Zurich – Vetsuisse Faculty
Zurich, Switzerland
Merson Lecture

Merson Lecture 2018: Professor Michelle Simmons

24 October 2018 5:00pm–7:00pm
 
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Dr Susannah Tye, UQ : "Insulin Signalling Moderates the Rapid Antidepressant Actions of Ketamine in Treatment Resistant Depression"

24 October 2018 11:00am–12:00pm
 
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Dr Susannah Tye
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

QBI's 15th Anniversary Event

20 October 2018 6:15pm
 
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In 2018, UQ’s Queensland Brain Institute celebrates its 15th anniversary. To mark this milestone, we invite supporters and guests to celebrate our Faculty and the many remarkable achievements that our researchers have made towards furthering our understanding of the brain.

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