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Neuroscience Seminar TBA

2 December 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Dr Patricio Opazo Olavarria, UQ : “Synaptic compensatory plasticity in Alzheimer’s disease”

9 December 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Dr Patricio Opazo Olavarria
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Professor David Bredt, USA

16 December 2020 9:30am–10:30am

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Professor David Bredt
Johnson and Johnson San Diego R&D Site Leader Global Head Discovery Neuroscience
San Diego, California, United States

POSTPONED: Discovery Research Endowment Fund Launch Dinner

1 January 2021 6:30am

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Join us to launch the QBI Discovery Research Endowment Fund.

POSTPONED: Pine Rivers Rotary Golf Day

1 January 2021 12:00pm

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Professor Magdalena Götz, Germany

3 February 2021 5:00pm–6:00pm

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Professor Magdalena Götz
Munich Centre for Neuroscience
Munich, Germany

Dr Jie Liu, Monash University, VIC

10 February 2021 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Dr Jie Liu
Sensory Perception and Ageing Laboratory
Biomedical Discovery Institute, Monash University, VIC

Neuroscience Seminar TBA

17 February 2021 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Neuroscience Seminar TBA

24 February 2021 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Neuroscience Seminar TBA

3 March 2021 12:00pm–1:00pm

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

4 November 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Dr Zhitao Hu
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

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

28 October 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Professor Peter Nestor
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Live Webinar: Understanding the brain to treat depression

14 October 2020 4:30pm–5:30pm

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Join Queensland Brain Institute researchers as they discuss what is happening in the brains of people with depression, why medications don’t work for some people and alternative treatments for people with depression that don’t respond to medication.

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

7 October 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Dr Steven Zuryn
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Peter Goodenough Memorial Lecture 2020

Cancelled

28 September 2020 5:00pm–7:00pm

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We are pleased to announce the 2020 Peter Goodenough Memorial Lecture presented by Professor Leanne Williams.
More details to come including talk title and registration information.

CJCADR Public Dementia Forum 2020 - At Home Edition

21 September 2020 12:00am

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Held annually, the Clem Jones Centre for Ageing Dementia Research (CJCADR) Public Dementia Forum brings together experts in dementia research and care, with a focus on living well with dementia.

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

16 September 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm

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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 12:00pm–1:00pm

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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 11:00am–12:00pm

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Dr Jess Taubert
Laboratory of Brain & Cognition
National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, USA

Professor Gwyneth Card, Janelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Virginia, USA : "Small brains, big decisions: uncovering neural mechanisms for real-world choices"

8 July 2020 9:00am

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Professor Gwyneth Card
Janelia Research Campus
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Virginia, USA

A/Professor Lea K Davis, Vanderbilt University, USA : "Beyond biomarkers: Mining clinical lab data from the Electronic Health Record to advance psychiatric genomics"

1 July 2020 11:00am–12:00pm

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A/Professor Lea K Davis
Dept of Medicine
Vanderbilt University, Nashville TN37235, USA

Virtual Gold Coast Marathon 2020

1 July 2020 6:00am–31 July 2020 5:00pm

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

24 June 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm

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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 12:00pm–1:00pm

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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 5:00pm–6:00pm

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A/Professor Sonja Hofer
Group Leader, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour
London, UK

JOINT QBI AND UQ PHYSICS SEMINAR: Professor William Bialek, Princeton University and The CUNY Graduate Center, USA : "Statistical mechanics for networks of real neurons"

20 May 2020 10:00am–11:00am

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Professor William Bialek
Princeton University and The CUNY Graduate Center, USA

POSTPONED: 2020 Lexus 'All That Jazz' Alzheimer's Gala

Cancelled

15 May 2020 7:00am

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Supporting the Queensland Brain Institute and Dementia Australia

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

13 May 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm

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Professor David Hume
Mater Research Institute and University of Queensland

2020 Informative Breakfast Series: Motor Neurone Disease (MND)

POSTPONED: Informative Breakfast Series: Motor Neurone Disease (MND)

6 May 2020 7:00am

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Join us for an informative breakfast session highlighting MND research at the Queensland Brain Institute.

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

30 April 2020 9:30am–10:30am

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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 5:00pm–6:00pm

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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 12:00pm–1:00pm

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A/Professor Tim Bredy
Queensland Brain Institute,
University of Queensland

Professor Matteo Carandini, University College London : "Organization of neural activity across the brain"

8 April 2020 5:00pm–6:00pm

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Professor Matteo Carandini
University College London
UK

Neuroscience Seminar TBA

1 April 2020 12:00pm–1:00pm

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2020 Informative Breakfast Series: Parkinson's Disease

31 March 2020 7:00am

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Join us for an informative breakfast session highlighting Parkinson's research at the Queensland Brain Institute.

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