Tau protein pathomechanisms in Tauopathies: new concepts and view angles

16 April 2025 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Susanne Wegmann
Group Leader
DZNE Berlin, Germany

Host: Professor Frederic Meunier

Cytoskeletal make-up of the synapse: shaft vs. spine

23 April 2025 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Marina Mikhaylova
Primary Investigator, Optobiology Lab
Humboldt University of Berlin

Host: Professor Frederic Meunier

Identifying blood borne markers for acute ischaemic stroke – a Regional Australian perspective

30 April 2025 12:00pm1:00pm
Speaker: Associate Professor Joseph Moxon
College of Medicine and Dentistry
James Cook University
Townsville

Host: Dr Matilde Balbi

Dr Luca Godenzini - University of Zurich, Switzerland

7 May 2025 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Luca Godenzini
University of Zurich
Switzerland

Host: Dr Clarissa Whitmire

Associate Professor Victor Anggono - QBI

14 May 2025 12:00pm1:00pm
Associate Professor Victor Anggono
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Host: TBD

Available slot

21 May 2025 12:00pm1:00pm

Queensland Brain Injury Collaborative Gold Coast Roadshow

23 May 2025 5:30pm8:00pm
Join us for an engaging evening with clinicians, GPs, researchers, rehabilitation specialists, and policy leaders to explore the challenges and innovation in brain injury care.

Associate Professor Rodrigo Grassi Oliveira - Aarhus University, Denmark

28 May 2025 12:00pm1:00pm
Associate Professor Rodrigo Grassi Oliveira
Department of Clinical Medicine
Translational Neuropsychiatry Unit
Aarhus University
Denmark

Host: Professor Timothy Bredy

UQ Neuroscience Symposium 2025

29 May 2025 8:45am30 May 2025 12:30pm
The UQ Neuroscience Symposium will showcase breakthrough discoveries at The University of Queensland.

Professor Darryl Eyles - QBI

4 June 2025 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Darryl Eyles
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Host: TBD

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Measuring cognitive flexibility and decision-making behaviours in rodents using a Dynamic Strategy Shifting Task

9 April 2025 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Thomas Burne
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Host: Farideh Ghavidel

Experience-Driven Molecular Architects of Neuronal Adaptation in Brain Development

2 April 2025 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Nathalie Dehorter
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Host: Rebekah Parkinson

Phox2b defines the pattern generating circuits for ingestion

26 March 2025 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Bowen Dempsey
School of Psychological Sciences
Macquarie University, Sydney

Host: Dr Clarissa Whitmire

Queensland Emory Drug Discovery Initiative – a partner for translating your research into new medicines

19 March 2025 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Andrew Harvey
The Queensland Emory Drug Discovery Initiative (QEDDI)
University of Queensland

Host: Professor Peter Nestor

Living well with dementia

13 March 2025 7:00pm9:00pm
Brain Awareness Week aims to increase public awareness of and support for brain research. As part of this global campaign, the Queensland Brain Institute is hosting its third public session to inspire the community to learn more about their brain and how understanding this complex organ can help us improve our lives.

Marmoset Brain Mapping Project: Bridging Connectome and Transcriptome

12 March 2025 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Cirong Liu
Lab of Translational Brain Imaging
Institute of Neuroscience
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Shanghai, P.R.China

​Host: Professor Pankaj Sah

CANCELLED Queensland Emory Drug Discovery Initiative – a partner for translating your research into new medicines

5 March 2025 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Andrew Harvey
The Queensland Emory Drug Discovery Initiative (QEDDI)

Host: Professor Peter Nestor

Unlocking the potential of brain organoids for understanding and treating neurodevelopmental disorders

26 February 2025 12:00pm1:00pm
A/Professor Silvia Velasco
Murdoch Children's Research Institute
Melbourne

Host: Dr Nathalie Dehorter

The Predictive Fly Brain

19 February 2025 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Bruno van Swinderen
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Host: Dr Drew Min Su Cylinder

Single molecule imaging of neuronal receptor interaction in health and disease

13 February 2025 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Laurent Groc
University of Bordeaux
CNRS, Interdisciplinary Institute for Neuroscience
​​​​​​​France

Host: Professor Fred Meunier

Violated predictions alter neural encoding within and between sensory modalities

12 February 2025 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Jason Mattingley
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Host: Richard Ronayne

A multilevel understanding of the cerebral cortex

6 February 2025 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Matthew Larkum
Humboldt University of Berlin
Germany

Host: Dr Clarissa Whitmire

Using Zebrafish to Study Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Discover Treatments

5 February 2025 12:00pm1:00pm
A/Professor Summer Thyme
University of Massachusetts,
Amherst, USA

Host: Dr Jean Giacomotto

The Physiologic Role of Alpha Synuclein at the Synapse

29 January 2025 1:00pm2:00pm
Professor Subhojit Roy
University of California, San Diego
USA

Host: Dr Ramón Martínez-Mármol

Postprandial Sensing of Nutrient through Microbiome-Gut-Brain Axis in Flies and Mice

28 January 2025 12:00pm1:00pm
Assistant Professor Greg Seong-Bae Suh
NYU School of Medicine, USA
Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, South Korea

Host: Professor Barry Dickson

Neuromodulation of sleep/wake states

22 January 2025 12:00pm
Professor Luis de Lecea
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Stanford Medicine
Stanford University
USA

Host: Professor Bruno van Swinderen

Large-scale effects of opioids and cannabinoids on neural circuit dynamics in the awake brain

27 November 2024 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Zsolt Lenkei
Research Director at INSERM
Institute of Psychiatry and Neuroscience
Paris, France

Host: Professor Frederic Meunier

New findings linking neonatal vitamin D status and risk of mental disorders

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

Host: Professor Thomas Burne

Mechanisms of Axon Growth and Regeneration

13 November 2024 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Frank Bradke
German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Bonn, Germany

Host: Professor Barry Dickson

Distinct dopamine circuits encode unique neural signatures for learning

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

Host: Professor Timothy Bredy

QBI Steps for Dementia Research 2024

31 October 2024 8:00am4 November 2024 5:00pm
Supporting the Alastair Rushworth PhD Alzheimer’s Endowment Fund

Peter Goodenough Memorial Lecture 2024: Understanding mental disorders - bridging insights from the brain

30 October 2024 5:00pm6:00pm
Professor John McGrath, psychiatrist and conjoint Professor at the Queensland Brain Institute, will explore theories related to the origins of schizophrenia.

Sleep and repair of DNA breaks across evolution

30 October 2024 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Lior Appelbaum
The Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences and the Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center
Bar Ilan University
Israel

Host: Dr Fabio Cortesi

The neurocognitive bases of semantic representation and its disorders

23 October 2024 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Matt Lambon-Ralph
MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit
University of Cambridge

Host: Professor Gail Robinson

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