Queensland Brain Institute

Seminars

Peter Goodenough Memorial Lecture 2023

6 September 2023 5:00pm–7:00pm
 
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We are pleased to announce the 2023 Peter Goodenough Memorial Lecture:

New visions for mental health care: Using neuroscience to personalise treatments
By Professor Leanne Williams

Available slot

29 March 2023 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Professor Marie-Eve Paquet - CERVO Brain Research Centre, Canada : "Viral vector and optogenetic tool development challenges; from manipulating the microbiome to sensing metabolic processes to capturing brain activity"

7 March 2023 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Professor Marie-Eve Paquet
CERVO Brain Research Centre
Canada

Host: Dr Matilde Balbi

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

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

Host: Sean Keating

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

24 February 2023 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Assistant Professor Ben Sivyer
Casey Eye Institute, Oregon Health & Science University
Portland, Oregon, USA

Dr Isaac Akefe - QBI: “Phospholipase A1 (DDHD2) interacts with STXBP1 to mediate long-term memory via the generation of myristic acid”

22 February 2023 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Isaac Akefe
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Dr Jake Gratten - Mater Research, Brisbane: "A new perspective on the autism-gut microbiome relationship from the Australian Autism Biobank"

30 November 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Jake Gratten
Mater Research

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

23 November 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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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 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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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 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Professor Alex Fornito
Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health
Monash University, Clayton Campus, VIC

Professor John McGrath - QBI: "Is complement component 4 (C4) associated with risk of schizophrenia: new data from Danish biobank samples."

2 November 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Profesor John McGrath
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Dr Thierry Galli - Université Paris Cité: "Role of unconventional secretory autophagy in the brain - potential role in Parkinson's and glioblastoma"

31 October 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Thierry Galli
Université Paris Cité
Paris, France

A/Professor Jan Kaslin - Monash University, Melbourne

Cancelled
26 October 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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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 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Professor Jennifer Cornish
Centre for Emotional Help (CEH)
Macquarie University, Sydney

Dr Kuo-Sheng Lee - University of Geneva, Switzerland : "Emergence of tonotopic map in early somatosensory pathway: mechanoreceptors, synaptic networks and transformation of neural coding"

12 October 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Kuo-Sheng Lee
Department of Fundamental Neurosciences, University of Geneva
Switzerland

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

5 October 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Professor Glenda Halliday
Faculty of Health and Medicine
University of Sydney, NSW

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

28 September 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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Dr Maureen Hagan
Department of Physiology
Monash University, VIC

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

21 September 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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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 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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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 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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A/Professor Irina Voineagu
School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences
The University of New South Wales,
Sydney NSW

Professor Lijun Kang - Zhejiang Univeristy, China : "Sensory glia modulate neuronal activity and behavior in C. elegans"

31 August 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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ZOOM ONLY
Professor Lijun Kang
Zhejiang University
China

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

24 August 2022 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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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 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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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 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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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 12:00pm–1:00pm
 
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A/Professor Saul Villeda
School of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco

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