Queensland Brain Institute

Seminars

Coming of Age: A symposium on cannabis and the brain

4 September 2019 11:00am–4:00pm
 
in Coming of Age- A symposium on cannabis and the brain

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

4 September 2019 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
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 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
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 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
A/Professor Zachary Knight
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of California, San Francisco

Peter Goodenough Memorial Lecture 2019

20 August 2019 5:00pm–6:00pm
 
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Please join us at the 2019 Peter Goodenough Memorial Lecture presented by Dr Norman Swan, multi-award winning producer and broadcaster, and current producer and presenter of the Health Report on ABC Radio.

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

7 August 2019 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
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 11:00am–12:00pm
 
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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 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
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 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
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 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
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 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
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 11:00am–12:00pm
 
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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 11:00am–12:00pm
 
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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 11:00am–12:00pm
 
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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 2:00pm–3:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
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 11:00am–12:00pm
 
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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 11:00am–12:00pm
 
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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 4:00pm–5:00pm
 
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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 2:00pm–3:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
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 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
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 4:00pm–5:00pm
 
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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 11:00am–12:00pm
 
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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 11:00am–12:00pm
 
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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 11:00am–12:00pm
 
in Neuroscience Seminars
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.

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