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2 July 2025 12:00pm1:00pm

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9 July 2025 12:00pm1:00pm

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16 July 2025 12:00pm1:00pm

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23 July 2025 12:00pm1:00pm

2025 QBI Lexus Alzheimer's Sunset Soirée

26 July 2025 4:00pm7:30pm
Join us on the Brisbane River for the QBI Lexus Sunset Soirée, an all new format and venue, replacing the Jazz Gala this year! Plenty of great prizes and auction items on offer supporting dementia research at QBI.

Available slot

30 July 2025 12:00pm1:00pm

Virus-like intercellular communication - roles in synaptic plasticity and neurodegeneration

6 August 2025 12:00pm1:00pm
Associate Professor Jason Shepherd
School of Medicine
University of Utah
USA

Host: Professor Tim Bredy

Professor Gail Robinson - QBI

20 August 2025 12:00pm
Professor Gail Robinson
Queensland Brain Institute
​​​​​​​University of Queensland

Host: TBD

Dr Rosemary Cater - IMB, UQ

3 September 2025 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Rosemary Cater
Institute for Molecular Bioscience
University of Queensland

Host: A/Professor Victor Anggono

Dr Clarissa Whitmire - QBI

10 September 2025 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Clarissa Whitmire
Queensland Brain Institute
University of Queensland

Host: TBD

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Deconstructing fear

23 January 2017 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Andrea Lüthi, Group Leader, Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research, Maulbeerstrasse 66, 4058 Basel, Switzerland

Using patterned neural activity to modify Alzheimer’s disease pathology

24 January 2017 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Li-Huei Tsai, Professor and Director - Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, Dept of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

Encoding and storing experience in hippocampal-cortical networks

30 January 2017 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Jai Yu, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Physiology, University of California, San Francisco, USA

Synaptic and circuit mechanisms of sensorimotor integration in C. elegans

31 January 2017 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Zhaoyu Li, Research Investigator, Life Science Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

TBA

3 February 2017 1:15pm2:15pm
 

Innovative genetic and chemical genetics approaches to understand and treat motor neuron diseases

14 February 2017 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Jean Giacomotto, Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

Somatic L1 mosaicism: 'dark matter' in mammalian genetics

15 February 2017 12:00pm1:00pm
Professor Geoff Faulkner, Queensland Brain Institute and Mater Research Institute, University of Queensland

Investigating the disease mechanisms of MND and frontotemporal dementia related to TDP-43 pathology

17 February 2017 12:00pm1:00pm
Dr Adam K. Walker, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine and Health, Macquarie University, NSW

Jing Zhao, UQ : "Role of EphA4 in regulating adult hippocampal neurogenesis and motor neuron disease"

22 February 2017 11:00am
Dr Jing Zhao
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

Tong Wu, UQ : "Functional brain network study on wild type and DISC1 transgenic mice"

28 February 2017 3:30pm4:30pm
Tong Wu
Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

Eco-Oncology: Applying principles of ecology to improve outcomes in oncology

7 March 2017 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Brent Reynolds, Lillian S Wells Department of Neurosurgery at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

International Women's Day Lunch 2017

8 March 2017 12:00pm1:00pm
Celebrate women in science for International Women's Day.

TBA

15 March 2017 11:00am12:00pm

TBA

22 March 2017 11:00am12:00pm

ECR Career Workshop

23 March 2017 2:30pm4:00pm
Taking the leap to become a group leader: skills required to start your own lab

Professor Scott Tyo, UNSW Canberra at ADFA : "Do You see What I See?  Exploiting advanced properties of light and mimicking biological vision systems to develop new imaging and sensing methods"

29 March 2017 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Scott Tyo, Head of the School of Engineering and IT, The University of New South Wales Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Northcott Drive, Canberra ACT 2600

Dr Andrew Higginson, Exeter : "Learning to be ill? Adaptive decision-making systems with limited information may cause ill health"

6 April 2017 11:00am12:00pm
Dr Andrew Higginson, Senior Lecturer, Psychology Department, University of Exeter, UK.

Reuben Strydom, UQ. "Bio-inspired Strategies for Autonomous Aerial Navigation, Guidance and Interception"

12 April 2017 11:00am12:00pm
Reuben Strydom, Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland

Lacey Atkins, UQ : "An investigation of risk factors for Alzheimer's disease in obstructive sleep apnoea patients"

18 April 2017 10:00am11:00am
PhD Exit Seminar by Lacey Atkins, Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland
In the Ritchie Meeting Room (Building 64A)

Professor Lars Ittner, UNSW : "On the molecular role of Tau in regulating post-synaptic toxicity"

19 April 2017 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Lars Ittner
School of Medical Sciences, University of New South Wales

Professor Brenda Gannon, UQ. "Connecting health economics and brain research"

26 April 2017 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Brenda Gannon
Mater Research Institute Chair in Health Economics, Centre for Business and Economics of Health, University of Queensland

Professor Geoff Faulkner, UQ. "Somatic L1 mosaicism: 'dark matter' in the mammalian brain"

3 May 2017 11:00am12:00pm
Professor Geoff Faulkner
Queensland Brain Institute and Mater Research Institute, University of Queensland

Dr Vincent Daria, ANU : "Understanding brain circuits using nanotechnology and photonic tools" 

8 May 2017 11:00am12:00pm
Dr Vincent Daria
Group Leader (Neurophotonics Group)
ANU College of Medicine, Biology and Environment

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